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