Editing Ludo (section)

===Overview===
[[File:Ludo_paths.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|Trajectory of tokens of each colour on the original Ludo board]]
Two, three, or four can play, without partnerships.{{efn|name=2to4|"From two to four-play, each with four pieces, and without partnerships."<ref name="Parlett">Parlett (1999), p. 49.</ref>}} At the beginning of the game, each player's four tokens are out of play and {{boardgloss|staging area|staged}} in the player's yard (one of the large corner areas of the board in the player's colour). When able to, the players enter their tokens one per turn on their respective starting squares and proceed to race them clockwise around the board along the game track (the path of squares not part of any player's home column). When reaching the square below their home column, a player continues by moving tokens up the column to the finishing square. The rolls of a single die<ref name=Parlett /><ref name=DG_p13 /> control the swiftness of the tokens, and entry to the finishing square requires a precise roll from the player. The first to bring all their tokens to the finish wins the game. The others often continue to play to determine second-, third-, and fourth-place finishers.