The Game (I lost!)

The text below is copied verbatim from a blog post I made on 10th August 2002 on blogspot.com. This blogpost is recognised on Wikipedia as the first online record of The Game.

Okay, I'm gonna tell you about 'The Game'. I have no idea where or when this started. I found out about it online about 6 months ago. I'd quite like to know the origins of 'The Game' because it is intensely irritating.

Firstly, a disclaimer - anyone who decides to join 'The Game' cannot blame me for any psychological damage caused

Okay, there is only one rule to 'The Game' - if you think about the game, you lose. When you lose you have to declare it; you have to say out loud "I lost". Once you've said that, anyone else playing the game around you will lose and will have to declare it too.

Once you've forgotten about 'The Game' you stop losing.

As I am telling you about 'The Game' I have lost and so are you because you're thinking about 'The Game'. But you will go away and forget about 'The Game' and you will stop losing. Until someone says something or you see something that makes you think of 'The Game'.