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