![]() ![]() The simplest is that you lose a point every time you lose The Game. Various methods have been proposed for scoring The Game. If someone asks 'What is a hexagon?', are they thinking about hexagons even though they don't know what one is? If you think or talk about The Game, but don't realise this means you have lost, and hence don't announce it, does this mean that you are unknowingly cheating? The only interpretation that would prevent such cheating is the seemingly paradoxical interpretation that you only lose The Game when you realise that you have lost it.Īnother interesting situation occurs when somebody asks about or discusses The Game, without yet knowing what The Game is. For example, it could be interpreted as 'thinking about the concept of The Game itself' or 'awareness that you are a participant playing The Game'. But whether you have lost or not depends on what is really meant by 'thinking about The Game'. For example, you may discuss The Game so much that you sometimes enter such a discussion without realising that this means you should have lost. Once you begin to lose The Game regularly, you may find youself in some curious psychological situations that are hard to interpret within the rules of The Game. This is sometimes described as 'drawing' or 'tying' The Game, but, of course, everyone still loses. When friends start to associate the same things with The Game, such loss triggers will often cause them to lose The Game at the same time. ![]() Usually when somebody loses The Game amongst friends, the original loser is 'blamed' for making everyone else lose. Following the core rules however, every time you think about The Game you lose, regardless of what made you think about it. One interpretation of The Game is that you do not lose when somebody else announces their loss. If you cheat, you are only cheating yourself. This makes The Game a game of true sportsmanship a personal mental challenge. Some people refuse to announce their loss after thinking about The Game, and as loss is a purely mental event, there is of course no way to prove whether somebody thought about The Game or not. When you think about The Game, you lose The Game, and you have to tell people that you have lost. What are the official rules of The Game?.As you have thought about The Game, you have lost, and you must tell your friend something like ''I lost The Game!'', or ''Crap, you made me lose The Game!''. This makes you remember reading about The Game on this website. Tomorrow, you meet a friend who tells you ''Hey! I found an awesome Flash game I think you'd like.''. After you stop browsing this website you stop thinking about The Game. Some interpretations state that you must tell as many people as possible, while others only state that you must tell whoever you are with, or talking to, at that time.Īn example of play is as follows. Loss is temporary once you stop thinking about The Game, you stop losing, but you will lose again the next time you think about The Game.Īccording to Rule 3, every time you think about The Game, and hence lose, you must tell other people that you have lost. However, according to Rule 2, every time you about The Game, you have lost. Most of the time, playing The Game does not require any active input and you go about your life as normal. The Game is played all the time you cannot quit, pause or take breaks. The second is that people start playing The Game once they know what it is. The first is that everyone in the world is, always has been, and always will be, playing The Game. There are two common interpretations of Rule 1. ![]()
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