backgammon
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A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular…
A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
- "I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.
A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more…
A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s…
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
The neighborhood
- neighborgammon
- neighbortick-tack
- neighbortric-trac
- neighbortrick-track
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at backgammon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at backgammon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at backgammon
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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