Editing Ludo (section)

==History==
[[File:Ludo-1.jpg|thumb|One of the first commercially printed editions of Ludo]]
Ludo has its origins in the Indian game of  [[Pachisi]], created in India in the sixth century CE. It was modified to use a cubic die<!-- Please don't change "die" to "dice" -- a single die is rolled by players in this game; "dice rolls" implies two or more. --> with a die cup and patented as "Ludo" in England in 1896 by Alfred Coller.{{efn|Patent number 14636.<ref name=Bell_p12 />}}<ref name="Bell_p12">{{cite book |last=Bell |first=R. C. |author-link=Robert Charles Bell |title=Board and Table Games From Many Civilizations |edition=Revised |volume=I |publisher=[[Dover Publications|Dover Publications Inc]] |year=1979 |orig-year=1st Pub. 1960, [[Oxford University Press]], London |page=12 |isbn=0-671-06030-9}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=http://pachisi.vegard2.net/ludo.html |title=Pachisi & Ludo – pc games, rules & history |work=vegard2.net}}</ref><!-- q.v. da.wikipedia.org no.wikipedia.org -->Coller eventually patented the game and sold it as "Royal Ludo". The board game [[Uckers]], popular in the [[Royal Navy]], is based on Ludo.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Padfield |first1=Peter |title=War Beneath The Sea |date=1995 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |location=New York, NY |isbn=0-471-24945-9 |page=86}}</ref>