According to our good friend Wikipedia,
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The Game is a social phenomenon and an anti-memory game, the objective of which is to forget its existence. It is spread mostly by word of mouth, leading to a number of variations, but all share the same basic rules:
Knowledge of The Game is the only thing required to play it.
Thinking of The Game causes a player to lose.
A losing player must announce the loss.
Actually, this whole thread might be a strategy to make all of us lose The Game, since it reminds us of it.