## Jumanji: how would you game the game?

* Author: u/thefreegod *
* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/5tpw38/jumanji_how_would_you_game_the_game/
* Score: 2

* Created: 2017-02-13T01:03:29

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/vakusdrake** [+2]  (an hour later)
> 
> Is there actually any choice in the game? If it's just rolling dice then you have no real choice.        
> 
> I suppose if the first roll wasn't too bad (but still let you know that the game was for real) then you could just live your life normally. Study a bunch of current tech as the decades progress, then finish the game and come back with knowledge decades ahead of your time.             
> Sort of like a time loop except extremely dangerous.

>> **u/Gavinfoxx** [+1]  (2 hours later)
>> 
>> Does the game have a different internal time to external time ratio?

>>> **u/thefreegod** [+1]  (5 hours later)
>>> 
>>> The game has no internal time.  It is a board game.

>>>> **u/Gavinfoxx** [+1]  (5 hours later)
>>>> 
>>>> Uhhh. The movie had the guy being sucked into it?

>> **u/thefreegod** [+1]  (4 hours later)
>> 
>> That was my idea a well.  The threats in the movie really were not that bad if we were properly prepared.
>> 
>> Have you seen the movie?  It makes answering questions easier if I know.

>>> **u/vakusdrake** [+1]  (6 hours later)
>>> 
>>> I suppose I was assuming that the movie wouldn't exist in universe (though in hindsight that makes no sense because then how would you know that time reverts when you finish the game?).                   
>>> If you were able to prepare then you could probably exploit the time loop a bunch of times, allowing you to rapidly advance technological and scientific advancement.

>>>> **u/thefreegod** [+1]  (a day later)
>>>> 
>>>> You don't need to have seen the movie it is stated in the rules of Jumanji.

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