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Backgammon

Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back at least 1,600 years.

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Mediterranean and West Asian cultural significance

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Movement
Contrary
Age range
5+
Chance
Medium (dice rolling)
Genres
Board game · tables game · race game · dice game
Players
2
Playing time
5–60 minutes

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Backgammon

Nodes142
Edges141
Triples160
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014085
Components1

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Backgammon

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related to International competition · 32
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related to Mediterranean and West Asian cultural significance · 21
Backgammon → Afif Bahnassi, Arab, Armenia, Cyprus, Damascene-style, Damascus, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, For, Greece, Israel, It, Lebanon, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Since, Syria, Syria's, The, Turkey
related to Legality · 15
Backgammon → After, Barr, Everything, Game, In State, Judge Stephen, Oregon, Oregon's, Paul Magriel, Roger Nelson, State, Ted Barr, The, US, Walker
related to Studies and analysis · 12
Backgammon → Berliner, BKG, DEC PDP-10, Early, Hans Berliner, He, It, July, Luigi Villa, Neural, The, With
related to External links · 10
Backgammon → Appendix, Backgammon World Championship, Encyclopædia Britannica, Glossary, Monte Carlo, The, Wikibooks Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2, WiktionaryBackgammon
related to history · 10
Backgammon → America, Anglo-Scottish, By, Europe, In, Irish, Nard, Nardy, The, Trictrac
related to Related games · 7
Backgammon → Britain, For, Middle East, Minor, Some, There, These
is a · 5
Backgammon → game of chance and that it was therefore subject to Oregon's stringent gambling laws, game of skill, two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards, two-player game of contrary movement in which each player has 15 pieces known traditionally as men, variant described in 1895 as
related to Club and tournament play · 5
Backgammon → Around, Chouette, Europe, One, Played
related to Rules · 5
Backgammon → American English, Checkers, Since, US English, World Backgammon Federation

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BackgammonAge range5+1.00infobox
BackgammonChanceMedium (dice rolling)1.00infobox
BackgammonGenresBoard game1.00infobox
BackgammonGenrestables game1.00infobox
BackgammonGenresrace game1.00infobox
BackgammonGenresdice game1.00infobox
BackgammonMovementContrary1.00infobox
BackgammonPlayers21.00infobox
BackgammonPlaying time5–60 minutes1.00infobox
BackgammonSetup time10–30 seconds1.00infobox
BackgammonSkillsStrategy1.00infobox
BackgammonSkillstactics1.00infobox
BackgammonSkillscounting1.00infobox
BackgammonSkillsprobability1.00infobox
BackgammonYears active1646 to present1.00infobox
Backgammonis atwo-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards0.90text
Backgammonis atwo-player game of contrary movement in which each player has 15 pieces known traditionally as men0.90text
Backgammonis avariant described in 1895 as0.90text
Backgammonis agame of chance and that it was therefore subject to Oregon's stringent gambling laws0.90text
Backgammonis agame of skill0.90text

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