Talk:Game
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Template:AID I deleted the link to the page "table-top games" because all the games were listed under other primary categories, e.g. Scrabble under letter games, Clue under board games, Mah Jong under tile-based games, etc. I couldn't think of a class of games to justify the existence of the category. --Karl Juhnke
I would have expected to see an entry for 'psychological games', as described by Eric Berne in 'Games People Play' here (although the idea is possibly used more widely). Or would these be found elsewhere? I note there's a wikipedia entry for 'transactional analysis' but not AFAICS for psychological games themselves. (For all I know these ideas are now completely discredited - but that in itself shouldn't prevent an entry IMO, we have an entry about the flat earth hypothesis, for example.) -- S
The article is incomplete. Simply try to figure out a way to integrate the psychological (or transactional) definition of games in a reasonable way (I think I would create a new topic [[games (transactional)]] and provide an appropriate link to it, but you do what you think is best) Fred Bauder 13:23 Apr 7, 2003 (UTC)
Vandalised - essential content deleted.
Charles Matthews 12:05, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I've started a WikiProject for games to set standards for what a game article should look like and what information it should contain. Any participation would be appriciated. Thanks, Gentgeen 00:07, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Would it be sensible to create a category for something like fictional games? (example: Azad) Or maybe there is already some category that would fit?
The Wittgenstein quote should be moved into the same paragraph as Kelley and away from Linhart. Kelley said what he said just to snub Wittgenstein, but Linhart is just talking Romantically not philosophically. There's nothing wrong with that, but same stuff should go together, and different stuff should be split apart... --Carl
Small wording glitch: the first paragraph seems to read as though the players must share a single goal, whereas of course each player could have a different goal. --(talk)BozMo 19:12, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
There's chance in baseball but not in football?? Does the initial coin-flip count? --AlexChurchill 09:26, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
Baseball a game of chance?
The article says that baseball contains elements from all three classifications of games, skill, strategy, and chance, but I do not see how the game involves any element of luck or randomness.--Tubby 01:02, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
animal play/games
Many animals play; only humans have games. The existence of rules and criteria that decide the outcome of games implies that games require intelligence of a sophistication unique to humans.
Opens up a big irrelevant can of worms and semanticisms regarding animal intelligence. I changed it to:
Many animals play; only humans confirmably have games. Whether some animals are intelligent enough to game is debatable, though a game has a ritualistic elements (such as rules and procedures) that are voluntarily acted upon, rather than as a result of instinct. The existence of rules and criteria that decide the outcome of games imply that games require intelligence of a significant degree of sophistication. JustSomeKid 04:54, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)