Usually means: Board game with luck, strategy.
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  1. snakes and ladders: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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  3. snakes and ladders: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snakes and ladders: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. snakes and ladders: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. snakes and ladders: Wiktionary
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  9. Snakes and Ladders (Frank Tovey album), Snakes and Ladders (TV series), Snakes and Ladders (disambiguation), Snakes and Ladders, Snakes and ladders: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (snakes and ladders)

noun:  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.
noun:  (figuratively) any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random

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