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Unfair dice

Like most of these online Backgammon games the dice results are completely unfair. The opponent is consistently throwing doubles 4 to 5 times what I throw why can’t they make these equal?

Game sucks

This is a ridiculous predictable game. The dice are rigged for sure nd don’t try to say they are NOT

A programmed and rigged game! Beware!

This game is designed to frustrate. 90% of the rolls re so predictable when against you. Horrible and a total waste of time!

Sick of it

Sick of losing at this game. Get ahead and then here come the opponents doubles. You can’t win.

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He deliberately makes players lose for money and is racist towards the Middle East.

Dice & Haptic feedback

I really enjoy playing this backgammon game — it’s smooth and fun overall. However, I have a few suggestions that could make the dice experience much more realistic and engaging:

1. It would be great to have a manual and more realistic dice rolling option (if possible), where players can actually “roll” the dice themselves. Also, improving the visual design of the dice to look more natural would make a big difference.

2. Adding vibration sensitivity for rolling the dice would be amazing. For example, allowing players to roll the dice by tapping the sides of the phone twice, triggering a vibration-based roll.

3. Another cool feature would be motion-based rolling: when the phone is shaken continuously, it could play the sound of dice rolling, and as soon as the movement stops, the dice are rolled automatically.

4. Also Add haptic feedback when selecting pieces (before making a move).


These small changes could make the gameplay feel much more immersive and realistic. Hope to see improvements like these in future updates!
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Don’t even bother to play this game

This game is not random with the dice at all. Basically in any except the simplest opponent the computer rolls dice that will have it win 85% of the time The game rolls doubles for the computer at triple the rate for the human player. Also the dice are set to give the computer the opening move 77% of the time. These statistics are not just pulled out of the air they were recorded over the course of 1,000 games after the company previously told me the rolls were all random and couldn’t be favoring the computer
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Fun game

Fair, fun game. Easy play. No gimmicks

DICE NOT TRUE

I’ve played this game for several years and everything about it is great except for two things, the dice and the win/loss ratio. Countless times I’ve rolled the exact same numbers multiple times in a row, way beyond what odds would dictate. I’ve rolled double sixes several times in a row, and one time at least 4 times in a row. Bearing off is equally consistently consistent. If you roll small numbers once, you will continue to roll small numbers several times in a row, trying to bear off. Very frustrating. If you are trying to come off the bar, you will roll numbers you don’t need way beyond what odds would dictate. These complaints apply to opponents rolls as well. They happen to my opponents as much as they happen to me. This makes it more fair but it doesn’t make it right. Depending on the day, you can win many times in a row and others you can lose many times in a row. It feels like the game is trying to control your ELO. If you play consistently, you can still easily win or lose many points in a row. I will be done playing for awhile and come back to see if anything changes. My experiences are very real and consistent. Hope it changes, if it does this game could have a 5 star rating.
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DO NOT PUT MONEY

If you put money into the app, the app is programmed to make you lose in the most obvious ways possible.

No

Have to slide the dice around vs tap. No time at all in the 100 game. You know how the game will turn out pretty early on. When the rolls go their way the entire game. Stupid game.

Yes

Great graphics and music!

Worst cheating rigged dice rolls!

I have played nearly every backgammon game in the App Store and this has to be the very worst dice algorithm I have ever seen. The game is completely rigged and unrealistic. The user interface is pretty nice, but that means nothing if the dice are unrealistic.

NO

Not going to win

Sucks

This game is rigged like most of the others. DELETED

Dice rolls are not random

I really like this particular BG App. Graphics and play are excellent. Unfortunately the dice rolls are not random. If you place a single chip, your opponent will roll the perfect die 100% of the time to capture your piece. Being a data guy, I kept track and it really is 100%. My sample size was 25 and the opponent rolled the perfect die 25 times to capture my pieces which is statistically improbable. It seems all these BG apps have the same algorithm which is very disappointing.
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Weird dice

I see things happen with dice in this game I never see in real life. I’ve been playing enough where I can almost predict certain roles. Very frustrating. Suggest finding another app if looking for fair dice.

Not perfect, but getting there!

Been playing on this app for over a decade. It’s never about the algorithm. Most reviewers here focus on that but I use this app to play other people not the computer.

Great, but…

Love the game but please do something about people running out the clock on purpose. Resigning could be more obvious rather than just shutting down the game and letting the clock run out and letting your opponent sit for a minute waiting. Or, penalize with a backgammon loss if the clock runs out. Also someone resigning with pips in their home should be penalized with a backgammon loss.
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