— — SNAKES AND LADDERS — —
In today’s competition you will play the traditional Snakes and Ladders board game, in conjunction with a series of word-forming tasks. Speed is of the essence though, as being too slow may result in your tribe falling behind….
This competition features a traditional Snakes and Ladders board with 60 spaces, and each tribes will have TWO tokens on the board. Hitting ladders on the path push you further towards the finish, whilst hitting snakes will take you further away. Your goal is to get BOTH tokens to LAND ON OR PASS square 60.
Before reach round begins, the tribe will elect TWO players to compete for the tribe (players CANNOT compete in back to back rounds). The two players will decide between them who is moving Tribe Token A and who is moving Tribe Token B.
Then, all four competitors will be given a 2-letter ‘prefix' (for example ‘TU’). They will have to send back via TENGAGED MAIL a word starting with the prefix as fast as they can in ONE POST (so you could have ‘TURNOVER’).
IMPORTANT: All words must appear on the Dictionary.com website to count as a valid word!
The first TWO players to submit valid words will move their elected token a number of spaces on the board as dictated by the LENGTH of their word (including the prefix). So if you have a 5 letter word and sent it first or second, your token will move 5 spaces for your tribe.
However, the two SLOWEST players will NOT move the intended number of spaces for their token. Instead, the number of spaces the two faster players moved by will be COMBINED and divided by 4 to give the number of spaces that the losing players’ tokens move by (rounded DOWN if necessary due to the number being a decimal).
So if 1st and 2nd had 5 and 4 words respectively, we’d combine that to make 9, divide it by 4 to make 2.25, and round down to 2 - the number of spaces the 3rd and 4th players will move.
Speed is of the essence - it’s no good having the longest word if you are not the quickest two!
When a tribe gets their first token to the finish, we continue with 3 players, with 2 still winning each round and 1 losing. If the second tribe then gets one of their across before the leading tribe gets their second, then we go down to two players - 1 winning, 1 losing - with the losing player’s word length involved in the calculation for their movement.
The first tribe to have BPTH pieces land on or cross the 60th space wins immunity. If both tribes finish at the same time, then the winner is decided by who sent their last word the quickest.
The game will end automatically if no one crosses the finish by the end of the 20th round, with the tribe whose token spaces add up to the highest number at that point winning.
