  This recreational mathematics article shows that the game of Snakes and
Ladders is intransitive: square 69 has a winning edge over 79, which in turn
beats 73, which beats 69. Analysis of the game is a nice illustration of Markov
chains, simulations of different sorts, and size-biased sampling. Connecting
this to "intransitive dice" illustrates the power of a name, and the joy of
working with colleagues. When draws do not count, we show a minimal example of
intransitive dice, with one die having just a single "face" and two dice each
having two faces.
