response 70 of 138:

Jan 19 11:52 UTC 2004

My apologies, I first read about Nomic in Douglas Hofstadter's "Metamagical
Themas" column in Scientific American in 1982.  Basically it is a game about
law.  You start with an initial set of rules which contain laws about how you
can create new laws.  The point of the game is to game the system by creating
laws favorable to you and get the other players to pass those laws.

Anyway, Peter Suber is the actual creator of the game, he maintains a webpage
at http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm