The rules are the same, but if your pebble lands on a red spot you must hop/jump backwards for the remainder of your turn.

With the forward, as you can imagine, you throw yourself forward off the board and with the backward you jump backwards off it.

End by snapping like a crocodile, then hold your nose and jump backwards.

I once knew a guy who could jump backwards onto a filing cabinet from a standing start.

The arrangement necessarily results in an almost total lack of a sense of chronology, as letters jump backwards and forwards between decades.