About Backgammon
Backgammon is one of the world’s oldest board games and a perfect mix of luck and strategy. Two players sit opposite each other with the iPad between them, and each has their name, score and buttons facing them.
You roll two dice and move your pieces around the board towards your home board. A single piece can be hit and sent to the bar, and when all your pieces are home, you can bear them off. The game knows all the rules: you have to use both dice if you can, a double gives you four moves, and forced moves are played for you.
Play a match to 1, 3 or 5 points. With the doubling cube, you can double the stakes before you roll, and if you win big, it counts double as a gammon or triple as a backgammon.
How to play
- Type in your names, choose how many points the match is played to, and whether you want to play with a doubling cube.
- Both players roll one die. The higher roll goes first and uses both dice.
- Tap a piece, then tap one of the highlighted points. You can also move the same piece with both dice in one tap.
- When all your pieces are in your home board, you bear them off. The first to bear off all 15 wins the game.