Kindred,

It depends upon the person playing the game.  

Even when playing the long game, if you never understand the rules, especially that of wisdom, then however long the game is played, the outcomes will still not be as expected, intelligent or wise.

Unfortunately, the short game players are not much better; most players these days are in a hurry to win, and are conditioned and groomed for instant gratification and future glorification.   

Because of this grooming, the players that have been played cannot tell it, not even after ten years of hindsight.  

These players do not do hindsight, seeing only their versions of the future; never cop to mistakes, never correct or learn from them, only repeat them, over and over until it's run to ground. 

What is forgotten is that we are playing on the Lord's playground and by the Lord's rules.  

Players can disobey the rules, get away with sins, cause harm, but in the end, at the end of the game, win or lose, we all still must face the Lord's Judgement.