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Expect Unfair Play
This is still the best app for backgammon that I’ve found. That being said, I usually play against the computer. While the game professes random rolls of the die, be prepared to lose first play rolls most games. And it’s remarkable how the computer nearly always gets exactly the roll it needs to bear off and win. Too, if the computer challenges you, know that you might as well concede the game because your efforts to thwart a loss are oftentimes useless. Not impossible to win against the computer, just a lack of fairness. The app used to provide stats on how many doubles each rolls and other such data but that disappeared a while back. I’m assuming it’s because the lack of randomness was all too evident. But I have no one to play with other than the computer, so that’s where I am in life. I still enjoy playing from time to time so that’s why the 4 stars.Show lessMorbosr
Ok game, biased and buggy though
I’ve had this app for a while now and play frequently until lately. Nice graphics, good speed, but there are issues. As others have mentioned, the hard setting doesn’t change strategy, rather it changes how lucky the AI is at landing the exact roll it needs. If you leave a pip open you can almost guarantee the computers next roll will bar you. On other settings the amount of doubles the computer rolls is proportionally in favor of the computer. Lately, the app has been opening safari with some junk “congrats you win” ad even if you don’t tap any on screen ads. I’ve had the same ad pop up 4 times in one game. Each time I was tapping either the roll button or making a move, nowhere near the ad space at the bottom of the screen. This is a big issue for me. I get ads on free apps, but this is more like a huge bug that needs to be fixed.Show lessKat42180uuytrwqq
Dice rolls manipulated - skip this game!!
The implementers of this game could have made a game worth playing if they had just implemented truly random dice rolls. They didn’t. The number of times duplicates such as 6, 6, 6, 6 are rolled is much much much greater than probabilities would dictate. You can be certain that you’ll get quad 6’s several times in a game whereas the probabilities suggest you should get any particular dice roll once every 36 rolls. And it’s totally frustrating to play a game against the computer when the computer consistently “rolls” just the perfect dice combinations based on the configuration of the board. The strategy you must follow to have any chance of winning is to avoid at all costs leaving any of your pieces exposed because you can be pretty certain that the computer will roll a combination that results in you losing those pieces. So look elsewhere for a fun game. This one is not fun, it’s just frustrating.Show lessSargent Filco