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There are two flavors of House Rules: actually a creative way to give a game new silly but fun rules, and “let’s make the game worse and get drunk”

sully being incapable of rolling a 6 while adam keeps having to take shots after rolling so many 6s is just peak comedy

I love how the first house rules was just a fun spin on guess who that made it silly and different, and it has since devolved into a masochistic torture machine

using alcohol as a fill in poison to represent the venom of the snake bites was a stroke of genius

Very sensible to get rid of the ladders. You shouldn't climb ladders whilst drunk

gotta love that 2% chance from Sully to not roll a 6 a total of 21 times in a row

"Don't treat me like a child, he says while playing snakes and ladders for a job" I CANT 🤣

That opening with Sully locked out of the game and the joy as he finally rolls a 6 is one of the best moments of this series.

What I love about House Rules is by the end they no longer care who wins, they just want the torture to stop.

Good. Don't trust ladders. They're always up to something.

I just ran a million simulations of the regular game and of the 'only snakes' variant (with 1 die). On average, a regular game is finished in about 43 rounds, each player having encountered about 5 snakes. With only snakes, it takes about 325 rounds and 58 snakes on average. So good thing to set a time limit at least!

5:14 Shock 10:43 Anger 11:09 Denial 14:30 Clarity 32:44 Bargaining 48:30 Depression 58:49 Acceptance

I love how immediately these episodes fall into chaos

Adam went up the wrong end of the board at 56:42. I will not be taken for a fool, Adam should not have won and I demand a rematch!!

In case you're wondering, Adam did 18 shots, Sully did 13

I just realized that this version of the game was mentioned in one of Terry Pratchett's books as "Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs".

Love Sully's strategic mind coming out in this game, it really lets his decision making shine. Adam, of course, being reckless and constantly rolling 6's without thinking of the consequences. Classic house rules.

I love how this series started with a genuinely good idea (playing „Guess Who“ based on vibes, hilarious) and evolved more and more into a torture method

I know this is gonna be good because Adam is 4 shots deep before Sully is even on the board.

Initial story is a ladder made of snakes, but I think the finality of the story is that they are both so wasted, they essentially lost the function to climb ladders, and instead stumble off of them when they arrive atop of one

I think the thing I love most about House Rules is how engaged Teri is with the shenanigans. In Board Game Club she makes the occasional appearance sure but in House Rules she is truly the secret protagonist of the whole show

lol that Adam cheat right at the end was insane. He went backwards and up a row, and then immediately turned around and went up another.

I'd love for someone to plug this into a simulator and see the average number of shots someone would take before completing this "game".

I don't know why KZfaq recommended me a board game channel run by two British guys, but my god, I've never been left sobbing from laughter at a video only to realize I wasn't even halfway through it.

I tried to stay on topic of todays episode of House Rules and wrote a Python-Script (no pun intended). It played your version of Snakes and Ladders 1,000,000 times and came out with the following stats: Playing with one die you would have had to roll the dice 738 times on average to win. During this terrible board game experience you would have had to drink an average of 111 shots. Cheers!

American here! Since you asked: when Milton Bradley released their version of the game in the States in 1943, they figured that children wouldn't like snakes, so they changed it to a playground aesthetic and called it Chutes and Ladders instead. Why they called them chutes instead of slides, I'm less clear on. Added fun fact, our version even snuck little morality lessons onto the board too. At the base of each ladder is a little cartoon child doing a good deed (e.g. doing their chores or eating their vegetables), and at the top receiving their rewards (e.g. earning their allowance or enjoying their dessert). Conversely, the top of each chute features a kid doing something naughty or foolish (e.g. pulling a cat's tail or reading comics instead of their school books), and at the bottom they suffer the consequences (e.g. getting scratched up or sitting in the corner with a dunce cap on, because the forties were not kind to schoolchildren). None of those children were getting drunk on blue Curacao, but I imagine that would be a very long and winding chute indeed.

for anyone curious the game was intended to have more long snakes, especially at the end because it was supposed to be a lesson that the closer you are to success, the easier it is to fall off

The little voices they give the snakes at 42:00 had me creasing

That clip of the Sullivan singing, Adam drinking, and Teri struggling in the back is such a perfect encapsulation of this series.

I’m sure other have pointed this out, but Adam moved in the wrong direction in one of his last turns, so that last eight would have put him on 96, not the finish…..but let’s be honest for the sake of both boys health it’s probably for the best.

Love how you sometimes casually went the wrong way on the board and nobody realized it (e.g. 56:40)

Teri has to start selling her own brand of Teri’s Sherry. It’s too much of a golden opportunity!

Adam took 17 shots, Sully took 12. I could never. Great video.

Nothing more exciting than Sullivan getting to join the game 11 minutes into the video!

ive never seen a more literal example of "throwing the dice" than how adam rolls

This game was great, every time you got even the slightest bit of confidence, you immediately died and had to take a shot. It's almost an analogy for life

If I remember correctly the game was about achieving Nirvana. Moving up and down the board reflecting different rebirths. The game was designed to be inherently unfair as you we're always more likely to fall down the board than moving up. It's a very interesting history.

Teri tries to save adams liver Adam: " don't treat me like a child"

Really and truly, though: I constantly rewind the part with them singing “Big Spender”. Hearing Sully going up an octave with his trombone sound kills mr every time. 😂

Not much is better in life than a Snakes and Ladders game where 30 minutes in someone drunkenly asks whose turn it is.

Petition to have a house rules where Teri takes shots and has unsupervised access to an electric shot for adam and sully

After this episode, Sullivan can add snakes to his list of animal liaisons. And Adam apparently has a thing for ladders.

I’d love an animated version of this with Adam as a hare and Sully as the tortoise

44:57 i love that at this point so close to winning, you see just how much time is left in the video

that bit with Adam's token giving Sully's a kiss every time they landed on the same space had me dying! lol 🤣that is the peak House Rules content I'm here for. ❤

You see the difference between Sisyphus and Tantalus is that one actually accomplishes something... And then immediately has it snatched away. A constant cycle of trying and failing. Tantalus never even gets a taste of success. Or weird blue booze. And he never gets on the board.

24:24 In the immortal words of Jeremy Clarkson to his American guest. Guest: You pronounce it Ah-loo-min-um? Jeremy: The way it's spelled, yes.

I appreciate when they realise it's a survival game and start filibustering so they don't have to play

I love how Sullivan always laughs if Adam starts laughing

I would love to see, at random points throughout these drinking house rules videos, the boys taking a breathalyzer test

The first 10 mins legitimately almost killed me laughing 🤣

Sullivan failing to get to play the game while Adam was rolling 6s like crazy taking shot after shot had me cracking up like crazy

fun fact if you just continue to roll 6s the entire time, because of the roll again on 6s rule you could win the entire game on your first turn while only hitting one snake.

I was dying at 30:12. Teri struggling to open the bottle off screen with nothing but subtitle context clues over Adam and Sully's usual antics. I don't know about you but that's just comedy gold to me 😂

Fun fact on this episode, had the guys been playing normally, Adam would have gone all the way to 62 without hitting a single Snake or Ladder, and using the next 7 turns to climb all the way back up to 45 by the time Sullivan Finally throws his 6 😂

Watching this again and never noticed Adam went the wrong way on his end run 🤣

Love Adam’s sneaky little cheat at 56:40 clever boy.

This is the defenition of quality entertainment. Love how nobody seems to be talking about Adams little mistake at 56:40 Playing the game wrong is funnier.

I love Adam rolling a double and going backwards up the board, only to go the opposite direction on the next roll completely unaware

House Rules Game Suggestion: Colorblind Trouble. Play Trouble, but with pieces that have been painted white. The chaos will come from trying to remember which pieces are yours and which are your partners. When you make it around and try to go into your home area, you look under it to see if the color matches yours or if you’ve just helped your opponent get one closer to their home. Your shows are amazing. Thank you for the laughs. ❤

Every House Rules episodes has a nice and calm intro and about 3 turns in they're screaming and taking shots. Perfection.

This series is phenomenal. The high quality production value of Board Game Club is always wonderful, but it’s always nice to see 2 friends just being ridiculous and having fun

56:43 they're so drunk, they didnt notice he was going the wrong way XD (66-65-64-63-62-61-80-79-78!) XD

After running 10,000 simulations, a 2-player game with one die averages 384 turns (std. 354 turns), with each player averaging 58 shots (std 55, 25% 50% 75%: 18, 41, 80). The unluckiest player took 608 shots. The odds improve rather dramatically the more players there are! With 4 players, the average game is only 208 turns (std 174) with each player averaging 30 shots (std 27, 25% 50% 75%: 11, 23, 42). Introducing a second dice reduces the average number of turns to 54 (std 40), and the average number of shots per player to 10 (std 9, 25% 50% 75%: 4, 8, 14), rendering the game survivable.

This is the board game equivalent of getting over it. You’re right at the top at then you take the snake and it takes you right back to the start

I really liked drunken Adam and Sullivant’s attempts at an American accent. I’d like to see them do a few more takes of that. Just wonderful.

The absolute insanity of the last roll and how much confidence he threw it with. That was some real heart of the cards shit, there wasn't a single doubt in his mind he was going to fail the roll and it made it infinitely better.

1:16 Me: So they are gonna balance it out, right? "We will take a shot whenever we go down a snake" Me: They chose violence-

You’ve made this into the first psychological horror board game

House Rules is easily my favorite series on this channel

23:58 Moving backwards with confidence. Yup, the drink's working wonders! 46:53 Equal level of confidence: "11!"

I feel like this has been one of the funniest episodes of house rules, it just kept getting more unhinged and I loved every second of it

Alternate name for house rules: so we made a new drinking game.

Before starting the vid, I must say, I love how we all cheer for Sully despite him never winning. Let's hope fate turns it around this time

I know this is probably old news, but having only just now found this channel, it's great to see Adam doing stuff online again! I've been out of the wrestling scene for a while but I'd recognize Whatculture's smuggest grin anywhere. Glad to see he's seeming happier now, really in his element.

23:58 Sully moved his piece backwards, the alcohol must be getting to him. 🤣

The inside of Adam's mouth getting progressively more and more blue as the episode progresses

Adam: I will never die *Not 2 seconds later* Instantly gets a snake

when I played snakes and ladders with my nieces we use the full set of D&D polyhedrals and you pick which one you want each turn. so that it adds some real strategy to things by deciding how much you want to risk by zooming forward.

53:01 When Adam's competitive mask slipped and he so desperately needed Sully's validation to continue--This is Cinema

Teri's Certificate saying Valedic-TERI-an made me laugh more than it should, but I was already laughing and sure they'll just keep comin'

So I'm pretty sure my all time record for number of drinks in under an hour is somewhere between these two gentleman's final total. And all that sugar, omfg, I'd be doing the Technicolor rainbow into the big white throne for sure

They should add another rule: Go down the ladder/snake if you land ANYWHERE along it

This is the most adorable set of date nights ever committed to KZfaq

I have to say "Snakes and more Snakes" is now my favourite game.

Funny little piece of conotation: @ 32:23 (after Adam rolls a six and lands on a snake, then takes a shot) Sully: "Atleast you GET to roll again Adam: Yes, I HAVE to roll again

@24:25 Aluminum was actually the original spelling that Sir Humphry Davy gave to the metal. It wasn't until after that spelling had been introduced to America that British academics changed it to "Aluminium" due to a perception that it didn't sound right when compared to other metals with an "-ium" suffix like Magnesium. However, they have separate etymologies; Magnesium's name is derived from "Magnesia" salts while Aluminum is derived from "Alumina" without an -ia suffix.

All the seemingly infinite loops Sully and Adam got stuck in during this was incredible

Did anybody else notice that Sully rolled double 5’s when he arrived two spaces from the end (45:20), meaning he should have gotten a second roll, but Adam immediately snatched up the dice and rolled snake eyes? That should have been Sully’s game ending roll!

Adam: Teri, give this man a shot Sully, pointing at camera: uhmameemomamee

I simulated 1 million games of Snakes and Ladders, one with snakes and ladders both, and one with ONLY SNAKES. I was sober when I did this. The regular way, the average game takes 31 rounds, with the fastest game taking 7, and the slowest game taking 210 rounds. With ONLY SNAKES, the average game takes 191 rounds, with the fastest game taking 20 rounds, and the slowest game taking 2110 rounds. That's a lot of booze. In one case, it took a player 67 rounds to start the game.

The funniest part of Sullivans story about his mom is that he thinks Americans would have used the word Madam. 😂

I've never seen two people with such conflicting luck when it comes to dice rolls or so attracted to snakes & ladders😂😂 I was convinced Sully was winning this episode; how did Adam pull it out?!

24:00 it's funny that Sullivan moved his piece backwards because of how drunk he already was 😂

I am SO HAPPY I stumbled on to this channel! Been binge watching these episodes all day. So entertaining! The laughs are contagious, keep it up!

That final roll was bad ass. Like an action movie, not looking back at teh explosion.

Think this one needs an * next to it. Adam going the wrong way.. 56:44

that *Valedic-TERI-an* at 7:55 made me sooo happy!

I'm 10 minutes in and crying. So glad I checked this video out after the Monopoly one came across my feed, NRB is definitely worth the sub.