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Game Collection

This guide details the different board and card games that can be checked out in the library. This guide also has a copy of rules and regulations for each game as well as links to online resources and strategies for the game.

How to Play Video

Rules of Play PDF

Backgammon

Backgammon image Backgammon is a classic abstract strategy game. Each player has a set of 15 "men" that must be moved from their starting positions, around, and then off the board. Dice are thrown each turn, and each player must decide which men to move based on the outcome of the roll. Players can capture each other's men, forcing those men to restart their journey around the board. The winner is the first player to get all 15 men off the board.

The chart indicating backgammon requires 2 players, plays in 30 minutes, features an abstract strategy and dice theme, and offers advantage token, betting and bluffing, dice rolling, roll and spin, and track movement mechanics.

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