pseudogame
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pseudogame (plural pseudogames)
- An activity or situation with certain aspects of a game.
- 1997, Vicki Abt, Leonard Mustazza, Coming After Oprah: Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show, page 84:
- Like all sporting contests and board games, the pseudogame of talk TV first requires players, willing participants who agree to leave the real world for a while and to enter the play world, abiding by its contrived laws […]