Snakes & Ladders, But ONLY SNAKES | House Rules

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[МихаилИвченко-сэ]

There are two flavors of House Rules: actually a creative way to give a game new silly but fun rules, and “let’s make the game worse and get drunk”

[dopeysponge]

Very sensible to get rid of the ladders. You shouldn't climb ladders whilst drunk

[Maker]

gotta love that 2% chance from Sully to not roll a 6 a total of 21 times in a row

[TheWanderingLPer]

I love how the first house rules was just a fun spin on guess who that made it silly and different, and it has since devolved into a masochistic torture machine

[lavenderwalrus]

using alcohol as a fill in poison to represent the venom of the snake bites was a stroke of genius

[smkeydkey]

sully being incapable of rolling a 6 while adam keeps having to take shots after rolling so many 6s is just peak comedy

[AnEnemySpy]

What I love about House Rules is by the end they no longer care who wins, they just want the torture to stop.

[bigmclargehuge]

Love Sully's strategic mind coming out in this game, it really lets his decision making shine. Adam, of course, being reckless and constantly rolling 6's without thinking of the consequences. Classic house rules.

[pandaman.]

"Don't treat me like a child, he says while playing snakes and ladders for a job" I CANT 🤣

[callumdodsley]

That opening with Sully locked out of the game and the joy as he finally rolls a 6 is one of the best moments of this series.

[GatewaveDJ]

Good. Don't trust ladders. They're always up to something.

[celestia]

I think the thing I love most about House Rules is how engaged Teri is with the shenanigans. In Board Game Club she makes the occasional appearance sure but in House Rules she is truly the secret protagonist of the whole show

[Frantasia]

I love how this series started with a genuinely good idea (playing „Guess Who“ based on vibes, hilarious) and evolved more and more into a torture method

[bdijkstra]

I just ran a million simulations of the regular game and of the 'only snakes' variant (with 1 die). On average, a regular game is finished in about 43 rounds, each player having encountered about 5 snakes. With only snakes, it takes about 325 rounds and 58 snakes on average. So good thing to set a time limit at least!

[nathan_sargent]

5:14 Shock
10:43 Anger
11:09 Denial
14:30 Clarity
32:44 Bargaining
48:30 Depression
58:49 Acceptance

[ungabunga]

I love how immediately these episodes fall into chaos

[zzz]

American here! Since you asked: when Milton Bradley released their version of the game in the States in 1943, they figured that children wouldn't like snakes, so they changed it to a playground aesthetic and called it Chutes and Ladders instead.

Why they called them chutes instead of slides, I'm less clear on.

Added fun fact, our version even snuck little morality lessons onto the board too. At the base of each ladder is a little cartoon child doing a good deed (e.g. doing their chores or eating their vegetables), and at the top receiving their rewards (e.g. earning their allowance or enjoying their dessert). Conversely, the top of each chute features a kid doing something naughty or foolish (e.g. pulling a cat's tail or reading comics instead of their school books), and at the bottom they suffer the consequences (e.g. getting scratched up or sitting in the corner with a dunce cap on, because the forties were not kind to schoolchildren).

None of those children were getting drunk on blue Curacao, but I imagine that would be a very long and winding chute indeed.

[richardbrown]

I’m sure other have pointed this out, but Adam moved in the wrong direction in one of his last turns, so that last eight would have put him on 96, not the finish…..but let’s be honest for the sake of both boys health it’s probably for the best.

[Trumanluen]

Initial story is a ladder made of snakes, but I think the finality of the story is that they are both so wasted, they essentially lost the function to climb ladders, and instead stumble off of them when they arrive atop of one

[lazykbys]

I just realized that this version of the game was mentioned in one of Terry Pratchett's books as "Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs".