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* '''Parodied''':
** A dying man challenges Death to a game of chess. Turns out Death doesn't know the rules to chess, meaning the man must explain them as they play. A frustrating experience is had.
** Alternatively: Instead of chess, the game(s) being challenged is/are games usually considered more silly and trivial than chess, such as Twister, Battleship, Cluedo, Parcheesi, I-Spy, ''[[World of Warcraft]]',' [[Problem Sleuth
** Death has played so many games he is a grandmaster on the side. He even held a job at a game manufacturer once.
** Death sadly replies that he would love to, but the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]] gets on his case when he makes deals like that.
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{{quote| Death: "{{smallcaps| How much time do we get between moves?}}"<br />
[[Dilbert|Dogbert]]: "See ya in August, bone boy." }}
** Building off the "Exaggerated" entry above, the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse challenge the dying man to various other games (playing [[Stratego]] or [[Battleship (
* '''Deconstructed''':
** The dying man's challenge is futile and delusional; Death is a force of nature, inevitable and ruthless. The man loses, and his loss was an inevitable certainty. Death has been doing this for as eternity, and has played and won against much greater minds than this man's.
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* '''Conversed''': "If you could play against Death in exchange for your life, what would you play?"
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