Mens Erger Je Niet! is the Dutch name for the game also known as Ludo, which itself is a commercial version of the traditional Indian board game Pachisi. The Dutch name of the game loosely translates as "Man, don't get bothered!", and, as Ludo, it dates back to the late 19th century. The game is a race game, in which each of up to six players has four pieces to get from the start, around the board, and then to home. Capturing is by displacement and captured pieces don't disappear, but have to start again (the Dutch title warns you not to get bothered, irritating though it is to have to start again!). Due to each player having a few pieces, rather than one, the game is a complex race game, with play a mixture between chance and strategy.
My copy of Mens Erger Je Niet!, even though new when I got it, has the exact layout of what the game looked like when I was a kid in the Netherlands, both in terms of design of the board and pieces, and the artwork on the box.
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