Probably you'd prefer playing Skiddles in such a way that there is a possibility of winning the game, or at least ending it! If that is so you'll have to change the real rules a little.

In spite of his dramatic highs and the canyon lows, Kurt was a flatliner—a patient with no heartbeat.

He was arrested for driving under the influence.

The rest was all flat marsh. It would have been a depressing place on a wet evening. Seen under a morning sun, with a fresh wind blowing, and the air filled with the crying of birds, there was something fine and fresh and clean about its loneliness.