Spoiler Alerts! This is an attempt to decode if all players could receive a Jaguar Jewel and if played with only one person could the player win playing single player mode and if Jumanji is a good or evil game to play. Let's get started. After watching the movie it seems Jumanji is not Really a Single player game and only one player gets the Jaguar jewel. Let me try to explain. When the four kids turn on the game they see the Characters to choose from. <PERSON> asks <PERSON> which character he should choose.<PERSON> replies ( I dont know, I dont think it matters that much).. As <PERSON> trys to play Seaplane McDonald which is the first <PERSON> to choose from he is unable due to the fact that <PERSON> has already selected Seaplane. Ok, <PERSON> then picks the very next character and so on. Next scenes shows <PERSON> starts to suck in <PERSON> first even though it was <PERSON> that selected the next character and that's because <PERSON> needs Dr <PERSON> to start the Game. Then <PERSON> then <PERSON>. <PERSON> is selected last probably beacuase of his characters unimportants overall to the game. Then the four fall from the sky then land on the ground close together. Then they are chased by Hippos which they escape but not before one of the hippos eats Dr. <PERSON> played by <PERSON>. (Ok First level is the easiest??) and the game starts. There they are met by <PERSON> who is their greeter to the game. He greets Dr. <PERSON> and the crew and drops them at a checkpoint and hands Dr. <PERSON> the Jumanji map and the Jaguar jewel and recites in verse Return the Jewel and lift the Curse. If you wish to leave the game. You must save Jumanji and call out its name. ( The game may be a bit Narcissist, pun intended) and is to begin with Dr. 17
<PERSON> leading the way. Ok, So let's look further into this. The Game wants to be played and also is set up for five players . It appears only Dr <PERSON> can get the Jaguar jewel and Start the game yet the game makes <PERSON> the first character to choose from that <PERSON> has already picked.This further illustrates the games full intention of multi players and this is why <PERSON> cant advance to get out of the game until the game is won or he dies. (More on this later). He needs at least one more Character and it has to be Dr. <PERSON> since he is the only one that can get the jewel and start the Game. It takes at least 2 players to Win the game and Dr. <PERSON> would need to be selected first or you may end up stuck there like <PERSON> for 20 years. My reasoning is when they arrive at the transportation shed. They get in the Chopper and rockets are fired and the blast dislodges a part that controls pitch and yaw. This is where you need at least one more player to win this level and advance to the next level. One to fly and one to fix the chopper. And the good Dc. <PERSON> is ( the only one that gets a jewel and has no Weaknesses) and he is the one that repairs the helicopter and they progress to the next level. Now I know what your thinking. What about Dr. <PERSON>? This is the only character that can read the map! Or <PERSON> who carries the backpack and defangs the <PERSON> or <PERSON> Roundhouse that distracts and beats the crap out of the guards at the transportation shed? I guess my logic relies heavily on that Dr. <PERSON> with no fear and having no weaknesse and <PERSON> would just navigate without a map in Jumanji until he figured it out. He would already have the backpack presumably if <PERSON> didnt enter the game at the same time and could probably do the other characters actions single handededly since all NPC's talk to him and he is one of the Two Main Characters in the game. It finally falls down who the second <PERSON> is to say how difficult it would be to Win the game with just 2 players. My conclusion is, Dr <PERSON> is the only player that can get the gem and start the game because he is the main character and that the Game is possible to win with any other character that plays.( Kinda of like how hard you want the game to be by picking a weaker character). P.s I also think when <PERSON> started his part, (When he first gets sucked in the game). 17