Although there is no true answer the Ludo was found on historic Ellora Caves in Maharashtra linking mythology to this game.

The Royal Navy took Ludo and converted it into the board game Uckers.

[5] Special areas of the Ludo board are typically coloured bright yellow, green, red, and blue.

When able to, the players enter their tokens one per turn on their respective starting squares and proceed to race them clockwise around the board along the game track (the path of squares not part of any player's home column).

The others often continue to play to determine second-, third-, and fourth-place finishers.

Each player rolls a die; the highest roller begins the game.

To enter a token into play from its yard to its starting square, a player must roll a six.

A player's home column squares are always safe, since no opponent may enter them.

Ludo exists under different names and brands, and in various game derivations:[12] Mensch ärgere Dich nicht (Man, Don't Become Annoyed), is a German game from 1914 and has equivalent names in Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Turkish.