Did you solve it? Can you play snakes and ladders backwards?

The answers to today’s slithery enigmas

Earlier today I set you the following two puzzles. The first is a retrograde analysis puzzle about snakes and ladders, and in the second you have to work out a symbol. Here they are again with solutions.

1. Brand new it’s retro

The game starts with each player putting their marker on 1.

Each player roles a single die. If you roll a 6, you get an extra throw.

The players take turns in a fixed order.

You go up ladders, and down snakes. It is possible to go up two ladders, or down two snakes, or up a ladder and down a snake on the same turn.

The winner is the player who lands exactly on 100. (If you are on 98 and roll a 3, you ‘bounce back’ and land on 99.)

If a player lands on a square occupied by another player, the player is not sent back to square 1.

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