Game
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A game was a form of entertainment.
In particular, the Toymaker was heavily associated with the playing of childish and deadly games; (TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"], etc.) the Sixth Doctor would later describe games as the Toymaker's "meat and drink". (PROSE: Trick or Treat [+]Loading...{"page":"91","1":"Trick or Treat (short story)"})
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the 3rd century, the Doctor used the game of chess to imprison Fenric in the Shadow Dimensions. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"])
Upon being injected with the human factor, Alpha, Beta and Omega began playing a game of trains, much to the Second Doctor's delight and Theodore Maxtible's sarcastic amusement. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"])
According to the Toymaker, the "game of the 21st century" involved people shouting, typing and cancelling. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
The Toymaker's games[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the Toyroom, which seemed to display no correlation with the passage of time in the universe, (COMIC: The Greatest Gamble [+]Loading...["The Greatest Gamble (comic story)"]) the Toymaker played many games, turning those who lost into toys, cheating and lying to maintain an advantage. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"], etc.)
The Toymaker once lured professional gambler Gaylord Lefevre to the Toyroom to play a game of cards with him, but declared the game forfeit when he found that Lefevre tried to cheat him. (COMIC: The Greatest Gamble [+]Loading...["The Greatest Gamble (comic story)"])
After compiling a list of games to play, choosing hopscotch, Cards against Humanity!, Hunt the Key, the Dancing Floor, Musical Chairs, Blind Man's Bluff, and the Trilogic Game, and crossing out Oranges and Lemons, Charades, Sardines, Sleeping Lions, Musical Statues, Consequences, Pass the Parcel, and Pin the Tail on the Donkey, (PROSE: The Traveller From Beyond Time [+]Loading...{"page":"21","1":"The Traveller From Beyond Time (short story)"}) the Toymaker once forced the First Doctor to play his Trilogic game while he forced his companions, Dodo and Steven, to play Blind man's buff and hopscotch with his clowns Clara and Joey. The Toymaker gave the Doctor only 1023 moves to finish the game, or he would be trapped in the Toyroom forever. The Doctor used voice control to place the last piece. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"])
After the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair entered the Toyroom, they were forced to play snakes and ladders and hangman. After the Toymaker created a duplicate of the Doctor and made them compete in a game of gladiatorial chess, he placed Izzy and Maxwell Edison in a game of mousetrap. (COMIC: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (DWM comic story)"])
When the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald were lured to the Toyroom, they tried to escape Krampus through snakes and ladders. After losing Krampus and encountering the Toymaker, he and the Doctor played Truth or Dare, where the Doctor got the Toymaker to explain why he too could now also control the Toyroom and the Toymaker dared him to forfeit. (COMIC: Relative Dimensions [+]Loading...["Relative Dimensions (comic story)"])
The Toymaker once tempted another victim with the Trilogic Game. (POEM: The Toymaker [+]Loading...{"page":"33","1":"The Toymaker (poem)"})
During a time when the Toymaker called himself "the Mandarin", he had wanted to challenge the Entity to a game for a while. Upon travelling to the Entity's domain, they played a game of four dimensional chess. (PROSE: Games [+]Loading...{"page":"22","1":"Games (short story)"})
When at the edge of the universe, the Fourteenth Doctor invoked the supersitutpion of counting salt grains to hold back the Not-things. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) The Doctor later believed that this imitation of a game had allowed the Toymaker to leave his toyroom and enter the universe. The Toymaker travelled the universe and won many games, only refusing to challenge "The One Who Waits". When he confronted the Fourteenth Doctor, the Doctor challenged his old foe to a game of cards. The Toymaker won the game, but the Doctor was able to raise the stakes to "best of three", citing that he had won the first game back in his first incarnation. Since he had played separately with two incarnations of the Doctor, the Toymaker turned a galvanic beam on the Doctor, hoping to play the tiebreaker with the Fifteenth Doctor. Instead of regenerating, however, the Doctor bi-generated, with the two Doctors defeating the Toymaker with a game of catch and banishing him from their universe. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 played a game of Monopoly aboard the TARDIS. K9 used the dog token. The others had to roll the dice and move on his behalf. (PROSE: The Romance of Crime)
References[[edit] | [edit source]]
When trying to prevent Operation Double from collapsing, the Twelfth Doctor imitated a game show host, comparing the situation to a game. When Kate Stewart called him out on it, the Doctor furiously noted that the point was to make her see that this was not a game to win or lose, but a war that would end only in pointless death. (TV: The Zygon Inversion [+]Loading...["The Zygon Inversion (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
In non-valid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]
Christel Dee described Minecraft as a "block-building game". (WC: Doctor Who Minecraft [+]Loading...["Doctor Who Minecraft (webcast)"])
According to their dating profile, the bronze Daleks showed "zero mercy in the conquest game." (PROSE: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (feature)"])
