#backgammon

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[apollos-polls]

Anon requested this to be posted without the ask!

[shmoo06]

If I walked into a gay bar and someone asked me if I'm gay, I'm going to be like hey, fair question. - Shayne

[dailyjameshunt]

South African Grand Prix, 1 March 1975. Photos by David Phipps

At home in Spain, 16 September 1975, photo by Ben Martin

Monaco Grand Prix, 22 May 1977. Photo by David Phipps.

At the 1978 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder, James finally confirms it is possible to play backgammon with colleagues while dressed. Photo by Peter Vranken.

[classic-art-favourites]

Monkeys at Backgammon by Frans Snyders (1579-1657).

[blackramhall]

The Mystery of the Yellow Room - The Residence 01.08 directed by Jaffar Mahmood - written by Paul William Davies

----------------------------------------------------------- Whodunit fan? Find more mysteries on Blackram Hall. Avatar pic by Mitchell Turek

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[pinglet]

Objects Reimagined

[thevideogameartarchive]

Gammon The Computer 'Backgammon' Atari 2600 Catalog

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[kyousystem]

I swear, sometimes cleaning up the GNU Backgammon codebase feels like moving furniture around: The room will look clean-ish at a cursory glance, but then you slide the couch over by a meter and reveal a huge mess of old bits of food, candy wrappers, abandoned socks, the TV remote that's been missing for like three weeks, plus a few well-fed bugs with big shiny carapaces here and there…

[humanoidhistory]

Computer backgammon by Texas Micro Games, 1984.

[oldwindowsicons]

Windows 7 - Internet Backgammon

[nicholask-la]

From June, 2024

[spewagepipe]

The Evolution of RPGs: Twenty Squares

My conjecture is this: everywhere in the world that develops a stratified, sedentary society also, sooner or later, develops tabletop games, starting with games like Mehen (most of which have not survived). But Mehen-style race games are frankly pretty boring, so inevitably, the culture will graduate from that to what we now call a "tables" game, which is a subgenre of race game where there's a lot more strategy involved: you have more ways to use any single dice roll, and the optimal move in any situation is not always obvious. The oldest examples are the game of Twenty Squares, which comes from Mesopotamia, and Senet from Egypt, both of which date back perhaps as far back as roughly 2600 to 3000 BCE, but there are tons of examples from virtually every corner of the globe. Despite the remarkable similarities of these games, there's no evidence linking them to a common ancestry, meaning that they were all invented independently. Tables games are like pottery and metallurgy – they're just something that humans tend to do, eventually, when left to our own devices.

Click here for the index of my Evolution of RPGs posts.

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