Mind games

I've been playing these little games for years now. There's no real point to them, and they inherently lack a real victory condition, but they're amusing.

The games consist of creating some hypothetical scenario interesting enough to support an actual game, and then toying with that scenario until it loses interest. In this way half of the game is making the game, but I think that's really a key part of the game. The goal, in so far as there is one, is to take the scenario you've laid out for yourself and find a response that's either insightful, creative, or amusing. Certain games lend themselves more to certain goals. The "what would the CNN 2 minute human interest story on you be if you were the president" lends itself to humor, while the "If you could have any super power, but would lose it as soon as anyone found out what would it be?" is more of a creativity thing. The whole discussion on the relative merits of having some massive demonstrative power you could only use once vs a weaker power you could use frequently could waste days if not weeks. Insight tends to spring up at random.

I considered writing down all of the games as I play them, then selling them as a book, including an e-mail address at the back, and selling peoples responses to the games in the first book as a 2nd book, but it's just another thing to throw on the vast pile of major artistic works that I've considered doing and almost certainly never will.