Chutes and Ladders is a children's board game produced by Hasbro. It is one version of an ancient game from India, which was brought to the United Kingdom and called Snakes and Ladders, then to America, where it was first published in 1943, by Milton Bradley.http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5432/snakes-and-ladders

The object of the game is to be the first to reach the square marked with 100.http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/ChutesandLadders.PDF

The game consists of a board numbered 1-100, a spinner, and player pieces. Each player spins the spinner. The player with the highest number goes first, then the player to his left, and so on.http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/ChutesandLadders.PDF

When it is a player's turn, the spinner is spun, and the player moves his piece along the numbered board that number of spaces. The board is decorated with a number of chutes and ladders with images depicting different scenes for each chute or ladder. Chutes have images of children misbehaving at the top of the chute, with a consequence at the bottom of the chute. Ladders show children behaving or doing something nice at the bottom of the ladder, which ends in a reward for the behavior at the top of the ladder.http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/ChutesandLadders.PDF

When the player's piece lands on a space at the top of a chute, he must travel back down to the space at the bottom of the chute. When the player lands on the base of a ladder, he travels up to the space at the top of the ladder. The game continues until one player reaches the space marked 100, either by exact count, or by landing on space 80 by exact count, which contains a ladder reaching to 100.http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/ChutesandLadders.PDF