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The only way the game will end is if the Pope says he has lost the game on national T.V.
I thought it was when the British Prime Minister went on television and announced the game was over.

Quote from: http://www.losethegame.net/faq/#rules
As the origins of The Game are uncertain, and it spreads mainly by word-of-mouth, there are numerous variants and interpretations, and no official rules as such. The three rules stated on our homepage represent the core rules that we have found to be most commonly played. The original version of The Game was simply a game that you lost by thinking about the game itself, and telling someone else every time you lost just made sense.

Some common additional rules played by many people are as follows:

Grace periods
Following loss there is a period of time known as a “grace period”, usually 10-30 minutes, during which the player cannot lose again. In other words, thinking about The Game during the grace period does not constitute loss.

British Prime Minister / Queen of England / The Pope
A number of players believe that The Game ends once either the British Prime Minister, the Queen of England or the Pope announces their loss on national television. Although we do not believe this will bring about the end of The Game, we do believe that it will make lots more people lose.

Chuck Norris
It has been proposed that Chuck Norris is the only person capable of winning The Game. We plan to contact him to ask him if this is true.