If you’ve ever been stuck in a Ludo King match with a random player who goes AFK halfway through or deliberately stalls every turn, you know how much more fun the game is when you play with people you actually know. A lot of new players struggle to navigate the game’s menu to find the friend adding feature, especially if they’re using a guest account or playing across different devices with friends. I remember fumbling through the settings for 10 minutes the first time I tried to invite my cousin to a match, so I put together this full walkthrough to save you the hassle. If you’re trying to figure out how to add buddy in Ludo King, this guide covers every method, plus fixes for the most common issues you might run into along the way.
Step-by-Step Ways to Add Buddy in Ludo King on Any Device
The process of adding a buddy works almost identically across Android, iOS, and even the desktop version of Ludo King, so you don’t have to learn separate steps for different platforms. The only prerequisite is that you can’t use a guest account to add friends, so make sure you’re logged in with a Google, Facebook, or Apple account first.
The first method is adding via username search. Open the Ludo King app and tap the “Friends” icon on the bottom right of the home screen, then select the “Add Friend” tab. Type in the exact username of the person you want to add, then tap the search button. Usernames are case-sensitive, so make sure you type it exactly as it appears on their profile to avoid searching for the wrong user. Once their profile pops up, tap the “Send Request” button, and they’ll get a notification the next time they open the app.
If you and your friend both use Facebook to log in to Ludo King, you can skip the username search entirely. Head to the Friends tab, then tap the “Facebook Friends” option. You’ll see a full list of all your Facebook friends who have Ludo King installed and linked to their account. You can send a friend request to any of them with one tap, and they’ll get both a Ludo King notification and a Facebook alert about the request. Sync your contact list first if you want to add people saved in your phone who don’t follow you on Facebook, this option will pull up any contact with a Ludo King account linked to their phone number.
If you’re playing in a random public match and hit it off with another player, you can add them directly from the match screen too. Tap their profile icon during or after the match, then select “Send Friend Request” from the dropdown menu. You can only send 10 friend requests per 24 hours to avoid spam flags, so don’t mass add random players if you want to keep your ability to send requests active.
How to Send and Accept Ludo King Friend Requests
Once you send a friend request, the other user will see it in the “Pending Requests” section of their Friends tab. They can choose to accept or decline the request, and you’ll get a notification once they make a choice. If they accept, they’ll immediately show up in your active friends list, and you can invite them to matches right away.
If you’re on the receiving end of friend requests, you can manage all of them from the same Pending Requests tab. You can tap on any requester’s profile to see their match stats, win rate, and how many matches they’ve played before accepting, which is helpful if you get requests from random players you don’t know. Pending requests expire after 7 days if the other user doesn’t respond, so you don’t have to worry about old requests cluttering up your tab forever.
A lot of users run into issues with requests not going through, and most of the time it’s because of a simple avoidable mistake. The most common errors include:
If you get a lot of unwanted requests from random players, you can adjust your privacy settings to only allow requests from Facebook friends or people in your contact list. You can block users who send unwanted requests directly from the pending tab, and they won’t be able to send you another request or join any matches you’re hosting in the future.
Troubleshooting Common Issues When Adding Ludo King Buddies
Even if you follow all the steps correctly, you might run into occasional glitches that stop you from adding buddies. Most of these issues have quick fixes that don’t require any technical skills.
The most common issue is a friend not showing up in search results even when you type their username correctly. First, confirm that they’re using a registered account and not a guest account. Guest accounts cannot add or receive friend requests, so you’ll need to ask them to link a social account first if they’re on a guest profile. If they are on a registered account, ask them to check their privacy settings to make sure they have “Allow profile search” turned on. Some users turn this off to avoid spam from random players, which makes their profile unsearchable via username.
Cross-platform adding issues are rare, but they do happen sometimes if one player is on a very old version of the app. If you’re on Android and your friend is on iPhone, you don’t need any special steps to add each other, but both of you should update the app to the latest version from your app store first. Outdated versions often have bugs that break cross-platform friend requests and private match invites.
If you accidentally delete a buddy, you can’t re-add them for 30 days. This cooling off period is designed to prevent harassment between users who have blocked or removed each other, so you’ll have to wait the full 30 days if you delete someone by mistake. If you still can’t send a request after that, try logging out of your Ludo King account and logging back in, or clearing the app cache if you’re on an Android device.
Fun Perks of Adding Buddies on Ludo King You Might Not Know
Adding buddies isn’t just for playing private matches, there are a ton of little perks that make the whole game more enjoyable when you have a full friends list.
The biggest perk is being able to create custom private matches with your own rules. You can turn off snakes and ladders, use two dice instead of one, set the number of players, and even add a password so only people you invite can join. I have a weekly match with my college friends that we’ve been running for 2 years now, and we even set up small prize pools for the monthly leaderboard winner. None of that would be possible if we hadn’t all added each other as buddies first.
You can send and receive free coins and dice rolls to your buddies every 24 hours, which is a great way to stock up on in-game currency without spending real money. The more buddies you have, the more free rewards you can collect each day, so it’s worth adding people you play with regularly even if you don’t know them super well.
You can also join buddy-only tournaments that have smaller prize pools but way less competition than the global public tournaments. These tournaments are only open to people on your friends list, so you don’t have to go up against pro players with thousands of wins to get a prize. You can also compare your win rate, total matches played, and highest score to your buddies on the friends-only leaderboard, which adds a fun competitive edge to casual matches.
Adding friends to your Ludo King friends list takes less than a minute once you get the hang of the menu layout, and it completely changes how you enjoy the game. Knowing how to add buddy in Ludo King lets you skip the frustration of playing with random AFK players, earn extra free in-game rewards, and create custom matches that fit exactly how you and your friends like to play. If you’re still running into issues adding a buddy after trying all the fixes in this guide, try uninstalling and reinstalling the app to make sure you’re on the latest version with no corrupted files. Go ahead and add your favorite people, then challenge them to a match next time you’re waiting in line or killing time on a commute.