I mean, when the older kid in the opening scene is asked about the next person who finds the board, he says “May God have mercy on his soul.”
Like, come on dude, just burn it to a pile of ashes and save everyone pain and misery.
Why Doesn’t Anyone Destroy The Game?
I know the game board has to keep popping up thanks to kids being kids and digging around in either a construction site or the attic of an abandoned house, but wouldn’t it have made more sense for the kids from the movie’s opening or young Alan (Adam Hann-Byrd) and Sarah (Laura Bell Bundy) or Alan, Sarah (Bonnie Hunt), Judy (Kirsten Dunst), and Peter (Bradley Pierce) to just destroy the game instead of burying it or sending it down a river?