Morse Code Snakes and Ladders
The classic board game with a code-breaking twist. Roll the die to see how far you could move — but you only advance if you correctly decode the Morse prompt that plays. Miss it and you crawl forward by half. Climb the ladders, dodge the snakes, and race a friend to square 100.
Players
Player 1's turn
Roll the die to begin.
1↑38
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4↑14
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9↑31
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100
↑ Ladder↓ Snake Player 1: at the start Player 2: at the start
How to play
- Play solo, with a friend on the same screen, or against the computer, and pick a difficulty: single letters, two-letter words, or fast three-letter words.
- Press “Roll the die.” A Morse prompt plays straight away. Hear it again, or show the dots and dashes if you need to.
- Pick what you heard from four options that sound alike, such as A, N, R and W (tap, or press 1 to 4). Right moves the full roll; wrong moves half of it, rounded down. Your token walks the squares so you can follow it.
- Land on a blue ladder to climb up, or a red snake to slide down. First to exactly 100 wins; overshoot and you bounce back.
- Stuck? Skip the challenge and your turn passes without a move.
Why decode-to-move is great practice
Tying movement to decoding turns a luck-based board game into genuine listening practice. Easy mode drills the individual letters at a gentle 10 WPM, while hard mode pushes you to copy whole short words at speed. It is a fun, low-pressure way for classrooms, scouts and ham radio beginners to build copying skills. Everything runs locally in your browser.