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 ...

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 ...

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 ...