Final answer:
In Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', obtaining high office in Lilliput requires expertise in rope-dancing. The emperor's game preference is not ascertainable from the information provided, and Wallace Stevens' poem 'The Emperor of Ice Cream' is metaphorical and unrelated to any literal game playing.
Step-by-step explanation:
In Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, high office in Lilliput requires demonstrating adeptness at rope-dancing, which symbolizes the arbitrary and ridiculous means by which political power is maintained. In contrast, while the question about the emperor's preferred game seems related to a passage from the novel, it is actually confusing two different works.
The quote '"Well, see what you can do!" said the emperor. "But make it easy to learn! Keep in mind that it must be the sort of thing I can handle."' cannot be directly related to Swift's work and appears to be a context-less statement. Therefore, it is not possible to ascertain which game the emperor likes to play from the given information.
The poem "The Emperor of Ice Cream" by Wallace Stevens, another piece referenced here, employs the term 'emperor' metaphorically, highlighting the transient nature of life and the folly of human endeavors as compared to the simple pleasures, such as ice cream. However, the poem does not provide any detail about an emperor's game preferences.