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
De ludo globi he moves on to discuss a game he had been toying with: De ludo globi De ludo globi is a book by Nicholas Cusanus. The text was written in Rome and completed in October 1463. It consists of two dialogues, the first between Cusanus and John IV, Duke of Bavaria and the second between Cusanus and John's brother Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria. This dialogue starts with Cusanus resting after having played a newly invented ball game. "No honest game is entirely lacking in the capacity to instruct." observes Cusanus. Having compared the motion of the misbalanced ball used in