Ludo (board game) squares on the game track which protect a player's tokens from being returned. A player's home column squares are always safe, however, since no opponent may enter them. In some parts of Africa the following rules are reportedly played: Bibliography Ludo (board game) Ludo (; ) is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi, but simpler. The game and its variations are popular in
Isac Ludo Isac Ludo Isac Ludo (1894–1973) was a Romanian writer and political figure. Born into a Jewish-Romanian family, Ludo was active in left-wing literary circles prior to World War II. After the Communist take-over in 1947, he rose to important positions in the régime's censorship office. Prior to 1965, he published a series of novels — "Domnul general guvernează" ("The General Rules"), "Starea de asediu" ("State of Siege"), "Regele Palaelibus" ("King Palaelibus"), "Salvatorul" ("The Saver"), "Ultimul batalion" ("The Last Battalion") — which constituted a satirical panorama of political life in Greater Romania. Ludo also published translations into Romanian from the Yiddish