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Average length of a Snakes and Ladders game

Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37) Art Game Board game List of board games Snakes and Ladders
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Since Snakes and Ladders is nothing but a Absorbing Markov chain, the results are exactly the same as for that general problem.
www.jstor.org/stable/3619261: How Long Is a Game of Snakes and Ladders? by Althoen, King and Schilling (1993), paywalled.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders#Mathematics_of_the_game

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