Take My Point: The Strategy Debate Game

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## 1. Game Purpose

⚔️ Ready to outwit the cunning, dismantle deception, and rise as a champion of truth?

Let logic be your weapon and persuasion your craft. This game sharpens your mind, exposes fallacies, and rewards the rarest rhetorical virtue: honest brilliance.

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## Why It’s Called Take My Point

🗣️ Take My Point carries a deliberate double meaning—one rhetorical, one strategic:

1. “Take my point” is the timeless call of persuasion: Understand what I’m saying. Agree with me.
2. In this game, it’s also literal: if you concede a valid argument from your opponent, you can take their point—earning points by acting in the interest of truth, while weakening their position.

Concession isn’t weakness—it’s a high-level strategy. Truth-seeking trumps ego.

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## 2. Components

• 42 Technique Cards: Each names an ancient or modern rhetorical move with a point value—Debaters score points for using it undetected; Listeners score for spotting it.
• Bravo Cards: Played by Listeners when a Debater makes a brilliant, fair, or rhetorically sharp move.
• Fallacy Cards: Used to call out logical fallacies, formal or informal.
• Reference Sheet: Contains common fallacies for easy lookup during gameplay.