In the village, the game has been played for generations. The stated purpose of the game is to discover the rules of the game.
Each generation, all players, and all moves within the game support this purpose. As rules are discovered or invented and thence incorporated officially into the game, players adhere to the rules as they play. But none of the rules or the play may inhibit the discovery or creation of new rules.
Basic particulars of the game include the following: As few as two as and many as seventeen players may play the game. Each player gets a small stick, a red wrist-band, a geometric token, ten words, and twenty two-digit numbers.
Play begins when one player grasps his or her tongue and tries to say one of the ten words. Play continues.
Eventually one player wins--but when, and how, and why? Such larger questions, if one may call them that, live at the heart of the game in the village.
hans ostrom 2014
Each generation, all players, and all moves within the game support this purpose. As rules are discovered or invented and thence incorporated officially into the game, players adhere to the rules as they play. But none of the rules or the play may inhibit the discovery or creation of new rules.
Basic particulars of the game include the following: As few as two as and many as seventeen players may play the game. Each player gets a small stick, a red wrist-band, a geometric token, ten words, and twenty two-digit numbers.
Play begins when one player grasps his or her tongue and tries to say one of the ten words. Play continues.
Eventually one player wins--but when, and how, and why? Such larger questions, if one may call them that, live at the heart of the game in the village.
hans ostrom 2014
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