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    "articleBody": "Armand Hammer did not stop at naming their new album after a board game. The deluxe box set of Snakes & Ladders, sold through billy woods’ label Backwoodz Studioz for $150, is an actual playable game, with a rule sheet written by woods himself. The label’s own listing sums it up in one line: “The album, turned into a game you can actually play.” According to that listing, the box holds a 24-inch quad-fold game board, a 5-inch spinner, four thick 2-inch player tiles on plastic stands and an instruction sheet laid out by the designer Ashes57. Everything packs into a 12.8-inch square box, two inches deep, finished in matte lamination with spot UV. A spinner, not dice One small detail stands out for anyone who grew up with the game. The Armand Hammer set uses a spinner rather than a die. That puts it closer to Chutes and Ladders, the American version Milton Bradley launched in 1943, than to the dice-driven boards most of the world knows. The game itself is far older: it began in ancient India as Moksha Patam, a morality lesson in which ladders stood for virtues and snakes for vices, and reached Britain in the 1890s. That history fits the record. The label describes Snakes & Ladders as an album written over the winter of 2025 into 2026 and built on extremes, with tenderness and conviction sitting next to fear, anger and violence. A board where one square lifts you and the next drops you back down is a tidy metaphor for that swing. What is inside the box The game is the headline, but the box also carries the deluxe pressing of the record. That edition uses Shane Ingersol’s cover art with spot UV on both sides of the jacket, and inside sits a 140-gram 12-inch disc in a “Coral Snake” color scheme of yellow, red and black, in a custom sleeve drawn by Ashes57. Fans who also order the CD or cassette get those packed into the same game box. Ingersol’s artwork runs across the board, the box and the playing pieces, so the set works as a companion object rather than a vinyl record with a poster thrown in. The full price ladder Here is how the physical formats line up on the label store, from cheapest to most expensive: Digital album: $10 CD with a fold-out poster: $16.98 Cassette with a fold-out J-card: $17.98 Standard black vinyl: $39.98 Deluxe box set with the game: $150 Put another way, the game box costs about $110 more than the standard black vinyl, and the gap buys the colored pressing, the upgraded jacket and the board game itself. The box weighs in at 1,451 grams on the store listing, roughly five times the 283 grams listed for the plain LP. Where the album came from We covered the surprise release itself when it landed, in our report on Armand Hammer’s 16-track Snakes & Ladders album, including the long list of producers. Among the dozen-plus names the label credits are Kenny Segal, clipping., Steel Tipped Dove, Sebb Bash, Messiah Musik and the pairing of Saint Abdullah with Eomac. For one of the duo’s best-known guest spots, see our look at Earl Sweatshirt’s Tabula Rasa with Armand Hammer, and for more left-field rap, our piece on Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition at 10. When it ships The dates are staggered. The CD was set to ship from November 11 and the black vinyl from November 12. The game box and the cassette start shipping on November 17, 2026, and a matching T-shirt follows on November 30. Buyers outside the label store wait longer: wider global distribution of the vinyl and cassette begins on January 15, 2027, one day after the CD’s January 14 date. Further reading Wikipedia: Snakes and ladders Wikipedia: Armand Hammer (band) Image: Meghmollar2017, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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