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Characteristics of Games The Best Game Ever isUnderstanding games whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports by analyzing certain common traits. Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traits including number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and reward effort ratio and using these characteristics as basic points of comparison and analysis. These issues are often discussed by game players and designers but seldom