We’ve all played the classic board game Snakes & Ladders at some point during our lives. I suspect that the game is a very distant memory for most people who read this, although there’s certainly a chance that you may have revisited the game with your own children! Never mind all that though – it’s time to check out Playtech’s 90-Ball bingo version of the timeless board game, and I’m sure it will be much more exciting than the game you played all those years ago!
Snakes & Ladders is a 90-Ball game with cheap tickets, and it also offers a guaranteed £500 top prize. Better yet, the game offers a bonus payout for players that miss the full house by a single number – commonly referred to as ‘1TG’. There’s a neat little bonus round included too – if you are lucky enough to hit the full house, you’ll be treated to a short game of traditional Snakes & Ladders. More on that later!
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Many well-known board games have been transformed into games of chance over the last decade or two, often with fantastic results. Monopoly is perhaps the most obvious example – there must be more than half a dozen popular slots based around that game alone. Snakes & Ladders is a true classic, though – it’s one of the simplest board games I can remember, and I genuinely couldn’t imagine how Playtech could somehow transform the game into the online bingo format. In reality, this is only a very lightly themed version of 90-Ball bingo – the bonus round is very much Snakes & Ladders, but you’ll be lucky to see that more than once or twice each week!
The game uses standard 90-Ball bingo tickets – these consist of three rows of five numbers each, and you’ll need to purchase at least six of them for every round you wish to participate in. Ticket prices vary depending on the time of day and the number of players currently in the room, but the minimum price is just 3p a ticket. The maximum price is not stated anywhere that I could see, but the highest price I spotted was 10p per ticket. The game is available between 10AM and 1AM each day.
You shouldn’t have any trouble getting to grips with Snakes & Ladders Bingo – this is a fairly typical 90-Ball Bingo game, so you’ll probably know what to expect overall. Each round offers three standard prizes for the first player to fill one line, two lines, or a full house, and there’s also an extra payout for any player(s) who have one number left on their card when the full house is called.
That extra payout – known as a 1TG prize – is the main special feature of Snakes & Ladders Bingo. Every player who holds a card with one number still to go will be taken to a Snakes & Ladders board game at the end of each round. Don’t worry if you didn’t do so well though – the other players in the room still get to watch the action unfold!
Features are a little thin on the ground in Snakes & Ladders Bingo – the game doesn’t include a progressive jackpot, which may be a problem for some players. There are some special feature games available at specific times of the week, but these vary between bingo sites – you’ll need to check the lobby of your favourite site to see what they offer.
After the full house is won, every player that holds a card with one number remaining will be given a chance to play the Snakes & Ladders post-game feature. A set of dice will be rolled three times to determine how far along the board you can go – make it past the sneaky snakes, and you could win the top prize of £500!
When you play a bingo game with a progressive jackpot, a small percentage of the ticket price goes towards funding those jackpots. Because Snakes & Ladders doesn’t include any such prize, the payouts available for the standard one line, two line, and full house prizes are much better than in a comparable game with a progressive jackpot.
For me, that alone makes Snakes & Ladders a worthwhile 90-Ball game, but I understand if you would prefer to play a game that offers a jackpot prize – it’s always nice to have the option though, don’t you think?
Article by Chris Howlett
Chris has over 11 years of experience playing and writing about bingo and online slots.