Climb the Ladder

Climb the prize ladder banking at safe rungs, and short-sell the one question you smell is rigged for a bonus.

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Answer multiple-choice questions of rising difficulty to climb a prize ladder. A wrong answer drops you back to the last safe rung, but your banked cash stays protected. One rung hides a rigged trick question, short-sell it to bet it's the trap, and a right read pays a bonus.

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What you'll learn

Climb the Ladder is a risk-and-reward quiz with banking, safe rungs and a short-selling twist.

Origins

A ladder of rising difficulty with safe rungs that protect banked winnings is Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Keeping the safe rung is the original structure.

Safe rungs turn the show into a decision problem instead of a quiz. Each question is a bet of everything above the last guarantee against one more step, so the moment to stop is calculable — and almost nobody stops when the arithmetic says to.

About Climb the Ladder

Climb the Ladder is a risk-and-reward quiz with banking, safe rungs and a short-selling twist. It's an original, free browser game made for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.

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