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