Parties are for pastimes but as acquaintance ripens, games begin to emerge. Four typical games which are played in social situations are given.

1. Party Games

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
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School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Party Games
• Parties are for
pastimes but as
acquaintance
ripens, games
begin to emerge.
• Four typical games
which are played in
social situations
are given.

4. Ain’t It Awful
• Nowadays is a punitive
parental pastime (Ex :
Juvenile delinquency).
• Broken Skin is an adult
variation with the
slogan “what a pity”.
• Water cooler is the
child pastime with the
slogan “ Look what they
are doing to us now”.

5. Blemish
• It is played from the
depressive Child
position “ I am no
good” which is
protectively
transformed into the
Parental position “
They are no good”.
• Blemish provides
negative reassurance
to the players.

6. Schlemiel
• The Schlemiel makes the
first move to embarrass
the other person.
• If he shows his
anger, schlemiel can feel
justified in returning the
resentment.
• If he restrains himself, he
can go on enjoying his
opportunities.
• The antithesis is not
offering the demanded
absolution.

7. Why Don’t You – Yes But
• It occupies a special
place in game analysis
because it was the
original stimulus for the
concept of games.
• The agent presents a
problem and others
start presenting
solutions.
• Agent objects and all
the others give up
feeling bad.

8. Thank You

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