Clock, dice (optional) and scorekeeper web app for over-the-board backgammon play.

I got fed up with tiny travel dice — so I ended up building something to replace them. It's a web app, free to use: https://bgpips.app

Nothing to install — open it on your phone, add it to the home screen for chromeless experience, works offline. It does three jobs, all for playing on a real board:

Dice — tap to roll. Properly random (cryptographic, with rejection sampling, so no modulo bias and every face equally likely), and opening rolls exclude doubles. The rolling is a port of Backgammon Galaxy's open-source dice_roller. The last few rolls stay on screen, for when you've forgotten what you just threw.

Clock — the two-shot reserve format from online and tournament play: a short delay each turn, and only the time past it comes off your reserve. Presets are Fast (10s / 1:00), Standard (12s / 2:00) and Casual (15s / 3:00).

Score and cube — match scoring and the doubling cube, Crawford rule included.

Handicap system - each player can set their own clock speed, so you can give a weaker opponent a bit more time — a built-in handicap for a fairer game.

Not affiliated with Backgammon Galaxy in any way. I've just ported their openly-licensed dice algorithm and followed the same timing conventions, with credit in the app.

Actually useful if you want to give it a shot. I'll be using it anyhow.

https://bgpips.app (this is a pun on PG Tips - a popular brand of tea in the UK haha)

The summary in open gammon show score. then PR (or ER dunno) with some verbal classification. Then a axis with the player PR is placed. But what is the gaussian density function around the PR showing? one sample is hardly distributed

Hi, please let's discuss here if you can see a pattern on backgammon.com where it uses bots as new players. My opinion is that they have a system that cheats, including on dice rolls. I and 2 of my friends are almost always losing when playing with new players. And guess what, these new players have no points but they are playing for a long time. I thought I am the only one seeing this, but the other friends are seeing the same thing. My opinion is that they use a system called emotional carousel to keep the people more on their website by using bots and cheating on dice rolls.

My cousins are coming over from abroad to Syria and they want to learn how to play backgammon, but I found out there are a lot of different types. Moroccan, French, Sheshbesh, tawla 31

Which one is the best?? And is there a good website or video???

Hi all after a recent game I had an interesting problem come up. I had the villain on the bar with five made points in my home board and some checkers back in his crunched home board. whenever he rolled the number of the open point I always hit him.

When he rolled a number that caused to leave a blot on his own home board, I also hit that. I ended up winning the gammon (one pip away from backgammon) but I have the following question:

Are there some scenarios where you shouldn’t hit the blot in his home board in case he could make a point in your home? For example lets say his golden point (my 5-point) was open along with some other point. let’s also say his home board isn’t that crunched with four made points still.

I think that hitting would still be right. Does anyone think different?