THE SECOND GAMES LESSON

Why was that lesson even called "games"? Connect Four, Monopoly, Battleships - these are games. Things involving cards, things involving dice, these are games. Basically, any pursuit that involves a combination of skill and luck, of tactics and fortune, to the mutual enjoyment of all concerned - yes, of all - these are the integral elements of games.

Being shouted at by some jumped-up dictator who gets a perverse kick out of bullying eleven year old boys - in nobody's parlance does this constitute games.

The only games being played in that lesson were with impressionable children's minds, people.