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<\/p>\nOne of the many categories of shiny objects my magpie brain insists on collecting is fictional games.<\/p>\n
Here are five of my favourites!<\/p>\n
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I would be lying if I didn\u2019t say that seeing Kvothe get whomped at the strategy board game Tak in Patrick Rothfuss\u2019s The Wise Man\u2019s Fear<\/em><\/strong> was my favorite part of the combined books. The actual game which was developed from the descriptions is excellent as well.<\/p>\n ‘The Knight of Chains, The Deuce of Stars’ has all of the space grandeur and brilliant prose we love about Yoon Ha Lee\u2019s work, with the added bonus of being about a game within a game to win a game from the eternal game guardian who lives in the tower of games. The competition is a game in which the players develop languages over millennia. I mean, come on.<\/p>\n One of the many enjoyable world-buildy bits a game brings to a piece is a sense of history. In Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/em><\/strong>, the strategy game pai-sho not only lends a sense of depth and time to the Gaang\u2019s world, but is involved in the symbolry of a clandestine organization. And it gives Uncle Iroh more to ramble on about, which we could all use.<\/p>\n David D. Levine\u2019s ‘The Tale of the Golden Eagle’ features what reads like a poker-style game, but the real fun is in the battle of systems between players. The two opponents each have their own system of probabilities to guess what card is most likely to come up next and play accordingly. They both have their flaws though\u2026<\/p>\n Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em><\/strong> has this odd game which seems to be a combination of strategy and reflexes involving holographic boards and improbable fingertip control thingies. The episode gives us the magnificent line: \u201cit is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose\u201d.<\/p>\nThe Calculus of Verses<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nPai-sho<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nDragon\u2019s Delight, a variant of senec<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nStrategema<\/h2>\n
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