Backgammon
Roll, run and hit. Bring all fifteen home before the computer does.
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Roll, run and hit. Bring all fifteen home before the computer does.
Backgammon is the classic race game of dice and strategy. Move your fifteen light checkers around the board and into your home, then bear them off before the computer bears off its own. Land on a lone enemy checker to hit it back to the bar, build points two checkers high to block the way, and use both dice whenever you can. Choose an easy, normal or hard computer. Each game's dice come from a stream fixed when the game starts, so nothing can change them, and you can take back steps until you end your turn. Win with the computer far from home for a bigger score: its pip count when your last checker comes off goes on the leaderboard, and a gammon or backgammon counts for plenty.
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How to play
- Click / tap
- Pick a checker, then a lit point or your tray
- Tap the dice, D
- End your turn
- U / Ctrl+Z
- Take back a step this turn
- H
- Hint (the game becomes practice)
- N
- New game
- Tab, arrows, Enter
- Play entirely by keyboard
Tap a checker to see where it can go, then tap a lit point, or your tray to bear off. Tap the dice or Done to end your turn.
