by Colin Vout

Published Sunday January 25 2026 (link)

]Rummaging through a cupboard I came across an old Snakes and Ladders set. The ladders (label them A to E) went from square 4 to 26, 18 to 28, 19 to 73, 22 to 60, and 41 to 98. The snakes (label them W to Z) went from square 53 to 24, 58 to 5, 72 to 33, and 90 to 66. For old times’ sake I couldn’t resist playing a game on my own. Starting from square 1, rolling the die and moving appropriately, travelling up ladders and down snakes when I chanced to land on their starting squares, I happened to finish exactly on square 100. The total of all the numbers I had thrown on the die was 51.

What was the order of all my up and down jumps? [Eg, A, Y, D]