Ludo

This article is about the board game. For more meanings, see Ludo. "Ludi" redirects here. For other uses, see Roman festivals. Ludo (from Latin ludus, "game") is a simple board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to die rolls. The game is a simplification of the traditional India Cross and Circle game Pachisi, and it originally appeared in 1896. The game was patent in England. In the Caribbean, where the game is popular, it is usually called Ludi. In Sweden, the game is called "Fia", with the loser of the game (last one to have all four tokens to the finish line) called Fia. A ludo board is normally a square marked with a cross. Each arm of the cross is divided into three columns, with the columns divided into usually six squares. The centre of the cross is the finishing square which is often divided into four coloured triangles. Each coloured triangle is combined with a coloured middle column appears as an...