Image via Wikipediai’m reading a history of card games (that’s the name of the book) and it was talking about different kinds of games nad mentioned drinking games. The author (David Parlett) says drinking games are typically fast and funny and have no winners. “Their purpose is to yield a loser whose privilege it is to pay for the next round.” (p. 6)
So I tweeted about it – i don’t drink so don’t play drinking games – and got some responses
think of drinking games like tag – you win by losing. A lot of videogames are like that too – tetris, old arcade games – you just keep lpaying till ya win. Is dodgeball like that – you win by not getting out earlier
someone else said – drinking games are serious games with goals and consequences – in the real world outside the magic circle – that will be cool to use as an example when talking about the magic circle and games. And they have to be balanced in that every one drinks and buys into the goal of getting drunk really fast (one person doesn’t have an advantage by starting fast)
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