Snakes and ladders is read as the feeling of sudden rises and setbacks that have little to do with effort. It often appears when progress in waking life seems to depend on luck.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.