This article first appeared in Digital Edge, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on December 27, 2021 - January 2, 2022

How much do you know about tech news from 2021? If you have been reading Digital Edge diligently, you probably know quite a lot. Test your knowledge with this fun game below! Grab a partner and go down memory lane with this tech-themed Snakes or as we like to call it, Tech Geniuses and Luddites.

1.    Find a small object and make it your play piece. Play the game according to the number sequence. Put your play pieces at Box 1. 

2.    Go to Google and type ‘online dice roller’. ‘Roll’ the die. Based on the number you get, move your play piece by that number of boxes.

3.    If you land on a ladder, answer the question correctly to climb to the box with the higher number. If you get it wrong, stay put. 

4.    If you land on a snake, answer the question correctly to stay put. If you get it wrong, slide down the snake to the box with the lower number. 

5.    Answers to the questions are at the bottom of the page. 

6.    When you reach Box 75, you have arrived at the Trough of Sorrow! From this point, to win the game, you will need to roll the exact number to get to Box 80. 

7.    If you roll a number higher than you need to land at Box 80 (for example, you are at Box 75 and need a 5, but roll a 7), you cannot move your piece. At your next turn, roll the dice again.

8.    If you roll a number lower than you need to land at Box 80 (for example, you are at Box 75 and you roll a 3), you can move your piece forward 3 boxes to Box 78. The same rule applies the next time you roll a dice (in this example, you’ll need to roll a 2 or below to move to Box 80). 

9.    The first player to reach Box 80 wins the game!

•      Box 2: Meta

•      Box 6: Non-fungible token

•      Box 9: China

•      Box 13: Microsoft

•      Box 23: Ericsson

•      Box 29: Virtual private network

•      Box 32: Richard Branson

•      Box 35: Integrated chip design

•      Box 38: Carsome

•      Box 43: Ransomware

•      Box 45: William Shatner

•      Box 47: Google

•      Box 53: Natural language processing

•      Box 56: Sarawak

•      Box 63: Cyberjaya

•      Box 69: Citizen

•      Box 70: Augmented

•      Box 74: The process of detecting positive or negative sentiment in text is known as sentiment analysis

•      Box 79: OnlyFans

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