Games promise us a fair chance of redeeming ourselves. This distinguishes game failure from failure in our regular lives: (good) games are designed such that they give us a fair chance, whereas the regular world makes no such promises.In this episode, we discuss the Paradox of Failure from Jesper Juul’s book The Art of Failure: An essay on the pain of playing video games. Our game of reference was Friday by Friedeman Friese.