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Ladder Game (Ghost Leg)

Settle coffee bets, chore duty, and turn order — a Korean-style ladder game where one click animates the path. Up to 10 players.

A fair way to pick a winner, decide who buys coffee, or set an order. Choose 2–10 players and outcomes, build the ladder, then tap a name to trace its hidden path down to the result.

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OgleOgle Ladder Game is a free online port of the Korean-style ghost-leg lottery (known as 사다리타기 in Korea, Amidakuji in Japan, and Ghost Leg in the West) — the most-loved fair-randomization method in Korean offices and classrooms. A vertical ladder gets random horizontal rungs, and following the rungs pairs each starter to a result slot, making it the most intuitive way to settle any "random match-up" need from dinner banter to late-night group chats.

When should you use it? Spur-of-the-moment "who's buying coffee?" bets after lunch, assigning cleaning or dishwashing duty, picking presentation order in team meetings, randomizing roommate pairs on a trip, divvying up roles in a school group project, or running a request-song queue in a club — anywhere you want to randomly pair people to slots. Share the result instantly to KakaoTalk, SMS, or Instagram.

Key features. (1) Enter 2-10 participant names. (2) Free-form result slots (win/lose, menus, seats, anything). (3) A new random ladder is built every time. (4) Click a name to watch your path animate down to the revealed result. (5) "Show all" reveals every participant's outcome at once. (6) Win/lose preset (one winner). (7) Coffee-bet preset (one payer). (8) Cleaning-duty preset. (9) Auto-saved results.

FAQ. Q. Is it truly random? A. Yes — every horizontal rung is placed at fresh coordinates each run, so all match-ups are mathematically equiprobable. Q. Can someone new to ladder games understand it? A. The path animates visually on click, so it is intuitive even without instructions. Q. Why max 10 players? A. To keep the ladder legible on screen. For larger groups we recommend the Roulette Wheel or Marble Roulette.