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When a bot has more than one legal move, it does not pick randomly and it is not simulating outcomes ahead of time either. It works down a short, fixed checklist: first, can any move land on and capture an opponent's piece? If yes, it takes the capture, always, regardless of what else is on the board. If no capture is available, can any piece reach home exactly? If yes, it takes that. Failing both, if the dice rolled a six, it prioritises bringing a new piece out of base. If none of that applies, it moves whichever of its pieces has travelled furthest around the board.

Knowing that order changes how you should play against it. A bot will never decline a free capture to protect a piece elsewhere, so leaving a token exposed near a bot is a real risk in a way it might not be against a cautious human. It also means a bot will not rush a piece toward home while ignoring an available kill - the capture always wins that comparison.

The furthest-piece rule at the bottom of the list is worth knowing too. When nothing more urgent is available, the bot consolidates progress on its lead piece rather than spreading movement evenly across all four, which tends to produce one piece racing ahead and three sitting further back.

Multiple tokens - yours or an opponent's - can sit on the same square, and the board visibly spreads them apart so you can tell how many are there. That much is a genuine mechanic, not an illusion.

What it does not do is protect them. Some versions of Ludo treat two same-color pieces on one square as a blockade that opponents cannot pass or capture. This one does not: landing on a square with stacked opposing pieces sends every one of them back to base at once, safe zones aside. Stacking here is informational rather than defensive - it tells you where your pieces are, but it does not shield them.

Rolling a six grants an extra roll, which is standard. What is worth remembering is the limit on it: roll a third six in the same turn and the whole turn is cancelled immediately, including whatever that third six would have let you do. Two sixes in a row is a gift; a third is a trap.

Because of that, a long run of sixes is not purely good news once you are on the second one - the very next roll decides whether you get to act again or lose the turn outright.