Backgammon Now User Reviews

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Lucky or what

Played dozens of games now. Can’t win when opponent can read your moves know what you throw and can throw double after double amazing what. Hate it nearly trashed my I pad. Geez

Response from developer

Thanks. The dice rolls in game totally random, and are not pre-calculated. The dice roll mechanic know nothing of any previous rolls. Any double after double is pure chance and just like how dice can behave. Sometimes you get a good run, sometimes you don't, like with real dice, it can feel frustrating.

Lacking challenge

I suppose you’re meant to feel good, so it’s extremely rare to lose any game. What we need is the ability to change the difficulty rating.
Otherwise, really pleased with the game.

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback, we're working on it.

Advice required

Hi I’m really enjoying the app, but I find it frustrating that I cannot offer to double against my opponent. Could anyone post how I do this please. Thank you.

Cheating Crap Game

The computer cheats on almost every turn. There is no challenge when it’s determined that you will loose 98% of the time. Don’t waste your time with this game I’m sure you can find a better version. The developers of this one should be ashamed of themselves for putting this out there. What a pile of crap!!!!!!!
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Response from developer

Thanks. The dice rolls in game totally random, and are not pre-calculated. The dice roll mechanic know nothing of any previous rolls. Any double after double is pure chance and just like how dice can behave. Sometimes you get a good run, sometimes you don't, like with real dice, it can feel frustrating.

Frustrating dice bias

I’ve been playing backgammon for over 40 years. Thus far, this is the best implementation from a playability and UI perspective that I have found. However, as so many others have said, the so-called random dice throwing is anything but. I just played a game where I was way ahead, until the computer threw FIVE doubles in a row.. even though it’s just a time pass, it’s still frustrating and unnecessary. Other apps do this better, but have a poorer interface.
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Good layout and enjoyable.

Very challenging in hard mode. Very good layout and easy to play. I learnt this game simple by interacting with the computer.

The ads are frustrating in WiFi mode but if you turn off the WiFi mode it plays ad free against the computer.

Yikes

I put the game on hard difficulty and with a 4-2 opening roll it played 13/7. See ya.

Backgammon

Very challenging!

Usual rigged dice.

Just deleted the game after it got 4 doubles in a row.

Still trying to find a backgammon game with realistic dice

Just worked out the probability of four doubles in a row. - 1296 to 1

Updated after the dice generator update......

Dice seem much more random. Many thanks for the update. I’m still irritated by the ads after each game but I understand you need to make money to justify the development. May pay to avoid the ads soon.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback. We've updated our Random Number Generator to use the Mersenne Twister algorithm. However this doesn't generate a rolled number, this generates values that our physics system uses to throw the dice, i.e. rotations, torque, velocity, etc. Once the dice have rolled and landed we then look at the results. Exactly the same way you would if you were rolling physical dice!

Board is a Too Small

The board looks too small on my iPad mini. It does not fill up the screen enough for my vision. Didn’t play at all. Will have to delete this. It does not have a turn- based mode, which I was more interested in.

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