The Characters of Jumanji Could Complete The Game in 10 Minutes? Viewers Even Almost 30 Years After The Premiere Argue About The Course of Events
Viewers to this day argue about the course of the game in Jumanji. Some of them believe that the characters could have had everything behind them even after 10 minutes if they had focused on just throwing dice.
Jumanji is a good warning to always read the rules. Whether in real life or during board games, when you don't always want to waste time reading the rules and many players prefer to learn them on the fly, which can be cumbersome for some, and in the case of Jumanji was very troublesome for the characters in the 1995 film.
Jumanji is a movie in which two children find a magical board game and start playing it. That's when they free a man trapped in it for decades, as well as a host of dangers that they can only stop by finishing the game.
The rules of Jumanji were simple – you roll the dice to move your pawn, and when you throw double you get one more throw. The first one to reach the end wins. You can only start the game if you can complete it, because its consequences disappear only when the player reaches Jumanji and says its name (i.e. completes the game and wins it).
Jumanji could have been completed faster?
Some viewers noted that there was nothing in the rules that forbade the next players to make another throw quickly after each other in order to finish the game as quickly as possible. In their opinion, if they didn't pause and wait for consequences, or move all the time, they could complete the game in 10 minutes or even faster. Internet users point out that they didn't have to sit at the board all at once, it was enough that there was a person whose turn it was. They also didn’t have to continue the game in the house itself, they could do it anywhere they had a board. According to viewers, the players only wasted time arguing and running away when they could have focused on the throwing dice, rushing toward the finish line.
Others, however, coming with counter-arguments, point out that players are first and foremost humans, not robots, so it's hard to avoid emotions. Besides, if they were to ignore any consequences, those would begin to overlap, which could prove to be an even greater threat that could completely prevent them from continuing the game.
This topic returns among viewers every few years, which means that it apparently keeps them guessing all the time. It's also a sign that the film, despite the fact that it's been almost 30 years since its release, still arouses interest and excitement, and provokes discussions about how the characters should deal with the dangerous game.
What do you think? Could the tactic of speedrun gameplay, where you would ignore all dangers and just roll the dice as fast as possible, work in Jumanji?
