Backgammon

Contains ads
4.3
385K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this game

★ Top Developer (awarded 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015) ★
AI Factory's Backgammon is the best free Backgammon game on Android!

Backgammon is a game of skill and strategy; one of the world's classic parlour board games, played for recreation and gambling. Like Mahjong, Backgammon is played in social groups in coffee houses and bars. Historically, variants of this game are believed to have been played in Mesopotamia and Egypt thousands of years ago, then by the Romans and later in India. It also spread to East Asia, but was largely replaced by Xiangqi (Chinese chess). It is now very popular in the West.

Features: ** New stronger Version June 2023 **
-- ★★ New ★★ --- Full game review! Step back and re-analyse your games, with game record export
-- ★★ New ★★ --- Set your own Dice Seed so you can replay games to try out strategies, also allowing you to prove dice integrity
-- ★★ New ★★ --- Full extensive stats, allowing full match and lifetime breakdown of numbers
-- ★★ New ★★ --- Full in-depth 70k on-line documentation with usage instructions
-- Strong Backgammon AI, now with 2 game engines!
-- 7 Difficulty levels! 5 existing levels + 2 new stronger levels added!
-- Full match play + Doubling Cube & Crawford rule options
-- 4 Boards and Piece Sets
-- Single Player vs Computer or local 2 Player
-- Hint & Stats
-- Auto Dice generator, Seeded Dice generator or Manual Dice input
-- Designed for both Tablet and Phone

This free version is supported by 3rd party ads. Ads may use internet connectivity, and therefore subsequent data charges may apply. The photos/media/files permission is required to allow the game to save game data to external storage, and is sometimes used to cache ads.

*Does it cheat? See "CPU Strategy" page + Manual Dice (using real-world dice) and Manual Seed option (to test dice integrity) to prove to yourself that it doesn't*
Updated on
14 Oct 2024
Available on
Android, Windows

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
344K reviews
A Google user
18 September 2019
This game cheats so bad using the dice at the high level that is ridiculous. And no, is not better prediction, is cheating. When you have advantage it gives 3 high doubles and beats you. If you have one piece uncovered ALWAYS the cpu takes it out at the first dice roll. If you try to enter back in the game it takes 4-5 dice rolls to enter in one of the 3-4 empty slots. The cpu enters the first time even there is only one empty slot in your house. Uninstalling and never want to hear again about.
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AI Factory Limited
18 September 2019
In defence of our games, none of them cheat. Backgammon is a game of skill as well as luck so top cpu player uses an advanced knowledge of probability to choose moves to cover all roll possibilities (see www.aifactory.co.uk/backgammon.htm for more info). Lucky streaks may happen at any time precisely because dice rolls are random.
Valentin G
18 July 2022
I don't usually leave reviews, but this game got me so angry. As mentioned several times by other users, from higher difficulty levels, the dices favor the CPU. You can say whatever you want about it being random, but it clearly isn't. And no, it's not the skill with which the CPU moves, but the actual dice values that happen to favor it. And it's a shame, 5 star game, but the dices are pulling it down. Hope you can solve this issue in the future, until then I am teaming with your competition.
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AI Factory Limited
19 July 2022
ALL backgammon programs are accused of unfair play, but it's very unlikely for any of them. Our game engines are licensed to other companies, used in serious academic research and successfully compete in World Championships where unfair play is not an option! This app has been independently tested and assessed as fair play (aifactory.co.uk/gli.htm)
Nickolas Webb
21 January 2025
Unfortunately I'm taking away a star from my last review. I just played a 2 out of 3 game. On the first game I intentionally placed myself in bad positions to see if I could guess the next roll from the cpu. Those rolls inevitably were in the favor of the game, and when this happened I did the undo. If I didn't guess it I left the roll. On the 2nd game the cpu rolled 8 doubles in a row. I got zero. Maybe random up the randomizer a bit more.
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AI Factory Limited
21 January 2025
That is not a sensible test. We have made it very easy to prove our program does not cheat, as 100s of players have already done so. It uses an industry-standard LCR RNG. It is just the strongest on Google Play. See aifactory.co.uk/bg.htm. Get someone to help you run these simple and conclusive tests.

What's new

From user requests, Cpu will now be able to double beyond the point that this does not impact win/loss.