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Counting Game
    Keywords: Rules

MattNoonan: My counting has become worse in the last few months (or at least, my awareness of my poor counting has increased). At the same time, I'm playing lots of games lately with an old rival, so I devised this metagame to satisfy both the urge to improve at counting and the urge to beat my rival. :)

The Equipment:

  • Two hyper-competitive Go players, Adam and Beth.
  • A bunch of other unsuspecting Go players.

The Game:

  • Adam sits down to a game with an unsuspecting Go player and wins by (say) 10 points.
  • When Beth plays the next game, she must now win the game by less than 10 points. If she loses the game, or wins by 10 or more points, then Adam is the winner. Otherwise, it is Adam's turn to beat Beth's winning margin.
  • Extra rules could be added to make things trickier: maybe you are not allowed to turn down a match when it is offered by an unsuspecting Go player, or if you get called on trying to control the score then you lose.


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