Backgammon (1630)
Playtime: 30
Min. Age: 8
Players: 2
Publisher: Milton Bradley, Lagoon Games, Juegos Ya S.L., Jumbo, Pleasantime Games, Friendly Games, Inc., Kingstone International, Gammon Games, StirlingFox, Dal Negro, Sterling Games, HEMA, John Sands Pty Ltd, S & E, Philos, The Op Games, Cayro, The Games, Pavilion, The Purple Cow, Whitman, Selchow & Righter, Neroulia, Brio AB, Noris Spiele, Crisloid, Glevum Games, Halsall, Joker, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, E. S. Lowe Company Inc., Spear's Games, John N. Hansen Co., Inc., P:OS Handels GmbH, Super Accord, Silk Cut, National Novelty Corp., El Greco, Carlit, Gigliodoro, Planet Finska, Wild & Wolf, Schmidt Spiele, Vennerød Forlag AS, Paul Lamond Games Ltd, LuduScience, Hasbro, (Public Domain), Magnetic Poetry Inc, Galleryplay, American Express, Maxco, Pressman Toy Corp., Estrela, Blatz, Heyne, Skor-Mor, Saitek, M Petrushkin, OPEN'N PLAY, Dynamic Games / Dynamic Design Industries, Golden, House of Marbles, ABRA, MB Spellen, Smethport Specialty Co., Creative Crafthouse, L. P. Septímio, Diset S. A., Daells Varehus, Majora, Reiss Games, Dilemma Games, Ravensburger, Origem, Bisonte, play time, Dos Reis, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Galison, Przedsiebiorstwo Zagraniczne LABO, Alga, MB Spiele, Marlboro, Sladecolour Board Games, Unicorn Products, CHH Games, Invicta Games, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), Masters Games, Zontik Games, Harlekin, Berliner Spielkarten, HABA, Arrow Games Ltd, Wood Expressions, Croner, Tactic, Cardinal, Klee, Gibsons, 3M, Top Mark, F.X. Schmid, Pin International, nestorgames, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Matsui Gaming Machine, Western Publishing Company, Caribou Mountaineering, Inc., Bütehorn Spiele (Buchholz Verlag), Regionalia Verlag GmbH, Basic Fun, Inc., The Toy Network, Bello Games New York, Inc., Pintoy, Søstrene Grene, Inovac Rima SA, K.E.Leg, Gamut of Games, Game Factory, Węgiel, Oriental Trading Company, Editrice Giochi, Otto Maier Verlag, Mitra, Piatnik, Hector Saxe, Peri Spiele, Merit, Ghisò, Schou, Cathay, Poolmaster, Fifth Avenue Crystal Ltd., Ludens Planet, Schmidt International, Pendleton, Challenge Master Game Co Ltd, Westside Fun Games, (Self-Published), WHSmith, Schmidt France, Square Root Games, Dino Toys s. r. o., Ramsons, Chad Valley Co Ltd., House Martin, Deuce, Gold Medal, IRWIN Games, Classic Toys, Fundex, RoseArt, Chadwick Miller Inc., Palet spil, Pelikan, Marigó, John Jaques of London, Waddington Sanders Ltd., Waddingtons, Ariel Productions Ltd, Editions ATLAS, Fame Products, (Unknown)
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Christian Lacroix, Willem Cornelisz Duyster
Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Race, Score-and-Reset Game, Static Capture, Betting and Bluffing, Roll / Spin and Move, Track Movement
Min. Age: 8
Players: 2
Publisher: Milton Bradley, Lagoon Games, Juegos Ya S.L., Jumbo, Pleasantime Games, Friendly Games, Inc., Kingstone International, Gammon Games, StirlingFox, Dal Negro, Sterling Games, HEMA, John Sands Pty Ltd, S & E, Philos, The Op Games, Cayro, The Games, Pavilion, The Purple Cow, Whitman, Selchow & Righter, Neroulia, Brio AB, Noris Spiele, Crisloid, Glevum Games, Halsall, Joker, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, E. S. Lowe Company Inc., Spear's Games, John N. Hansen Co., Inc., P:OS Handels GmbH, Super Accord, Silk Cut, National Novelty Corp., El Greco, Carlit, Gigliodoro, Planet Finska, Wild & Wolf, Schmidt Spiele, Vennerød Forlag AS, Paul Lamond Games Ltd, LuduScience, Hasbro, (Public Domain), Magnetic Poetry Inc, Galleryplay, American Express, Maxco, Pressman Toy Corp., Estrela, Blatz, Heyne, Skor-Mor, Saitek, M Petrushkin, OPEN'N PLAY, Dynamic Games / Dynamic Design Industries, Golden, House of Marbles, ABRA, MB Spellen, Smethport Specialty Co., Creative Crafthouse, L. P. Septímio, Diset S. A., Daells Varehus, Majora, Reiss Games, Dilemma Games, Ravensburger, Origem, Bisonte, play time, Dos Reis, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Galison, Przedsiebiorstwo Zagraniczne LABO, Alga, MB Spiele, Marlboro, Sladecolour Board Games, Unicorn Products, CHH Games, Invicta Games, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), Masters Games, Zontik Games, Harlekin, Berliner Spielkarten, HABA, Arrow Games Ltd, Wood Expressions, Croner, Tactic, Cardinal, Klee, Gibsons, 3M, Top Mark, F.X. Schmid, Pin International, nestorgames, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Matsui Gaming Machine, Western Publishing Company, Caribou Mountaineering, Inc., Bütehorn Spiele (Buchholz Verlag), Regionalia Verlag GmbH, Basic Fun, Inc., The Toy Network, Bello Games New York, Inc., Pintoy, Søstrene Grene, Inovac Rima SA, K.E.Leg, Gamut of Games, Game Factory, Węgiel, Oriental Trading Company, Editrice Giochi, Otto Maier Verlag, Mitra, Piatnik, Hector Saxe, Peri Spiele, Merit, Ghisò, Schou, Cathay, Poolmaster, Fifth Avenue Crystal Ltd., Ludens Planet, Schmidt International, Pendleton, Challenge Master Game Co Ltd, Westside Fun Games, (Self-Published), WHSmith, Schmidt France, Square Root Games, Dino Toys s. r. o., Ramsons, Chad Valley Co Ltd., House Martin, Deuce, Gold Medal, IRWIN Games, Classic Toys, Fundex, RoseArt, Chadwick Miller Inc., Palet spil, Pelikan, Marigó, John Jaques of London, Waddington Sanders Ltd., Waddingtons, Ariel Productions Ltd, Editions ATLAS, Fame Products, (Unknown)
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Christian Lacroix, Willem Cornelisz Duyster
Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Race, Score-and-Reset Game, Static Capture, Betting and Bluffing, Roll / Spin and Move, Track Movement
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Backgammon is a classic abstract strategy game dating back thousands of years. Each player has a set of 15 checkers (or stones) that must be moved from their starting positions, around, and then off the board. Dice are thrown each turn, and each player must decide which of their checkers to move based on the outcome of the roll. Players can capture each other's checkers, forcing the captured checkers to restart their journey around the board. The winner is the first player to get all 15 checkers off the board. A more recent addition to the game is the "doubling cube", which allows players to up the stakes of the game. Although the game relies on dice to determine movement, there is a large degree of strategy in deciding how to make the most effective moves given each dice roll and measuring the risk in terms of possible rolls the opponent may get.
Backgammon may be the first game to be mentioned in written history, going back 5,000 years to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. During the 1920s, archaeologists unearthed five boards from a cemetery in the ancient town of Ur. At another location, pieces and dice were also found along with the board. Boards from ancient Egypt have also been recovered from the tomb of Tutankhamun, including a mechanical dice box, no doubt intended to stop cheaters.
The names of the game were many. In Persia, Takhteh Nard which means "Battle on Wood". In Egypt, Tau, which may be the ancestor of Senat. In Rome, Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum ("game of twelve marks"), later, Tabula ("table"), and by the sixth century, Alea ("dice"). In ancient China, T-shu-p-u and later in Japan, Sugoroko. The English name may derive from "Bac gamen" meaning "Back Game", referring to re-entry of taken stones back to the board. It was often enjoyed by the upper classes and is sometimes called "The Aristocratic Game". The Roman Emperor Claudius was known to be such a fan of Tabula that he had a set built into his coach so he could play as he traveled (the world's first travel edition?).
The rules in English were standardized in 1743 by Edmond Hoyle. These remained popular until the American innovations of the 1930s.
Backgammon may be the first game to be mentioned in written history, going back 5,000 years to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. During the 1920s, archaeologists unearthed five boards from a cemetery in the ancient town of Ur. At another location, pieces and dice were also found along with the board. Boards from ancient Egypt have also been recovered from the tomb of Tutankhamun, including a mechanical dice box, no doubt intended to stop cheaters.
The names of the game were many. In Persia, Takhteh Nard which means "Battle on Wood". In Egypt, Tau, which may be the ancestor of Senat. In Rome, Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum ("game of twelve marks"), later, Tabula ("table"), and by the sixth century, Alea ("dice"). In ancient China, T-shu-p-u and later in Japan, Sugoroko. The English name may derive from "Bac gamen" meaning "Back Game", referring to re-entry of taken stones back to the board. It was often enjoyed by the upper classes and is sometimes called "The Aristocratic Game". The Roman Emperor Claudius was known to be such a fan of Tabula that he had a set built into his coach so he could play as he traveled (the world's first travel edition?).
The rules in English were standardized in 1743 by Edmond Hoyle. These remained popular until the American innovations of the 1930s.
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