The objective of a Backgammon game is to move your pieces around the game board and bear them off the board faster than your opponent who works harder to do the same but in the opposite direction. Winning a game in Backgammon requires both strategy and luck. How far you …
The backgammon variation Acey-Deucey was a popular pastime among the US Marine Corps during World War I. An article published in the backgammon site Play65 reveals that the game has been entertaining Navy officers already in the beginning of the 1900s. It also shows that even the name “Acey-Deucey” has …
The pieces on a backgammon board are known as chips. Dependent on the quality of game set that you have the backgammon chips could be made of several different materials. The more budget game sets, where you have a cardboard set that folds up when finished, typically come with chips …
Most of us can’t remember how long board games have been a part of human culture. One could say that board games date back to the time when human beings began to communicate with each other, an evolved hand in hand with communication practices as man learned better and more …
Remember the terrific board games you treasured when you were a child? Just consider the advanced world in which we live today and the high tech video games and gizmos that are accessible. Then stop and think for a minute…Are board games a thing of the past? Are they too …
Gin Rummy is a fun, exciting, fast game that’s great to play with friends for a relaxing night, but it’s even more fun when you start winning. The rules in this game are simple; the tactics, however, are more complex. There are several things you can do to increase your …
We know well that to a certain degree this is not easy to recognize the beginning of the carrom. This game is implicit to start on hundreds of years ago. Number of people believes that it started off in India, while others say that it is started from Burma and …
Backgammon is a race game. You have two options: try to win the race by advancing forward; or, give up on the race, make a prime, wait for a shot and hit it. If you choose (or are forced to choose) to hang back and wait – you’re playing a …
For centuries backgammon has been creating quite a stir. Even today, we all spend hours playing this addicting pastime, yet most of us have no idea where it came from or the history it has acquired. Although the game has evolved throughout the years and is now even played online, …
Online birthday cards are one of my favorite parts of the Internet. They may look very insignificant to you, but to my social life, they are crucial. You see, I have little free time in my life. My friends and I are all extremely busy. So busy that sometimes weeks …
