Ludo - A game

The games in these posts are quite rare and interspersed with a lot of animation projects.

This game is well known to children. Ludo is a four player game and players take turns to toss a dice and move their pieces.

Finally found time to go through the code myself and found some instructions/rules. Here they are:

RULES:

At the start of the game, the player's four pieces are placed in

the start area of their colour.

Players take it in turn to throw a single die. A player must first

 throw a six

 to be able to move a piece from the starting area onto the starting

 square.In each subsequent

 turn the player moves a piece forward 1 to 6 squares as indicated by

 the die.When a player

 throws a 6 the player may bring a new piece onto the starting square,

 or may choose to move a

 piece already in play.Any throw of a six results in another turn. If

 a player cannot make a

 valid move they must pass the die to the next player. If a player's

 piece lands on a square

 containing an opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is captured and

 returns to the starting

area.A piece may not land on a square that already contains a piece of

 the same colour(unless

 playing doubling rules). Once a piece has completed a circuit of the

 board it moves up the

 home column of its own colour. The player must throw the exact number

 to advance to the home

 square.The winner is the first player to get all four of their pieces

 onto the home square.

I just love these kind of instructions and rules. I am hunting for more

 games to play them for

 sometime and mainly to learn their strategies.

Snapshots:

Here is the source.