# The Exciting Game With One Rule **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 9, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239 "2014-03-09T03:34:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/1 "2014-03-09T03:34:50Z")
I won’t tell you what it is. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/2 "2014-03-09T03:39:37Z")
You already broke it though! ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/3 "2014-03-09T03:45:11Z")
You are mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/4 "2014-03-09T03:45:18Z")
You have to play the game a different way each time. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/5 "2014-03-09T03:49:10Z")
it’s probably a good strategy. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/6 "2014-03-09T03:54:45Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > I won’t tell you what it is. You just did. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/7 "2014-03-09T03:56:01Z")
You just lost the game. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/8 "2014-03-09T04:00:30Z")
I don’t know what you guys are talking about. However, when one of you breaks the rule, I’ll let you know. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/9 "2014-03-09T04:01:48Z")
Or rather,\*\* if.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/10 "2014-03-09T04:04:27Z")
Wait…this “rule” keeps changing, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/11 "2014-03-09T04:06:12Z")
No. I established the rule before I opened the thread. Just one rule. It will not change, until someone guesses it. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/12 "2014-03-09T04:13:09Z")
[The Game](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/13 "2014-03-09T04:19:02Z")
Ah, but that one is far more fiendishly clever!!! **Mwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!** Seriously, though, there is a real rule, a single real rule. If I had thought of writing it down first I still wouldn’t have because, hey, I trust myself. Er, most of the time. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/14 "2014-03-09T04:22:30Z")
No quotes? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/15 "2014-03-09T04:24:02Z")
If it involves foreign languages I will violate it/them all the time. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/16 "2014-03-09T04:24:42Z")
If that was the rule, then \*\* buddha\_david \*\* would have already broken the rule. You, however, have broken the rule. Whoops, simulpost. I was speaking to **randompattern.** ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/17 "2014-03-09T04:26:37Z")
Also, **Zeldar:** Don’t feed me straight lines! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/18 "2014-03-09T04:28:33Z")
No questions? ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/19 "2014-03-09T04:30:03Z")
No. You have broken the rule. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-exciting-game-with-one-rule/683239/20 "2014-03-09T04:32:26Z")
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