snakes and ladders
Meaning
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.
- any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random
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