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Back to one square one

can you guess the meaning of back to square one ?

Board Game In snakes and ladders players take turns rolling dice to go forward that number of spaces . Some squares have snakes and ladders. Ladders advance players , snakes move them back a few spaces.

Hopscotch The precise rules of the game vary from place to place but it usually involves players hopping from square to square, missing out the square containing their thrown stone. They go from one to eight or ten then back to square one.

Meaning Return to the beginning because of failure to accomplish the desired result

Examples Sentence If the boss rejects our new project, we have to go back to square one. Mom always says to me “If you don’t want to go back to square one, please concentrate what you are doing.”

Origin There are many board and street games that have squares or boxes. Each player must start at the first square and try to advance to the finish line or last box to win. If, for any reason, you have to go back to square one, you’re starting over from the beginning.

Hey, Snow. How are you? You look tired. Yes, I’m really tired. I slept only 3 hours last night. Why? Is something wrong? Yes, I lost my flash drive yesterday and my presentation was in it. Oh my god, you have the presentation today, right? Yes, it is. So, did you go back to square one? Yes, I was. That’s why I slept only 3 hours last night.