"choose your own adventure" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: choose your own adventures [plural]
Etymology: From the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's gamebooks which introduced this format. Head templates: {{en-noun}} choose your own adventure (plural choose your own adventures)
  1. An interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. Wikipedia link: Choose Your Own Adventure Synonyms: CYOA [initialism], choose-your-own-adventure
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