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! Game Type !! Player | ! Game Type !! Player Tactics !! Outcome | ||
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| | | '''Finite''' || {{bg|green}}Both finite || {{bg|green}}Magnificent gladiatorial contest. Someone wins, someone loses, but honour is kept, lessons learned, stories are told, legends forged etc. | ||
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| | | '''Infinite''' || {{bg|green}}Both infinite || {{bg|green}} Imaginative world-building. Collaboration. Hacky-sack, man! | ||
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| | | '''Finite''' || {{bg|pink}}One finite, one infinite || {{bg|pink}}Infinite player picks up ball and runs with it (therefore gets sent off) or sits in a corner playing with daisies (therefore gets walloped). Finite player wins, but unsatisfyingly, by default, because the other player refused to play “properly”. | ||
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| | | '''Infinite''' || {{bg|pink}}One finite, one infinite ||{{bg|pink}} Finite player gets bogged down and gives up. Infinite player finds someone else to play with (hopefully an infinite player). | ||
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| | | '''Finite''' || {{bg|yellow}}Both infinite || {{bg|Yellow}}Players abandon game, which was rubbish anyway, and do something else (like playing an [[infinite game]]) | ||
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| | | '''Infinite''' || {{bg|pink}}Both finite || {{bg|pink}}[[Interminable game]] <== This is what happens most of the time. Players argue past each other, playing to their own respective galleries, achieving nothing. | ||
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{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
*{{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} | *{{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} | ||
*[[Game theory]] | *[[Game theory]] | ||
{{c|Futurism}} |