Several board games from Far East, Europe and the Americas are played on boards featuring a circle and two perpendicular diameters, along which some markers are moved. The most familiar game in this group is Ludo, where the circle has been collapsed onto the cross. Ludo is a simple board game played mainly by children, in which each player must move their four tokens from their starting positions round the board to their final allocated position. ...

While Ludo is a modern invention, the games in this group have ancient roots, and the board may be seen as a mandala symbol, a cosmogram, showing Heaven and Earth, or the self and the four directions signifying the Universe. Ludo is a simple board game played mainly by children, in which each player must move their four tokens from their starting positions round the board to their final allocated position. ... The term mandala may be applied to various tangible objects, depending upon the particular religious practice that uses the term, especially as seen in Hinduism and Buddhism. ...