The Checkers (or Checkerboard) is an item present in 60 Seconds! and 60 Seconds! Reatomized.
General Informations[]
The Checkers are an item that can increase sanity.
The player can exchange this item for 1 water bottle, if given the chance by the randomly occurring trader event.
Can be used to celebrate Timmy's and Mary Jane's birthday and to get rid of the ammunition trader (the player will lose checkers if he/she uses it so).
Checkers are better for other events (The Ammunation Trader, the Food and Water Trader, etc).
If the Checkerboard is taken for an expedition, it can bring back: 3 Soup/Radio/Ammo
Events (Direct)[]
List of some events where the Cherckerboard can be used as Item.
Deadly Boredom:[]
1. There is not much you can do in this tiny bunker. We need to fight the boredom, otherwise someone might feel like going out to admire the radioactive landscape, or something equally crazy like learning about foreign geography. We need to do something!
2. Where is a ball when we need one? We are really bored and we need something to occupy ourselves with. Too many hours of counting pipe droplets is not healthy. There has to be an alternative.
3. When we ran out of song, short poems you remember from school and funny silent movie quotes, we have to do something, or else we might start thinking about the virtues of a welfare state! Imagine that! What do we do!?
4. We bored. No, really. WE BORED. And we have to do something about it, or we'll end up as some cannibalistic, post apocalyptic savages armed with toasters. It's time to do something.
Use Checkerboard:[]
- A game of checkers, a cup of coffee and a newspaper is all a 1950s man needs. There's no coffee down here, and the paper boy probably got blown up... Yay, checkers! +Increases everyone's sanity
Every Bullet Counts:[]
The wasteland is full of surprises. Like this man on the other side of our door, knocking and claiming that he is willing to offer a lot for decent ammunition... Shall we trade?
Use Checkerboard:[]
- We offered checkers, instead of ammunition. The visitor was quite confused and tried to explain to us what ammunition is. We pretended to understand nothing. It was very amusing, until he left with our checkers board! Asshole! -Checkerboard
Happy Birthday Timmy!:[]
(If Timmy is in the shelter):
1. It's difficult to keep track of time down here, but at least we remembered it's Timmy's birthday today! He's growing so fast. We should get him something ever boy want for his... which birthday is this again?
2. We tried to keep track of dates, but they just don't add up. Luckily, Timmy remembered it's his birthday today! We should get him a present. Or a cake. Or both. So it's settled, we're making a soup cake, but what about the gift?
Use Checkerboard:[]
- When we were taking cover in the shelter, we barely had time to grab anything, so the checkers set is missing half its pieces. It seems you can still play with one half, since Timmy has been enjoying himself. +Increases Timmy's sanity
Loud Snoring:[]
(If Ted and Timmy are in the shelter) Timmy claimed he couldn't sleep last night due to Ted's loud, incessant snoring. Ted angrily retaliated by marking quips about size of Timmy's ears, which enraged Timmy even more. He desperate for a solution. What can be done about this? +Timmy gets tired
Use Checkerboard:[]
- Timmy eventually settled for jamming checker pieces into his ears. Not what the doctor would order, but it did the trick. He slept well, although one of the pieces is missing this morning. Is it still stuck in his ear? And more importantly, cen we still play checkers without it? -Checkerboard(Sometimes) +Timmy rested
Shelter Schooling:[]
(If Timmy is in the shelter):
1. If we care about the future of our kids, we need to start home schooling Timmy. Or maybe shelter schooling is the right choice of words these days. We need to provide him with some reading material as soon as possible!
2. Our family has been stuck down here for a while now and we are very worried this might have an adverse effect on Timmy's education. Can he even read anymore? Up there he at least consumed a comic book or two a week. Now nothing! We need to give him something to read.
Use Checkerboard:[]
- Good things we have those checkers! They contain an instruction sheet. Perfect reading material for a young boy like Timmy. Who would've anticipated that reading those three sentences too many times over would fry his brain a little bit. Poor Timmy... +Timmy get tired
The Fun Factor:[]
([Sometimes] If the event "Paging Doctor Ted/And My Axe!/The Grand Plan" has been done + If you haven't rob anyone):
1. The siblings are back with their group to announce that their camp has been finished! They are attempting to make living there as enjoyable as possible and they have one problem - their children. The older ones can be trained to help in scouting or guarding the base, but the youngsters get borred really fast. The group has been going through the rubbles, looking for toys and games that would keep kids occupied and happy.
2. The freindly group came today to say that the camps is almost complete, but they needs a few more items to make the place really worth living in. It's mostly about the children - there's a bunch of them in the camp and their only entertaiment so far is playing tag in the sad ruins of their homes. The group is collecting toys to keep the children happy and stop them from running of into the wasteland.
Use Checkerboard:[]
- Even playing with an incomplete set of checkers is a better choice for these kids than playing hide ans seek in the radioactive wasteland. Or maybe the other way around? The group was grateful and we're sure their children will be too. We hope to see our freinds again soon and find out more about their new camplife! -Checkerboard +Twins ending continues
Thug Attack! (Shelter Alone Event):[]
Something needs to be done before the bandits return. We know for a fact at least one of them is barefoot. If something sharp enough was to be scattered on the ground, we could really make them feel the pain...
Use Checkerboard:[]
- The checkers pieces were set in place. As predicted, at least one of the invaders was barefoot and soon terrible screams could be heard outside. Seems like good, old American checkers are much worse than that new Danish invention, LEGOs! THE PAIN! "We'll be back! We know that you're in there and that you're all alone!" they shouted before leaving. -Checkerboard
We Can Hear Things:[]
1. We've been hearing strange noises lately. Is it coming from the outside or is it something that came into the shelter with us? Could it be? We found nothing... we feel like we might going crazy. We should probably get busy with something to keep us occupied before this gets worse.
2. There it goes again! Noises, weird noises all the time! Are they coming from the pipes? Walls? Is it something behind the door? We don't know and it's driving us insane! We should sit down and relax. Otherwise we might get paranoid.
3. What in the hell are those sounds? Are they coming from the goddamn walls?! They are driving us crazy! Is something crawling in the air vents!? Relax... take a deep breath. We sould probably calm down before we start tearing them down. Maybe try something relaxing for a bit.
Use Checkerboard:[]
- Having some fun made us forget about... What was it again? +Increases everyone' sanity
Events (Indirect)[]
???:[]
(If Sharikov is in the shelter) Sharikov seems to be found of our checker board. It's favorite game during stretches of extreme boredome and silence in the shelter is pushing the checkers pieces off the table as it gazes intently at whoever happens to be sitting the closest. The sound of checkers hitting the floor every ten seconds is getting on our nerves and we're considering taking the game away. Should we let Sharikov play with the checkers?
Say Yes:[]
- ???
- ??? -Checkerboard
Say No:[]
- We tried to keep the game away from Sharikov, but that just enraged it. We had to run for our lives to the other corner of the shelter, leaving the game behind. Thankfully, it worked. We're all alive and well, but we won't be playing checkers with that set ever again. -Checkerboard
Checkerboard in Expedition[]
As said upper, Checkerboard can help you to bring back:
3 Soup:[]
- When we were passing through the ruins of a bar, we ran into a soup vending machine. We couldn't find any spare change, so we decided to pay with checker pieces. It worked! +3 Soup
Radio:[]
- We don't have a lot of opportunities for entertainment these days. So when we saw a big, mutated snail next to the road we decided to play with him by throwing checker pieces in the gaping hole that was its mouth. It was fun while it lasted, but eventually the snail got bored and left. Turns out it was sitting on a radio all this time! It's working, we just need to ... clean it up a bit. +Radio
Ammo:[]
- When exploring the wasteland, we noticed a box of rifle ammunition sitting on top of a high statue. Climbing that thing wasn't an option, so we decided to play it smart. We made a slingshot from some junk laying around and shot at the box using checker pieces as ammo. +Ammo
The Checkerboard can also be lost after the expedition:
- The checkers are gone, GONE! They didn't make it back from the wastes... -Checkerboard
"Checkerboard Find" In Expedition[]
All "Expedition Locations" where the Checkerboard can be found.
Bar:[]
- We found a set of checkers on one of the tables. What crazy, crazy people play checkers while drinking beer?! +Checkerboard
Bowling Alley:[]
- The venue had it's own game room, where you could relax after running around with hue heavy balls. most of the games were missing or damaged, but we found a decent checkerboard with almost all the pieces. Guaranteed hours of fun. +Checkerboard
Docks:[]
- In what was left of one of the rooms two figures were playing chess. One was a skeleton and the other was a man in a kind of metal armor. They gave us their chessboard, claiming they have a spare one. Only when we walked away, did we discover they gave us checkers, instead of chess. What a sick joke. +Checkerboard
Ethan's House:[]
- Their living room was quite spacious and nicely decorated. There's not much left of it now, but we managed to salvage a checkerboard from the rubble. We even found some checkers pieces! +Checkerboard
Hotel:[]
- A checkers board was floating on the surface. It took us only 12 hours to find all the pieces to make it playable. Time well spent. +Checkerboard
Trivia[]
- Mary Jane hates the Checkers, according to the event when the player gives her the Checkers on her birthday.
Gallery[]
| Image | Name |
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Checkerboard In The Shelter |
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Checkerboard With "Toy Skin" In The Shelter |
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Checkerboard In The Journal |
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Checkerboard In Scavenge Mode |
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Checkerboard In Inventory In Scavenge Mode |
Audio[]
| Checkerboard Sound In The Shelter | |
| Laughing After Used The Checkerboard On The Event "Every Bullet Counts" |
Achievement[]
Pro Gamer:[]
The achievement "Pro Gamer" can be unlocked by taking only the Deck Of Cards and the Checkerboard during Scavenge Phase in Apocalypse Mode.