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Currently, many children spend more time to watch the television and playing the gadget which might influence their social development. Social development could be developed optimally through several playing activities, such as education game snakes and ladders. This study aimed to determine the effect of educational game snakes and ladders to social development of pre-school aged children. This study used one grouppretest-posttest design. This study was held at Sukorejo Wedi Kindergarten. A total 36 population of preschool aged children (60-72 months) and sample as many as 16 children. The sampling technique used purposive sampling with participants received intervention educational game snakes and ladders. The data before and after intervention were collected using questionnaires. Then, the data analyzed with Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Our findings showed the average pretest and posttest score on social development was 7.31 and 9.06, respectively. The results of statistical test showed 0,000 (p value < 0.05). There is influence of educational game snakes and ladders towards social development of preschool aged children