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snakes and ladders

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Say it like: Sna-kes- an-d l-add-ers

The correct spelling is snakes and ladders. 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.

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  1. 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. 2.Any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random

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