In Shadow of the Giant, when Bean suspects Peter Wiggin of embezzling Ender's trust fund for his Hegemony uses, he recalls the nature of the Fantasy Game and requests that Graff place it in charge of Ender's trust fund. The Mind Game is never meant to be conclusive, it only makes connections and discovers patterns that are too subtle for the human eye. It is described by the teachers themselves as an extremely complex program that generates content procedurally. The Fantasy Game is discussed in greater depth in Ender's Shadow. This creates a deep connection between him and the Game, with significant consequences later on. Finally, he refuses to choose a drink and instead attacks the Giant, killing it and becoming the first student to enter Fairyland the Game generates this new scenario on the spot, orienting it specifically to Ender himself. To their consternation, Ender confronts the Giant obsessively, failing dozens of times. By tracking how frequently a player attempts it, the Giant's Drink detects and warns teachers of suicidal tendencies among the students. However, the scenario is actually a no-win situation which invariably results in the player's death. One scenario, called the Giant's Drink, offers the player a choice between two beverages, with the promise of admission to 'Fairyland' with the correct choice. The student chooses a character and plays through a number of scenarios. In the course of its service at the Battle School, the Game successfully analyzes every student but one: Bean, who realizes the game's true purpose and refuses to play. Colonel Graff refers to the game sarcastically as the Mind Game. It is designed to secretly map out the psyche of the players, providing valuable data on each student's thoughts and decision-making processes. The Fantasy Game is the faculty's primary method of obtaining information about their students in Ender's Game. However, the Ender Quartet: Ender's Game (1985), Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1990), and Children of the Mind (1994) was written first then Ender's Shadow (1999), First Meetings (2004), and Shadow of the Giant (2005). This article is arranged to reflect the Ender timeline.

Her 'face', a computer-generated hologram that she uses to talk to Ender, is described as plain and young, and it is illustrated in First Meetings as having a bun. She has appeared in the novels Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, and in a short story ' Investment Counselor'. She is an energy based non-artificial sentient creature called an Aiúa that was placed within the ansible network by which spaceships and planets communicate instantly across galactic distances. Jane is a fictional character in Orson Scott Card's Ender series.

Speaker for the dead