Make the Game of Ludo in 10 Mins From Scratch! ... Including the Pieces!

Ludo is a popular game played from 2 to 4 players.

This one can be built in about 10 minutes and it includes instruction for the pieces too!

Material for the board:

1. Printout of the attached PDF - Simple black and white printout!
2. Cardboard from an old cereal box.

Material for the pieces (optional, if you want to use your own pieces):

1. Coloured plastic lids - These are the lids from used yoghurt containers.

Tools

1. Glue stick
2. Scissors (Be careful using these, since scissors can be really sharp!)
3. Sketch pens
4. Invisible tape (or any transparent tape would do!)

Print out the PDF on any ordinary paper.

Cut carefully using the scissors on the lines shown.

You will have four identical strips as shown.

Apply the glue on the rear side of the strips.

Paste each glued strip on the cardboard.

Remove the cardboard on which white strips are not pasted.

Pro-tip: You can also paste the printout directly on the cardboard before cutting, however I observed that this does not spread the glue evenly and the paper comes off the cardboard!

Cut approximately square piece of cardboard, which has same length as that of the smaller side of strip.

Carefully apply glue ONLY to the triangular portion of each cardboard strip.

Using another piece of cardboard, paste the glued triangular areas onto it.

Once the pasting is done, it will start resembling a Ludo board!

The 'safe' spot and the 'home path' is already marked on the PDF.

You can choose to colour and decorate your Ludo board as you want!

I drew an additional safe spot and coloured the 'home' triangle.

Paste the invisible tape (or any transparent tape) in strips across the board.

This is an optional step but would increase the life of your board tremendously!

And your board is complete!

Paste the small play piece, marked on the PDF, on the plastic lid.

Cut a long strip from the plastic using scissors.

Using the plastic piece as guide, cut the strip into square pieces.

(Mine fell off while cutting so had to cut the strip approximately.)

Doing this, you will have 4 pieces of one colour each.

This is sufficient for 2 people.

For more people, either use some other colour plastic lid or make a different shape.

Pro-tip : You can get creative with the sketch pens and draw symbols on your pieces!

... all you need is a dice!

Play away :)