My little girls recently received a new board game for children as a present. They asked
me how to play it, so I opened the box and got out the instructions. There were directions
for how to set up the game, how to play it, and how to determine a winner. Before all of
those details, however, there was a single sentence that came under this heading: "The
Object of the Game."
This is where we find the most basic stuff. "To reach the destination before every other
player"; "to score the most points"; "to be the first player to discover the answer"; "to
