This is going to be like the second half of a joke about a mathematician and an engineer walking into a bar.... ... but, to objectively evaluate whether a game

This is going to be like the second half of a joke about a mathematician and an engineer walking into a bar.... ... but, to objectively evaluate whether a game has a degenerate winning condition, make it good enough that twelve-year-olds want to play it, then wait a month or two. ;)