List of games with mutable rules - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

While in most games rules are more or less fixed, in some games, making or altering the rules is part of the game. In many (but not all) of such games, manipulating the rules to one's advantage is the best strategy to win. Persuasion becomes a key technique, and rules lawyer

Rules lawyer

A rules lawyer is a participant in a rules-based environment who attempts to use the letter of the law without reference to the spirit, usually in order to gain an advantage within that environment. The term is commonly used in wargaming and role playing game communities, often pejoratively, as...

ing is often encouraged.

While it is not impossible for such games to be drinking game

Drinking game

Drinking games are games which involve the consumption of alcoholic beverages. These games vary widely in scope and complexity, although the purpose of most is to become intoxicated as quickly as possible...

s, they should not be confused with "rule-making" drinking games, such as Kings

Kings (drinking game)

Kings is a drinking game that uses playing cards. It is common among university students in Canada, South Africa, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Lebanon and Belgium. Players must drink and dispense drinks based on cards...

, where the "rules" do not affect gameplay.

Games with mutable rules include:

21
21 (drinking game)
21 is a drinking game. The game progresses by counting up from 1 to 21, with the player who calls "21" suffering a drinking penalty before the next round starts. The loser may add one new rule to the game, and starts the new round.-Rules:Players are arranged in a circle, facing inwards...

: Certain players are given the opportunity to change the rules in order to avoid saying "21" and forced to take a drink (or alternately, to engineer the rules such that they will do so).
1000 Blank White Cards
1000 Blank White Cards
1000 Blank White Cards is a party game played with cards in which the deck is created as part of the game. Though it has been played by adults in organized groups in several cities and college campuses, 1000 Blank White Cards is described as well-suited for children in Hoyle's Rules of Games...

: Similar to Dvorak
Dvorak (game)
Dvorak is a customizable card game that begins with a deck of blank index cards. These index cards are written and drawn upon by players before or during the game...

, this game starts with the titular 1000 blank white cards, and the rules are created in-game by the creation of cards.
Bartok: A game similar to Mao and Uno, and new players are not told the rules. In addition, new rules may be introduced.
Dvorak
Dvorak (game)
Dvorak is a customizable card game that begins with a deck of blank index cards. These index cards are written and drawn upon by players before or during the game...

: A game in which the cards being played can be invented during the game, as can the rules.
Fluxx
Fluxx
Fluxx is a card game, played with a specially designed deck. It is different from most other card games, in that the rules and the conditions for winning are altered throughout the game, via cards played by the players.-History:...

: The rules are not changed by democratic vote, but by the cards.
Mao: A card game where only one person knows all the rules, and a winner can generate one additional rule.
Nomic
Nomic
Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through a system of democratic voting...

: A game which consists primarily of changing the rules by vote.

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