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?

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.

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!

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).

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.

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. :-)

playBunny: 2 players or 4 players ?

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.

rednaz23: '

but not from the start

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

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

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

Ludo (nivabef vs. rednaz23)

ties the record! 48 straight!

TeamBundy: Ludo (Skittles vs. varkala)

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: 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.

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). :-)

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) :)

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

Ludo: The game of luck? - October 06

2 day time limit
1400 BKR minimum
Starts October 1st

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...

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 ;)

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!

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...

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.

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

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

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

Dolittle: No problem at all

Skittles: Sorry I timed out on that live ludo game. Was only 2 of us signed in and it appeared it wouldn't start. I will pay closer attention next time!!

Skittles: I agree it is use at your own risk.

BIG BAD WOLF: Yeah I know what you mean, I know nothing about it either and dont intend on using it but was wanting to know more about it. Some one else had asked me about the security of it and I had no idea what to say. Personally I wouldnt want to take the risk of it messing anything up unless it was a BrainKing feature.

Skittles: I'm not saying anything bad, but want to add that with anything that is not an official part of BrainKing like this script should always be used at your own risk. If the script endangers your security - or messes up games, it is all at your own risk.

Again, not saying that this does not work - I know nothing about it, but everyone should be clear that it is at your own risk.

Skittles: it is not posible for anyone to find out what your bk password is.

mctrivia: So is there any way that someone can find out the password being used through this?

Skittles: that is the md5 hashed version of your bk account password yes. There is a link to a calculator on the site.

For example if your password is: 1234
then your MD5 hasshed password would be: 81dc9bdb52d04dc20036dbd8313ed055

goto http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/ for more info on MD5 and a calculator

mctrivia: The MD5 hashed version of your password, is that your BK acct password?

rednaz23: As for the message it is sent every time the auto player plays for us. It allows for you to play us a lot faster as the system checks every 15 minutes if the game is autopassed and if it is will play on our behalf. If there is more then one option it does nothing.

Auto pass works for the following games so far:
Anti Backgammon
Anti Chess
Anti Reversi
Backgammon
Backgammon Race
Crowded Backgammon
Hyper Backgammon
Ludo
Nackgammon
Reversi 10x10
Reversi 6x6
Reversi 8x8

Live Ludo Starting in 30 min

rednaz23: the auto pass thing is a program hexkid wroute at my sugestion on the user script board. It works well we have been playing with it for a few weeks in private games. No it is not an official part of brain king Fencer refuses to write the option so we decided to write it. If you want to use it the address is: http://hexkid.eu/BK/AutoPlayer/AutoPlayer.php


You do however need to give your username and the MD5 hashed version of your password. The reason MD5 is because it can not be reverse enginered into your password.

If you don't want to use it then don't.

Two Ludo riddles...

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

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

Please don't post answers, I will post the answers in one week (Aug. 22). So stay tuned!

Is anyone interested in playing 'live' ludo tourneys? If so, i hope that some paying member will organise one or two : )

voldemort: People have been sending messages to others at the beginning of the game and referencing it as a brainking thing. Don't buy into it. If it isn't a brainking website, it isn't a brainking website!

rednaz23: personal messages or messages everyone can see?

Something I have learned:

If anyone is sent a link about auto-pass, I advise you to consider the information that you are giving out... these links come in a game message while playing ludo against certain people, possibly regular messages, or found in discussion boards. Just consider what you're doing!

Does anyone know anything about this auto-pass thing?

voldemort: 31 passes in total