Pyramid game

Date: 1/11/2020

I was playing a game with some people I knew. They seemed to recognize it from a video game they had played before, but I had never played, so they were all explaining the rules to me. This time, though, it wasn’t a video game— everything was actually, physically on top of the table in front of us and happening in real time. There was a stone pyramid (looked a lot like the pyramids at Giza) about 3 feet tall covered in sand, and the sand was falling off the pyramid very quickly. I don’t know where the sand went after it fell off the pyramid, because there wasn’t any on the floor. As the sand moved, it revealed little plastic baby figurines. According to the rules described by people around me, we had to cover up the babies in piles of the remaining sand, at which point they would disappear. At some point the sand shifted to reveal a stone wall, about half the height of the pyramid, next to it. I assumed the wall was just there to keep sand from going everywhere, but when the sand moved a little more, I saw two tiny people on top of the wall (don’t know if they were figurines like the babies or actual tiny people) wearing wizard outfits with their arms outstretched like they were performing a spell. Behind them and below them, at the base of the wall, was a city that seemed to have been built for people their size. Someone who was playing with me said “That’s who we’re hiding the babies from.” The game got pretty hard, as sand was falling off the pyramid very quickly and more and more babies were being revealed. Then the sand shifted off of one spot on the pyramid, and a tunnel was revealed. It seemed to go straight down into the pyramid, and was very dark except for a little purple light that was stuck to the wall a few inches down. I asked the people I was playing with if we were allowed to just put babies down that hole, and they said yes. I remember feeling relieved that there was an easy way to hide all the babies without using up precious remaining sand.