backgammon
Ancient board duel
Backgammon is a board game for two players, each moving fifteen pieces according to dice rolls along a track of twenty-four triangular points.
The goal is to move all your pieces around the board and off before your opponent does.
One of the oldest known board games, it combines luck and strategy: We played backgammon on the beach.
Gap or start
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
- primeReadying for action
- blotMark left by spillage
- hitSuccessful contact or strike
blocking · builders · slot · cover · timing · racing · containment · duplication
Flat rigid panel
- checkersDiagonal jumping board game
- pointsUnits of tally
- barDrinking establishment
- diceMarked cubes for chance
cups · quadrants · pips · inlaid · wooden · felt · leatherette · men
List of names
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- doublesPairs or stand-ins
- pipsSeeds or dots
- randomnessLack of predictable pattern
chance · throw · cubes · six-sided · boxcars · outcome · shaking · tumbling
Tigris-Euphrates river region
- PersiaIran's former name
- UrEarly Mesopotamian metropolis
- SumerAncient southern Mesopotamia
- tabulaLatin for board
Byzantine · archaeology · artifacts · antiquity · ancient · origins · excavation · cuneiform
Posts or wagers
- wagerStake on uncertainty
- high-stakesInvolving significant consequences
- bettingStaking money on outcomes
- oddsLikelihood expressed numerically
opening
Gap or start
hit · blocking · builders · slot · cover · timing · racing · containment · duplication · diversification
board
Flat rigid panel
dice · cups · quadrants · pips · inlaid · wooden · felt · leatherette · men · stones
roll
List of names
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- doublesPairs or stand-ins
- pipsSeeds or dots
randomness · chance · throw · cubes · six-sided · boxcars · outcome · shaking · tumbling · cocked
Mesopotamia
Tigris-Euphrates river region
tabula · Byzantine · archaeology · artifacts · antiquity · ancient · origins · excavation · cuneiform
stakes
Posts or wagers
- wagerStake on uncertainty
- high-stakesInvolving significant consequences
- bettingStaking money on outcomes
odds · risk · settlement
tournament
Multi-round competitive event
clock · rating · elimination · round-robin · finals · captain · box · crew
fortune
Wealth or destiny
- chanceLikelihood of occurrence
- randomnessLack of predictable pattern
- varianceSpread around the mean
- two-player gameschess, checkers, tic-tac-toe, Connect Four, Battleship
- Egyptian pastimesbelly dancing, Nile cruises, coffeehouses, traditional games, dominoes
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- games and pastimeschess, card games, dice, board games, children's games
- Juegosbingo, bolos, domino, futbol, golf
- pastimeshobbies, amusement, puzzles, cards, crafting
- backgammon boardSurface for ancient dice game
- backgammon setDice and checker board game