EGAVE

backgammon

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Meaning

  1. noun A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
  2. noun A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
  3. verb To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

Similar words

table gammon tables backgame point stone board game baduk table board chess

Often followed by

with and board or is in boards table game

Word family

backgammons

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