snakes and ladders

snakes and ladders

A children's board game in which players try to reach the finish while encountering ladders that move them quickly forward, and snakes that force them back near the start. My little sister loves to play snakes and ladders, but I find it so frustrating because I always seem to land on snakes!
See also: and, ladder, snake
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • have the last laugh
  • last laugh, have the
  • last laugh, to have the
  • be on the ragged edge
  • do something with one hand behind your back
  • with one hand behind your back
  • with one hand tied behind (one's) back
  • with one hand tied behind back
  • with one hand tied behind your back
  • face to face with (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Snakes and Ladders is particularly suitable for this process due to the analogousness between game play and the transformation process.
The present study was a modification of the board game, snakes and ladders. In educational terms, the rules equate to "devising and planning investigations" which is one of our process skill objectives.
City have successive home matches against Albion and Barnsley this week - and Jones admits the Championship can often resemble a game of snakes and ladders.
The Duchess on the Estate Property Snakes and Ladders (9pm) Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York as she goes to live on a council estate in Manchester.
The Duchess Property on the Estate Snakes and Ladders (9.00pm) Conclusion.
Despite such devastation in the housing market and credit being much less available than it was previously, the developments featured in Property Snakes and Ladders are surprisingly no less thorough or expensive than before.
Small groups of students play the Doubles snakes and ladders game (see Figure 1) together using their dice and coloured counters.
Nowadays the whole thing is like a game of snakes and ladders, with the snakes much longer and more numerous than the occasional rather stumpy ladder."
When honey coloured Jerusalem stone is not available it is replaced by the equally substantial fair-faced concrete of Zvi Hecker's 'snakes and ladders' elementary school in Berlin (AR June 1996), or to construct the minimalist boxes of Adolf Krischanitz's Lauder Chabad and New World schools in Vienna.
Free copies of Snakes and Ladders: A guide to risk for savers and investors can be obtained from The Knowledge Centre, the Reserve Bank, PO Box 2498, Wellington, or at phone 04 471 3770.
SNAKES and Ladders is a new comedy by Eric Chappell, creator of the 1980s television series Duty Free.
We play Ludo and Snakes and Ladders which I do enjoy.
The Play in the Park event, a partnership between the Friends of Beaumont Park (FoBP) and Nature's Footprints, gave people the chance on Wednesday to play giant board games such as snakes and ladders and jenga, go bug hunting, and take part in a forest school run by 14 to 16-yearolds with the National Citizen Service, who attend various schools in the area.
Summary: Dubai Municipality scraps annual campaign; smokers invited to play snakes and ladders
Children can dress up in snake camouflage and take part in a giant game of Snakes and Ladders. Organisers of Sssnakes Alive!, put together with the help of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and exhibition company Blue Tokay, hope the exhibit will educate people about the importance of conservation and help visi tors understand what life is like in countries where encounters with deadly snakes are a daily occurrence.