snakes and ladders

snakes and ladders
n.
[also S- and L-] a British children's game in which dice are thrown to determine the moves of players' pieces around a board marked with pictures of snakes and ladders, which also affect the play

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[U]
a popular children’s game. It is played with a dice on a board marked with squares, and with pictures of snakes and ladders that go over more than one square. To win the game, a player must reach the top of the board by moving along the squares. A player who arrives on a square where there is the bottom of a ladder can move straight to the top of the ladder, but one arriving at the head of a snake has to move back down to its tail.

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