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"The Game" is not actually a game* and therefore can have no winners or losers*.
 
"The Game" is not actually a game* and therefore can have no winners or losers*.
  
*A game by definition is a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.  
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*A game by definition is a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luc- sorry to inturupt para, but some games cannot be simply won
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see xkcd comic #138
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- summer glau
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[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.5|173.245.54.5]] 13:52, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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* If one does view "The Game" as an actually game, then it consists of one simply saying the words "The Game" out loud or via text. "The Game" also requires one to think of the words The Game before speaking them, thus making them the first "Losers" to participate in the game, and once the opposing team has lost (In this case the person who first thought of "The Game") Then the opposing team then by default is the winner, and is not subject to loosing as once there is a decided winner and looser, the game is over. So this means that the originator of "The Game" (a non-game) is the only looser, and everyone else to have participated is forever the winner, as no one can set up matches for a "The Game" competition, as they would also have to be thinking about "the game" meaning the lose as soon as it starts.
 
* If one does view "The Game" as an actually game, then it consists of one simply saying the words "The Game" out loud or via text. "The Game" also requires one to think of the words The Game before speaking them, thus making them the first "Losers" to participate in the game, and once the opposing team has lost (In this case the person who first thought of "The Game") Then the opposing team then by default is the winner, and is not subject to loosing as once there is a decided winner and looser, the game is over. So this means that the originator of "The Game" (a non-game) is the only looser, and everyone else to have participated is forever the winner, as no one can set up matches for a "The Game" competition, as they would also have to be thinking about "the game" meaning the lose as soon as it starts.

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"The Game" is not actually a game* and therefore can have no winners or losers*.

  • A game by definition is a form of play or sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luc- sorry to inturupt para, but some games cannot be simply won

see xkcd comic #138 - summer glau 173.245.54.5 13:52, 24 December 2015 (UTC)


  • If one does view "The Game" as an actually game, then it consists of one simply saying the words "The Game" out loud or via text. "The Game" also requires one to think of the words The Game before speaking them, thus making them the first "Losers" to participate in the game, and once the opposing team has lost (In this case the person who first thought of "The Game") Then the opposing team then by default is the winner, and is not subject to loosing as once there is a decided winner and looser, the game is over. So this means that the originator of "The Game" (a non-game) is the only looser, and everyone else to have participated is forever the winner, as no one can set up matches for a "The Game" competition, as they would also have to be thinking about "the game" meaning the lose as soon as it starts.

You're all free. --Para (talk) 21:57, 14 June 2014 (UTC)