Enter the results, then tap each player to reveal theirs.
The ladder game (also called ghost leg or amidakuji) connects vertical lines with random rungs. You start at the top and work your way down to reach a result. Every time you hit a rung you must cross to the next line, so nobody knows where they’ll end up when they start. In Korea and Japan it’s the go-to way to pick who gets a penalty or to decide turn order.
On paper, someone always sneaks a look at the lines and picks the best spot. On screen that can’t happen, and best of all, nobody has to draw anything.
Typing everyone’s name at a party or in a meeting is more hassle than it sounds. With an easy-to-spot fruit like strawberry, banana or grape assigned up front, everyone just has to remember "I’m the strawberry" . Each fruit has its own color too, so even after several people have checked, nobody mixes up whose line is whose.
If you build a ladder by scattering rungs at random, then at a height that fits on screen the outer spots are more likely to land right below where they started. With 4 players, we measured about 29% on one side versus about 20% on the other.
So this ladder shuffles the results first, then works backward to place the rungs that produce them. It looks like a tangled ladder, but every spot has exactly the same odds.