You just lost The Game.
Rules
- You begin playing The Game when you become aware of its existence.
- Whenever you think about The Game, you lose.*
- When you lose The Game, you must announce your loss to everyone present.
After losing The Game, you must return to savethegame.org
Please don't lose it the next time you think about Societe en Commandite.
*Rule 2 is open to a number of different interpretations.
- The broadest interpretation is that any thought involving The Game causes loss. This is hard to define, for example, does thinking about savethegame.org count as thinking about The Game? This interpretation also makes it relatively easy to accidently break Rule 3, by thinking about The Game without realising you have lost.
- Another interpretation is that you lose whenever you remember you are playing The Game. This is subtley different from the previous interpretation, it involves becoming aware that you are a participant in The Game. It is still possible to do this without realising that you have lost, and hence accidently break Rule 3.
- A third interpretation is that you lose only when you realise you have lost. This seemingly paradoxical version of Rule 2 is often chosen by experienced players as it makes accidental cheating impossible. This is because it is possible to think about, and even discuss, The Game without realising you have lost.
Another aspect of Rule 2 that is commonly disputed is whether you should lose if you have been reminded of The Game by someone else's loss.