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