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