If you are Ghanaian you would definitely know the game of ludu. This is where wickedness started during childhood 😂. If you know this game you would understand what I am talking about. I don’t know what name it’s called in the neighboring countries probably they also call it ludu. I think ludu is typical to west Africa, I hope I am not wrong about this .
After a very long time I played ludu with my friends recently it was very fun because we all haven’t played in a very long time.
I would describe ludu as a board and counting game which involves throwing a dice and moving your players by the number you had on the dice. To commence moving you have to get a six with the dice in order to start.
Normally the game requires four players but three or two people can also play but it is more standard and fun to have four players in the game
The ludu game has four colors red, yellow , green and blue with each color having having four corresponding players which we call babies, maybe there’s an actual name for it.
Each player has four babies , each player has its own unique colour which is red yellow green or blue
Babies
In order for a player win you have to go round then back home with all four babies without getting kicked back home. The first three people to finish get the 1st , 2nd and 3rd position in order and remaining person looses.
There are easier ways to go home instead of of going round and risk being kicked but you have to kick an opponent who is in your yard ,take over their position then go home .
Guys let me know 😅 Is it just me or everybody else
Whenever I play the game with the intention of kicking other players babies I end up loosing ? But also the game is more fun when you kick people more, and makes the competition tougher .
The concept of this game is very simple and would be much easier to grasp if one demonstrates for you physically using the ludu board
I had a great time playing ludu again
Despite the fact that I won just one game out of three rounds of play
See you in my next post ciao !
All images are mine