On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Despite the attempts > of the rules to define who's playing the game or not, in terms of a > switch, it is generally accepted (except among some players of The Game) > that games cannot freely cause arbitrary persons to be playing them; > children sometimes invent games in which there are penalties for not > playing them, but this sort of thing is not generally accepted as making > sense.
Gratuitous: Although the Rules don't have authority to cause Mrs. Clinton to be playing the game, they do have the authority to cause her to be a Player, defined by Rule 869 as "an entity whose citizenship is Registered". Like many terms defined by the rules, it has a definition similar but not identical to the ordinary one.
