House rules, your way.
Every family plays Luddo a little differently. At a private table the host picks the house rules in the lobby, and everyone sees them before the first roll.
Four ways to start
- Classic: The game as everyone knows it
- Quick: One piece out to start, two home to win
- Master: Capture someone before any piece goes home
- Family: Thirty seconds a turn, so nobody feels rushed
One change to Classic
Classic can also take any one of these on its own:
- Blockades: Two of your pieces on a square stop everyone else
- No extra roll for getting home: only a six or a capture earns another roll.
- A different turn timer: 10 or 30 seconds a turn instead of 15.
Play as partners
Red & yellow against green & blue. A side wins when all eight of its pieces are home.
A match clock
Add a 5- or 10-minute clock to any table.
- No clock: The match runs until someone wins
- 5 minutes · 10 minutes: When time is up, whoever got furthest wins
Special tables
- Mensch ärgere Dich nicht (German): 40 fields, four goal fields each, and no safe squares.
- Halloween: The Graveyard Night board, ghost pieces and the rooftop at night, for everyone at the table.
- Diwali: The Diwali board, diya pieces and the rooftop lit for the festival, for everyone at the table.
What every table plays by
- Roll a 6 and you roll again straight away, before moving. Once you roll something else, move by each roll in the order you rolled them.
- Three 6s in a row cancel out: none of them moves, and your turn ends.
- Land on an opponent’s piece to send it back to their base, along with any others there.
- The star squares, including every start square, are safe: no one can be captured on them.
- Reaching the center takes an exact roll. A roll that would go past it can’t move that piece.
Not every change goes with every other. The lobby greys out what can’t be combined, and the server checks too.
Set a table with your rules