Backgammon is a board game, a member of the family of board games.
Backgammon is played by two players, while the goal of each one of them is to remove all of their checkers from the board. The first player to remove all his checkers wins the game.
Backgammon is a game of luck and skill that includes several variants:
Acey-deucey
A variant of backgammon in which the players begin with no checkers on the board and must bear them on at the beginning of the game. The roll of 1-2 in Acey-deucey allows the player to select doubles of his own choice. In addition, after the roll of 1-2 or of doubles, the player is awarded an additional turn.
Hypergammon
A variant of backgammon in which each player has only three checkers on the board, starting with one each on the 24-, 23- and 22-points. In this variant of backgammon, luck plays a much larger role than in the regular backgammon variant.
LongGammon
This backgammon variant is similar to the standard backgammon variant, except for the starting position in which all of the player 15 checkers start on the opponent's one-point.
For additional reading check:
Backgammon at wikipedia
Backgammon variations by backgammon.org
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