It's A Classic!!! (Hamleys Ludo)

Member Name: KEZZABABE

Product:	Hamleys Ludo
Date:	23/04/01 (163 review reads)
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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' before your opponent does...

Starting off...

Each player starts the game by placing there 4 coloured counters onto the 4 spaces in the corner squares appropriate to their chosen colour...


Playing the Game...

This is a game for 2 to 4 players or you could go into teams if theres more of you, after rolling the highest number on the dice to distinguish which player goes first (or is that just our household!) you move the amount of squares the dice tells you too...until you reach the final home run of matching colour co-ordinating dots signifying your nearly at winning point!!! (Actual winning point being the quaint little triangles in the centre of the board)

Finale...

I guess the most frustrating part of this game would be getting the right number on the dice to make each and every one of your counters fit in line with the 'home-straight' finishing line. This can be quite frustrating as as soon as you think you've done it and won the game, you never seem to reach getting the final '1' on the dice to get your last counter home and someone beats you to it!! Oh yes I remember that well!

This really is anyones game, and although an early game and quite easily one of the most basics, it is obviously a lasting classic an
d certainly one I can't wait to re-play once my own children are old enough to play!

A classic, obviously in the same league as Monopoly if it made it here! ;)

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