Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jonathan Adler’s backgammon sets are all delightful, but the ones that ...

Regular games in Los Monteros and Elviria are helping fuel renewed interest, with players hoping the trend spreads further ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Backgammon has been around for thousands of years — Wikipedia clocks it at around 5,000 — and it is ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. One could argue that backgammon, a board game with roots going back to ...

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey ...

It’s about 11:30 pm on a Thursday night at a trendy bar in Echo Park, and one thing’s become clear: there’s not much backgammon happening at Silver Lake Backgammon Club. Instead, the kind of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m a big board game fan. But few board games are as innately aesthetically pleasing as backgammon; chess is a close second. So it’s perhaps not so surprising that many ...

Tournament director and the world’s first “Professor of Backgammon” Phil Simborg has watched this story unfold for decades.

As New Yorkers grow increasingly obsessed with mahjong, the tile-based Chinese game that has recently surged in popularity on this side of the Atlantic, a new social club is vying for the city’s ...