The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 52
throws an ace and a two playdoublets of them and both of theopposite numbers (six and five), andthen, after playing them, throwagain. The rules are the same asfor ordinary backgammon. Spanish Backgammon, or Jac-quet. In this form of the game there isno taking up, and a single man there- fore can… … Abacus. the men can be moved in any orderthe player chooses. History. The origin of backgam-mon is unknown. It is said to havebeen invented about the loth century,though a similar game was playedby the ancients on a board called anAbacus. It was first called Tables,
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