I'm pulling on my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work.

Okay.

So today is another one of my series.

So today I'm going to revisit a series I'm calling 10 Things Every Game Needs.

So I had done, it started with a speech I gave from my daughter's fifth grade class,

which turned into an article, which turned into a podcast, which is now turned into a series of

podcasts. So in my speech slash article slash podcast, I talked about 10 things that every game needs.

I'm now doing 10 individual podcasts where I talk about each one of those things by itself.

So the first one in the series was all about goal or goals.

So the second one is rules.

So today we'll talk about why a game needs rules and what rules do for a game.

Okay. So to start, last time I talked about needing a goal.

So the first thing you have to say is, what are your players trying to do?

How do you win the game?

What's the point of the game?

Okay, once you have a goal, the next thing you need is you start to make rules.

So let me explain what that means exactly and why they're so important.

So what rules are is it tells players what they can and can't do.

And the reason is, when I talk about the point of games, the idea of a game is something that

creates, allows you to have a mental challenge. And part of having a challenge is games by their

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