LUDO

Roll a six. Knock your sister home.

The kitchen table on a rainy Sunday, four colours, and a die that never shows six when you need one. LUDO is that game on the glass: a six to get out, a six to throw again, two of a colour make a block nobody passes, and an exact throw to get home. The die is on your phone. Shake it.

2–4 playersFamilyPhones join inShake to roll

Pre-order FlatboyFour colours round the table, and a sister who never forgives.

Waiting for a six.

All four colours. Pieces wait in the yard for a six, run the lap, and every so often one gets sent all the way home. The pieces that can move pulse on the glass.

Sixand you're out of the yard

Blocktwo together. Nobody passes.

Homeon the exact throw, not one more

Real gameplay, straight off the table's screen.

A six to get out. A six to throw again.

Every family has played it: the folding board, the little die, somebody's piece knocked home one square from the goal. LUDO keeps the game the way Norwegian families play it. Four pieces each, all in the yard. A six brings one out, and a six throws again, as many times as the die allows.

Pieces run a full lap of the board, then up their own home column into the goal, and the goal takes the exact throw. Land on a single piece of another colour and it goes back to its yard. Put two of yours on one square and you've built a block: nobody can land on it or pass it. There are no safe squares.

Three ways to fill the table.

Tonight

Two to four

Each player picks a colour on their phone: red, green, yellow or blue. The first hand on a colour keeps it. The game starts when everyone who scanned is ready.

Short of players

Only one of you? The computer takes a chair.

Pass it round