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This site is quite good:
http://losethegame.com/
The interesting thing about The Game is that those who have never heard of it are better at it than those who have.
I expect a few sarcastic comments. I made them to the irritating person who told me he had lost the game the first time as well.
David
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P.S. I suspect it is largely a Cambridge thing. I do not know how many other universities it extends to.
I only know it because I have friends at Cambridge.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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You rotten swine. I lost the game now
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Damn you. I'd forgotten I posted about it.
I've lost the game again.
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Interesting. I didn't realise it was that old. Or that you were playing it.
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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I have lost the game again, though.
It appears to date from before 2002, prior to which no-one could lose it, but no-one could win it either.
I have recently gone through a 6 month period without losing it, but that could just have been a winning streak
[Updated on: Tue, 03 October 2006 22:29]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I do not see why you could not be winning the game before 2002. Surely not knowing about the game is the ultimate way of winning?
There is no point at which you can say, "I win." Only "I was winning."
David
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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If it did not exist prior to 2002, no-one could have been winning then. Nor coudl they have lost.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I don't think you're thinking laterally enough. I do not see it so much as a game with clearly defined rules as a thought experiment. I see no reason that people who have never heard of it cannot be said to be winning. By extension, everyone was winning before it was invented.
There are several variants and perhaps you are playing a different one to me.
David
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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And I didn't even know you were on the game.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Cambridge is, as any fule kno, the last outpost of civilisation on the road to the dangerous and frightful lands known as "Oop North"...
David
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