snakes and ladders

noun

(functioning as singular) a board game in which players move counters along a series of squares according to throws of a dice. A ladder provides a short cut to a square nearer the finish and a snake obliges a player to return to a square nearer the start

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In a decades-long game of transport snakes and ladders, Leeds was back at square one again.

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Salvadoran migrant, Guadalupe, likens the tactic to a giant game of snakes and ladders:

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The campaigns have also experienced many highs and lows – getting close to the statute books, and then being de-prioritised, in what must have felt like a legislative edition of snakes and ladders.

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It's a game of congressional snakes and ladders, where every space on the board is a serpent.

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Louis Vuitton’s sent out a huge board game — something akin to a trendy snakes and ladders — for its invite to a show plunging guests into the creative universe of the late designer Virgil Abloh.

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