The backgammon game went long into the night before there was a winner. From LearnThat.org.
There were many non-combat-themed games, such as backgammon and Golf Master 3D. From Wordnik.com. [Free Web Games for Kids Come at a Cost] Reference
A kind of backgammon called sugoroku, and different forms of gambling. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
He hurled a backgammon board at me which I ducked. From Wordnik.com. [How I met Kraai] Reference
We did quiet things: hiking, reading, backgammon. From Wordnik.com. [We All Fall Down] Reference
After tea he asked Mrs. Dubois to play backgammon with him. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
The laws of backgammon (as given by Hoyle) are as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Books, backgammon, and whist, filled up the measure of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Akari pulled his travel backgammon set out of his jacket pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
Martin and Levi were bent over a backgammon board in Sandy's study. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
No more late-night backgammon games or drinks at a nearby expat bar. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
It now resembles an open backgammon board box, without its two fronts. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The squire noiselessly laid down the dice and shut the backgammon-board. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Chess, backgammon, and whist, completed the variety of our evening pastimes. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference
And when I land on her backgammon blot oh, to play that long, slow back game. From Wordnik.com. [Who Better?] Reference
Marjorie looked up from the backgammon board at which she and Mary were seated. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
In the midst of the shards, he saw the backgammon set Akari had given him long ago. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
Free wi-fi comes with the strong cardamom-flavored coffee and the backgammon board. From Wordnik.com. [New Media Strain Government Tolerance In Syria] Reference
"Miss Wickham's compliments, and should she have Kate set out the backgammon board?". From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
During a backgammon game with friends in 1984, the subject of Saddam's mother came up. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Some of these, like checkers, poker and backgammon, are already dominated by computers. From Wordnik.com. [Actually, Chess Is Easy] Reference
We frequently find backgammon boards with backs lettered as if they were two folio volumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827] Reference
With most men life is like backgammon, half skill and half luck, but with him it was like chess. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
Play games the ailing person used to enjoy -- backgammon, bridge -- but with no winning or losing. From Wordnik.com. [THE KEYS TO CAREGIVING] Reference
How badly, I wonder, did you have to play at backgammon to keep de Verceuil occupied all this time?. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
About the centre was a large pleasure house, furnished with billiard, chess, and backgammon tables. From Wordnik.com. [A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium] Reference
Chess is too exciting, and of course backgammon is out of the question, because of the deadly dice-box. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891] Reference
Choose from social, intermediate and advanced rooms for games like backgammon, chess, bridge and poker. From Wordnik.com. [Double Or Nothing] Reference
On and on the frenzy went until cards, football pools and backgammon nudged aside even her husband and kids. From Wordnik.com. [Betting: When It Becomes A Problem] Reference
Other games which undoubtedly were played in many Jamestown homes were tick-tack, backgammon, Irish, and cards. From Wordnik.com. [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference
Louis XIV., playing at backgammon, had a doubtful throw; a dispute arose, and all the courtiers remained silent. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
The tabs have relished dredging up details of her first marriage, to dashing Israeli backgammon pro Gaby Horowitz. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice Of The Victims] Reference
AMOS: Her backgammon partner, Riham Dakakny, says the veil is bad for women and for Syria's image as a secular state. From Wordnik.com. [In Syria, Ban On Veil Raises Few Eyebrows] Reference
"I know what is the matter with you," said Crawley, replacing the pieces on a backgammon board at the end of the game. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Playing marbles and pitching dollars, cards and backgammon, were little known, and were considered base or effeminate. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference
In fact, we're just playing checkers in a street-side caf in Istanbul while others are playing backgammon and chest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2004] Reference
In middle school, he played Magic, collected tiny figurines of wizards and dragons, and developed skill at backgammon. From Wordnik.com. [My Turn: Looking for Answers to My Nephew's Death] Reference
In order to play backgammon well, it is necessary to know all the chances on two dice and to apply them in various ways. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Our long winter nights we always spend in reading, music, and sometimes in such games as chess, backgammon, drafts, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
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