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Game
All through human history, people have played games. They've done so mostly
to entertain themselves and others. Games are a form of self-expression, and
also a means of training young people, and of reminding adults of the
preferred values of the society in which they live.
Games can involve one person acting alone, but more often involve
competition among two or more persons with differing goals. Philosopher
David Kelley, in his popular introductory reasoning text The Art of
Reasoning, defines the concept "game" as "a form of recreation constituted
by a set of rules that specify an object to be attained and the permissible
means of attaining it."
This covers most cases well, but does not quite fit with things like war
games and sports that are often done not for entertainment but to build
skills for later use. In Philosophical Investigations, philosopher Ludwig
Wittgenstein argued that the concept "game" could not be defined. Stephen
Linhart said, "People say you have to choose between games and real life. I
think this claim that there's a dichotomy is very dangerous."
Many technical fields are often applied to the study of games, including
probability, statistics, economics, and game theory.
Types of Games
* Board games
* Car games
* Card games
* Casino games
* Computer games
* Counting-out games
* Dojin games
* Drinking games
* Game shows
* Games of physical skill
* Group-dynamic games
* Guessing games
* Letter games
* Massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing games or MMORPGs
* Mathematical games
* Open gaming
* Party games
* Pencil and paper games
* Play by mail games
* Puzzles
* Role-playing games
* Spoken games
* Sports
* Table-top games
* Tile-based games
* Unclassified games
* Video games
* Word games
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