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Consequently, the best a player can do is to gradually obtain an intuitive sense of the workings of the system, and therefore make informed decisions based on gut feeling. This is a common factor of digital games: with tabletop ones, all aspects of the game are explicit and knowable, while with digital ones, many are hidden in code and not even in principle knowable to the player (short of decompilation and careful study of the code itself).

– Greg Costikyan

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