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