The ladders would represent Hindu virtues like generosity, faith, and humility, while the snakes would represent our vices, like lust, anger, murder, and theft. The moral of the game was to attain ...

From simple dice rolling and luck-based games like Snakes and Ladders to classics such as Monopoly and more complex modern games like the settlement-building challenge of Catan, there is something ...

Fragment of a Snakes and Ladders Board, Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection Today, contemporary versions of the game have done away with the moral element altogether, and are now played as a ...