# snakes and ladders

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, 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.
2. Any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/snakes-and-ladders