🎲 Backgammon

Race your fifteen home and off the board.

🎲 Play

Each side has fifteen checkers. Roll two dice and move checkers that many points: one checker for each die, or one checker for both. Your checkers go round the board the opposite way to a clock's hands, to your home in the last six points, then off. A double is played four times.

🛑 Points and hits

Two or more checkers of one side close a point: the other side cannot land there. A checker standing alone can be hit: it goes to the middle bar and must come back in at the start before anything else moves.

🏁 Bearing off

When all fifteen are home, take them off with the dice. The first side to take off all fifteen wins. If the loser has none off, it is a gammon. You must use both dice if you can; if only one can be used, the larger.

🤖 How the computer plays

It looks at every way to play its roll and keeps the best by each rule below, in order. Cadet skips most of them and sometimes just picks; Ace counts the rolls you could hit it with.

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🔄 Start over

Clears every win and loss on this device, and the game under way.