Strategy, tactics and actions should be derived from players’ goals and enable them to focus on how they operate within the system to win, not the restrictions defined by the rules. When players must, or are forced to, focus on the logic and structure of the rules they can lose interest in a game regardless of its other merits.
Quotes about strategy
Games in which all players pursue the same strategy result in a win by the player who makes the fewest mistakes—or, if none, by the player who has the player-order advantage. This is dull.
