{"id":353,"date":"2007-07-29T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=353"},"modified":"2007-07-29T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T12:09:53","slug":"buddha-isnt-playing-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/07\/29\/buddha-isnt-playing-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Isn’t Playing This"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Wikipedia, Buddha once made a list of games he would not play<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Games on boards<\/a> with 8 or 10 rows (note that Chess<\/a> as we know it was not invented at this time, though earlier Chess-like games such as Chaturaji<\/a> may have existed)<\/li>\n
  2. The same games played on imaginary boards<\/li>\n
  3. Marking diagrams on the floor such that the player can only walk on certain places.<\/li>\n
  4. Using nails to place or remove pieces from a heap with the loser being the one who causes the heap to wobble (such as pick-up sticks<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  5. Throwing dice<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Hitting a short stick with a long stick (there is still some debate about the translation of this line)<\/li>\n
  7. Drawing a figure on the ground or wall after dipping a finger in lac<\/a>, red dye, flour or water, and having the other players guess what the picture is going to be (a guessing game<\/a> similar to Pictionary<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  8. Ball games<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. Playing with toy pipes made of leaves.<\/li>\n
  10. Ploughing with toy plough<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  11. Somersaulting<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  12. Playing with toy windmills<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  13. Playing with toy measures.<\/li>\n
  14. Playing with toy carts.<\/li>\n
  15. Playing with toy bows<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  16. Guessing at letters traced with the finger in the air or on a friend’s back.<\/li>\n
  17. Guessing a friend’s thoughts.<\/li>\n
  18. Imitating deformities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The list raises a number of questions: Why wouldn’t he play them? Without going into theology I know nothing about (and without offending anyone), my understanding is that Buddha could not have been a sore loser, so it must have to do with the more formal properties of the games themselves. Neither rules ( board games sized 8 or 10), fiction (toy windmills), nor ilinx escape criticism.<\/p>\n

    So this I’d like to know: which games would <\/em>he play, and why?<\/p>\n

    (From Intelligent Artifice<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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