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