snakes and ladders

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   a board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes

   Broaderboard game

Questions about snakes and ladders

What does snakes and ladders mean?

snakes and ladders means "a board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes".

Is snakes and ladders a common word?

snakes and ladders is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.