My wife decided the climax of her book would be a poker game and I was like "If you do this, DO NOT use the royal flush takes all trope. It is a tired cliché."

She did something a little different and I'm very pleased with how she subverted that trope.

Very partly, since it's mostly practice and memorisation. It sounds like more basic, intrinsic kinds, like creativity and on-the-fly analysis, don't enter into it nearly as much. Uneven pairings are fait accompli.

Code Golfing would be a nice option! For example, this site has daily code golfing challenges for CSS

Get up in the ladder of Age of Empires 2? A lot of memorization, a lot of anticipation, and more visually appealing, lol.

But we think you're a genius!

Well I can eat a whole Hot and Ready on my own and then do a minute-long fart the next day.

Stratego* and fuck GW. 🤌🏼

*campaign

Actually I have no clue how Pomemom works and no clue what it is besides the fact that it's some Anime / Japanese video game... probably from Nintendo I guess.

Never played/watched it, not that I remember, but I did see a lot of Pikachu and that's all I know, it's kinda like... the Statue of Liberty that everyone knows when they think of the US (ironic in current administration tho), Pikachu is the thing I think of when I hear "Japanese Card Game played by kids all around the world", well, the ohter being YuGiOh, but I think that's more like a teen thing, but I don't remember any of that either... other than the fact that I think I used to have them with my abusive older brother.

I'm Gen Z btw.

I learned of Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) when I was like 5-7 and then the International/Western Chess at age 8 when I came to the US (I mean China probably has it too, but I was too young and it's a higher barrier to entry compared to the domestic chess), and then I think I went some random park in NYC thing and saw the Japanese Chess, I guess its some Japanese American cultural event thing? Idk don't quite remember.

So I think everyone knows a variant of Chess at least, so that comment has a point tbh.

Edit: Actually thank you for this comment, helped me remember a memory. I remember the first Western Chess set I had (shared with my older brother, since we had no one else to play with since we just arrived in the country), we got it off some local store on 86th Street in Brooklyn, NYC (USA). I was this managetic thing, like the pieces stuck to the board and the board closes by folding in half, then you can store the pieces inside and it folds up, very convienient for travel. It also had Checkers Pieces in it. Also backgamon, which we never knew how to play. (Didn't even have internet when we first got off the plane and then never bothered to learn it later on) It's a 3 in 1 set... I think it was like $10.99 or something and it was 2010.

So nostalgic... but that chess board is broken already... oppsie, I tend to break things... the magnet thing eventually fell from the pieces (like the glue holding it together failed), pieces went missing, and by 4 years later when we moved to Philly, we never played again (a lot of family violence, like physical fighting at home, mom was so worried about CPS being called on us fighting, since we were both minors at home alone... well sometimes, not all the time, he was 5 years older than me and he always wins and I get hurt so much, both physically and emotionally, I can't even fight much, I just kinda try to block the hits), and now the entire chess set is gone... I think I got mad and three it away, since we didn't even play anymore, so much family conflicts that it felt kinda "tainted".

Two words: Nintendos lawyers.

That's a battle of tots. 🤷🏼‍♂️

It’s functionally impossible for a person to know the outcome of a game from the first move.

Hans Niemann twitches his cheeks

"You've already been defeated"

I watched an interesting video on YouTube arguing that games of pure luck are bad but games of pure strategy (like chess) are also bad because a beginner has no chance against an experienced player and so the best games combines strategy and luck. The example they gave was backgammon. My favourite game is Catan, which involves both strategy and luck.