Backgammon Now

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!!

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.

So obviously fixed for the computer to win, shame. Really spoils the point of playing.

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.

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.

Good game for a beginner. But it’s almost impossible to lose

It looks beautiful, it’s easy to use and is free. All major pluses in my book. However, it falls into the classic backgammon blunder of cheating to increase difficulty. It forces negative/bad rolls and moves on the player while maximising beneficial rolls/moves on itself. Do not play this game. It only has one tactic and that is to force you to leave yourself uncovered via bad rolls and then give itself exactly the right dice rolls to take your pieces. Every time. I still beat it 9/10 even on hard but it is lazy programming and lazy backgammon.

I enjoy playing this but don’t understand some of the actions going on since the last update. The game starts with a dice roll to determine who goes first, but since the last update why does it roll 2-3 doubles first off 95% of the time. This just wastes time and get really frustrating. Also on bearing off, I can be 30-40 pips ahead and offer a double, and it will accept it even though it has no chance of winning at all. So in that way it becomes easy to beat. I don’t have any issue with it throwing doubles etc as that seems to be pretty much well balanced. But it does seem to get the “right” roles “most” (i would say about 80%) of the time. Saying that I would still recommend it for beginners and intermediate players as it is a good app.

This is very nefarious indeed, when you interact with another app then switch back to this app it will automatically past from your clipboard without your permission! Luckily since iOS 14 you get a pop up notification otherwise we would be non the wiser! Otherwise it’s an ok for backgammon but this pasting issue has lost my trust!!!!

Once this awful version opens, you can’t close it unless you restart your phone, it locks you on their game. You can no longer access any other apps, nor your home screen. I’m using an iPhone 11. Also, as a game of backgammon, it is so bad that you are not allowed to play a standard 6-5 opening move by moving a blot from your opponents number 1 pip to his number 12. This app should not be available on the App Store. Concerning and disgraceful.