backgammon

     

Backgammon is a boar game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. A player wins by removing all of his checkers from the board. There are many variants of backgammon, most of which share common traits. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world.

Trivia about backgammon

  • This game played on a board with 24 spear-shaped points may have evolved from parcheesi
  • The object of this dice game is to move all 15 stones from the triangles & take them off the board
  • You got nothin' to lose in this game with 15 white & black "stones" that mercifully end up on the bar after being "hit"
  • "Acey Deucey" is a variation of this board game that was introduced to Europe by the Arabs
  • With a 6-5 opening roll in this game, make the move called "Lover's Leap", which gets one man halfway home
  • Edmund Hoyle wrote a 1743 treatise on this board game in which you bear off all your pieces to win
  • Roll dice & try to get your 15 counters off the board before the other guy; watch out for doubling

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