Snakes & Ladders
Race to square 100. Ladders carry you up and snakes slide you down. Play with 2–4 players, people or bots.
Rules
- Players take turns rolling one die and moving their token forward that many squares.
- Land at the bottom of a ladder and you climb to its top. Land on a snake's head and you slide down to its tail.
- Rolling a 6 gives you another turn.
- You need the exact number to land on 100. If your roll would take you past it, you stay where you are.
- The first player to reach square 100 wins.
Press Space or Enter to roll when it's your turn.
History
The game comes from ancient India, where it was known as Moksha Patam. Ladders stood for virtues and snakes for vices, as a lesson about karma. It reached England in the 1890s and became "Chutes and Ladders" in the United States in 1943.