![]() ![]() The following are some challenges to his definition: "To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means, and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity. ![]() Playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” “To play a game is to engage in activity directed toward bringing about a specific state of affairs (prelusory goal), using only means permitted by specific rules (lusory means), where the means permitted by the rules are more limited in scope than they would be in the absence of the rules, and where the sole reason for accepting such limitation is to make possible such activity ( lusory attitude). ![]() Bernard Suits (in his book 'The Grasshopper' from 1967) defined a game as such (clarifications in brackets are mine): ![]()
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