If you alter the rules... (Hamleys Ludo)

Member Name: glen442

Product:	Hamleys Ludo
Date:	21/04/01 (989 review reads)
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Advantages: you want to kill the people next to you

Disadvantages: takes AGES

Ludo, on the face of it, isnt a game that will have you on the edge of your seat. However, with a minor alteration to the rules, it can get quite involving.

I assume that you know how to play ludo - if you don't then the idea is to get your 4 counters round a course to "home" If any counter lands on another, then the counter that is being "landed on" has to go back to the start.

The change that i mentioned earlier is; instead of needing a counter to land on another to send it back to the start, play the game so that if you land on or OVERTAKE another counter, the same rule aplies.

If you decide that you can land on/overtake your own counters and not be sent to the start, it gets less irritating. This makes the game last a lot longer, and is good for last minuite wins. Someone who has 3 out of 4 counters home, wont be able to get the the last one if a person with none home keeps over taking him with their 4 counters. This makes games fairer, more interesting, and FRUSTRATING!! (in a good way)

The more people who play this game, the more exciting it is, as tatics can come into play (one counter at a time or all at once and hope for the best?)

It also makes the game last a LOT longer, so if this type of game annoys you, i suggest you try something else.

(i first played this on a "frustration" board, i don't know if that's what the game is called or weather my friends were just making it up as they go along (its always better that way))

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