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