Ludo is a simple race game on a board. Each player has little flat counters and tries to get them all around the track and home, after a throw of the dice lets them start. The board is usually a cross. It is a family game, especially familiar in Britain and in places that kept British board-game habits; in the United States a close cousin is often called Parcheesi. It is ordinary, slightly old-fashioned fun — not a sport and not a video game. There is also a given name Ludo, short for Ludovic, but this word is the game. The name of the game was borrowed from Latin lūdō, “I play.”