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A game is an (often, but not always recreational) activity involving one or more players. This can be defined by either a goal that the players try to reach, or some set of rules that determines what the players can or can not do. Games are played primarily for entertainment or enjoyment, but may also serve as exercise or in an educational, simulational or psychological role. Game - Definition. Although many animals play, only humans confirmably have games. Whether some animals are intelligent enough to gam ...

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Although many animals play, only humans confirmably have games. Whether some animals are intelligent enough to game is debatable, though a game has 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. Non-human animal species may, however, engage in games whose rules and sophistication may be of such a nature as to be i ...

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One-person games or one-player games are sometimes called solitaire games, but this term can be easily confused with the peg game and the card game of same name. Types of one-player games include: many arcade games most computer and video games juggling most types of puzzles (logical, mechanical, mathematical, etc.) solitaire card games ...

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In Philosophical Investigations, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the concept "game" could not be contained by any single definition, but that games must be looked at as a series of definitions that share a "family resemblance" to one another. Games were important to Wittgenstein's later thought; he held that language was itself a game, consisting of tokens governed by mutually agreed ...

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Games, being a characteristic human activity strongly determined by custom and the frequent subjects of folklore, have been the subject of anthropological investigations. Game - Classes of games. While many different subdivisions have been proposed, anthropologists classify games under three major headings, and have drawn some conclusions as to the social bases that each sort of game requires. They divide games broadly into: Games of pure skill, such as hopscotch and target shooting; Games of pure strategy, such as checkers, go, or tic-tac-toe; Games of chance ...

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