As long as all the players know the rule amends and sign up to them up front then it's just flavour.
I always play to win within the accepted rules of any game. If there's no realistic chance of a victory I won't play.
However, if there's no realistic chance of a defeat I won't play either. I won't play my seven year old daughter at full adult scrabble, because most adults I play can't beat me (not a boast, the statistics back me up over many years of obsessive record keeping).
So, in short, I play to win, but I only play games against oponents that might be a challenge.
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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