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