Charlotte’s Game:

The secret strategies of modern dating, why we play them, and how we can disarm the battle of the sexes

by Tai Odunsi

SYNOPSIS

Modern dating sucks! Singles today are dealing with romantic inflation, ulterior motives, and self-centered mind games. According to the author, we can survive the dating game. Instead of hating the players, he invites readers to explore dating as a literal game – played from the perspective of its two main characters.

Charlotte's game follows the “will they or won’t they” between her and Chandler. His preferred version of the dating game, like baseball, has bases representing progressive levels of intimacy. While Charlotte’s version of the game has four levels, or zones: The Friend Zone, the Fan Zone, the Fun Zone, and the Future Zone. To reach their romantic goals, our players traverse these zones, tackling a series of missions, using an array of mixed strategies, with the goal of avoiding risks and gaining rewards. 

Readers book play the book like a game. Landing on one of four based takes readers through all the levels of Charlotte’s love life: from when our players meet, match, and eventually mate. The book reveals her “action” cards, as well as how she rewrites the rules to win the game. The author dives deeper into classic strategies like ghosting, gaslighting, and gold-digging – while identifying secret strategies like superlative seeking, smoke screening, and story reframing. 

Utilizing the science of psychology, economics, and game theory, the motivations of our daters are explained, helping readers to:

- Predict covert agendas, and sidestep dating’s most common pitfalls.

- Anticipate future moves, and design the most effective response to the head games.

- Decode non-verbal cues, and decipher signals of attraction or disinterest. 

From the love-bombing, lifestyle fabricated tactics of Simon Leviev (The Tinder Swindler), to the catfishing, manipulative antics used on football star Manti Te'o – these situations highlight the importance of knowledge and transparency in modern dating.

This fresh and unique look at dating is designed to hand readers every move in the book. By understanding the rules of the game, readers can finally disarm the battle of the sexes and rescue their love lives from the dating crisis. With this definitive playbook on the games people play – along the quest though love’s twisting and confusing mazes – readers can finally dispel the illusions, debunk the delusions, and gain full mastery of Charlotte’s game.

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coming soon: updated 02-14-2025)