Nickelodeon - Cat was an A------

Pearl (The character in the image) is trying to read the rules for the board game but she doesn't understand them in the slightest.

I am pretty sure that board game was more designed as metaphor for some existential crisis or something.

Like monopoly, or snakes and ladders.

…yes, those are games with weird metaphorical meanings. Monopoly was meant to be not fun- long and boring and dog eat dog- it was a financial allegory that didn't go as intended.

Snakes and ladders descends from some Indian game traditions borrowed by the British, and the snakes/shoots represent sins/vices, and the ladders virtues (and everyone that gets the game switches the number and names of each; sometimes there are a ton of snakes to show that there are a lot of traps on the way to enlightenment, sometimes there are seven of each because 7 sins/virtues). Also the fact that you have little control and just roll the dice represents the powerlessness and dependence upon god's will. Yeah, it has a long history as a religious allegory that teaches basic morals. Interesting study on mechanics as meaning in games.