Backgammon (1630)
Playtime: 30
Min. Age: 8
Players: 2
Publisher: Pelikan, 3M, Invicta Games, Tactic, play time, Inovac Rima SA, Matsui Gaming Machine, Węgiel, Daells Varehus, Skor-Mor, Fame Products, Dilemma Games, IRWIN Games, Basic Fun, Inc., Brio AB, Glevum Games, Sterling Games, Super Accord, Schmidt International, Noris Spiele, Ludens Planet, S & E, Chadwick Miller Inc., American Express, Unicorn Products, Caribou Mountaineering, Inc., L. P. Septímio, Wild & Wolf, Dino Toys s. r. o., Cayro, The Games, Gold Medal, Top Mark, Crisloid, Merit, Ghisò, Reiss Games, Piatnik, Regionalia Verlag GmbH, Dynamic Games / Dynamic Design Industries, (Public Domain), Friendly Games, Inc., Silk Cut, (Self-Published), Westside Fun Games, Paul Lamond Games Ltd, Harlekin, Ravensburger, K.E.Leg, The Toy Network, Spear's Games, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Klee, Golden, Halsall, Bisonte, WHSmith, The Purple Cow, Majora, Vennerød Forlag AS, Bütehorn Spiele (Buchholz Verlag), Editions ATLAS, Zontik Games, E. S. Lowe Company Inc., Neroulia, Pleasantime Games, Planet Finska, Classic Toys, House of Marbles, Joker, Philos, Masters Games, Estrela, Origem, Gigliodoro, Przedsiebiorstwo Zagraniczne LABO, Croner, John Jaques of London, John Sands Pty Ltd, Cathay, Hasbro, Pin International, Milton Bradley, Bello Games New York, Inc., El Greco, Diset S. A., Gamut of Games, Waddington Sanders Ltd., Square Root Games, Pressman Toy Corp., HABA, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Pintoy, Chad Valley Co Ltd., Western Publishing Company, Jumbo, Dal Negro, Carlit, CHH Games, Poolmaster, Maxco, Dos Reis, Game Factory, Oriental Trading Company, Mitra, Selchow & Righter, Sladecolour Board Games, Heyne, Galison, Søstrene Grene, Arrow Games Ltd, (Unknown), Gammon Games, Schou, Otto Maier Verlag, Magnetic Poetry Inc, Pendleton, nestorgames, Lagoon Games, RoseArt, Schmidt France, Deuce, Waddingtons, Galleryplay, John N. Hansen Co., Inc., Berliner Spielkarten, HEMA, Ramsons, National Novelty Corp., Kingstone International, Marigó, Editrice Giochi, Fundex, LuduScience, OPEN'N PLAY, Saitek, F.X. Schmid, The Op Games, Wood Expressions, Juegos Ya S.L., House Martin, Smethport Specialty Co., Challenge Master Game Co Ltd, StirlingFox, Peri Spiele, Whitman, Ariel Productions Ltd, Hector Saxe, Alga, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, Pavilion, Blatz, M Petrushkin, Cardinal, MB Spiele, Marlboro, Fifth Avenue Crystal Ltd., Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), Creative Crafthouse, Palet spil, MB Spellen, P:OS Handels GmbH, ABRA, Gibsons, Schmidt Spiele
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Christian Lacroix
Mechanics: Track Movement, Betting and Bluffing, Roll / Spin and Move, Static Capture, Race, Dice Rolling, Score-and-Reset Game
Min. Age: 8
Players: 2
Publisher: Pelikan, 3M, Invicta Games, Tactic, play time, Inovac Rima SA, Matsui Gaming Machine, Węgiel, Daells Varehus, Skor-Mor, Fame Products, Dilemma Games, IRWIN Games, Basic Fun, Inc., Brio AB, Glevum Games, Sterling Games, Super Accord, Schmidt International, Noris Spiele, Ludens Planet, S & E, Chadwick Miller Inc., American Express, Unicorn Products, Caribou Mountaineering, Inc., L. P. Septímio, Wild & Wolf, Dino Toys s. r. o., Cayro, The Games, Gold Medal, Top Mark, Crisloid, Merit, Ghisò, Reiss Games, Piatnik, Regionalia Verlag GmbH, Dynamic Games / Dynamic Design Industries, (Public Domain), Friendly Games, Inc., Silk Cut, (Self-Published), Westside Fun Games, Paul Lamond Games Ltd, Harlekin, Ravensburger, K.E.Leg, The Toy Network, Spear's Games, Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Klee, Golden, Halsall, Bisonte, WHSmith, The Purple Cow, Majora, Vennerød Forlag AS, Bütehorn Spiele (Buchholz Verlag), Editions ATLAS, Zontik Games, E. S. Lowe Company Inc., Neroulia, Pleasantime Games, Planet Finska, Classic Toys, House of Marbles, Joker, Philos, Masters Games, Estrela, Origem, Gigliodoro, Przedsiebiorstwo Zagraniczne LABO, Croner, John Jaques of London, John Sands Pty Ltd, Cathay, Hasbro, Pin International, Milton Bradley, Bello Games New York, Inc., El Greco, Diset S. A., Gamut of Games, Waddington Sanders Ltd., Square Root Games, Pressman Toy Corp., HABA, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, Pintoy, Chad Valley Co Ltd., Western Publishing Company, Jumbo, Dal Negro, Carlit, CHH Games, Poolmaster, Maxco, Dos Reis, Game Factory, Oriental Trading Company, Mitra, Selchow & Righter, Sladecolour Board Games, Heyne, Galison, Søstrene Grene, Arrow Games Ltd, (Unknown), Gammon Games, Schou, Otto Maier Verlag, Magnetic Poetry Inc, Pendleton, nestorgames, Lagoon Games, RoseArt, Schmidt France, Deuce, Waddingtons, Galleryplay, John N. Hansen Co., Inc., Berliner Spielkarten, HEMA, Ramsons, National Novelty Corp., Kingstone International, Marigó, Editrice Giochi, Fundex, LuduScience, OPEN'N PLAY, Saitek, F.X. Schmid, The Op Games, Wood Expressions, Juegos Ya S.L., House Martin, Smethport Specialty Co., Challenge Master Game Co Ltd, StirlingFox, Peri Spiele, Whitman, Ariel Productions Ltd, Hector Saxe, Alga, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, Pavilion, Blatz, M Petrushkin, Cardinal, MB Spiele, Marlboro, Fifth Avenue Crystal Ltd., Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), Creative Crafthouse, Palet spil, MB Spellen, P:OS Handels GmbH, ABRA, Gibsons, Schmidt Spiele
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Christian Lacroix
Mechanics: Track Movement, Betting and Bluffing, Roll / Spin and Move, Static Capture, Race, Dice Rolling, Score-and-Reset Game
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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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