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Some of you will already know that I am very fond of board games and that I have quite a collection of them. Snakes and Ladders isn’t usually a game I would play, my usual choice is a strategy game. It was however fun to play because it was hidden away in Burton Agnes Garden. I am not sure I was supposed to win though ;-)   My board game collection as it looked a couple of years ago can be found here.

I shall post some more photos of the garden with a bit of background information in the next few days.

Snakes & Ladders

20 Comments CherryPie on Jul 1st 2010

20 Responses to “100 Photos 27 :: Board Games”

  1. Bernard says:

    I’d love a go at that. :)
    I can see the ‘counters’ at the back…..but did they have a great big dice
    that you could throw?

    • CherryPie says:

      There were other similar games around the garden ;-)

      As to the dice… See the green thing at the back that looks like a clock? That was the spinney device with six segments that replaced the much more exciting roll of the dice!!! The challenge then of course was to make it spin as fast as you could ;-)

  2. jameshigham says:

    Naturally, you did win though.

  3. Haha what an excellent idea!

  4. Denise says:

    Oh I would play these type of games ANYDAY! beats any blood curdling war game on a computer! onderful! I think I will HAVE to think about making one in our garden! Excellent!

    • CherryPie says:

      War games on the computer or on the board are off limits for me, not my thing. I play my strategy games with natural war gamers which probably explains why I usually win ;-)

  5. Ginnie says:

    Oh, how fun, Cherie. I especiajlly like the chess games set up around Holland that I have seen. I clicked on your link and you do have quite a game collection! :)

  6. Chrissy says:

    It makes for a lovely photo, nicely captured. I love to look at old board games, somehow they are so intriguing

    • CherryPie says:

      Thanks Chrissy :-) I really like the old monopoly sets that had the board and the bits separate and they also had wooden houses and hotels.

  7. Sometime back, in another world, I thought in some circumstances the prison world can be likened to the game of Snakes and Ladders. I arrived at the analogy when I came across the reference to “Square One” in a prison report. Having played the game according to the rules and having progressed and landing on square 99 only to go down the slippery slope back to square one!

    • CherryPie says:

      The seems like a very good analogy, but it shouldn’t be like that should it?

      • I do like using analogy in my writings to get a point across. No, it shouldn’t be like that. After 12 years of a life sentence and still be on square one. It angers me that the system wasted so much time at the begining of my sentence and then took another 10 years extra at the end because of their incompetence. And it is annoying that the public buy this because they are being told that it is done to protect the public.

        • CherryPie says:

          The public are fed a lot of information by the media which they believe as fact. As you say it is annoying and it is also very worrying.

  8. Ruth says:

    That looks great. I think it would be fun to use yourself instead of a counter and move around the board :-)