SETTING UP THE GAME

Unlock all the Pieces

An important initial strategy in ludo is to promptly move all your pawns out of the home base. It is risky to rely on using just one or two pawns for each dice roll, as it increases the chances of being attacked and killed by your opponent. By getting all your pawns into play early on, you gain greater flexibility in their movement.

This is particularly advantageous when you roll a low number on the dice and cannot protect a crucial pawn from your opponent. Hence, prioritize putting all your pawns into action as quickly as you can.

Block Your Opponent’s Pieces

A useful winning tip in Ludo is to safely get your coin into the home base. When one of your pawns is close to reaching home, your opponents will naturally focus on capturing that piece. To protect your pawns from being attacked, it is important to block your opponents by chasing their pieces. It is not always possible to kill your opponent’s pawns; you can block it and force them to move another pawn.

This disrupts their strategy and allows you a better chance to win. To block your opponent’s pawns, you need to strategically place your pawns on two very close safe points. This way, if the pawn lands in between the two safe points, it will be forced to move ahead or stand there and risk getting killed. But even if the pawn jumps the second safe point and decides to move ahead, it still risks getting killed.

While not every pawn that has been blocked will end up getting killed, the probability of getting killed is always increased. This way, you can quickly move pawns to the home area without any interference.

Never Keep Two Tokens on the Same Safe Points

It is important to keep your pieces on safe points, but keeping all the pawns on the same safe point is not the best way to win. By distributing all of your pieces across multiple safe points, you can block your opponent’s pawns, distribute your points better and increase the chances of bursting a piece.

Never Race a Single Token Alone in SL League

While it might feel tempting to just focus on a single pawn and take it all the way home, players should refrain from doing it. It puts all your points in a single pawn which, if killed, will make it very hard to recover your points.

Additionally, it makes your moves very predictable for the opponent. In this case, the opponent can easily create a block and stop this pawn or worse kill it.