Learn the why. Play the game.
A free backgammon home for your pocket — six hand-drawn boards, a world-class engine that lives on your phone, and a coach who explains the why behind every move. Play sharper than most players.
Destinations
Six tables, one passport.
Six cities the game itself calls home. Start under the lights in Las Vegas, earn your seat in Monte Carlo — where the world championship is played — and travel on to Marrakech, London and Istanbul, where backgammon has ruled the café table for centuries. Every board is an original, drawn for its city — the felt, the points, the checkers.
The coach
Grandmaster strength, gentle delivery.
The engine runs entirely on your device — no server, no waiting — and plays at the level of the strongest programs. The coach turns that strength into teaching.
- ✓A word at the right moment. Ask for a hint, or let the coach step in before a blunder becomes a habit.
- ✓Every game, debriefed. Post-game analysis walks your key decisions, shows the better play on the board, and explains the idea behind it.
- ✓Progress you can see. A rating built on the quality of your decisions — not just whether the dice were kind.
Adventure & puzzles
Learning that feels like playing.
No lectures. A 54-stop Adventure carries you from your first roll to real doubling-cube judgement, one bite-sized challenge at a time — and the Daily Challenge gives you a fresh position to argue with every morning.
- ✓Find the best move — classic positions, graded instantly, explained properly.
- ✓Should you double? The decision the app is named for gets its own trainer.
- ✓One a day keeps the blunders away. A daily position, a streak worth keeping.
The house rules
Designed like an object, not an app.
One calm palette, real typography, and a board that fits your phone edge to edge. It installs from the browser, works fully offline, and speaks both English and French — proper FFBG vocabulary included.
The record
Measured against the best, not marketed against it.
Against GNU Backgammon at 2-ply — the engine that has defined computer play for decades — ours finished at statistical parity.
Measured on a phone, not a server rack. The analysis is usually done before the dice have settled.
The neural nets live in your pocket. Nothing uploaded, nothing shared, nothing to wait for on a plane.
1,000-game head-to-head vs GNU Backgammon 1.08 at its default 2-ply: seeded shared dice, alternating seats, cubeless money play — +0.016 points per game, 95% CI [−0.068, +0.100]. Parity on checker play, verified, repeatable.
Take a seat.
The felt is brushed, the coach is patient, and the first lesson takes two minutes.
Coming soon to Google Play.