An employee of the Kosmos publishing house plays the board game Settlers of Catan. | Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images Games are often treated as trivial. They can be seen as mere distractions. At worst, they’re time-wasting indulgences. The philosopher C. Thi Nguyen thinks that framing is a big mistake. In his book The Score, Nguyen argues that games are one of the clearest windows we have into how human agency actually works. Games show us what it means to choose goals, submit to constraints, and care deeply about things that don’t obviously matter. And once you see...

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