Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders is a race board game in which players roll dice to advance along numbered squares, climbing ladders and sliding down snakes.

Game of chance: A game whose outcomes depend substantially on random events rather than players’ decisions. Dice rolls determine movement, while the board’s snakes and ladders add further swings in position.
Moksha Patam: An Indian board game in which ladders and snakes represent virtues and vices on a path toward liberation. This family of games is the historical source most closely associated with Snakes and Ladders.
Turn-based game: A game in which players act in an ordered sequence, taking turns. Each player rolls and moves separately before play passes to the next participant.
Monte Carlo method: A computational method that estimates results by repeatedly sampling random outcomes. Simulating many games estimates finishing times and win rates without solving every case analytically.
Karma: The principle that actions have consequences shaping future experiences or circumstances. Traditional boards represent virtuous actions as upward movement and harmful actions as falls.
Race game: A game in which players compete to move pieces toward a finish point. Players race along a shared sequence of numbered squares to reach the final space.
Jñāna Caupaṛ: A traditional Indian board game using numbered squares, ladders, and snakes to depict spiritual progress and setbacks. Its religious board imagery links the game’s movement mechanics to moral instruction.
Board game: A game played with pieces or markers on a defined playing surface. The numbered grid and movable counters make the board the game’s shared physical state.
Absorbing Markov chain: A Markov chain with at least one state that, once entered, cannot be left. The finish square can be treated as an absorbing state when calculating game duration.
Moksha: Liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth in several Indian religious traditions. In spiritual versions, reaching the board’s final square symbolizes liberation.

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