Hamleys Ludo

When buying board games for my children, I tend to buy the older games like Ludo and Snakes and Ladders etc. This year for Christmas I bought a tin of fiveteen games, older games which cost around £9.00 from Symths Toys, but I am only reviewing Ludo. The board The Ludo board is split into four coloured sections which are red, blue, green and yellow, so each player chooses which colour they wish to be and then places four counters in the suitable colour section. Starting the game The game is for 2 - 4 players and each player has to roll the dice and get a "6" to take their first counter from the coloured section and ...  Read the complete review

Ludo is a family favourite game, and one I spent many a time playing when I was a kid, mainly at my grandparents house. The game derives from India, and the word 'ludo' is taken from the Latin translation 'I play.' Ludo is not the most complicated game, and can get a little boring for older children, but on the whole it is fun and entertaining and can help children with counting and colour coordination. If you look at the board in the picture, you can see that Ludo is played on a square board, which is split equally into patterns involving four different colours. 2, 3 or 4 people can play, each one choosing a colour, and it doesn't matter who has which colour ...  Read the complete review

I adjusted my shades to hide the look of fear within my eyes. I held my breath hoping they may not have noticed what was obvious to me. A bead of perspiration trickled slowly and seductively down my neck confusing my senses. The light flickered and shone on the blue counter, and it seemed to wink back at me. I knew we had known each other in a previous life, once we were both tiddly, but this was a completely different game. One, two, three, four, five. Damn! I watched as the blue counter covered my beautiful yellow one and they lay joined together. Blue winked at me again as he sent my hopes crashing by sending my counter back to the start. I ...  Read the complete review

Oh wow I can't believe this is actually on here!! One of my very earliest memories is of sitting on my nanna's living room floor at the ripe old age of about 5 or 6 entertaining myself with a game of Ludo!! At that age I thought it was the bee's knee's and to be honest I didn't think it would still be around!! It was/is a pretty basic board game consisting of, the board (obviously!) a range of blue, yellow, red and green counters (extremely similar to tiddly winks, remember them too?) and a dice. Thinking back now the game is quite similar to 'frustration' in the sense your aim is to get all your little counters 'home' ...  Read the complete review

As im sure you're all aware of the rules of this game...but never the less i'll explain the aim of the game to all of you that dont. (Like where have you been?!?) This game is for up to 4 players, played on a board (common sense there really!) with 2 dice and 4 counters each. Each player takes a different colour and must get all of his/her counters safely around the board and into "home". If you get the right numbers on your dice and you happen to land on another players counter you can send them home again (just like with the "Sorry" board game (infact view my opinion on that!)) The idea behind the game is simple, ...  Read the complete review