General Ludo Rules | How To Play
The Board
A GAME FOR 1, 2, 3 OR 4 PLAYERS (1 PLAYER CAN BE YOUR PC)
Traditional Game History:
Ludo (from Latin ludus, "game") is a simple children's (or computed)
board game for ywp to four players, in which the players race their four tokens
from start to finish according to rolls of the dice. The game is a simplification
of the traditional Indian Cross and Circle game Pachisi. Pachisi is thought
of as the national game of India. It originally appeared as Ludo in 1896 in
the UK. Ludo, with other board games was banned as combative and pleasurable
in the Chinese Cultural Revoltion.
Contents:
Playing board, 1 dice, 16 counters (4 sets of colours)
Object:
Players (including your computer driven opponent) in turn, race each other around
the circuit to be the first to get all of their counters to the HOME base. When
counters are knocked off they are returned to the starting square.
Play:
Each player picks a set of counters and places them in the Starting Squares of the same colour. Take it in turns to throw. You must throw a 6 before you can move a piece onto the track. Every time you throw a 6 you get another throw and you can move any one counter to the number shown on the dice.
If your Counter lands on one of your opponent's they are knocked off and returned. If one of your counters lands on top of your counters this forms a block. Your block cannot be passed by any of the opponent's pieces.
When a counter goes all the way round the board it can enter the HOME column. To land in the HOME triangle you must throw the exact number.
The winner is the first player to get all four counters into the HOME triangle.This is how you play the electronic implementation of this Ludo board game