Backgammon game play race vintage collectible handmade nice with dices tradition

The Equipment
• Board: Divided into 24 narrow triangles called points, alternating colors.
• Checkers: Each player has 15 checkers (usually black and white).
• Dice: Two dice per player (plus one doubling cube for stakes).
• Dice cups: To shake and roll.

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The Objective

Move all 15 of your checkers around the board into your home board (the last quadrant) and then bear them off (remove them).
The first player to bear off all their checkers wins.

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The Board Setup
• The board is split into 4 quadrants, each with 6 points.
• Each player has:
• 2 checkers on opponent’s 24-point
• 5 checkers on own 13-point
• 3 checkers on opponent’s 8-point
• 5 checkers on own 6-point

(Checkers mirror each other, so the setup is symmetrical.)

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How to Play
1. Starting: Each player rolls one die. Higher roll starts first, using both numbers.
2. Moving checkers:
• You move according to the two dice numbers.
• Example: roll 3 and 5 → move one checker 3 spaces and another 5,