Developing a New Major

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games have tranascended time, language, geography, culture, social norms – people play games all over the world and some games cross cultures ex: hopscotch played in US, Nepal India, Burma China, Russia (it’s related to labyrinthes and mazes and then to the soul’s journey from earth to heaven chess started in India 1000 years+ ago

we have evidence of games going back before written history, lots of games related to the practice of dinivation to tellthe future, then to gambling, learning life skills (like for hunting)

playing not hte same as playiing a game, playing is “spontaneous, informal activity with few rules and no fixed procedures”, games have rules and procedures and some penalty for violating those rules and usually one person or team is victorious over the others

what’s the difference between games and sports? (good discussion question – this book doesn’t have an answer)

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