Question about creating a traditional board game with

I'm creating a classic board game (i.e. monopoly, sorry,
mouse trap) where the users will move based on the random result of
a roll of dice. The board has 100 squares that the piece can land
on.
What's the best way to give all 100 squares a value so that I
can take the current value of the player piece (movieclip) and add
the result of the dice roll?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Note: I'm developing this game for Flash Lite.

use array t store value of squares n then add the
corresponding value t the value of dice generated randomly using
math.random fuction. -- atulag

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    3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
    4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
    5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
    6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
    7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
    Of course you can use other software for cloning and backup:
    Backup Software Recommendations
    My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
    1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
    2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
    3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
    4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
    5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
    6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
    7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
    8. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
    9. Data Backup (Commercial)
    For use with Leopard always be sure you use a version of the software that is compatible with Leopard.

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