Growing up, one of my favorite games was Chutes and Ladders. It's also one of the first games I bought Ethan just as soon as he was old enough to understand board games. My (not so little anymore) brother-in-law reminded me yesterday that I used to play it with him too when he was like 7 or 8. Well the game we have now looks just like the original one, not only in design but in wear and tear. I love all the little "life and moral lessons" depicted at the tops and bottoms of the chutes and ladders... Some are just too funny, like the kid reading comics behind his history book has to wear a dunce cap! Let's see THAT fly in a classroom today. I wonder if they made an updated one what the little photos would depict... lets see... kids doing drugs, then at the bottom of the chute would be a toothless grinning adult... I could come up with some pretty good ones that would be an example of some of the things our kids face today that the makers of the original chutes and ladders would roll over in their graves.... wait, is chutes and ladders THAT old? I just looked it up and the American version first made its appearance around 1948 but other versions in other countries seem to have been around for centuries.
Yes, we use dinosaurs.... We have the original playing pieces,
but dinosaurs make ANYTHING much more fun!!!
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