BerneE.Games People Play, Grove Press, New York, 1964, pp. 85–87.
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The illustration about the poker game, on the other hand, is NIGYSOB, as here defined.
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Since not all of the necessary information is given, it is conceivable that the example was, in fact, “Cops and Robbers.” The moves in the formal protocol are consistent with C&R. In order to be sure, we would need to know more about the plumber's motivations, but the story is told from the client's viewpoint. Did the plumber mainly want to get caught, or to get punished?
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GroderM.Remarks at the ITAA Summer Conference, 1972.
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I have reverted to Berne's original designations for the hands in a game, White and Black. There was a tendency, a few years ago, to which I then agreed, to change these to Red and Blue, because of the potential racial slur inherent in “White” and “Black.” Berne clearly did not intend any such slur, nor do I. White and Black, rather, refer to the sides in chess, an age-old designation that has absolutely nothing to do with race.
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At that moment Harriet, too, became a NIGYSOB player.
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Credit for the discovery of this important insight belongs to Lester Pincu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Criminology at Fresno State College.
