Difference between revisions of "Game"

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A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

Description

Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements.

However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports/games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).

Components

Key components of games include:

• Goals
• Rules
• Challenge
• Interaction

Skills

Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation, and often both.

Many games help develop practical skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational, or psychological role.

History of games

Attested as early as 2600 BC, games are a universal part of human experience and present in all cultures.

The oldest known games include:

• The Royal Game of Ur
• Senet
• Mancala

See also

• Board game
• Booleo
• Card game
• Checker
• Chess
• Computer game
• Gambling
• Game complexity
• Game engine
• Game theory
• Hex
• Multiplayer online battle arena
• Play
• Procedural generation
• Puzzle
• Shell game
• Strategy game
• Toy
• Video game
• Zugzwang

External links

• Game @ Wikipedia