Technically an improvement

Gil, 2013-12-10.

Given that the outcome of Snakes and Ladders is determined entirely by dice roll and there is no element of skill to it at all, you could really save a lot of time and tedium by just rolling the die once each and declaring the person who rolled highest the winner.

Of course, Gil's modification does make the game take less time, so it is still an improvement over the standard game. He really should get his mother to buy him some decent board games though. I bet he would be totally into Lords of Waterdeep, and his mother would probably approve since it's not a video-game.

Gil

"Why is there a stick in the living room?" asks Cheryl, looking at the absolutely fantastic stick on the floor.
"Sorry." says Gil. "I'll put it in my room."
"Why don't you take it outside?" asks Cheryl.
Gil picks up the awesome stick. "I can't leave the Excalibur of sticks outside!" he says, entirely reasonably. "Some kid might steal it!"
"Silly me." says Cheryl, sarcastically, blind to the manifest excellence of the stick. "We wouldn't want it to fall into the wrong hands."
"Really, it should in a glass display case bathed in a shaft of light." says Gil. And he is right to say it.

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