So, taking a multiple-choice quiz for fun could indeed be "a voluntary attempt at overcoming unnecessary obstacles". Limited/lusory means = only use your existing knowledge, and not being allowed to search the internet for answers to the quiz. Is a multiple-choice quiz (MCQ) a game? It is according to Suits definition:Specific state of affairs = 100% score on the quiz. Is a multiple-choice quiz (MCQ) taken for fun a "game"? Suits' definition is not narrow enough (i.e. It is not "directed toward bringing about a specific state of affairs (prelusory goal)". Is Minecraft a "game"? (Talking about the original, plain vanilla version of Minecraft).
Would you call a single Scratchcard a game? It is a "voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles". Suits 1985)." Even though he uses it to argue that this means a puzzle is not a game, he also says that a puzzle is widely recognized in game studies to be a game (see the introduction to his article). Karhulahti (2013) says this about Suit's definition "puzzles can rarely be considered prohibiting the “use of more efficient in favour of less efficient means” (Suits 1978, 54), which seems to be one of the core characteristics of games (cf. See also this, for the same critique, discussed more broadly: The means here are the one and only scope. The mean of "merely picking up the football and walking with it into the goal" is not even possible in FIFA, so the means permitted by the game is not more limited in scope. But in FIFA (video game about soccer) it is not possible to place the football in the goal without actually playing the game. In real life it would be possible to pick up a football and place it in the goal without actually playing soccer to do that. "the means permitted by the rules are more limited in scope than they would be in the absence of the rules" One criticism of Suits' definition here is that it doesn't account for the more modern phenomena of video games, where the player's means are NOT more limited in scope than they would be in absence of the rules. The following are some challenges to his definition:
"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. Playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” “To play a game is to engage in activity directed toward bringing about a specific state of affairs (prelusory goal), using only means permitted by specific rules (lusory means), where the means permitted by the rules are more limited in scope than they would be in the absence of the rules, and where the sole reason for accepting such limitation is to make possible such activity ( lusory attitude). Bernard Suits (in his book 'The Grasshopper' from 1967) defined a game as such (clarifications in brackets are mine):
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