Backgammon rules, stakes & fair play

🎲 Game rules

Standard backgammon: each player has 15 checkers moving in opposite directions. Roll two dice and move by their values; a double plays four moves. A lone opposing checker (“blot”) is hit and sent to the bar; it must re-enter in the opponent’s home board before anything else moves.

Once all your checkers are in your home board you bear them off. First to bear off all 15 wins. If the loser bore off none, it is a mars (2×); if they also have a checker on the bar or in your home, it is a backgammon (3×).

Each turn has a 45-second clock. Running out of time forfeits the game.

💰 Stakes & fee

In staked games both players lock the same stake in escrow before the game. The winner takes the pot minus a 5% house fee (the rake). Free games have no stake and no fee.

If a player leaves a staked game, the remaining player wins.

🎯 Gammon stakes

A table option: the loss multiplies by the win type — normal 1×, mars 2×, backgammon 3×. To guarantee payment, 3× the stake is escrowed from BOTH players up front; the unused part returns after the game.

✖️ Doubling cube ×2

A table option: on your turn, before rolling, you may offer to double the stake. The opponent has 20 seconds: accept (game continues at ×2, extra escrow locked) or decline (they lose at the current stake immediately). Offers alternate — the player who accepted owns the next double.

🏦 Deposits & withdrawals

Balance is held in TON (grams) and shown in USD at the live exchange rate. Top up on-chain (TON or USDT-on-TON) or via payment bots. Withdrawals are paid from the game treasury straight to your TON wallet, usually within a minute.

🤝 Referral program

Share your invite link. Every STAKED game your invitees play — win or lose — pays you 30% of their 5% fee, credited to your balance instantly and announced by the bot. No cap, no expiry (until further notice).

⚖️ Fair dice

All real-game dice are generated on the server with a cryptographically secure RNG (the OS entropy source, unbiased by rejection sampling). No player — and no client app — can predict or influence a roll.

🔒 Responsible play

Staked games are played with real money and can be lost. Decide your limit before you sit down, treat a stake as the price of the game rather than an investment, and never play with money you need. Games against the AI and free rooms are always available at no cost. You must be 18 or older to play for stakes.