LUDO
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Game descriptions :
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     The object of this entertaining game is to dice one's pieces from the
     starting line across the board to the finishing line as quickly as
     possible. At the same time you try to annoy your fellow players and
     capture their pieces as often as possible so that they'll have to
     start all over again.


Order of the game :
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     Before the actual game begins an option menu is on display. Here you
     can adjust the option of the game. Is one or several players to be
     switched off you click to the human symbol of the respective colour
     so that the frame will disappear. However, if one or several players
     are to be adopted by the computer you click to the computer symbol
     of the respective colour. In the last but one row of symbols you
     adjust the option, if the game is to be played with or without
     compulsion to take pieces. The left symbol (HEART) means no compulsion,
     and the right symbol (CROSS and ARROW) compulsion to take pieces.
     More details about that later. When everything has been adjusted
     properly you click to 'PLAY'. Now the board appears with 16 pieces
     waiting for their employment. The grey squares of the board represent
     the course that has to be coverd by the pieces clockwise. On the
     coloured squares of the course the pieces start way across the course.
     The four coloured squares lying above each other represent the finish
     of each colour. First it is decided which colour starts the game. For
     that purpose you click tothe dice below right. Once for each colour
     in use.The colour with the highest number starts the game. When a
     colour is taken over by the computer it also throws the dice for its
     colour. Otherwise the dicebelow right is always clicked to. The lower
     window next to the dice shows how many times the respective colour
     can try. If one colour still has all its four pieces the course, you
     may try three times to dice a 6 because a piece can only begin its
     way to the finish by dicing a 6. For that purpose a piece is put on
     the starting square of the respective colour. Now you must throw the
     dice again and the piece is advanced on the course by the diced
     number. Your own and other pieces can be leaped over, the occupied
     squares are included in the counting. The player who has several
     pieces on the course can choose with which piece to move on. The
     computer shows by a ring round the pieces' heads which pieces are
     able to move on. Youonly have to click to one of them. When you hit a
     square with the last point of your number which is occupied by a
     strange piece you capture this piece and put your own piece on this
     square. Captured pieces are put back to the outside squares of their
     colour. They have to start again. Your own pieces can't be captured
     by you, you'll have to move with another piece then, because only
     one piece is allowed to stay on a square. As long as further pieces
     wait to be used on the outside squares, none of your own pieces is
     allowed to stay on the starting line. It has to clear the square as
     soon as possible. Whenever dicing a 6 you can throw the dice again.
     With a 6 you always have to enter a new piece in the game, as long
     as there are pieces on the outside squares. Once you have covered
     the whole course completely you move with your piece to the finishing
     squares of its colour. There pieces can be leaped over as well. You
     mustn't enter the other players' finishing squares. If there are
     already pieces on the finishing squares and all the others are on
     the outside squares, this colour is again allowed three times to dice
     a 6, if the pieces in the finishing squares stand from the inside to
     the outside one after another. There mustn't be an empty finishing
     square between them. The player who has taken all his pieces to the
     finishing squares is the winner. The others carry on playing for the
     next places. The respective number of the dice is shown by the green
     frame round one of the dices in the right upper corner. If the option
     of compulsion to capture other pieces has been adjusted, you'll have
     to take special care in choosing a piece to move on. If you miss
     capturing an enemy piece although having the chance, your own piece
     will have to leave the course. Then it also has to start again.
     If you want to quit the game, it can be saved before. For that purpose
     you click to the disk symbol with the arrow inwards. To load the game
     you click to the other disk symbol. In order to quit, the stop sign is
     clicked on. Only one game can be saved at a time. I don't think this
     game is in need of any further explanation. I don't mind taking some
     advice.

                         Enjoi playing the game