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gaming--how do you play?
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| Play to beat the guy |
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| Play to beat the gal |
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| Let the guy win |
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| Let the gal win |
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| Play mercilessly (it's a game, so why not win?) |
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| Play half-heartedly (playing solely to enjoy the other's company) |
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| What's a game? |
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| Where's my brain? |
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gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 11:58:25 AM
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shemaromans
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An interesting topic emerged in one, maybe two, threads this week. It concerns competition between the sexes.
What percentage of effort do you expend when playing a game with someone of the opposite sex? In particular, if you played a game such as Trivial Pursuit as part of a date, would you try to beat your date? If so, to what extent? Do you intentionally allow your date to win?
If you don't date, then you can still answer from a "friendly" perspective. 
Multiple voting options...
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 12:00:40 PM
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Beat the guy - is there anything better????? And do whatever is necessary to win.
Let me qualify that - this needs to be with someone where you're already involved in a relationship. First/second dates are a bit different - I'll still do my best to win - just maybe not quite as hard.
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 12:38:30 PM
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My mother used to play games with my brother and I. Even though we were just kids, she would play to win...and she told us so. It wasn't a matter of her being better, but of her respecting and honoring us enough to let us know we were worthy opponents.
How could I do anything less for a guy?
Now, if I really did beat him, I would be very careful how I acted afterwards...I want to honor him, not beat him up.
Once my husband thought it would be cool if we could enjoy shooting guns together. So on one occasion he took me out behind the barn and put a .22 in my hand and several rotten melons out for targets.
I busted several with a shoulder hold. Then I decided that it might be fun to see if I could shoot from the hip.
I busted the rest.
He never invited me to shoot again (thankfully--it's not my kind of sport).
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 12:43:20 PM
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assuming i'm teaching a girl one of my cool games like ticket to ride (ie, not playing the standard monopoly, uno, scrabble, etc everybody has played for decades), i almost always let them win the first time or two. it makes the game more excitable for a n00b and increases the chance they will want to play again. i do this with non-girls too, it's my rule #1 of gaming. after that, i'm not one to "game and tell" but when not in a date situation, my friends and i are more casual and friendly, so don't go out of our way to be extremely cut throat. well that is saved for those types of games like munchkin or pirate's cove :)
edit: now if i'm with a girl i like and we're gaming with my friends, i just might play extra hard to try to impress but in general i just like to have fun and the final score is immaterial:)
< Message edited by iwillfearnoevil -- 7/17/2008 1:12:15 PM >
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 1:11:25 PM
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FunBetty
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quote:
ORIGINAL: iwillfearnoevil
assuming i'm teaching a girl one of my cool games like ticket to ride (ie, not playing the standard monopoly, uno, scrabble, etc everybody has played for decades), i almost always let them win the first time or two. it makes the game more excitable for a n00b and increases the chance they will want to play again. i do this with non-girls too, it's my rule #1 of gaming. after that, i'm not one to "game and tell" but when not in a date situation, my friends and i are more casual and friendly, so don't go out of our way to be extremely cut throat. well that is saved for those types of games like munchkin or pirate's cove :)
Hmm....you may have some 'splaining to do, Mister!
Like Tink, I play to win. The saying goes "All's fair in love and war" could be applied to this scenario. But that also includes strategies of distracting the other player. 
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 1:25:38 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: FunBetty
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ORIGINAL: iwillfearnoevil
assuming i'm teaching a girl one of my cool games like ticket to ride (ie, not playing the standard monopoly, uno, scrabble, etc everybody has played for decades), i almost always let them win the first time or two. it makes the game more excitable for a n00b and increases the chance they will want to play again. i do this with non-girls too, it's my rule #1 of gaming. after that, i'm not one to "game and tell" but when not in a date situation, my friends and i are more casual and friendly, so don't go out of our way to be extremely cut throat. well that is saved for those types of games like munchkin or pirate's cove :)
Hmm....you may have some 'splaining to do, Mister!
Like Tink, I play to win. The saying goes "All's fair in love and war" could be applied to this scenario. But that also includes strategies of distracting the other player.
Oooohhhhh yeah!!!! Distractions are the best!!!!! 
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 1:48:25 PM
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Coming from one who often say to my hiking partner that I never have to outrun a bear as long as I can outrun him (and I always can), my opinion on playing any game against a date is to beat the cr4p out of him, lol.
Besides, there’s really no way a man can win against a woman. I mean, if he wins, can he really prance around doing a celebratory dance saying “yeah, I beat a girl”? OR can he mope around saying “ I lost to a girl,” LOL. Either way, beating you is not something he can brag about! We, on the other hand, can celebrate a win, and can just ignore a lost. But it’s better to win legitimately, so, no, don’t let him win if you can, nomatter how badly you want to stroke his ego! Lol.
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 4:06:12 PM
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I play to win. To play and let the gal win would be insulting. The same as saying that she is incapable of winning on her own.
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 4:45:23 PM
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I would play to win but if it was a game with which she was not familiar I would play more for fun the first time or two until she caught on. It's not a lot of fun to play games you are not familiar with with someone who slaughters you b/c they know the game better than you.
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 5:41:35 PM
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(Just had to edit my second post because my brain temporarily departed while I was writing it. I suppose that this would be a good period in my life for a man to defeat me in gaming competition. Once my bereavement brain finally disappears for good, I'll be--in the words of Hakeem Olajuwon--unbeatable. )
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 8:00:19 PM
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Interesting statistics so far. As of the moment, 9 out of 9 women vote to defeat the guy in contrast to the men being split 3-3 between defeating the gal and letting her win.
It will be fun to see if the pattern continues or changes as more people vote...
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RE: gaming--how do you play? - 7/17/2008 9:21:22 PM
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I always thought I played to win until I got good at darts. Now - compared with my dart tournament mentality - I'm a pussycat most of the time.
I won't throw a game of anything, but my priorities aren't always the same.
I voted "Play to beat the gal," which is normal for me, and "Play mercilessly" which is my tournament and (to a lesser extent) league mentality.
In a tournament once I lost a leg I should have won because I was playing a woman and wasn't concentrating. I took the next leg in thirteen darts, which is good enough to beat any pro most of the time.
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