Nomic vs Gnomic - What's the difference?
nomic | gnomic |
A game, intended to model certain aspects of legal systems, in which players take turns by modifying the game's rules.
* 1982 , , Scientific American
* 2004 , , Interactive Storytelling
* 2005 , Yusuf Pisan, The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment
Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).
* G. R. Lewes
(of a saying or aphorism) Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.
As adjectives the difference between nomic and gnomic
is that nomic is (dated) customary; ordinary; applied to the usual spelling of a language, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods while gnomic is of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).nomic
English
(wikipedia Nomic)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- This is not to say that nuanced, intermediate levels may not arise in Nomic through game custom and tacit understandings.
- The game Nomic also has rules that change over time. But these games still have rules for how they're played...
- Nomic , a "game of self-amendment," is most fundamentally characterized by its rule 213, 213. If the rules are changed so that further play is impossible, or if the legality of a move cannot be determined with finality, or if by the Judge's best reasoning, not overruled, a move appears equally legal and illegal, then the first player unable to complete a turn is the winner.
Anagrams
*gnomic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry
- He always makes gnomic utterances.