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Backgammon is a two-player game played with 15 checkers per player and a pair of dice. The game is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles, called points. Each player has a home board area. The goal is to move all your checkers into your home board and remove them (bear off) all before your opponent does the same. A doubling cube is used to add more strategy to the game.

1 Checkers 2 Point 3 Home board for white checkers 4 Home board for black checkers 5 Doubling cube

• Roll the dice
• Move your checkers & how to hit
• Bear your checkers off the board
• The winner
• Additional Game Features
  • Doubling cube
  • Beavers

Step 1: Roll the dice

At the start of the game you and your opponent each roll one dice (automatically performed by the house). The player with the higher dice value moves first.

Step 2: Move your checkers

You and your opponent take turns rolling the dice and moving checkers from point to point around the board according to the numbers you roll. The player to go first makes his move based on the value of both of the dice from the first roll in Step 1.

1 If you are using the black checkers you must move all of your checkers into the home board marked 19-24. 2 If you are using the white checkers you must move all of your checkers into the home board marked 1-6. 3 Direction for black checkers Direction for white checkers

The numbers on the two dice indicate separate moves, but these can be combined. For example: a roll of 3 and 1 can mean moving two checkers by 3 pips and 1 pip, or one checker by 4 pips.
Rules for Moving Checkers:

• A checker can land on any empty point or any point that is already occupied by a player’s own checkers.
• A checker can land on a point occupied by one of the opponent's checkers. This will move the opponent’s checker off the board and onto the bar. It is called a hit.
• A checker cannot land on a point occupied by two or more of the opponent's checkers.
• If you have no possible moves after rolling the dice because all of the points are occupied by two or more of the opponent’s checkers, you miss your turn.
• If you can only move for one dice, you must make that move and give up the use of the second dice.
• If you roll the same number on both dice, you rolled a doublet, which allows you to move four times instead of twice with up to four checkers.

How to Hit

A single checker on a point is called a blot. If one of your checkers lands on your opponent’s blot, it is hit off of the table and placed on the bar. Your opponent must re-enter the blot into the game before he can move any of his other checkers. The checker must be entered on empty points or blots in your home board, according to the numbers rolled on the dice. If there are no empty points, the player must give up his turn. After the checker has re-entered the board, the opponent can play the rest of the numbers shown on the dice if possible.

Step 3: Bear your checkers off the board

Once all 15 of your checkers are in your home board, you can start to bear off. This means that you can remove them from the board. You bear off checkers according to the numbers you roll on the dice. For example: if you roll a 3, you can bear off a checker that is placed on point 3. If there are no checkers on the point, you must move a checker on a higher-numbered point.

If one of your checkers is hit during a bear off, you cannot remove any other checkers from the board until that checker re-enters the game and reaches your home board. When a checker is borne off, it cannot be immediately brought back into play.

Step 4: The winner

The first player to move all his checkers off the board wins the game. The other player either loses by a single point or by the number of points displayed on the doubling cube.

If the losing player did not move a single checker off the board by the end of the game, he loses twice the stake. This is called gammon. If the losing player still has checkers on the winner’s home board, he loses triple the stake. This is called backgammon.

For novice players this can be confusing – losing a game by a single point, losing double or triple the stake and then there is the doubling cube. Practice your game and get guidance at the Backgammon School.

Additional Game Features

Doubling cube

The purpose of the doubling cube is to give the game a greater degree of strategy and excitement by doubling the game stakes. You can decide in advance whether or not to add this feature to your game.

When to use the doubling cube

If you feel that you have an advantage during a game, you can propose doubling the stakes. Your opponent can either accept the double or refuse it. At the start, each game is valued at one point. Doubling increases the stakes from 2 to 4, from 4 to 8 up to the maximum of 64.

To propose a double at 888 Backgammon, click on the Double button before rolling the dice on your turn. A double will be proposed if the game preferences box is checked and the initial stake does not equal the limit of the game.

If your opponent accepts the double: The game continues according to the new doubled stake. Control of the doubling cube passes to your opponent and only he can propose the next double.

If your opponent refuses to double: he loses the game and pays the last proposed stake.

• You can double until you reach your table’s stake limit in single one-on-one games or series games, until you reach the defined points.
• Subsequent doubles in the same game are called redoubles.
• In a single game, doubling doubles the stake, while in a series game it doubles the game points.
• Some players use beavers when a doubling cube is used. The original doubler can accept or refuse, as with a normal double.

Beavers

This is an optional rule in Money Play single games. A beaver is when your opponent accepts a double and then immediately doubles again while still retaining the doubling cube. This quadruples the stake prior to the double. You have the option to accept or refuse, as with a normal double. Before starting a game, you can indicate in the game preferences whether to allow beavers or not.

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