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Beginnings are structural features, and understood as such, their analysis on various levels allows insights into the functioning of games, of game culture and not least of the science of games. Although play and game as elementary moments of culture do not have a clear "beginning", the concept of "beginning" promises to be useful as a heuristic instrument in many ways. Beginnings are not only a self-reflexive allusion to the beginning of this journal, but their thematisation is also prototypically suitable for opening the programme of Spiel|Formen: To treat play and game in their capacity as cultural forms.