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