I broke down crying. I was going insane: no walls, no floor, no anything. Just the large board we are all standing on. All I’ve been seeing since we started are blocks of colors, snakes, ladders, and thankfully other human players. That doesn’t even help anymore, everyone has gone mad, eyes dark, hair ruffled, sleepless.

I couldn’t take it anymore, this is a stupid loophole. Who knows how long we’ve been here. A few days? Months? Years? Every time we are near the end someone roles the perfect number to restart. Barely anyone has climbed up the ladders, while everyone has slid down the snake at least ten times each. We are too tired to play, every few turns we stop — hopeless.