chess (board game)
Request: Calibrated at 415 in TvF.
Games
The Sims (video game series)
The player creates virtual people called "Sims", places them in houses, and helps direct their moods and satisfy their desires. Sold nearly 200 million copies -- wikipedia.
playing video games
Request: As a generic activity, like "reading books" etc. Is there intrinsic negativity to it?
fantasy football
participants serve as owners and general managers of virtual gridiron football teams. The competitors select their rosters by participating in a draft in which all relevant National Football League players are available -- wikipedia.
Magnus Carlsen
"He has held the No. 1 position in the FIDE world chess rankings since 1 July 2011 and trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest-rated player in the world, while holding the record for longest consecutive reign" -- wikipedia.
Pandemic (board game)
"In 'Pandemic', several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world! The players are disease-fighting specialists whose mission is to treat disease hotspots while researching cures for each of four plagues before they get out of hand." - BoardGameGeek.com
Space Engineers (Video Game)
"One of the best Indie Games I‘ve ever played. I‘ve bought it back in 2014 and I have now more than 4000 hours in SE. This game has endless possibilities and a ton of mods, and especially the mods are the reason for me to start SE up almost every night" -- YouTube comment.
Undertale (video game)
"acclaimed for its thematic material, intuitive combat system, musical score, originality, story, dialogue, and characters. The game sold over one million copies... Several gaming publications and conventions listed Undertale as game of the year" -- wikipedia.
bridge (card game)
Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online and with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games, particularly among seniors -- wikipedia.
Scrabble (board game)
“a game in which players build up words on a board from small lettered squares or tiles.” — Google dictionary.
The Enlighten Game
Priority request. "The purpose of the game is to open the channels of communication and to create an ever-expanding experience of alignment between the lower ego-self (Matter) and the Most High Source Consciousness (Spirit)."
I Am Jesus Christ (video game)
the world's first Jesus simulator, allows gamers to slip into the sandals of the godlike Christian prophet and act out the New Testament's greatest hits. Sort of -- ew.com
playing chicken (conflict game)
has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive toward each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a "chicken", meaning a coward -- wikipedia
slot machines
Request: This is an interesting one because it’s wide knowledge that the house always wins in gambling. But, people still get lured in and some lose everything to these machines. There seems to be a desire loop that deep down you know will never be satisfied.
red hands (hand slap game)
The object of the game is for the second player to slap the back of the first player's hands before the first player can pull them away. If the slapping player misses, the players swap roles and play again.