Backgammon Now User Reviews

Backgammon Now

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Beware the Diceman

Generally OK but the AI dice rolls are VERY biased!! If it needs a three and a five….three and five it gets!! Only one specific number required to knock your counter out of the game? Lo and behold it pretty much always gets it!! Would a double shift the balance from your winning position to its advantage?? Well…need I go on?? It doesn’t ALWAYS happen but often enough to make you question the fairness of it all!! Otherwise look nice, not too many ads and good sound effects!! Just don’t always expect a fair fight!!

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Eck1961

a month ago

Points?

I don’t know how we can have the same amount in take off board and I still have 6 left and they have 3 left?

aeachjack

3 months ago

I liked this game quite a lot except for ads. Now, the game is stuck on an ad and I’ve done everything I can figure out but bring it to where I bought it to see if they can help me. After two weeks of this ad being stuck, I may have to change games and start bowling (or something)! Any suggestions?

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CTTFHT

5 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for your feedback. Weird that the Ads would just start sticking for you. We've not changed anything game side, have you tried deleting the game and re-installing it?

Random dice

If the dice number is not random, it may go faster but it’s not true backgammon. AI has unfair advantage.

Dig…it

7 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for your feedback. For interest, we use the Mersenne Twister algorithm to generate random values which we use to throw the dice with, so it's only when the dice have rolled and landed that the game knows the outcome. It's as close to a real dice throw as possible. It's all truly random with no look-up tables that so many others use.

Good for beginners

I am brand new to backgammon and found this to be much more fair a game than other free alternatives or the game included with Apple Arcade. Have moved on to Backgammon NJ as the dice rolls on there are audited for fairness otherwise I’d have paid to have ads removed.

SUCKMYR0CKET

9 months ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks for your feedback. For note, the dice rolls aren't audited in any way, their just the best random you can do. We know it can be frustrating if the Ai opponent is waiting on a 6 and the dice rolls a 6 it's only a 1 in 6 chance. For interest, we use the Mersenne Twister algorithm to generate random values which we use to throw the dice with, so it's only when the dice have rolled and landed that the game knows the outcome. It's as close to a real dice throw as possible. It's all truly random with no look-up tables that so many others use.

3,800 game veteran

As you can tell, I’ve played this game a lot. I finally got tired of it. I don’t mind so much being stuck on the bar for multiple rolls while the game gets in on the first roll every time even if I have five points blocked. OK, that can happen. What I do not like is when the game should hit one of my pieces and doesn’t! Why did it not hit me? A real player would have. Also the game makes stupid moves. We all know how to play an opening roll of 6-1. See any backgammon sources and they all agree. So why doesn’t the game play it that way? Finally just lost patience with it.

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SweetWilliam4000

10 months ago

WendiLa

I’ve enjoyed playing backgammon on this app because it’s very easy to find what I need right away, ie, the doubling cube:).

Wordy Games

a year ago

Gotcha!

Not only does this game roll perfectly the majority of the time to blot you, it’ll roll doubles far more often than you. For the best part, the computer player started taking chips off the board before it even collected them all into its zone twice now…
As for confirmation bias, it’s not. I’ve played Backgammon for decades and cannot recall seeing so, so many doubles rolled and perfect blot sets. Other than the rigging, or screwy RNG, it’s entertaining.

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Javaman666859

a year ago

Great Game

Best Backgammon game I’ve played by far, only moans I have are when the opponent has a piece waiting to come on and You have a full block on, they shouldn’t be allowed a dice throw, waste of time and just wrong. Also I can’t seem to be able to use the doubling dice unless the opponent uses it first? No button…
Good stuff though.

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