Each player is assigned a side of the board – yellow, blue, red or green – and a matching set of 4 pieces. Starting from the left of each home column (the 5 square arm that connects the square to the arrow heads), the players move their pieces clockwise towards the finishing points, at the center of the board.
As in backgammon, to start the game, each lido player is tossing a single die. Yet, to start moving, a player has to roll a 6. After the opening roll, the players may roll any number and move any piece the indicated number of steps. Similar to the
backgammon variation acey deucey, whenever a player rolls a 6, he is awarded an additional turn.
Ludo rules have their equivalent of hitting in backgammon: when one player's piece resides on a square already occupied by the opponent's piece, then the latter is captured and moved back to the starting point. In some ludo variations,
backgammon terms such as doubling and blocking take place. Yet to summarize this thesis, lido lacks the strategy decisions required in backgammon, since most of the game relies on the dice rolls. Either way, it was good to get to know a new board game. So thank you ▒!
