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Training yourself not to think about The Game is nearly impossible, and often counter-productive. The best strategies involve causing others to lose more than yourself. The best way to do this is to always announce your loss to as many people as possible. This reminds current players about The Game and initiates new ones. It is very difficult to consciously cause someone to lose without losing yourself. You can try and cause others to associate objects or events with The Game. For example, you could tell a friend that whenever they see their bed they will lose. This can back-fire unless well thought out, in this example you could end up associating your bed with loss. An object which is only found in your friend's room would be a better target. |
Reminders
A much less subtle technique involves leaving reminders in places that will be seen by others more than yourself. This could include graffiti, notes & signs, forum posts, messenger names, answerphone messages and much more.
Wearing a Game t-shirt should cause everyone around you to lose without you losing yourself. It also initiates new players with ease.
Other Languages
Around 500 million people speak English. The Game's translation into Mandarin creates another billion potential losers of The Game. 500 million people speak Hindi. Spanish = 400 million. Arabic = 250 million. Indonesian = 200 million etc... If you speak any language other than English, please translate the rules for us here.
LoseTheGame.com
Use LoseTheGame.com to initiate people into The Game in situations where the rules cannot be explained. For example, writing 
on bank notes (dollar bills) will lead players to the rules via this site.
If you have access to a vehicle, make a sign to go on the back window. This one was made using tape, marker pen and Tipp-Ex (correction fluid):
Post
<a href="http://losethegame.com/">game</a> all over the internet and this site will become the top ranking site when people search Google for the word "game". This is known as a Google bomb.
If you are on someone elses computer, click here to make losethegame.com their homepage. (If you're not using Internet Explorer then click Options, Tools to change it)
Post these pictures and animations around the net. (Right click and 'Save Target As', or paste the address)
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http://www.losethegame.com/toilet.jpg |
http://www.losethegame.com/losethegame.gif |
http://www.losethegame.com/loser.gif |
Paste this code into your blog, MySpace, website etc...
In case you haven't just lost The Game, now is the time to do so. You are thinking about The Game, and have therefore just lost. To make the most of your loss, you should try and tell people who may end up losing in front of lots of people, or on TV or radio. Here are some suggestions:
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| Gordon Brown | Click here (IE only) |
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10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA |
| Tony Blair | info@tonyblairoffice.org | The Office of Tony Blair P.O. Box 60519 London W2 7JU United Kingdom |
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| George W Bush | comments@whitehouse.gov vice_president@whitehouse.gov (Dick Cheney) |
USA: 202-456-1111 | The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 |
| BBC Radio 1 | chris.moyles @bbc.co.uk sara.cox@bbc.co.uk jo.whiley@bbc.co.uk More DJs |
UK: 08700 100 100 |
Radio 1, London, W1N 4DJ |
| BBC Radio 5 Live | upallnight@bbc.co.uk | UK: 0500 909 693 Text: 85058 |
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| The Rush Limbaugh Show | rush@eibnet.com | 1-800-282-2882 (12 Noon and 3PM Eastern Time) | The Rush Limbaugh Show 1270 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 |
| Channel 4 | viewerenquiries@channel4.co.uk | UK: 0207 396 4444 | Channel 4 Television 124 Horseferry Road London SW1P 2TX |
| Richard & Judy | Richard&Judy@channel4.com | UK: 08703 66 22 66 | Richard & Judy, Cactus TV Ltd, PO Box 31888, London SE11 4XS |
| Trey Parker & Matt Stone | You could suggest an episode where Kenny keeps on making Cartman lose The Game...with hilarious consequences. | Trey Parker & Matt Stone c/o William Morris Agency 151 El Camino Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212 |
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| The New York Times | letters@nytimes.com | ||
| Daily Express | news.desk@express.co.uk | 08714 341010 | Daily Express, The Northern & Shell Building, Number 10 Lower Thames Street, London, EC3R 6EN |
| The Guardian | Talk boards | ||
| The Independent | newseditor@ independent.co.uk | (+44) (0)20 7005 2000 | Independent House, 191 Marsh Wall, London E14 9RS |
| The Times | pressoffice@thetimes.co.uk |
00 44(0)20 7782 5971 | The Times Times House, 1 Pennington Street, London, E98 1TT |
| USA Today | Click here | USA TODAY / USATODAY.com 7950 Jones Branch Drive McLean, VA 22108-0605 |
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| New Scientist | Click here | ||
Is there anyone you want others to tell when they lose? Add their contact details in the forum.
If you can lose The Game and explain the rules on national radio/tv or in a national magazine/newspaper (see above for some suggestions) then we will give you a free personalised Game t-shirt. You will also be awarded a legendary Game Award.
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Send a copy/recording of your loss to mail@losethegame.com
If you are going to an event that will be broadcast on TV (such as a football match), you could try writing the rules of The Game on a flag or banner.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia.org is the 8th most visited website on the internet, and as anyone can edit almost any page, it is an ideal place to make people lose The Game. We suggest adding the rules or links to LoseTheGame.com to the most popular articles. Click "edit this page" at the top of any page. One good tactic is to add subtle or amusing references to The Game into the featured articles and news stories linked to from the Wikipedia main page. These will be reverted quickly but you'll still cause a lot of people to lose.Alternatively you can just copy and paste in the following text:
MakeWikiLose.exe is a program that replaces "is" with "makes you Lose The Game and is" in random Wikipedia articles. For example, "George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) makes you lose The Game and is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001."
Use it as follows:
- Click here to download Mozilla Firefox
- Install and run Firefox.
- Go to Tools, Options, Content and uncheck the "Load images automatically" checkbox.
- Type "http://en.wikipedia.org" into the address bar and load the Wikipedia main page.
- Click here to download MakeWikiLose.exe
- Run MakeWikiLose.exe
- Before clicking "OK", make sure you have Firefox displaying Wikipedia behind the "Make Wikipedia lose The Game" message box.
- After you click "OK" don't do anything to your computer. Pressing buttons or clicking the mouse will stop the program from working properly. Don't be alarmed when the program starts typing stuff into Wikipedia or running Notepad.
- To stop MakeWikiLose.exe from running click the icon in the notification area of your taskbar (at the bottom right of the screen).
If you have any problems using MakeWikiLose.exe please email us at mail@losethegame.com
Game censorship & anti-Game attitudes
Some people seem to find the concept of The Game very offensive, and it can provoke strong reactions, especially in online forums. Discussion of The Game has been banned from SomethingAwful.com and GameSpy.com
We encourage you to oppose such censorship by losing The Game in these forums. You can register on GameSpy.com for free by clicking here. You don't have to provide correct information or confirm the email address so it should only take a minute.
If you know of any other places where The Game has been banned, let us know in the forum.
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