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B0012000 (băk′găm′ən)n. A board game for two persons, played with pieces whose moves are determined by throws of dice, with the object being to move all of one's pieces to an end point where they are removed from the board. The first player to have no pieces on the board wins.

[back + gammon.]

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(ˈbækˌɡæmən; bækˈɡæmən) n1. (Games, other than specified) a game for two people played on a board with pieces moved according to throws of the dice2. (Games, other than specified) the most complete form of win in this game[C17: back¹ + gammon, variant of game¹]

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n. a game for two persons in which pieces are moved around a board having two tables or parts, and then removed according to throws of the dice. [1635–45; back² + gammon, perhaps akin to game]

backgammon

- Appears to literally mean "back game," and was first called tables; gammon is the ancestor of game.See also related terms for tables.

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Noun

backgammon - a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the diceboard game - a game played on a specially designed board

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backgammon

(băk`găm'ən, băk'găm`ən), game of chance and skill played by two persons upon a specially marked board divided by a space, called the bar, into two tables (inner table and outer table), each of which has 12 alternately colored points, or triangular spaces. Players move along the board according to the rolls of two dice, and the object is to remove one's 15 pieces, or disks, from the board first. The Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans played a form of backgammon probably derived from the earlier Indian game of Parcheesi. After the 10th cent. A.D. it became popular in Europe.

backgammon

1. a game for two people played on a board with pieces moved according to throws of the dice 2. the most complete form of win in this game
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See bignum, moby, pseudoprime.

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noun a board game for two players

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