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Subiaco Museum > Records

GAME: SNAKES AND LADDERS BOARDGAME

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Overview

A snakes and ladders folding cardboard game board, with colour printing on one side.

Players start at square on in the bottom left corner and roll dice to attempt to be the first to reach square 100. Squares with a 'good' quality lead up a ladder eg. Penitence, Kindness, Obedience, Truthfulness. Squares with a 'bad' quality lead down a snake eg. Vanity, Cruelty, Avarice, Quarrelsomeness.

Printed in the bottom left corner 'Made in Australia'.

Historical information

One of 6 games boards from the same donor.

The games belonged to donor's husband who grew up in Nedlands. He used the games in childhood in the 1940s, and then passed them down to their 3 children. In the late 1960s and 1970s the games were used at their family home in Shenton Park, and then retained until donated.

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-2024.273.5

Item type

Material

Width

351 mm

Height or length

347 mm

Keywords

Recreation - Games

Onslow Road [329], Shenton Park

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