Game and Illusion

Game

Game noun - A competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize.

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Illusion and game are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Illusion" instead a noun "Game".

Nearby Words: gaming, gamed, gamesome, gamesmanship, gamer

Illusion noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.

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Game and illusion are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Game" instead a noun "Illusion".

Nearby Words: illusory, illusive, illusionist, illusively

good	good game	good illusion
perfect	perfect game	perfect illusion
actual	actual game	actual illusion
entire	entire game	entire illusion
Other adjectives: real, evil, little, new, final, later, titular, last, said, cosmic.

The game certainly offers the illusion of freedom, but the player finds very quickly that if they don't do this exact chain of events at the exact right times, the game is easily rendered Unwinnable.

Source: Video Game / Strife
Nevertheless, the game is pointedly praised for the illusion of freedom it provides with its Wide Open Sandbox gameplay.

Source: Video Game / Betrayal at Krondor
This is similar to the George Foreman Grill, in that nobody is under the illusion that John Madden sat down and coded an entire video game in his spare time.

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