The Game Awards are presented to those players whose loss of The Game has resulted in the initiation of an outstanding number of people. If you are in the position to have your voice heard by many people, such as involvement in newspapers, radio, television or websites, then we encourage you to follow Rule 3 whenever possible.

The 1st Game Award: James Lyndon Fairbairn

The first Game Award goes to James Fairbairn, who printed the rules of The Game in the Sogen Con guide and directed the audience to it. He is also indirectly responsible for The Game being featured in the No Brand Con guide book.

The 2nd Game Award: Jeroen Verelst

Jeroen Verelst published an article about The Game in the Belgian newspaper De Morgen. It gives a clear explanaition of The Game's rules and other Game-related information. The newspaper has a daily circulation of over 50,000 copies, as well as being online. For a rough translation of the article, click here. For a photo of the article, click here.


The 3rd Game Award: Caleb Anderson

Caleb Anderson lost The Game and explained the rules on Kiwi FM, a New Zealand national radio station. Click here to listen to an mp3 recording (right-click and Save Target As to download). Here is a transcript of the converation:

Caleb: I just lost The Game.
DJ: Lost what game?
Caleb: The Game. Don't you know about The Game?
DJ: Have we been drawn into something here?
Caleb: Not really. Basically, rule one is everyone is playing The Game, so you've been playing it whether you knew it or not. Rule two, if you think about The Game, you lose.
DJ: Oh no!
Caleb: And rule three, you have to announce it. So you've all just lost for the first time. Congratulations.
DJ: Can we play again tomorrow?
Caleb: Yeah, you're always playing, as soon as you forget about it you're winning again.

If you heard this happen tell us about it in the forum.


The 4th Game Award: Andy Boyle

On the 19th March 2007, Andy Boyle published this article about The Game in the Daily Nebraskan, which he estimates as having a readership of 20,000 people. He clearly states The Game's rules and has undoubtably made thousands of new people lose The Game.

The rules are simple, according to the Web site LoseTheGame.com:

Rule 1: You are playing The Game.

Rule 2: Whenever you think about The Game, you lose.

Rule 3: Loss must be announced.

- Mind game enlivens students across the U.S. by Andy Boyle

Click here to see a picture of the printed article

The 5th Game Award: I just lost "The Game" Facebook group

I just lost "The Game" was the first Game group on Facebook to reach 10,000 members. Created in July 2006 it has acquired approximately 40 new members every day. We encourage everyone to join this group to give us an idea of how many people are regularly losing The Game. LoseTheGame.com now uses their discussion board as our forum.

Click here for a list of the 100 biggest Game groups on Facebook


The 6th Game Award: Greg Dean

On the 24th September 2007 Greg Dean made a Real Life comic featuring The Game. With an estimated daily readership of 60,000 people Greg has made a lot of people lose The Game.

The 7th Game Award: Randall Munroe

On the 3rd March 2008 Randall Munroe mentioned The Game in an xkcd comic. Randall estimates that his comic caused around 500,000 people to lose The Game.

The 8th Game Award: Isaiah Lemmon

On the 15th March 2008 Isaiah Lemmon made it into the top ten on the online game LOST.  As one of our "children" this has helped LoseTheGame.com keep our first place position causing the half a million LOST players to lose The Game whenever they look at the scoreboard.

The 9th Game Award: Shannon Montgomery

17th January 2008, Shannon Montgomery published Teens around the world are playing 'the game' for the Canadian Press which was also featured in a number of newspapers. This story was used as evidence for the 2008 recreation of The Game article on Wikipedia.

The 10th Game Award: Gabriel Pollard

7th June 2008, Gabriel Pollard published Wikinews loses The Game which also appeared in an RSS feed with over 3000 subscribers.

The 11th Game Award: Justine Wettschreck

31st May 2008, Justine Wettschreck, the coolest Mum in America, published Playing 'The Game' with the other kids for the Worthington Daily Globe which has a circulation of around 12,000. She also mentioned Trogdor the Burninator whom we all know and love.

The 12th Game Award: Ray Hickey III

3rd October 2007, Ray Hickey wrote an article for the Rutland Herald, Don't think about the game, which was read by around 17,000 people. We can't find any contact details to tell him about the award or to send him his t-shirt, so if you know any please send us an email.

The 13th Game Award: Nick Margerrison & Alex Baker

In September 2008, Nick Margerrison interviewed LoseTheGame.com on The Night Before show on Kerrang! Radio. Alex Baker, the show's producer, arranged the interview. With hundreds of thousands of listeners, they were responsible for causing nationwide loss in epic proportions. They have been regularly losing The Game on air for years and could well be the biggest public losers in the world!

Right-click and "Save target as" to download an MP3 of the interview

The 14th Game Award: Jason Rose

2nd December 2008 , Jason Rose explained the rules of The Game on University Radio York.

The 15th Game Award - Special Edition ULTIMATE GAME AWARD:

Fred Attewill & John White

4th December 2008, Fred Attewill and John White documented The Game in the UK Metro. The Game is mentioned on the front page and explained in a full-page article on page 3. With a readership of over 3 million people, the UK experienced the biggest mass loss in human history!

* Printed article
* Front cover
* Online article
* Online explanation of the rules

This article was read by a Cambridge academic who was most likely involved in creating The Game over 30 years ago. After he contacted LoseTheGame.com, we have uncovered a very plausable account of who created The Game and why.


The 16th Game Award: Sanne Rooseboom

15th December 2008, Sanne Rooseboom explained The Game in "Nederland gaat nu ook verliezen" (Now The Netherlands are going to lose too) for De Pers, a free Dutch newspaper with 350,000 readers.

* Online article
* PDF of printed newspaper
* English translation


The 17th Game Award: Whyte Lyte

25th April 2009, John D AKA "Whyte Lyte", an MC from Manhattan, Kansas, won the 2008 Lose The Game Song Competition and was awarded a Game Award for his truly awesome song "The Game".

* Right click here and save target as to download the MP3
* Whyte Lyte's Facebook page
* Whyte Lyte's MySpace page
* Lyrics for "The Game"
* Let us know what you think about the song in the forum


The 18th Game Award: Unkown

9th May 2009, we awarded a Game Award to whoever was responsible for this. We're not sure who you are, but we are sure that you're awesome. This is definitely the most creative and amusing mass loss causation yet devised. Also, The Game.

* TIME magazine loses The Game (and then denies it ever happened)


The 19th Game Award: Amanda Hession

12th May 2009, Amanda Hession's Bebo group, IL0STTHEGAME, was joined by over 10,000 people in four days. After twenty days it had over 35,000 members and was the 32nd most viewed group on Bebo.

The Next Game Award?

Check out the Lose The Game Song Competition, whoever makes the best song about The Game will win a Game Award and a Game T-shirt.

Kaytee Cahill will win a Game Award if she wears a Game T-shirt every day for one year. Check out her progess so far

If you can get one thousand people to email us telling us that they have lost The Game you will win a Game Award. Email us at mail@losethegame.com to take part and we'll give you a unique email address to use. Click here to see the current scores

If you can lose The Game and explain the rules on national radio/tv or in a national magazine/newspaper then you will win a Game Award and we will give you a free personalised Game t-shirt. Click here for more information.

The most notable mass loss caused by this site happened on 27th September 2007. One of our other websites (porthemmet.com) made almost every UK national newspaper and a few TV shows, including the BBC national 10PM news. Moments after the website was shown on national news, we redirected it to LoseTheGame.com and made 30,000 people lose The Game.