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Backgammon vs Tavla - What's the difference?

backgammon | tavla |

As nouns the difference between backgammon and tavla

is that backgammon is a board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board while tavla is a version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.

As a verb backgammon

is to win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

backgammon

English

(wikipedia backgammon)

Noun

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  • A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
  • A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

    • Related terms

    * gammon

    See also

    * tick-tack * tric-trac, trick-track

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
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    tavla

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (backgammon) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.
  • * 1978', Past the tavern and hear the joggle of '''tavlas — , in a 1977 interview published in ''Listener,'' 1978, and reprinted in ''Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)
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