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A smiling person with short graying hair in a teal shirt gestures at a whiteboard showing a tall, leaf-shaped flowchart of nodes joined by arrows, like a branching board-game path. They say: "Players act as if there are meaningful ups and downs, but the outcome of the game is set before the first card is turned." A caption reads: "In a Game Theory breakthrough, Professor Edwards discovers that human life can be perfectly modeled by Candyland." The joke: life, like the children's card game Candyland, is predetermined by the deck order with no real player choice. Votey (aftercomic): a simply drawn smiling man's face adds, "The other thing is that it sucks!"