

Two, three, or four can play, without partnerships. Trajectory of tokens of each colour on the original Ludo board The Royal Navy took Ludo and converted it into the board game Uckers.

Pachisi was modified to use a cubic die with a die cup and patented as "Ludo" in England in 1896. It was also known as Chaupar in ancient times in Indian subcontinent. The Pandavas get all their belongings back, though, after Draupadi vows to curse the whole Kuru lineage, but stops at the intervention of Gandhari, and seeing an opportunity to still Draupadi's anger, Kuru king Dhritarashtra promises to give back to the Pandavas all that they had lost in the game.

The original version is also described in the Indian epic Mahabharata in which Shakuni uses cursed dice to beat the Pandavas, and at last after losing everything, Yudhisthira puts his wife Draupadi on stake and loses her, too. The earliest evidence of this game's evolution in India is the depiction of boards on the caves of Ellora. Pachisi was created in India in the sixth century CE. The game and its variations are popular in many countries and under various names. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi. Ludo ( / ˈ lj uː d oʊ/ from Latin ludo ' play') 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.
