There are 24 points on a backgammon board. Backgammon is a two-player board game. Players take turns rolling a pair of dice, moving their pieces around the board. Backgammon is one of the oldest table games in the world.
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Backgammon is a two-person board game.
Backgammon is a two-player board game played on a unique backgammon board. The players roll the dice to move their playing pieces around the board and eventually off the board. Whoever is able to remove all pieces from the board first wins.
Both players have 15 "men" at the beginning of a Backgammon game.
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Backgammon, the board game, has no synonym. But, backgammon has different names in different languages: Tric-Trac in French, Puff or Poof in German, Gamao in Portuguese, Tavla (tables) in Turkish... Backgammon also has a second meaning of a triple score in the backgammon game.
Backgammon/tavli in greek!
If one was looking to purchase a backgammon board there are some high street stores that would probably sell this product including Argos, The Works, WHSmith and the Entertainment Store. If one was to shop online there are sites that sell a backgammon board as well, which are Camberwells, Games Sesh, Master Games and BG Shop.
Sugoroku is a japanese board game that shares many similarities with backgammon. It is derived from the Chinese board game shuanglu, which was introduced to Japan in the sixth century CE.