The goal of backgammon is to race your pieces to the end of a board by rolling two dice, before rolling again to “bear off” your pieces, or remove them from the board. Your opponent races them ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. One could argue that backgammon, a board game with roots going back to ancient Mesopotamia, is a therapeutic pastime. With ...

All of a sudden, we, the people, blinked, and backgammon was everywhere. Just as hit pandemic-era shows like The Queen’s Gambit ushered in a wave of chess-as-trend that hadn’t been seen since ...

By cocktail hour, everyone wanted one of their own. Backgammon, as we know it, derived from an old Roman board game called Tabula. Popularity surged in the 1960s thanks in no small part to the ...

Welcome to Backgammon Social, a community event series that seeks to make human connections through the old-school dice game. Why it matters: Tabletop games are riding a post-pandemic surge in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

“Games are about fun.” As a child, she often played backgammon with her two sisters. And she vividly recalls a trip, at 9 years old, to see her step-grandfather in Cairo, and playing a game on ...

The goal is to move all 15 of your pieces around ... On Valentine’s Day, one backgammon neophyte, who requested to remain anonymous, asked Hodde, one of L.B.B.L.’s founders, to sweeten the ...

A games enthusiast has set up a backgammon tournament after he says there has been a surge in popularity. Players from across Devon are expected to attend Torbay Hotel in February to play the game.