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The evil penguin · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:54 pm Post subject: Snakes and ladders

Surely this would rank in the top ten most important questions of all time...

I'm currently drawing up a heap of game-boards for the class. Now doing a snakes and ladders board. But can somebody help me. Should the snakes heads be pointing up or down? If you land at the bottom of a ladder you go up. Of course. But if you land on the snakes tail do you go down towards his head or vice versa.

Snake position advice please........

For some reason a second question suddenly just flashed into my mind..... How the heck do snakes have sex???? Do they tongue kiss. Is it risky? Have any snakes ever died from love bites?

But most importantly, on a snakes and ladders board, should the snakes be facing head upwards or tail upwards..... (ie head or tail facing "north")???????????????????????

marcy · Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Location: Seoul

if you land on a snake's head, you slide down it's body.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

I don't know how snakes kiss, but I do know how they have sex. I know in great detail because I researched it six years ago when my really bright 6th graders "had" to know!

Male and female snakes have sexual organs which normally appear as an opening on the underside of the body. On the male, this can turn inside-out and extend outside the body when necessary.

Aren't you glad you asked?

As for the game board:
http://images.google.com/images?q=snakes+and+ladders&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

The evil penguin · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject:

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Come now, it's a simple enough game! Look at the numbers if you're in doubt- landing on a snake will always send you back with regard to the numbers.

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

I believe it is "heads up":

katydid · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

You could do the American version and make a chutes and ladders board...none of which have ANY discernable body parts. Wink

I always loved that game, but always wondered, WHY is the greatest good deed you could do (as characterized by the longest ladder) rescuing a kitty from a tree, and the WORST thing you could possibly do (as characterized by the longest chute) sneak a cookie from the cookie jar?

Anyone want to have a philosophical discussion on a children's board game? Next up...the social ramifications of the Game of Life, from its inception in the 1960s to today.

The evil penguin · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject:

katydid · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

Heinous... Wink

I suppose nicking cookies is the most G-rated form of stealing that Milton Bradley could have come up with. But certainly drawing on walls is much much more a serious kiddie crime?

The evil penguin · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:15 pm Post subject:

Blue Flower · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:18 pm Post subject:

There is a shop in Insadong, that has all these cute, tacky, things. Including a snakes and ladders board game. I think it's just a piece of paper, with the game printed on it, but thats all you need. If you walk down Insadong from Jonggak station direction, it's on the right side of the road, about half way down. You can't miss it. It's got all these old toys, and stuff like that in the windows. great postcards too - knight rider, bionic woman, etc.