GuidesBackgammon Basics: Moves, Hits and Bearing Off
Learn a no-stakes backgammon game with clear examples for using both dice, hitting a blot, re-entering from the bar and bearing off legally.
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Backgammon✦
Roll, race and bring your checkers home. A local match of luck and planning.
How to play BackgammonStep-by-step · Controls · Rules
Your goalBring all fifteen checkers home and bear them off before your friend.
- Roll the dice, select a checker and choose one of its legal destinations.
- Use the remaining dice. Turns end automatically after all dice are used; choose Pass blocked turn if no remaining move is legal.
- Gather all your checkers in your home board, then move them off with suitable dice.
ControlsUse Roll dice, checker selection and highlighted destinations. Use Select bar for a captured checker and Bear off to remove a legal home checker.
Rules & scoringRe-enter captured checkers from the bar first. Use both dice when possible; doubles give four moves. If only one die can be used, use the higher one. No doubling cube is included.
Choose New game to restart. Your active board resets on refresh.
Setting up your next round…
Make it your kind of break.
Use the controls above to start a fresh round. Your device handles the game; no account, payment or download is needed. Rules and supported modes are shown in the game itself.
This is local multiplayer: both players use the same device. It does not connect to remote opponents.
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