How to Introduce Your Children to a Classic Board Game that Will Challenge Their Minds and Entertain Them for Hours

Pull Your Kids Away from Video Games with This Exciting, Skillful, Ancient Board Game

Backgammon is one of the oldest board games in the world, dating back to ancient civilizations. It is a game of skill, strategy and luck, where two players move their pieces across the board according to the roll of dice. The objective is to remove all of your pieces from the board before your opponent does.

Backgammon is believed to have originated in ancient Mesopotamia, around 5,000 years ago. The earliest evidence of the game comes from a royal tomb in Ur, where a set of dice and board pieces were found. The game spread to other civilizations, such as Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome, and underwent various changes and adaptations over time. The modern version of backgammon, with its distinctive 24-point board and doubling cube, was developed in the 1920s in the United States.