Game

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A game was a form of entertainment.

In particular, the Toymaker was heavily associated with the playing of childish and deadly games; (TV: The Celestial Toymaker ^[+]Brian Hayles, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1966)., etc.) the Sixth Doctor would later describe games as the Toymaker's "meat and drink". (PROSE: Trick or Treat ^[+]Jacqueline Rayner, Tales of Terror (Puffin Books, 2017). Page 91.)

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Upon being injected with the human factor, Alpha, Beta and Omega began playing a game of trains, much to the Second Doctor's delight and Theodore Maxtible's sarcastic amusement. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks ^[+]David Whitaker, Doctor Who season 4 (BBC1, 1967).)

In the Toyroom, which seemed to display no correlation with the passage of time in the universe, (COMIC: The Greatest Gamble ^[+]John Peel, DWM backup comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1981).) the Toymaker played many games, turning those who lost into toys, cheating and lying to maintain an advantage. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker ^[+]Brian Hayles, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1966)., etc.)

The Toymaker once lured professional gambler Gaylord Lefevre to the Toyroom to play a game of cards with him, but declared the game forfeit when he found that Lefevre tried to cheat him. (COMIC: The Greatest Gamble ^[+]John Peel, DWM backup comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1981).)

After compiling a list of games to play, choosing hopscotch, Cards against Humanity!, Hunt the Key, the Dancing Floor, Musical Chairs, Blind Man's Bluff, and the Trilogic Game, and crossing out Oranges and Lemons, Charades, Sardines, Sleeping Lions, Musical Statues, Consequences, Pass the Parcel, and Pin the Tail on the Donkey, (PROSE: The Traveller From Beyond Time ^[+]James Goss and Steve Tribe, The Doctor: His Lives and Times (BBC Books, 2013). Page 21.) the Toymaker once forced the First Doctor to play his Trilogic game while he forced his companions, Dodo and Steven, to play Blind man's buff and hopscotch with his clowns Clara and Joey. The Toymaker gave the Doctor only 1023 moves to finish the game, or he would be trapped in the Toyroom forever. The Doctor used voice control to place the last piece. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker ^[+]Brian Hayles, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1966).)

After the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair entered the Toyroom, they were forced to play snakes and ladders and hangman. After the Toymaker created a duplicate of the Doctor and made them compete in a game of gladiatorial chess, he placed Izzy and Maxwell Edison in a game of mousetrap. (COMIC: Endgame ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics UK, 1996).)

When the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald were lured to the Toyroom, they tried to escape Krampus through snakes and ladders. After losing Krampus and encountering the Toymaker, he and the Doctor played Truth or Dare, where the Doctor got the Toymaker to explain why he too could now also control the Toyroom and the Toymaker dared him to forfeit. (COMIC: Relative Dimensions ^[+]George Mann and Cavan Scott, Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor (Titan Comics, 2015).)

The Toymaker once tempted another victim with the Trilogic Game. (POEM: The Toymaker ^[+]James Goss, Now We Are Six Hundred (Harper Design, 2017). Page 33.)

During a time when the Toymaker called himself "the Mandarin", he had wanted to challenge the Entity to a game for a while. Upon travelling to the Entity's domain, they played a game of four dimensional chess. (PROSE: Games ^[+]Warwick Gray, Brief Encounters (Marvel Comics UK, 1992). Page 22.)

When at the edge of the universe, the Fourteenth Doctor invoked the supersitutpion of counting salt grains to hold back the Not-things. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 2023 specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) The Doctor later believed that this imitation of a game had allowed the Toymaker to leave his toyroom and enter the universe. The Toymaker travelled the universe and won many games, only refusing to challenge "The One Who Waits". When he confronted the Fourteenth Doctor, the Doctor challenged his old foe to a game of cards. The Toymaker won the game, but the Doctor was able to raise the stakes to "best of three", citing that he had won the first game back in his first incarnation. Since he had played separately with two incarnations of the Doctor, the Toymaker turned a galvanic beam on the Doctor, hoping to play the tiebreaker with the Fifteenth Doctor. Instead of regenerating, however, the Doctor bi-generated, with the two Doctors defeating the Toymaker with a game of catch and banishing him from their universe. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 2023 specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

The Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 played a game of Monopoly aboard the TARDIS. K9 used the dog token. The others had to roll the dice and move on his behalf. (PROSE: The Romance of Crime)

When trying to prevent Operation Double from collapsing, the Twelfth Doctor imitated a game show host, comparing the situation to a game. When Kate Stewart called him out on it, the Doctor furiously noted that the point was to make her see that this was not a game to win or lose, but a war that would end only in pointless death. (TV: The Zygon Inversion ^[+]Peter Harness and Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One, 2015).)