Talk:Ludo (board game)
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Is ludo and backgammon related? Though not the same, there are some similarities. 1. if your piece land on an opponent piece, you send him home. 2. if you stack up your pieces, you protect them from being capture. 3. I played a version that rolls two dices at a time and a free replay whenever you roll double, i.e. similar to backgammon again.
Can the history and the talk page of the board game be associated with the new disambiguated page? I don't really know how to fix this. Vadmium 02:15, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
The Slovenian game link seems to just go to a chat page... I won't delete it, because I don't speak the languages to know if I'm missing something!
[edit] Criticism
I have removed the following recent addition from the article:
- Ludo's very simple to grasp rules and quick nature lend it well to a family game, particularly when young children are involved (and of course, any game involving numbers can aid in early math development).
- Despite this, Ludo is criticised by many as being a game of futility, as absolutely no player skill is involved in winning - the victor is decided by successive dice rolls. Most board games, especially fiercely competitive examples such as Chess, allow the players to form a strategy of some form in order to attain victory; Ludo lacks this depth. Even games such as Monopoly, which famously involve many dice rolls, contain an element of player skill (in the form of purchase decisions).
When more than one piece is on the move, it is not correct that "absolutely no player skill is involved". I'm not sure the rest of this section really belongs to this encyclopaedia article. Feel free to put it back in, but please make sure it is correct.--Niels Ø 07:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
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- I beg to differ that, if the ability to spot all possible moves is taken as a player skill too. That is, if the experienced player is able to spot all optimal moves (such as all the moves to kick an opponent's piece back to the starting point), he has a certain advantage than an inexperienced opponent. There is also more optimal moves in the Chinese version, such as moving a piece to a space of its own colour whenever possible, in order to move 4 more spaces, or moving a piece to exploit the arrow move which provides a shortcut. Kiwi8 08:15, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- That's why Ludo world championships are so crowded of Ludo Grandmasters and hard-working students of such a complex game. Whenever I play with the World Ludo Champion, I always lose... certainly a game of skill, not luck. --Taraborn 22:35, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
- I beg to differ that, if the ability to spot all possible moves is taken as a player skill too. That is, if the experienced player is able to spot all optimal moves (such as all the moves to kick an opponent's piece back to the starting point), he has a certain advantage than an inexperienced opponent. There is also more optimal moves in the Chinese version, such as moving a piece to a space of its own colour whenever possible, in order to move 4 more spaces, or moving a piece to exploit the arrow move which provides a shortcut. Kiwi8 08:15, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Better play description?
I find several bits of the description utterly confusing. Would something mind explaining (in the article!) what these statements mean?
- "To the left of each home column, one square from the edge of the board, is a starting square, also coloured."
- In the diagram I cannot find such a square. I can see a large squarish object, but these have many details inside, which look a lot like the "spaces" on the board. Are these details to be ignored? IE, is the entire red block with the cross of red squares inside it the starting square? If so, this should be mentioned!
- "At the start of the game, the player's pieces are placed in the areas to the next to the arms."
- Do you mean the "starting square"? I'm pretty sure it does. If so, this should say that as opposed to the unclear "areas next to the arms". The tabletop is next to the arms, for instance.
- "A player moves one of their pieces forward"
- What is "forward"? There is an earlier mention of "clockwise around the perimeter of the board", but I am equally confused about "perimeter of the board". The starting squares are on the perimeter of the board, but I'm guessing they are not included?
- "it passes along the "home column" of its colour."
- I assume "passes along" means "moves up the column"? If this is true, where does it enter the column? On the colored square that lies in the outside row? Does it have to be an exact roll?
I assume there is some sort of pattern of moving from the starting square out into the uncolored squares (starting where?), along the white ones (stopping on the triangles in the middle?), then to the colored home row (entering it where?) and finally to the center? Can someone explain how a single red marker would move around the board? That would help greatly!
Maury 19:48, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
