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Social Rituals

Let's Pull A Fast One On Joey

A practical joke is not a game of FOOJY, because in a practical joke Joey is the one who suffers, while in FOOJY Joey comes out on top, and White is the one who suffers. A practical joke is a pastime, while FOOJY is a game in which the joke is arranged to backfire.

How Do You Get Out Of Here

This game is primarily played by those in jail as a way of structuring their time. The game consists of finding out and working on those things that will get them out of jail. However, due to the game nature involved, most likely they will damage their chances on purpose.

Cops and Robbers

Seeking out an odd form of reassurance, players of this game will risk capture after successful criminal activity just to prove they can evade police and that they are a worthy opponent enough to be chased.

Uproar

The classical game is played between domineering fathers and teen-age daughters, where there is a sexually inhibited mother. Father and daughter clash, explosions arise. these explosions of voices and slamming doors generally are metaphors for the sexual tension in the household.

The Stocking Game

In a drive to prove their belief that everyone has lascivious minds, the player acts provocatively in order to generate responses in line with her expectations. Not understanding that this distances some people from her, it tends to be a self-destructive game.

Rapo

This is a game played between a man and a woman which might more politely be called, in the milder forms at least, ‘Kiss Off’ or ‘Indignation’. It may be played with varying degrees of intensity.

Perversion

People who suffer from mild sadistic distortions tend to take a primitive kind of ‘Mental Health’ position. They feel they are strongly sexed and prolonged abstinence will lead to consequences. Neither of these conclusions is necessarily true, but they form the basis for a game of Perversion.

Let's You And Him Fight

As a game it is comic. The woman sets up the competition, and while the two men are fighting, she decamps with a third. The internal and external psychological advantages for her and her mate are derived from the position that honest competition is for suckers.

Why Don't You --- Yes, But

This game is one of the first games to ever get invented. It's based on the idea of when you try to help someone and they have a million excuses for why every single suggestion you offer won't work.

Schlemiel

This game is a test of wills as one player is constantly pushing the buttons of the other player, trying to draw out the rage by causing various forms of non-physical injuries in an almost accidental manner. Should the other player explode in rage then the game is won.

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