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Mental thought suppression game

The Game is a mental game where the objective is to avoid thinking most The Game itself. Thinking about The Game constitutes a loss, which must exist announced each time it occurs. It is impossible to win most versions of The Game. Depending on the variation of The Game, the whole earth, or all those aware of the game, are playing it all the time. Tactics have been developed to increase the number of people aware of The Game and thereby increment the number of losses.

Origin

The origins of The Game are uncertain. The most mutual hypothesis every bit is that The Game derives from another mental game, Finchley Central. While the original version of Finchley Fundamental involves taking turns to name stations, in 1976 some members of the Cambridge University Science Fiction Society (CUSFS) developed a variant where the commencement person to think of the titular station loses. The game in this form demonstrates ironic processing, in which attempts to suppress or avoid sure thoughts brand those thoughts more common or persistent than they would be at random.^[1]

How this became simplified into The Game is unknown; one hypothesis is that once it spread outside the Greater London area, among people who are less familiar with London stations, it morphed into its self-referential class.^[2] The creators of "LoseTheGame.internet", a website which aims to catalogue information relating to the miracle, accept received letters from multiple former members of the CUSFS commenting on the similarity between the Finchley Central variant and the modern Game.^{[1] [3]} The kickoff known reference to The Game is a weblog mail from 2002 - the writer states that they "found out about it online about half-dozen months ago".^[four]

The Game is most unremarkably spread through the net, such equally via Facebook or Twitter, or by discussion of mouth.^[5]

Gameplay

A adult female holding up a sign reading "You Lose The Game"

In that location are iii commonly reported rules to The Game:^{[6] [7] [viii] [9]}

1. Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (This is alternatively expressed as, "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game" or "You are always playing The Game.") A person cannot refuse to play The Game; it does not crave consent to play and one can never stop playing.
2. Whenever 1 thinks about The Game, one loses.
3. Losses must be announced. This tin can be verbally, with a phrase such as "I just lost The Game", or in whatsoever other mode: for example, via Facebook. Some people may have ways to remind others of The Game.

The definition of "thinking about The Game" is not ever clear. If one discusses The Game without realizing that they accept lost, this may or may not establish a loss. If someone says "What is The Game?" before understanding the rules, whether they accept lost is up for estimation. According to some interpretations, 1 does not lose when someone else announces their loss, although the 2d dominion implies that one loses regardless of what made them think about The Game. After a player has appear a loss, or later 1 thinks of The Game, some variants permit for a grace catamenia between three seconds to xxx minutes to forget about the game, during which the player cannot lose the game once again.^[four]

The common rules practise not define a betoken at which The Game ends. However, some players country that The Game ends when the Prime Minister of the United kingdom announces on television that "The Game is up."^[eight]

Strategies

Strategies focus on making others lose The Game. Common methods include proverb "The Game" out loud or writing about The Game on a hidden note, in graffiti in public places, or on banknotes.^{[seven] [10]}

Associations may be made with The Game, particularly over time, so that one thing inadvertently causes one to lose. Some players relish thinking of elaborate pranks that will crusade others to lose the game.^[five]

Other strategies involve merchandise: T-shirts, buttons, mugs, posters, and bumper stickers have been created to annunciate The Game. The Game is also spread via social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter.^[5]

Reception

The Game has been described every bit challenging and fun to play, and equally pointless, kittenish, and infuriating.^[4] In some Internet forums, such as Something Awful and GameSpy, and in several schools, The Game has been banned.^{[vii] [10]}

The 2009 Time 100 poll was manipulated by users of 4chan, forming an acrostic for "marblecake also the game" out of the height 21 people'due south names.^{[11] [12]}

Meet as well

• Catch-22 (logic)
• Finchley Central
• In-joke
• Meme
• Mornington Crescent
• The Push button (Reddit)
• Paradox
• Finite and Infinite Games
• Roko's basilisk

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Wright, Mic (thirteen April 2015). "Yous Just Lost The Game". TNW | Media . Retrieved three December 2021.
2. ^ Paskin, Willa (23 November 2021). "Y'all Just Lost the Game". Decoder Ring (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
3. ^ "Lose The Game - FAQ". losethegame.net . Retrieved 3 Dec 2021.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Montgomery, Shannon (17 January 2008). "Teens around the world are playing 'the game'". The Canadian Press.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Fussell, James (21 July 2009). "'The Game' is a fad that volition get you every time". The Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on 24 July 2009.
6. ^ Boyle, Andy (19 March 2007). "Listen game enlivens students across U.Southward." The Daily Nebraskan . Retrieved 18 May 2008.
7. ^ ^{a b c} Rooseboom, Sanne (15 December 2008). "Nederland gaat nu ook verliezen". De Pers. Archived from the original on 15 December 2008.
8. ^ ^{a b} "Iii rules of The Game". Metro. 3 December 2008. Retrieved twenty May 2017.
9. ^ "Don't think nearly the game". Rutland Herald. three October 2007.
10. ^ ^{a b} "If you read this yous've lost The Game". Metro. iii Dec 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
11. ^ Schonfeld, Erick (27 Apr 2009). "Time Magazine Throws Up Its Hands As It Gets Pwned By 4Chan". TechCrunch . Retrieved 2 November 2014.
12. ^ "Marble Cake and moot". ABC News. 30 April 2009. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2014.

External links

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)