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
Ludo Rocher he frequently conducted research. Rocher was the author of over twenty books. In addition, he published numerous articles on legal and other branches of Sanskrit literature. He was an authority on Dharmaśāstra and Hindu Law. He lived with his wife Rosane Rocher in Philadelphia and died, at the age of 90, on 2 November 2016. Dr. Ludo Rocher and Dr. Rosane Rocher were jointly awarded the 2015 prize of the Fondation Colette Caillat of the Institut de France for their "two joint books, "The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company" (2012) and "Founders of