An experienced marketing professional in the hospitality industry, Justin Litterelle serves as the Director of Cultural Programming at Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In his free time, Justin Litterelle enjoys playing backgammon.
A two-player game, backgammon takes place on a rectangular board divided into quadrants, each of which includes six narrow triangles with their bases at the board’s outer edge. Each player starts the game with 15 checkers, which he or she places on specific triangles according to his or her home color.
Players’ home boards are across from one another on the same half of the board. Typically, this is the right half if one were looking down on the board from above. The other half becomes known as the outer board.
The object of the game is to remove one’s checkers from the board. A player must accomplish this by moving his or her checkers along the board according to numbers rolled with a pair of dice. The player can move one checker the number of spaces indicated on one dice and another according to the other dice, though it is also possible to move one checker according to the total roll.
A player can’t place a checker on a triangle occupied by more than one of an opponent’s pieces. If only one piece is on a triangle, that piece becomes a “blot” that the opponent can then knock off by landing on the same spot. If that happens, the piece’s owner must enter it onto his or her opponent’s home board before making any other moves.
When a player has moved all of his or her checkers onto the respective home board, he or she may begin to use dice rolls to move the checkers off of the board. This happens by rolling the number that corresponds with the triangle on which the checker lies, the first triangle being the closest to the edge of the board. The winner is the player who can legally bear off all of his or her pieces first.
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