Perhaps the oldest surviving folk board game — Moksha Patam or Gyan Chaupar was a 13th-century Indian teaching game where ladders represented virtues (faith, generosity) and snakes represented vices (greed, lust). British colonial officers took it back to England in the 1890s where it lost its moral instruction and became pure entertainment. The traditional Jain and Vaishnava versions are still printed on cloth and paper in India.
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