Backgammon.com, celebrates Team USA Women's Team on winning the 2026 WBGF World Team Championship, held August 24–27, 2026, in London, England.

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Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jonathan Adler’s backgammon sets are all delightful, but the ones that ...

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Backgammon has been around for thousands of years — Wikipedia clocks it at around 5,000 — and it is ...

At about 5,000 years old, backgammon is arguably the oldest board game in the world. Because it is so ancient, the exact facts concerning the origins of the game are mysterious and often left to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

Who would have thought a backgammon board could become a coveted design piece? In the past, saying “backgammon” conjured a standard image: dark wood boards with contrasting triangles, basic dice, and ...

In backgammon, as in life, there are two main goals: ‘build a nice house’ and ‘don’t expose yourself’. Perhaps that is why the game has been so popular for so long; it appeals to our most basic ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Backgammon, a two-player board game played with counters and dice on table boards, is being considered for several high schools in St Ann, as part of a behaviour modification pilot ...

As New Yorkers grow increasingly obsessed with mahjong, the tile-based Chinese game that has recently surged in popularity on this side of the Atlantic, a new social club is vying for the city’s ...