Backgammon

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Racing with counters. In backgammon, you move your 15 pieces around the board based on what you roll with two dice, trying to get all your pieces home before your opponent does.

Super old family. Backgammon belongs to a huge family of games called tables games that stretch back at least 1,600 years, making it one of the oldest games still played today.

From England in the 1600s. The game we know as backgammon was created in 17th-century England, built on an earlier game called Irish that came from the 1500s.

Tricky blocking. A key part of backgammon is blocking your opponent's pieces so they can't move easily, which means you need to think ahead and plan carefully.

Still played worldwide. Backgammon is the most popular board game from the tables family in the Western world, and people play it in tournaments and casinos all over.