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NobleMatt · Mar 13, 2009, 08:04 AM

The game thats like Ludo but where you go round in a circle rather than round in a plus shape as shown below, and it also has a dice in a plastic dome in the middle that you press down and "pop" to roll a new number?

Matt

nonhuman · Mar 13, 2009, 08:07 AM

I'm troubled by the realization that I don't know.

Spheric Harlot · Mar 13, 2009, 08:17 AM

I have no idea what you're talking about, but googling "dice game plastic dome" and five minutes of sleuthing came up with this:

Dakar V · Mar 13, 2009, 09:06 AM

Looks similar to Parcheesi.

Laminar · Mar 13, 2009, 09:09 AM

Yeah, that's what I was going to say, but the plastic dome part tells me it's Trouble or Headache.

NobleMatt · Mar 13, 2009, 09:40 AM

yer trouble looks like the right thing, it prob has a few diff names because it will have been made and trademarked by several diff people, so anymore names would be cool

its not for me, i was in a meeting and we couldnt remember what it was called either

thanks

osiris · Mar 13, 2009, 09:49 AM

I was going to say Parcheesi, but my nemesis beat me to it.

But I think the game in question is Trouble.

Laminar · Mar 13, 2009, 10:38 AM

Headache has the poppy plastic thing.

Spheric Harlot · Mar 13, 2009, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by crazyreaper

yer trouble looks like the right thing, it prob has a few diff names because it will have been made and trademarked by several diff people, so anymore names would be cool

Unlikely - the game has been around since at least 1965 (the version I posted above). That bubble thing will have been patented to hell.

FWIW, newer version:

- - e r i k - - · Mar 15, 2009, 09:18 PM

Odd coincidence. I saw this game for the first time last week, and the instant I read the description I knew what you were talking about.

It was the old vintage version too.

ghporter · Mar 15, 2009, 09:47 PM

It's called "Ludo." Interestingly enough, I know this because I went to the web site shown on the board itself... The site says that this is the "children's version" of "pachisi" which the English swiped from the Indians and renamed "parchisi", thus the similarity to a parchisi board.

CharlesS · Mar 15, 2009, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot

Unlikely - the game has been around since at least 1965 (the version I posted above). That bubble thing will have been patented to hell.

And those patents will have been long expired by now, if they were from way back in 1965.

- - e r i k - - · Mar 15, 2009, 10:31 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

It's called "Ludo." Interestingly enough, I know this because I went to the web site shown on the board itself... The site says that this is the "children's version" of "pachisi" which the English swiped from the Indians and renamed "parchisi", thus the similarity to a parchisi board.

Glenn, I think you need to re-read the OP more carefully.

analogika · Mar 16, 2009, 05:44 AM

Originally Posted by CharlesS

And those patents will have been long expired by now, if they were from way back in 1965.

Copyright still applies, though, and since it appears that the design is still in use, would probably be enforceable.

NobleMatt · Mar 16, 2009, 12:40 PM

cool, thanks for all the help guys, thinking back now, the one i played at school was prob called trouble

kmkkid · Mar 16, 2009, 06:51 PM

"It's fun getting in to trouble!"

Anyone remember that commercial?

iMOTOR · Mar 16, 2009, 11:43 PM

We always played the version called Aggravation.

http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-4058-S5.../dp/B00000IWHF