An alien Champion says his race will invade Earth unless someone can best him a game of skill

You never read the comic, did you?

Something like poker, where reading the other player is a large part of the game rather than just the rules.

That guy seems rather hammy and dramatic, I'm not sure he has a great poker face. Hopefully the physiological differences make my own harder to read.

It could backfire badly but I can't see myself beating him at too many games if he can beat all those chess grandmasters so it's my shot at it.

I challenge him to win a Magic the Gathering Pro Tour, knowing nothing but the rules of the game and the list of cards in the Standard card pool.

Either that or a simple 'dumped in a desert, the game is DEATHMATCH' situation.
I do not advise you actually try the Arena route.

model politics

Challenges are
>Achieve peace in the middle east
>Resolving the Chechen conflict
>How to thrive under an theoretical alien invasion

Even if we lose (likely) we should get a few good things out of it

Find Permit A38.

There is only really one answer.
Also, fuck you. This game is as mental as it is physical

Just send one of our unbeatable chess AIs as our champion

How did they resolve it in the comic, OP?

I challenge him to a Veeky Forums shitposting match over who gets the most (You)s

Well, obviously we can't beat him in brute strength. And sheer mental prowess is out of the picture. Which means we'll have to tilt the odds in our favour, quite literally, by introducing as much random chance as possible into the challenge. Something with an evershifting battlefield to keep him on his toes, with enough random aspects to mitigate his skills.

So the answer is to challenge him to a children's card game

Challenge him to a game of chess on 2 boards, with sides flipped so it's fair.

If we tie, that proves that I'm mentally his equal.

Wait for him to make the first move and copy it on the other board so I can never lose.

Pit him against alpha-go. Tell him he needs to win ten sequential games with a 9 month time between them.

I challenge him to a writing competition, with no preparation.

He only accepts on one condition: he gets to use alien tech to make you a cute girl so you're at risk of falling in love with his alien dick too.

I play 1st ed epic with squats

See

>If we tie, that proves that I'm mentally his equal.

Except that the bullshit here is so transparent that even an average human 6-year-old could tell that the above claim is false.

>Wait for him to make the first move and copy it on the other board

But thats not how Chess works. By the second move at the latest he'll react and play differently on each board.

There's only one answer really.

We got to put in Magnus Carlson for the strategy angle

The obvious answer is trivial pursuit

Tic Tac Toe vs a PLC

Diplomacy.

>It has to be a mental contest, so no challenging him to Candyland

Let him play chess and name one of those chess computers as humanity's champion.

Have him give a proof for quick prime factorization.

>mental contest

have him sit in a room of SJWs.

whoever kills an SJW first in a fit of rage loses.

musical improvisation

rap battle

Survival of the illest.

Come at me

But what if he likes pancakes

Tower of Hanoi 1024 discs.Maximum 1 movement per second.

You get Q points awarded to your score for winning this thread.

But user, Magic the Gathering *is* a mental contest.

Usually. When Aetherworks Marvel isn't involved, anyway.

high-speed suicide
whoever kills himself faster wins

> Now YOU have to come up with a game and a way to best him at it.
You sure he isn't distracting the most intelligent people on the planet?

Other than that, Diplomacy seems the most promising. He'll have to imitate humans, which is something people have a certain edge at.

I'd challenge it to make me cum

I challenge him to create the perfect RPG that will satisfy all fa/tg/uys.

If you lose, you'll go away, right? The Game.

Not to mention that all you have to do is point to his very real threat to destroy the world if he wins and you don't. At that point, every other player will probably support you, or at least dogpile him.

Bastard!

Unfortunately by playing that card, you immediately lose before you even make your play.

The only way to win the game is to nit play, if its alien vs humanity we automatically win because some people arent playing the game.

Roshambo

Suicide race, whoever dies first wins!

I pull a Bilbo and challenge him to a game of riddles.

I just lost The Game.

Fucker. People like you are why God doesn't talk to us anymore.

>all aliens are playing the game
Flawless theory

Trivial Pursuit. Not because I'm good at trivial pursuit, but because I doubt an alien will know, say, who won the Super Bowl in 1987.

Monopoly.

With house rules to draw it out into a slow, gruelling stalemate so that eventually the fucker just ragequits

I never specified what happened if I lost, only what would happen if he lost.

Genius

Seven minutes in heaven

Punch him til he dies.

Ask him about a game of his kind that he thinks he's especially good at, then beat him at a fair match of that.

Strive not for success, but excellence.

I like you.

alien champion vs all of mankind, not alienkind vs mankind
anyway there's still a flaw: the game never ends, so while he can lose a trillion times there's nothing stopping him from making sure that all humans end up playing the game either

>Outclasses everyone at Chess
Methinks that's just an overspecialiation. There' tons of game which are purely intellectual that play completely different than Chess.

Axiom, Blokus, Dvonn, Gipf, Mancala, Go, Tsuro, Tunnelz, Zertz, Yinsh, Twixit, Senet, Nomic... I could go on

TRIVIA PURSUIT

It's not the game, but the player.
To best him, we just have to give him an unbeatable opponent.