Snakes and Ladders Game

Snakes and Ladders game is a popular board game for young children. This game usually involves two or more players and they take turns to move by rolling a dice. On the way to the finishing point, the players will meet with some hurdles in the form of snakes and some opportunities in the form of ladders. Whenever the player encounters a snake (or more accurately, the snake’s head), he or she will be thrown back to an earlier box (which is at the snake’s tail). On the other hand, whenever the player encounters a ladder, he or she can climb up the ladder to a higher box. The player who reaches the finishing point first wins the game

To design the program, it took me one day to think out the mathematical logics and wrote out the routines on paper (not in front of the computer). Since the board comprises 10 rows and 10 columns, each box thus represents a cell with the coordinate (column, row). Therefore, I figured out that I need to define the coordinate of every cell by declaring two arrays row(10) and col(10) at the beginning of the procedure. To move the chess piece, I employed the method object.move col(i), row(j), where I initiate the values of col(i) and row(j) in a For....Next loop. As the motion is in a zigzag manner, I need to control the motion using reverse order and by imposing some conditions.

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