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△ 187｜Building Block Game
This is another story after Sandpile Game .
It is also a childhood game, but the “block game” has more complicated rules and more brutal competition than the “sand pile game”. Because the sand pile game is in a limited space, the competition is bound to distinguish between “winners and losers”. No matter how obvious the separate “three-eighth line” is drawn in the middle, some children can build a good-looking and distinctive sand pile, and even if they occupy more space, they will pile up a pile of soil similar to a grave bag. He piled up, inserted a branch, and was happy to say that he piled up a tank for a long time. Using this very masculine element to show his “male psychological characteristics” is a process everyone will experience in childhood.
On the contrary, the “block game” has too many uncontrollable states. Because the competition cannot restrain the imagination of the other party, and sometimes, the other party’s creativity will be pressed on the ground and rubbed on the ground . Often the end of the building block game is that one party cannot afford to lose, destroying everyone’s works, trying to Obliterate the winning and losing of this game.
The building block game has been a competition from the very beginning – who chooses which building block structure. The stronger ones usually choose the structure first, and among the many building block structures, the arch seems to have a special magic power, which is the first thing every child wants to get. Usually from the beginning of grabbing the arch, it will go off the rails. When the number of different structures can be divided by the children participating in the game, it is good to say, at least everyone will politely distribute the materials inside. Once there is excess – of course, including many adults, they have the same cognition as children. These “extra parts” are not excess, but a distributional “lack”, so there must be There are individuals who take the risk of these “missings”. Often, the weak or the target of bullying are the “lack” risk takers – but there are also special cases, that is, when an adult is supervising the building block game, some children with great acting talents will show Outright “apology” will turn “superfluous” into a form of moral capital.
After choosing the structure of the building blocks, the building competition begins. Children who choose arches often have a relative innate advantage because they can build enviable arches that cannot be built by other structures. If I didn’t hate being with children so much, I would probably be a very good expert in child psychology, after all, I am a very observant person. When I participated in the “building block game”, I began to have a simple summary.
If two children playing a building block game, one is a leader and the other is a submissive, it is basically what kind of structure the “leader” takes, and what kind of structure the “dog-leg” will take. However, there will also be a very delicate “balance” in the middle. For example, in order for the “leader” to hold the leadership of the “follower” for a long time, he will not show the plundering and aggression of the other party so early. The “equal distribution” approach is used to maintain this balance of leadership and following. What’s interesting is that once a third child joins their game, an inexplicable opposition pattern will form between them. The “leader” doesn’t want to lose his leadership ability, and will unite with the “doglegs” to fight against another vain idea. The kid who wants to lead the world. There is no competition in this kind of building block game, because the “leader” will not allow others to outperform him, and the “dogleg” does not want to break away from the group, nor dare to surpass the “leader”.
If the two children who play the building block game are both standard leaders, then there is a much greater chance of mishaps between them. Of course, human beings are not allowed to have such a thing happen. Many people would rather sacrifice their individuality in order to integrate into the group. So there is rarely a situation where “two leaders are in one game” unless the two of them don’t know each other from the beginning. I’ve seen two kids playing with blocks who both want to be in control, they must be playing back-to-back and neither want the other to see what kind of structure they’re building, because they both want to win the game with no one as the referee the match of. There is no way between them to tell the winners and losers, because the two little kids who uphold “right and wrong” have no way of understanding the concept of “coexistence” , so they always want to distinguish the winner from the works of the two Negative – the final outcome is often the one who can’t afford to lose, toppling all the works, and walking away.
Sometimes, playing with blocks will also encounter people like me who can’t win by right or wrong. I played building blocks once with an older brother, he was an absolute leader and even forced the structure of the blocks I could get and ordered that I need to build a wall around his work, so I got The blocks are all rectangular blocks of the same length, and the job is to build a wall for him. Because in that building block game, there was another child, that child was a standard “dogleg”, and I was an “foreign intruder”, so by default I was marked with the “enemy” attribute.
When I was a child, I was also a guy who didn’t play cards according to common sense. The “leader” was building a castle and ranting about his “dogleg” about how his art works were conceived, and I was not comfortable with the dogleg work of building walls. I took those rectangular blocks of the same length and started to play another new game rule that cannot be regulated by the current “block game” – I was playing dominoes.
This behavior not only made the “dogleg” envious, but even almost wanted to join me, hand over the “leftovers” he got to me, and play dominoes together. This made the “leader” very dissatisfied. He thought I was breaking the rules of the game, but he had to admit that dominoes were more fun than the blocks themselves – but he realized a problem, the complex blocks he “snatched” first Structure, there is no way to complete domino. Those triangles, arches, cubes, none of them could fall independently.
The results of it? Did the “leader” finally get angry and overthrow the game? No, I didn’t let him succeed, but I asked him to hand over the building block structure in his hand, making those arches the ups and downs of the domino game. Finally, when the first piece was to be knocked down, I let the leader come first. From his suppressed excited expression, I saw the appearance of a leader with a big belly, a suit and leather shoes, participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. He pushed down Domino, his eyes were full of excitement and excitement, but he couldn’t show it, because that There is no way to decide the winner of the game so far.
On the contrary, “Dog Legs” barked the most cheerfully in the audience.
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