A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
Backgammon is a board game for two players in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. The winner is the first to remove all of her own pieces from the board. Many variants have developed throughout the world, but most share common elements. ...
Backgammon is a board game for two players in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. The first player to remove all of one's own pieces from the board is declared the winner. Many variants of the game have developed throughout the world, but most of them share common traits. It is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games in the world.
Dice Probability Laws Applied In Backgammon
The dice and laws of probability play a big factor when considering the luck element.
The probabilities are as follows:
When you throw one dice, it can land six different ways – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.
However, when you throw two dice, you are suddenly faced with 36 different ways that the dice can fall. This equation is reached by simply multiplying the number of ways that one dice can land (6) with the number of ways the second dice can land (also 6). Therefore 6 x 6 gives you 36 ways that the second dice can land.
If you count the number of times that the number 6 appears in the 36 options, you will see that it is 11 times – giving you a 30.5% chance that six will appear when you throw two dice.
When working out how many times a six will appear when throwing three dice, you can use another method.
Ask yourself what the chances are of six not appearing on one dice.The answer is 5/6. Multiply that number by the chances of a six not appearing on the second dice. That should give you 5/6 x 5/6 = 25/36. Multiply that answer by the chances of a six not appearing on the third dice (ie. 25/36 x 5/6 = 125/216). What does this mean? In a nutshell, it means that out of the 216 options when 3 dice are thrown, 125 of them will NOT be a six. In other words, 91 times out of 216, a six WILL appear. If you translate that into percentages, you get 43%
Top backgammon players take the laws of probability into account when deciding on their moves during a match. At the very least, players should be aware of how these laws affect the numbers that they throw on the dice.
