Chapter 14
Winning and Losing
“For when the One Great Scorer comes/ To mark against your name,/ He writes—not that you won or lost—/ But how you played the Game.”
—Grantland Rice
There are certain elements of games that we often take for granted. Sports, for example, most often involve a team of players versus another team of players or many players all versus each other. Someone needs to win and someone needs to lose (or tie, at the very least). Sports also conjure up the implicit image of a central authority that determines the rules. But none of these things are necessarily true for all games, even if they seem to be true for most games. Exploring the edges of these ideas digs up some interesting classes of games.
Playing Together
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