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"Ludo (/ˈljuːdoʊ/; from Latin ludo, meaning 'I play') is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die." - Wikipedia entry on Ludo
First of all, let's get this out of the way;
You just roll dice and move your counters across the board. It's all you fucking do. It's ENTIRELY luck-based.
Yes, you could play alone on some online game, with 3 AI opponents. But you know those AIs are going to cheat, so why willingly put yourself up against even worse odds than you already have in an average Ludo game?
No, you gotta find real human beings for this. Maybe your friends, maybe your family, maybe complete strangers on the Internet - whatever. Chances are, if you drop someone a friendly invite to play Ludo with you, they'll know how painful it is and politely(?) decline. But if they don't; well, that's great! :))))
Of course, if you're feeling particularly devious, you can invite your real life friends/family/strangers under the guise of doing something more innocuous; a 4-player console game of lesser or equal pain, for instance. Just keep in mind that if the game of Ludo you make them play instead ends up being a miserable nightmare, they probably won't forgive you. (Like they'd have forgiven you if you hit them with a Blue Shell in the game you didn't actually play, right?)
Okay, so this rant may have been exaggerated for effect. It's still a bad board game, though.
Shoutouts to 360Chrism