Dolittle: No problem at all

The riddles... and the answers...

What is the most blue squares you can get on the board at once?

7! If you are really lucky and you can take three pieces out with a 6-6-x roll. It's possible! But improbable.

What is the highest total of the die you can get?

21! If you roll a 5-5-6-5!

:-D

rednaz23: You can roll a 5-6-6-5 for a total of 22. :)

I haven't seen that... I have never seen a X-6-6-X before... I don't know if that is true...

I don't know if I have rolled a 5-6-6-5, but I rolled a 5-6-6-4 about half an hour ago.

Well... You know, I do believe you are correct now that I think about it... because I do remember rolling just what you have said! So, you are correct! LOL... I misanswered my own riddle...

If anyone is still looking to join a Ludo team for the Team Tournament, The Official Lines Fellowship is still looking for 2 more players to join the team so we can compete against the other fellowships!

i don't know if this is a record but i will tell it ... *g*
http://brainking.com/en/ShowGame?g=1881658
in the moves 58 - 63 i only got the number 2 ;)

grafzahl: The odds of a number coming up are as so...

First time... well... 100%
2 times: 16.66% - 1/6
3 times: 2.78% - 1/36
4 times: .46% - 1/216
5 times: .08% - 1/1296
6 times: .013% - 1/7776

Here is another example of such a game...

Ludo: The game of luck? - October 06

2 day time limit
1400 BKR minimum
Starts October 1st

Only three moves made in a game:
májinka vs. gatulda

Pedro Martínez: wow! its nice to see that there are players who are having even less luck :)

whats the shortest total amount of moves to win a games of ludo on this site ? (including passes) :)

Pedro Martínez: do you have statistics of most passes at the beginning of a game? That would be a real interesting record (currently at 7 in a game). :-)

TeamBundy: My most is 10... I believe I was told someone once had 17!? I am not sure though... statistically speaking that would be like someone going approx. 51 in a row.

rednaz23: Yes, my record is also 10, which would be equivalent to 30! Maybe you can find the game so it can be added to the I Love Ludo Hall of Fame? And... while the person with 17 doesn't show up, we can share the bad luck record? :-)

Here is my: 10 straight passes to start a game:
Ludo (TJ vs. TeamBundy)

TeamBundy: Ludo (Skittles vs. varkala)

Ludo (nivabef vs. rednaz23)

ties the record! 48 straight!

rednaz23: wow! what did you pay fencer to do that ? ;)

Hrqls: AFter about 30 passes I tried to pay him to give me a 6!

By the way, as someone mentioned shortest game here, I am interested to know about longest game, my longest was 154.

rednaz23: '

but not from the start

Well there are 40 squares(well circles) on the board plus 4 home space and 4 start spaces. This means that white can take up

48c4 posible ways(sorry can't find my calculator)

That is the easy thing to figure out. I beleive to calculate the number of positions both sides can be on would be

48c4+44c4+x

not sure at this moment how to calculate x. It i caused because the extra 8 positions are seperate for each board. I will have to think more about this when I have slept.

playBunny: 2 players or 4 players ?

Does anyone have any game situations that could have gone either way? I would love to spur good conversation about ludo and why one move of a piece would be better than another piece. I am not talking just any game situation here, but plays where it could go either way, and maybe even the statistical probability of good things and bad things happening after this said play!?

Anyone got anything?

I will look and see if I can find anything. :-)

Hi everyone. I have recently implemented hexkid's AutoPlay Utility on my server. This is not officially part of Brain King but can be useful. If you are not already using hexkid's autoplayer you can sign up for mine at http://mctrivia.com/BK/AutoPlayer

This utility will play any games were you are in pass position or have only one possible choice.

How about ludo on a smaller board like this:

xxxooaxss
xxxohoxxs
xxxohoxxx
oooohoooo
oxxxxxxxo
ooooioooo
xxxoioxxx
txxoioxxx
ttxbooxxx

where:
x: nothing
o: empty square
h: Home black
i: Home white
s: Start Black
t: Start white
a: Arrival space Black
b: Arrival space white

This one should be quicker than normal ludo (the race length is shorther and players have just 3 men).

We have 3 places if anyone is interested in playing in the Ludo tournie. Pm me and I,ll invite if so.
Thanks very much!

I'm new to LUDO on this site and find one of the rules very strange! At the start of my game I rolled 6, 6, 2. I assumed I could move 2 men out with the 6s and move one of them 2 with the 2. But NO! I must make all the moves with one man! Very different from how we played the board game all those years ago.

playBunny: Thank you for your response. I accept that people will develop many variations of a game, but I assume that somewhere there are basic rules of the game. As I look at the game preseted on this site it seems to be 95% chance with very little tactical skill facilitated. Of all the variations you mention, the 2 which would allow most tactical expression are the individual use of the dice rolls and the ability to stack and block. Maybe a variation of the present game could be added at some stage?

Pedro Martínez: hey you are pretty good lOLOL

Is anyone else having issues with just the ludo board? All my game boards look fine but my ludo boards are all missing pieces of the board and dice. I cleared cache, refreshed and nothing helps.

Rose: Nope not having that problem

In game ID 2356629, Eriisa had 27 consecutive passes. Doesn't that qualify for the Hall of Fame?

Dolittle: nope this one beet it by a lot:
Ludo (grafzahl vs. xeribolus)

mctrivia: You could put it in there also since there is one in there with only 22 consecutive passes.

I have a game where I have 17 passes before I was able to move. those passes plus the 2 non-6 dice I had on my 18th turn are 53 dice before being able to mave, I'd put a link, but I'd probably mess it up, can someone help me with that

nodnarbo: just copy everything in the address bar

mctrivia: Ludo (nodnarbo vs. sade77)

nodnarbo: whoa, that was cool

nodnarbo: ya fencer implemented the auto name feature a month or 2 back

Where is Skittles? Hasn't posted here since Aug. '06. Hope he is ok!

Dolittle: Sorry I wasnt paying to much attn to the board here, its been so quiet so long and I havnt been here much, but im here now and eager to help ya with anything I can

Skittles: Hi there, know what you mean about the board being quiet....the halma board is dead!!

Dolittle: It's time we liven these boards up then

How about ludo on a smaller board like this:

xxxooaxss
xxxohoxxs
xxxohoxxx
oooohoooo
oxxxxxxxo
ooooioooo
xxxoioxxx
txxoioxxx
ttxbooxxx

where:
x: nothing
o: empty square
h: Home black
i: Home white
s: Start Black
t: Start white
a: Arrival space Black
b: Arrival space white

This one should be quicker than normal ludo (the race length is shorther and players have just 3 men).

This is a reply to a post I already made.

Skittles: The game would go faster if one could bring out a stone on a one as well as a six!
That's the way I always played it.