Ludo

Ludo game

The phrase "Parlour Games" conjures up cosy Victorian scenes of extended families amusing themselves with musical interludes and the playing of card games, Ludo games, also known in modern days as Parchessi or Patchessi and Chess. Classic games such as Happy Families, Tiddledy-Winks, Ludo board games, Snakes and Ladders - games still so familiar today that few people can recall their origin, or indeed believe that any one person invented them! One Person invented Ludo along with all these others Mr Jaques

Ludo Boards

Ludo boards are normally a square marked with a cross. To the left of each home column, one square from the edge of the board, is a starting square, also coloured. During game play a piece moves from its starting square, clockwise around the perimeter of the board, and up the player's home column to the finishing square. In the space to the left of each arm is a circle or square to hold a player's pieces before they are allowed into play.

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 arrow pointing to the finish. The shaft of each arrow is a player's "home column" and is five squares long. The special areas on the Ludo boards are typically brightly coloured with yellow, green, red, and blue. Each player uses cardboard or plastic tokens of matching colour.