• Caillois vs. Garneau
  
  
  The qualities of games and play include:
  
  The need to prove one’s superiority
  The desire to challenge, make a record, or merely overcome an obstacle
  The hope for and the pursuit of the favour of destiny
  Pleasure in secrecy, make-believe or disguise
  Fear or the inspiration of fear
  The search for repetition and symmetry, or in contrast, the joy of improvising, inventing or infinitely varying solutions
  Solving a mystery or riddle
  The satisfaction procured from all arts involving contrivance
  The desire to test one’s strength/skill/speed/endurance/equilibrium/ingenuity
  Conformity to rules/laws, the duty to respect them, and the temptation to circumvent them
  The intoxication, longing for ecstasy and the desire for voluptuous panic