Backgammon Pearl

Play backgammon online.

A game starts in seconds, any time. Rated rooms, friends by code, and dice sealed before the first roll that you can check yourself when the game ends. Ads wait until the game is over.

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Free. No chips, no coins, nothing for sale that touches a result.

The home screen: a board on a café table with a glass of tea, the Quick game bar, Classic match and Play the computer

The seal

Every roll is fixed before the game and open after it.

Most backgammon apps ask you to trust their dice. This one lets you check them, roll by roll.

Sealed before the first roll
The server picks a secret seed and shows its fingerprint on the table: Dice sealed 6668…2925. Change the seed and the fingerprint changes with it.
Your phone adds a number
When the game starts, your phone draws its own random number and sends it in. Every roll is computed from the seed and your number together. Neither side can pick a roll on its own.
The seed opens at the end
The game-over card reveals the seed, recomputes every roll and reports all 52 rolls match. Paste the same seed into the checker on this site and you get the same rolls.

The dice sheet during a game: the fingerprint sealed before the first roll, your phone's number, the server seed still closed, and the rolls so far — During the game: the seal, your number, the rolls so far.

The game-over card: You won by gammon, Seal opened, all 52 rolls match, and the dice luck panel — After the game: the seal opens and every roll is checked.

Quick game

A game starts in seconds, any time.

Tap Quick game and you are rolling within seconds, at lunch or at three in the morning. One game takes about six minutes.

Roll with a tap. Move by tapping a checker, then a point. Undo as often as you like until you press Done. Forced moves play themselves, and a roll you cannot play passes with a note that says so.

A table at the moment of your roll: the two plates, the board, the Roll button and the dice seal in the corner — Your roll. The seal sits in the corner of every table.

Ads

Ads never interrupt your game.

An ad can appear only after a game or a match ends, and only when enough minutes have passed since the last one.

Never between the games of a match. Never over the board. Never before the rematch button. The occasional ad is what keeps the game free; there is nothing else to pay for.

Between the games of a Classic match: You won game 1, score 2 to 0, first to 3, and the Next game button — Between the games of a match: the next game, nothing else.

Rooms

Quick game and Classic match.

Both rooms play international rules without the doubling cube, so you learn one game and play it everywhere.

Quick game one game · about 6 min

The room to start in.

A single game: 1 point for a win, 2 for a gammon, 3 for a backgammon.
The higher opening roll plays both opening dice.
Rated. Every game counts.

Classic match first to 3 · about 15 min

Three points, however they come.

First to 3 points. A gammon or a backgammon can end it early.
Every game of the match starts with a fresh roll-off.
Rated as one match.

A Classic match ending with a Backgammon stamp across the board: 4 to 1, match won — A backgammon in a Classic match: 3 points, match over.

Mid-move with a 6-3: a checker picked up and its three possible points lit with the die that reaches each — Pick a checker and the points it can reach light up, with the die that gets there.

Day and evening

A table in daylight, a table after dark.

Hold the phone sideways. By day the board sits on light oak; with your phone's dark mode it moves to walnut and lamplight.

The board is drawn straight from above, with big checkers and clear points. Pip counts, borne-off counts and the clock sit on the two plates.

The same table in the evening look: dark walnut, brass accents, the board lit from above — The evening look.

Play a friend by code

Open a table, send the code, and your friend sits down across from you. Choose 1, 3 or 5 points, international or Turkish rules. Friend games are unrated.

Free

No chips, no coins, no energy, no purchases. Nothing you can buy touches a result, and your rating is the only score that matters.

English and Turkish

The whole game in both languages, including the Turkish names for the rolls. Your phone's language decides, and you can switch in Settings.

The table is set.

Backgammon Pearl is on Google Play. The App Store version is on its way.

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