literary games

It may be that certain literary games, including works of interactive fiction, derive their power from the play between their literary aspects and their nature as games
Nick Montfort on Literary Games, with examples including his special bagatelle cooked up for this Issue Fields Of Dream -a variant of the consequences/surrealist parlour games. (via Jerz's Literacy Weblog)

meanwhile game meister Kevan has posted the results of a visual variation, the Chinese whisper photography experiment