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Ranked #9 · Sunday, November 1, 2026

Board games by spaces on the board

The Sunday, November 1, 2026 puzzle: put these five in order, from Fewest spaces at the top to Most spaces at the bottom.

  • ChessKings, queens and pawns
  • GoBlack and white stones
  • MonopolyProperty-trading game
  • ScrabbleWord-building game
  • Snakes and Laddersaka Chutes and Ladders

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  1. 🎩 Monopoly40 spaces

    Its roots lie in Lizzie Magie's 1903 game, designed to show the dangers of land monopolies. Source

  2. ♟️ Chess64 spaces

    Early chessboards in India and Persia were one plain colour; the checkered pattern came later, in Europe. Source

  3. 🐍 Snakes and Ladders100 spaces

    It began in India as Moksha Patam, where the ladders stood for virtues and the snakes for vices. Source

  4. 🔤 Scrabble225 spaces

    Alfred Butts' board version was first called Criss-Crosswords; it became Scrabble in 1948. Source

  5. ⚫ Go361 spaces

    It has about 2.1 x 10^170 legal positions, far more than atoms in the observable universe. Source

Standard boards; Snakes and Ladders as 10x10. Go counts line intersections, not squares.

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