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** They also ''didn't'' have all the time in the world; they wanted to finish the game before Aunt Nora came home and found out there was a lion in her bedroom (the same roll that freed Alan from the game).
** The subjects of the rolls typically don't just materialize in the room the players are in. They sneak up on you. It adds to the tension of the game, not knowing where the creatures or whatever will appear. Van Pelt's first shot was from outside the room and Alan was noticeably on edge and preparing to flee the moment he realized what was coming. Furthermore, going to the police or military and playing could cause significant collateral damage that would make the situation worse, or risk the game being confiscated by police before completion.
** Also, the kids could be [[Genre Savvy]], realizing that [[Cassandra Truth|no one would believe them if they did say anything]], and that [[Not Now, Kiddo|they probably wouldn't get the chance to offer proof]].
*** Sara actually tries this, but is not believed and ends up in chronic therapy.
* In the beginning, how did the game sit under the couch unnoticed by Alan's parents for several hours? There was at least say, 10 inches from the floor to the bottom of the couch!
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* If it was such a big deal that all Parish boys go to the same boarding school generation after generation, why did Alan's parents waited with telling him about that until few days before sending him there? Wouldn't it be a lot easier if he grew up knowing it from his earliest days, so going to this school would just seem perfectly natural to him?
** They probably thought it would be an awesome treat for him to find out as a surprise. Parents can be dumb like that sometimes.
** Or Alan's mother actually didn't want him to go and had previously put her foot down about ending said tradition, but when Alan got in trouble his father put his own foot down and said "The boy needs the discipline!"
* This is probably the question we asked ourselves twohundred times, but why Van Pelt is so obsessed to catch Alan. Is he bound to the rules of the game to hunt the one who rolled the dice (it's also mentioned by him) or maybe there were some conflict between him and Alan when he was still in the jungle ?
** Van Pelt actually states it outright that this is the case. "You didn't roll the dice, Alan did!"
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