How to pronounce “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.
• (figuratively) Any situation in which people or events go forward and backward, seemingly at random.

Practice Nearby Words

chutes and ladders, ladder lottery, ludo, pachisi, ladder, snow snake, cowboys and indians, hot lava, sleeping lions, game of life, board game, shatranj, lotto, elevensies, parchisi, patolli, boardgame, indian rummy, tables, legality, sic bo, keno, number game, dicing, squails, lucky streak, patole, level-coil, lottery, old army game, race game, follow-the-leader, chinese checkers, thread the needle, parchesi, pass-dice, put and take, onesies, tivoli, liar's dice, handgame, king of the castle, counting-out game, northcott's game, cribbage board, chuck-a-luck, mibs, numbers game, roulette, pin the tail on the donkey, number games, cavagnole, ninesies, loaded dice, dots and boxes, awari, chase, mexican train, statues, suicide, slapsies, noughts and crosses, red light, green light, table board, cram, skiddles, nineholes, spillikins, tabula, loggets, agon, naughts and crosses, stuck in the mud, threesies, weiqi, shuffleboard, variation, senet, bingo, chicken bingo, ladder mate, leapfrog, crack-the-whip, crib board, game board, pyramids, board, shell game, ninepins, mikado, lucky draw, snake eyes, scrabble, chinese chess, beetle, draughtsboard, birdcage, xiangqi, hand

Similar Sounds

snakes and ladders, snakes in the grass, saxons, squanders, sequently, seek and destroy, socks and sandals, scolders, squanderers, sommeliers