Ludo

How to play

Each player has four tokens that start in their base. Roll the die: you need a 6 to bring a token onto your start square. Tokens then travel clockwise around the 52-square track and finally up their own home column.

• A 6 gives an extra roll. Three sixes in a row forfeit your turn, and the third six is not played.
• Landing on a square with a single enemy token captures it: it goes back to its base and you roll again. Stars and start squares are safe, and a pair of enemy tokens on one square cannot be captured.
• Your own tokens can share a square.
• You need the exact number to reach home; reaching home also gives an extra roll.
• If you have only one legal move, it is played for you.

Winning

Play continues until all places are decided: the first player to bring all four tokens home is first, and so on. At a two-player table the two sides use opposite colours.