Snakes and Ladders could be played by two or more random number generators with the same results - having humans present is merely wasting the humans' time.

I kinda assumed that the 'there is only so much grief to go around, it must be rationed out appropriately' would be exclusively the province of sneery Internet dicks unconnected to either tragedy, but it's nice to have that confirmed, so thank you, and no worries, and hope you're OK.