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== Professional Wrestling ==
* At ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Backlash'' in 2001, William Regal challenged Chris Jericho to a Duchess of Queensbury rules match, which Jericho readily accepted, despite having no idea what "Duchess of Queensbury rules" entailed. It turned out that Duchess of Queensbury rules simply meant that Regal got to change the rules whenever Jericho was about to win. Jericho attempts to pin Regal? Oops, the match is divided into two rounds, and round one just ended. Jericho gets a submission? Oops, submissions aren't allowed!
** This wasn't the first time this kind of match was used; this one is a popular, albeit seldom used kind of [[Zany Scheme]] for heels in [[Professional Wrestling]].
*** And when the General Managers or Vince himself gets involved, their reason is automatically [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]].
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* ''[[Exalted]]'' has Gateway and The Games of Divinity. The first is for mortals, and has been shown in comics and illustrations, though the appearance may be different depending on the artist. The second is for the gods, is played in the Jade Pleasure Dome in Heaven, and is ''very'' addictive...
* There's a whole class of games where the rules can be changed, such as Nomic (which simulates lawmaking, so voting an utter mess into existence is sort of the point), Bartok, and Dvorak. Depending on the group playing the game, the [http://www.agoranomic.org/ complication] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20101204061043/http://b.nomic.net/index.php/Main_Page absurdity] of the rules can quickly reach Calvinball-esque levels.
** Another, much less absurd game of Nomic, [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/406032/nomic/play-by-forum Here]. Current rules are [http://bggnomic.wikispaces.com/Current+Rules#Immutable%20Rules-----116 here]. New players can still join(Rules 305.3, 305.7.1) as long as they don't cheat(Rule 101). You can always quit if you decide you hate it(Rule 305.7.2), and there's no penalty for quitting(Rule 113), so it can't hurt to take a look(Rule 116).
*** There's [http://parl.gc.ca/ another name] for this sort of thing.
**** This goes all the way back to "The Paradox of Self-Amendment" (if a government's laws include laws on how to change the laws, and they're used, is it still the same government?). One of the appendices presented Nomic, basically a set of laws with almost everything except the how-to-change-the-laws part stripped out, so people could actually play with it and get a feel for it.
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