ABSTRACT
The term ‘game’ is delightfully all-embracing. It could cover many ideas discussed earlier, such as the instances of socio-dramatic play. Any attempt to find something common to all games would probably be futile, as Wittgenstein memorably demonstrated. All we can say here is that board games and card games are the kinds of activities we especially have in mind in this chapter. We will not be discussing Monopoly, Canasta, Ludo or Bridge, but they are certainly examples of the types of games we want to consider.
