GFF Snakes and Ladders
 

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Feel free to create your own games in here of any kind although I suspect we might face some legal issues if you guys start playing Craps for real money.

I figured I'd kick things off with a simple game of snakes and ladders. The board I'm going to use is apparently from the South African intelligence service's website:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...nnit/board.gif

Rules are simple. On your turn, you roll a six sided dice (So you have to post first, then press the roll button in the post bit then edit in any comments you might have on the result) and move your counter the number of spaces shown along the numbered squares. If you land on the bottom of a ladder you go up it, land at the top of a snake you go down it, roll a 6 you get to roll again. First to square 64 is the winner!

Right I need, what, four people I reckon. Who wants to play?

Edit: In your sign up post, roll a dice to see who goes first and indicate what colour you want your blob to be. It's going to be blobs, MSPaint-tastic!

Players:

AcerBandit!
Aardark! Dark Orchid? Who the fuck named these colours?
Angel of Light!
Zergrinch!

Trade craft! Trade craft! Darn, no trade craft :(

Also I want nice rainbow color! :D

I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK I WANT TO BE PINK YEEEEEEEAAAAAH

Woot I'll play, I want a purple blob.

Additional Spam:
I got the same roll as Acer, also that board is hilarious

Why'd you roll the dice twice? :(

Because Zerg is terrible. give him the low roll and make him brown

I think he was rolling to see who goes first and then making his first move but SEEING AS HOW HE NAMED THEM BOTH THE SAME THING it's tough to tell.

Edit: TIEBREAKER, ACER GOES BEFORE AARDARK.

I made the second roll to test the word filter :3: It's the one in full caps.

But eh, the second roll with a "1" can be the one used for my first move or smth :p

Still you should make him brown. =I

I think you'll find that's "Sienna".

YES! THAT COLOUR!

I would like to play as well Shin. I would like to choose the color yellow.

Shin one question, if your on square 61, you have to roll a three to get to square 64 to win right, I've played snakes and ladders in which people would use that rule, but other times people would say as long as you rolled a number and you overlapped square 64 you would still win anyway. I'm just curious that's all.

That makes the game take forever, we'll go with passing the square rather than landing on it this time I think.

Right that's four, let's go!

Psst, AoL, roll the dice to see what order we're going in.

We always played that you couldn't move until you got a number that was exactly the number of moves to square 64 or less. If your roll moved you past space 64 then you aren't able to move and you stay on your square.

We always played either bouncing back if you roll too high or just getting past to win. Bouncing back gives you the extra excitement of landing on one of the snakes near the end.

Fuck it, I've changed my mind, you have to land on the last square to win the game, roll too high and you bounce back off it!

Edit: Acer to go first then, GAME ON!

Sorry Shin, I'm still getting use to the system, I don't want to hold anybody up

TRADE MONEY TRADE MONEY RAH RAH RAH!

:giraffesigh:

I look forward to square 58 as it is the best slide ever. :)

This game is pretty fun so far.

Throw again Aard, you got a six!

So, like I'm going to bed in a few. Can I throw a few (clearly marked) turns so as to not hold anyone up?

GET OFF MY SQUARE ANGEL YOU CANNOT HAVE MY SQUARE ANGEL WE CAN'T SHARE IT NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO GET OFF GET OFF

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Zerg, you could just let Shin roll for you while you sleepylands. =Y

If you wish although as a play-by-post game, we shouldn't really expect the current feverish level of excitement to be maintained for long. Also, the high quality update graphics are going to take some preparation so we don't want to end the game too early. Anyway, knowing where you're going to land takes the excitement out of the game rather.

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Or I could roll for you, you might even win while you're asleep!

Okay then. :p

Man, I feel alphabetically challenged with all these As around