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Mental thought suppression game

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

Origin

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

How this became simplified into The Game is unknown; one hypothesis is that once information technology spread exterior the Greater London area, among people who are less familiar with London stations, it morphed into its self-referential form.^[2] The creators of "LoseTheGame.net", a website which aims to catalogue information relating to the miracle, have received messages from multiple former members of the CUSFS commenting on the similarity betwixt the Finchley Central variant and the modern Game.^{[1] [3]} The first known reference to The Game is a blog post from 2002 - the author states that they "establish out near it online virtually vi months ago".^[4]

The Game is most commonly spread through the internet, such as via Facebook or Twitter, or by discussion of mouth.^[5]

Gameplay

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

At that place are three unremarkably reported rules to The Game:^{[6] [seven] [eight] [9]}

1. Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (This is alternatively expressed every bit, "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game" or "You are e'er 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 one thinks almost The Game, i loses.
3. Losses must be announced. This can be verbally, with a phrase such as "I only lost The Game", or in any other way: for example, via Facebook. Some people may have ways to remind others of The Game.

The definition of "thinking about The Game" is non always clear. If i discusses The Game without realizing that they have lost, this may or may not constitute a loss. If someone says "What is The Game?" before agreement the rules, whether they have lost is up for estimation. Co-ordinate to some interpretations, i does not lose when someone else announces their loss, although the 2nd dominion implies that ane loses regardless of what made them think about The Game. After a player has announced a loss, or after i thinks of The Game, some variants allow for a grace period between three seconds to thirty minutes to forget nigh the game, during which the player cannot lose the game over again.^[4]

The common rules do not define a point at which The Game ends. Even so, some players state that The Game ends when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom announces on goggle box that "The Game is upwardly."^[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 annotation, in graffiti in public places, or on banknotes.^{[7] [10]}

Associations may be made with The Game, peculiarly over fourth dimension, and so that one thing inadvertently causes one to lose. Some players bask 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 advertise The Game. The Game is also spread via social media websites such equally Facebook and Twitter.^[v]

Reception

The Game has been described as challenging and fun to play, and as pointless, childish, 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 top 21 people'southward names.^{[eleven] [12]}

Run across besides

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

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Wright, Mic (thirteen Apr 2015). "You Just Lost The Game". TNW | Media . Retrieved 3 December 2021.
2. ^ Paskin, Willa (23 November 2021). "You But Lost the Game". Decoder Ring (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
3. ^ "Lose The Game - FAQ". losethegame.net . Retrieved 3 December 2021.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Montgomery, Shannon (17 January 2008). "Teens around the globe are playing 'the game'". The Canadian Press.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Fussell, James (21 July 2009). "'The Game' is a fad that will get you lot every time". The Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on 24 July 2009.
6. ^ Boyle, Andy (xix March 2007). "Mind game enlivens students beyond U.S." 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} "Three rules of The Game". Metro. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
9. ^ "Don't recollect most the game". Rutland Herald. 3 October 2007.
10. ^ ^{a b} "If you read this yous've lost The Game". Metro. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
11. ^ Schonfeld, Erick (27 April 2009). "Time Mag Throws Upward 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 ii November 2014.

External links

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