![]() Cooper Article Metrics Save PDF Share Cite Rights & Permissions Abstract An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Wittily illustrated by Frank Newfeld, THE GRASSHOPPER. Bernard Suits The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1978) Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020 W.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() " įor example, when two individuals play the pen-and-paper game Hangman, they aim to arrive at the same word through contrived means, thereby accepting the lusory attitude required by the game's rules. The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia - Heritage (Paperback). "To play a game is to attempt to achieve a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means, and where the rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity. The term was coined by Bernard Suits in the book The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, first published in 1978, in which Suits defines the playing of a game as "the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles". ![]() To adopt a lusory attitude is to accept the arbitrary rules of a game in order to facilitate the resulting experience of play. The lusory attitude is the psychological attitude required of a player entering into the play of a game. ![]()
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