Glitch
Can someone tell please explain how on several occasions I have ended up with 16 counters? Also it’s seems very strange how the dice lands when the odds should be against the app!!!
Auto finish
Might be good to have an auto finish when both sides are clear of each other.
Very basic!
Not for pro players!
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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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?
Ads
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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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.
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.
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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Disappointing
So obviously fixed for the computer to win, shame. Really spoils the point of playing.
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:).
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.
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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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.
Good stuff though.
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There’s no hot seat mode!
Would’ve been nice, would’ve been perfect!
Finally
Finally a backgammon game where the computer understands it doesn’t need to keep informing you there are no moves, when you know this! Dice rolls realistically, in that - not the suspiciously always-rolling the exact numbers required for taking you off etc. that other games I’ve tried before this have been like. Computer does make different decisions too, not always playing the same each time. & occasionally offers a double, which makes me feel like I’m playing someone rather than a machine. I like that it keeps an overall score of wins/losses, so then I know when I need to go up a difficulty. The sounds also aren’t annoying either. The ads don’t ruin the game but I also don’t mind paying for a version like this one. I’ve always played backgammon games whenever I need to kill time & this one is perfect for it.
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Dice rolls aren’t random
There’s some kind of algorithm to the dice rolls. It is anything but random. Out of four rolls in a row, snake eyes twice, double threes and double fours. The rolls either favor you every time or favor AI. No matter how you play, it seems to split the wins evenly. Please fix this.
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.
Slow moving
Painfully slow. Why do I need to check each play. Just add an undo button. I want a game that moves quick and this is not it.
Scam
Biggest scam , they control the dice. Once you rate it they slam you and want you to buy.
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.
Kathy
Good but need to save the games longer than temporarily.
Too easy
Good game for a beginner. But it’s almost impossible to lose
