Strip Games
Strip Games
Frequency of Strip Versions of Various Games
n = google hits for "strip <game name>" / google hits for "<game name>" (at the time of this writing)
Frequent (n > 1%) -Poker -Spin the Bottle -Beer Pong -Never Have I Ever -Truth or Dare
Rare (1% >= n > 0.01%) -Chess -Blackjack -Tennis -Settlers of Catan -Pictionary
Extremely Rare (0.01% >= n > 0) -Cricket -Magic: the Gathering -Stickball -Agricola -Jumanji
Nonexistent (n = 0) -Poohsticks -Podracing -Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma -Chess by Mail -Conway's Game of Life

The frequency of strip versions of various games is measured by means of Google search results. Strip versions of popular games are a common activity at parties, especially when alcohol is involved. The obligation to remove pieces of clothing is supposed to add an extra zest to the game. A very widespread variant is Strip Poker , followed by strip versions of regular party games like Truth or Dare or Spin the Bottle .
However, the comic also suggests playing other games in a way that involves stripping. In reality, playing such games as "Strip Tennis " or "Strip Agricola " is rather unusual. The Chris Van Allsburg picture book Jumanji and the Robin Williams movie adaptation Jumanji are about a magical board game that manifests dangerous creatures and traps from the jungle and lost civilization therein; a theoretical Strip Jumanji would probably not remain very titillating during the chaos (evidently, therefore, "strip Jumanji" refers to the real-life board game based on the movie ).
The last column features games of which strip versions are (according to Google) nonexistent. While the other columns named sports or board games where a strip variant would be at least conceivable, the last one includes the zero-player Game of Life and the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma , which is a theoretical example in game theory . It is therefore left to the reader to imagine how a strip version of these pseudo-games would appear.
"Global Thermonuclear War" in the title text is a reference to the film " WarGames ", where a young hacker accesses a US military supercomputer and starts a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be only a computer game.  The film ends by showing the computer that nuclear war is "a strange game" in which "the only winning move is not to play", and proposes "a nice game of chess".
Strip global thermonuclear war is a patently absurd idea; while it is a common trope for people to engage in one last moment of intimate pleasure before certain doom, foreplay (including strip games of any type) is a time-consuming practice, and time is something you don't have much of considering that the bomb could drop on your place of residence at any moment. Besides all that, the act of betting on which city is going to go up next in a nuclear inferno tends not to be an effective aphrodisiac for most people. [ citation needed ] But at least you wouldn't be wearing your radioactive clothes!
Frequency of Strip Versions of Various Games
n = google hits for "strip <game name>" / google hits for "<game name>" (at the time of this writing)
Frequent (n > 1%) -Poker -Spin the Bottle -Beer Pong -Never Have I Ever -Truth or Dare
Rare (1% >= n > 0.01%) -Chess -Blackjack -Tennis -Settlers of Catan -Pictionary
Extremely Rare (0.01% >= n > 0) -Cricket -Magic: the Gathering -Stickball -Agricola -Jumanji
Nonexistent (n = 0) -Poohsticks -Podracing -Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma -Chess by Mail -Conway's Game of Life
