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Definition of Snakes and ladders
1. Noun. A board game for children who use dice to move counters up ladders and down snakes.
Definition of Snakes and ladders
1. Noun. A children's luck-based board game played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic figuratively) any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snakes And Ladders
Literary usage of Snakes and ladders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Proceedings by Yusuf Pisan, SIGART. (2005)
"All three games required a computer opponent, but there was no strategy necessary
for Snakes and Ladders - the movement of both the human user and the ..."
2. Understanding the Brain: Towards a New Learning Science by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2002)
"This programme teaches children a spatial analogue of numbers using physical
objects like the game of "Snakes and Ladders".16 This type of training has been ..."
3. Paris & Ile de France by Heather Stimmler-Hall (2004)
"... a collection of over 2500 "Goose Games" (snakes-and-ladders-type board games)
displayed in chronological order from the 17th century to the present. ..."
4. A Life of Books: The Story of D.W. Thorpe Pty. Ltd., 1921-1987 by Joyce Nicholson, Daniel Wrixon Thorpe (2000)
"One of the main items in our charge was board games, which were very popular,
especially 'Ludo' and 'Snakes and Ladders'. There were at least a dozen ..."
5. State of the Nation: South Africa 2003-2004 by John Daniel, Adam Habib, Roger Southall (2004)
"Samson, M & Vally, S (1996) snakes and ladders: Promises and potential pitfalls
of the NQF, South African Labour Bulletin 20(4): 7-14. ..."
6. The Socius of Architecture: Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York by Arie Graafland (2000)
"... of the idea the Japanese have of their city with a Japanese game tor two or
more players; Sugoroku, vaguely resembling the game of snakes and ladders. ..."
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