Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — Backgammon

FROM THE ARCHIVES: DOUBLING CUBES (by Tom Russell)

Mary Russell

Tags Backgammon, game design

FROM THE ARCHIVES: DOUBLING CUBES (by Tom Russell)

A few years back, I discovered backgammon. Now, of course I had heard of backgammon, and we even had a backgammon set growing up. Apparently it was one of my father's favorite games. That always makes me a little sad. I didn't know my father very well - he always felt distant, and I always felt isolated. He took my brothers fishing (I was squeamish) and went to their wrestling matches (I was a skinny little runt). If I had discovered and fell in love with backgammon before he died, I'd like to think that we'd have that, at least,...