  Turing introduced his ‘game’ confusingly with a poor analogy: a party game in which a man pretends to be a woman. His loose wording (Turing 1950b, p. 434) has led some writers wrongly to suppose that Turing proposed an ‘imitation game’ in which a machine has to imitate a man imitating a woman. Others, like Lassègue (1998), place much weight on this game of gender pretence and its real or imaginary connotations. In fact, the whole point of the ‘test’ setting, with its remote text-message link, was to separate intelligence from other human faculties and properties. But it may fairly be said that this confusion reflects Turing's richly ambitious concept of what is involved in human ‘intelligence’. It might also be said to illustrate his own human intelligence, in particular a delight in the Wildean reversal of roles, perhaps reflecting, as in Wilde, his homosexual identity. His friends knew an Alan Turing in whom intelligence, humour and sex were often intermingled.