Backgammon Gold 4+
mobivention GmbH
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Play Backgammon Gold – also called Tavla – anytime and anywhere for free on your smartphone or tablet. Play with your friends or against one of the strongest computer opponents.
Now you can play one of the oldest board games in the world even if you are outside. A mix of strategy and luck is waiting for you.
Challenge your friends to a classic Backgammon game in local two-player mode or play against the strongest computer opponent from BGBlitz. It is also suitable for beginners – the tutor shows you the best moves.
What are you waiting for? Get into the backgammon world!
The app includes the following features:
* Elo Rating (FIBS)
* Computer opponent with 4 grades of difficulty
* Single game or tournament (1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 15 oder endless games)
* 6 different game board designs
* Use the tutor from BGBlitz to learn the 'perfect move'
* For experts: the internationally rewarded Backgammon computer software BGBlitz
* Extended statistics with Elo graph, game history with the result of the last games
Have fun with Backgammon Gold!
What’s New
Version 5.3
- The app now supports the Arabic language
- On the iPad the app can be rotated again
Ratings and Reviews
Angry over the recent log in requirement
I've had this game for several years, but I'm about to delete it. The game's fine. I play against the computer offline. As in - no internet connection. NO INTERNET CONNECTION. The most recent upgrade requires that I log in to play off line. How am I supposed to do that with No Internet Connection? You get my point.
If I can't open the game when I want to use it - at lunch at work, then there's no point in having it.
Defies All Odds
A review from a high ranked player:
At level 4, this is the most cheating Backgammon game there is.
Don't ever let yourself get knocked out. Average rolls for the game to get back in: 1.5. Average rolls needed for you to get back in: 5.5. If the computer has only 2 or 3 points blocked, those are the rolls you'll get over and over again. If you have 5 points blocked, the computer will find the open spot in one or two rolls. In one game, the computer got exactly the only two-die roll needed to escape and hit so often, we calculated the odds at over 10,000 to one.
We play this only to ridicule it. We would call out 6 and 4 almost every time that was the only roll that would win for the computer. Doubles when behind, immediately followed by multiple doubles.
Aggravating but Fun...
It is fun, but I wouldn't recommend it to a learning player because it will encourage a vastly over cautious strategy of play. One of the fun aspects of backgammon is understanding the odds and knowing what risks to take. Backgammon Gold punishes risk taking. It is beatable because it plays so foolishly, but it is nowhere near the neighborhood of honest backgammon.
Oh btw, their website claims the game is not rigged, which is tempting to believe, but as a statistician, after having played hundreds of games I can testify that it is difinitely rigged. "Computer expert" rolls doubles at a rate approximately quintuple the odds. The rigged rolls become predictable, particularly after accepting a double. I can't imagine why a programmer of games would do this, but there ya go.
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Information
- Seller
- mobivention GmbH
- Size
- 41 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, German, Russian, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 mobivention®
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Premium Version $4.99
- Ad-Banner Removal $1.99
- Advanced Computer Opponent $3.99
- Bluetooth Multiplayer $0.99
- Backgammon Tutor $0.99
- Style Pack 1 $0.99
- Style Pack 2 $0.99