| Perhaps there are areas of remote Papua New | | | | materials coming into use in the home, farm |
| Guinea where the game has not yet penetrated, | | | | and workshop, the materials used to make the |
| but for most of the people reading this | | | | backgammon set also evolved. Pottery replaced |
| article, explaining the components of the | | | | stone and bone, and sets began to be |
| backgammon set is as superfluous as | | | | constructed in a more elaborate manner. |
| describing what a pack of cards contains. | | | | Although most backgammon sets would have been |
| | | | homemade, the commercial production of sets |
| The spread of the backgammon game from its | | | | in the last century brought cheap backgammon |
| ancestral home in today's Iran and Iraq, via | | | | sets onto the market. Even those who didn't |
| the Roman Empire and the Arab world across | | | | have the means to make their own sets could |
| the globe is a fascinating historical story. | | | | now afford to buy their own set. At the upper |
| Whereas so many ancient games have been lost | | | | end of the market, classy backgammon sets |
| to us, yet how to play backgammon is known to | | | | made of precious metals to grace the tables |
| millions of people today, is a question worth | | | | of kings and aristocrats also made an |
| pondering. Obviously, the anonymous inventors | | | | appearance. |
| of the game hit on a winning recipe. The | | | | |
| backgammon rules simplicity has made the game | | | | For the first five thousand years of the |
| an easy one to learn and this has certainly | | | | game's history, whatever materials backgammon |
| helped insurance its endurance. However, the | | | | sets were made of they shared in common the |
| adaptability of the game to changing times | | | | fact that they were in some way or another |
| and tastes has without doubt made a major | | | | manufactured. The creation of backgammon |
| contribution to the game's successful transit | | | | software in the past fifteen years has taken |
| through the ages. The transformation of the | | | | the game into new dimensions. When someone |
| backgammon set from stone to video offers one | | | | invites you to play backgammon today, they |
| of the clearest indications of the game's | | | | may just as well be referring to online |
| durability. | | | | backgammon as the conventional offline |
| | | | variety of the game. The backgammon online |
| According to ancient records and | | | | developers have gone out of their way to |
| archaeological evidence, the first backgammon | | | | present a 3-D backgammon set that looks |
| counters were made of smooth stones, perhaps | | | | almost like the "real thing". Going out and |
| gathered from the edge of a stream. The dice | | | | looking for a backgammon set to buy, or |
| would have been carved in bone. The board may | | | | joining a club is no longer necessary to |
| have been carved or painted on a flat piece | | | | participate in the game. Backgammon has shown |
| of wood, or perhaps even scratched out in the | | | | how well it adapts to the times. |
| earth. In line with the widening range of | | | | |