Comment by zahrevsky
16 hours ago
There's another great meta-game similar to this. You can play it alone or with friends. It doesn't require any cards or dices, although can be played with them too.
The rules are simple. You join some group, that is playing a game, rules of which you don't know. Yet, you say to everyone, that you know the rules.
Now, your goal is to play as long as possible, before they figure out, that you actually don't know the rules.
Bonus points, if you convince others that it's THEY, who don't know the rules.
This seems related to a hallucinogen-related epiphany I had once whilst hanging out with a gamer-heavy crowd 30 years ago. It's this:
All games share one unwritten rule, which is that if you can convince all the other players that you've won, the game is over.
This seems incomplete, as in many games, one player winning does not interrupt the game. You're just first to leave the table, but others keep playing for 2nd, 3rd, and up to nth (last) place.