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Pick a mode above and press Play. Purple always rolls first.
🎲 Tap Roll, then tap a glowing token • ⭐ Star squares and start squares are safe • 🧱 Two tokens of one colour form a block no rival can pass • 🏠 You need the exact roll to bring a token home
A ludo game you can play right here, free. This is Ludo Race, an original GameOLL board game with the full classic rules. You play Purple against three computer rivals, or you pass the device to friends for a match with two, three or four people. No download. No sign-up. It works on your phone and your PC.
Roll a six to bring a token out of base. Race it around all 52 squares, send rivals back to base when you land on them, hide on the safe star squares, and bring all four of your tokens home to win. Your match record saves in your browser, ready for your next visit.
Genre
Board · Family
Players
1–4 Players
Platform
Browser · Mobile · PC
Price
Free
In this guide
- How to play
- The rules, exactly as this game plays them
- Modes and computer levels
- Strategy tips that win races
- Ludo Race FAQ
- Final verdict
How to play Ludo Race
Four colours race on one board. You are Purple. Crimson, Gold and Navy race against you, played by the computer or by friends on the same device. Each colour has four tokens, and every token must travel the whole board and reach the home in the middle.
- Pick a mode — a computer level, the Daily Match, or Pass and Play for friends — and press Play.
- On your turn, tap Roll. The dice spins and lands on a number from one to six.
- Your tokens that can move with that roll start to glow. Tap a glowing token and it moves that many squares along the track.
- A token in base can only come out when you roll a six. It lands on your start square.
- Land on a rival token and you capture it. The rival token flies back to its base and must start again.
- Near the end of the lap, your token turns into your home column, the five squares of your colour that lead to the middle.
- You need the exact roll to step into the middle and finish a token. The first player to bring all four tokens home wins the match.
Rolling a six, making a capture, or bringing a token home earns you another roll, so a hot streak can carry a token a long way. The panel beside the dice always shows how many tokens each colour has home and how many captures each colour has made.
The rules, exactly as this game plays them
Ludo Race plays the classic game in full. Here is every rule the game enforces, stated plainly, with no surprises.
A six brings a token out. Tokens wait in their base yard until their owner rolls a six. The token then steps onto its colour start square. With no six and no token on the track, a turn simply passes.
Captures send tokens home to base. When your token lands on a square that holds a rival token, that rival token goes back to its base yard. If two rival tokens from two different colours share the square, both go back. A capture earns another roll.
Eight squares are safe. No capture can happen on the four colour start squares or on the four star squares. On the board those are the coloured start squares and the yellow squares marked with a star. Tokens of different colours can share a safe square in peace.
Two tokens of one colour form a block. When two or more of your tokens stand on the same track square, they form a block. A rival cannot land on a block, and a rival cannot jump over it either — the rival token must stop short or pick another token to move. Your own tokens can pass your own blocks freely. A block cannot be captured.
Rolling a six earns another roll. So does making a capture, and so does bringing a token home. But there is a limit: three sixes in a row cancel the third one. If your third straight roll is also a six, that roll is lost and your turn passes with no move.
The home column is private and safe. After 51 steps on the main track, your token turns into your own colour home column for its last five squares. No rival can ever enter it. The final step into the middle needs the exact roll: if the dice shows more than the steps left, that token cannot move with that roll.
How a match ends. The first player to bring all four tokens home wins at once. The other places are ranked by tokens home first, then by how far the rest of their tokens have travelled, so every match gives a full first to fourth result.
Controls for phone and PC
| Action | Phone / tablet | PC / laptop |
|---|---|---|
| Roll the dice | Tap Roll or tap the dice | Click Roll or click the dice |
| Move a token | Tap a glowing token | Click a glowing token |
| Change mode or level | Tap Menu | Click Menu |
| Turn the sound off or on | Tap the speaker button | Click the speaker button |
When no token can move with your roll, the game tells you and passes the turn by itself. When the computer is thinking, your tokens wait — its move takes a moment, then play comes back to you.
Modes and computer levels
Against the computer you are always Purple, and three rivals fill the other seats. Pick the level that fits your mood. In Pass and Play, two, three or four people share one device and take turns on it — with two players, Purple races Gold across the board. The Daily Match is a Medium match where the dice follow one fixed order all day, so every player faces the same luck.
| Level | Name | How it plays | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Easy | Picks from its legal moves mostly at random, and only sometimes spots a capture | Learning the game and relaxed races |
| 2 | Medium | Takes captures, leaves base fast, and races for home and the safe squares | A fair fight for most players |
| 3 | Hard | Scores every move in full: captures, blocks, safe squares, escaping danger and the home stretch | Players who plan two turns ahead |
Every level plays by the same rules you do. The higher levels get no extra luck and no loaded dice. They simply choose better moves: they grab captures, they build blocks, and they park tokens on safe squares where you cannot touch them.
Strategy tips that win races
- Spread out early. Bring a second and third token out as soon as sixes allow. One lone token can be hunted and sent home. A spread of tokens gives you a good move on almost every roll.
- Rest on the stars. The four star squares and your start square can never be captured. When a token ends its move one step from danger, park it on a safe square and breathe.
- Build blocks on busy corners. Two of your tokens on one square stop every rival behind them: they cannot land on the block and cannot jump over it. A block near a rival start square can trap their whole race.
- Count six squares back. A token is in danger when a rival sits one to six squares behind it. If you can move that token, move it first — or move it onto a safe square or into a block.
- Capture the leader, not the nearest. A capture is worth most when it hits the token closest to home. Sending a leader back to base can change the whole match in one roll.
- Do not waste sixes. A six is a new token out, a capture, or a sprint — and it rolls again. Before you spend it, check every glowing token and pick the move that changes the race most.
- Race the home column clean. Late in the match, tokens bunched just outside the home column can jam each other. Feed them in one at a time and keep one runner back to punish rivals who pass your start.
Is Ludo Race free and safe to play?
Yes. The game is free. It runs fully inside this page. It asks for no name, no email and no account. It installs nothing on your device. Your wins, your top finishes and your capture counts stay in your browser only.
Ludo Race is an original game made by GameOLL. The computer rivals play on this page, on your device. There is no online multiplayer and nothing to connect to — Pass and Play works because your friends are right there with you.
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Ludo Race FAQ
Is Ludo Race free to play?
Yes. Ludo Race is 100% free. You play it right on this page, against the computer or with friends on the same device. There is no download, no sign-up and no payment.
How many people can play Ludo Race?
One to four. On your own, you play Purple against three computer rivals on Easy, Medium or Hard. With friends, Pass and Play lets two, three or four people share one device and take turns on it.
What are the safe squares in Ludo Race?
Eight squares are safe: the four colour start squares and the four star squares, shown in yellow with a star. No token can be captured while it stands on a safe square, and tokens of different colours can share one.
What happens when I roll three sixes in a row?
The third six is cancelled. Rolling a six normally earns another roll, and so do a capture and bringing a token home, but three sixes in a row ends your turn at once, with no move for the third roll.
How does a block work in Ludo Race?
Two or more of your tokens on the same track square form a block. A rival cannot land on a block and cannot jump over it, and a block can never be captured. Your own tokens can pass your own blocks freely.
Does Ludo Race save my results?
Yes, in your own browser. It keeps your matches played, your wins, your top-two finishes, the tokens you have captured and lost, and your best finishing place. Nothing leaves your device, and there is no account to make.
Final verdict: should you play Ludo Race?
Yes — if you want the real Ludo, with the real rules, in your browser. Ludo Race plays honest classic Ludo: sixes to leave base, captures that sting, safe stars, blocks that wall off the track, and an exact roll to finish. The three computer levels grow with you, the Daily Match gives everyone the same dice for one fair race a day, and Pass and Play turns one phone into a board the whole table can share. Roll your first six and start the race.
▶ Play Ludo Race 🎮 See All Free GamesLast updated: November 5, 2026. Ludo Race v1.0 — the first release of our original ludo game, with the full classic rules, three computer levels, a date-seeded Daily Match, Pass and Play for up to four people, and saved match records. An original GameOLL browser game. Found a bug? Tell us in the comments and we will fix it in the next version.
