Games

Backgammon

Play complete backgammon on one Kobo, solo against a modest computer player or pass-and-play with the board reversed between turns. Full legal-move rules, the doubling cube with the Crawford rule, match play to 7 points, undo, and autosave.

Version: 0.1.14
Permissions: No additional permissions
Requires: Cobalt 0.3.31

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Source code on GitHub

Backgammon board on a Kobo after Black opened with 4 and 6, with dice, cube and match score.

Backgammon: Backgammon match — Backgammon match

Backgammon: Backgammon opening — Backgammon opening

Backgammon: Backgammon selected — Backgammon selected

New in 0.1.14

Offering, taking and dropping the cube now ask the way New match does, with both answers as full buttons, and the match score stays beside whose move it is at every text size.

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