Backgammon

About the game

The dice set the distance, you choose which chip pays for it. Each turn is a throw and a shift, and the first side to strip every chip from the board wins. A rotten throw hurts, but it rarely sinks a match if your earlier choices were sound.

It also runs on phones, so one match fits a bus ride.

How to play

• Throw the dice, then push one of your chips forward by what came up.
• Be first to take all your chips off the board and the match is yours.
• Luck helps one turn, but over a long game the better planner usually wins.

• Free
• No download
• Works on phones