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Both players have 15 "men" at the beginning of a Backgammon game.
There are a number of places that one can play internet backgammon. Some sites that offer internet backgammon include Microsoft, Pogo, Play65 and Game Colony.
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.
Backgammon is a two-person board game.
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.
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.
The game of backgammon is commonly known as one of the oldest board games between two players. The game dates back over 5000 years, and many areas claim to have 'invented' backgammon. The earliest known record of a backgammon-like game were the Egyptian/Iraqi games of senet and the Royal Game of Ur, dating back to around 3000 BC. The game of 'nard' was popular in ancient Persia (now Iran) and has been found to be existent in a similar time. The Ancient Romans and Indians of 400 AD had games of backgammon, the Chinese, French and Spanish all had their own variants of the game too. But the first use of the word 'backgammon' was found in the Oxford English Dictionary of 1650, with rules at the time very similar to ours. Overall, we can safely say that backgammon originated somewhere in the Egyptian or Middle Eastern region 5000 years ago.
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Just 1. The name solitaire comes from the word 'solitary' - meaning 'one'. I guess in theory, you could have a 'tournament' with multiple players - to see who finishes first - but they would all need their own game.
Backgammon is thought to be the oldest game.
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