Backgammon has been played for about 5,000 years. Its ancestors include Senet, The Royal Game of Ur, and the Roman games Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum and Tabula.
Rules of Backgammon
Photo used with permission of The Elliott Avedon Museum & Archive of Games, University of Waterloo.
The rules of modern Backgammon took shape in the 1600s. By the 1740s, Edmond Hoyle codified the rules. Backgammon is for two players, and can be played by children ages eight and up.
