The rules of The Game are simple: you win so long as you don’t think about The Game. You lose once you think about it. Upon losing you announce to other players that you’ve lost. Then a new round begins.

My latest winning streak was measured in years until I received this email:

In high school when The Game began, and when we saw and hung out with each either daily, my streaks lasted mere weeks, sometimes days or hours. The less I keep in touch with these wonderful nerds the longer the streaks last, though it’s not much of a win.