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