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£210.00
Product Description
One of our highest-quality backgammon sets, this olive burl board is handmade in Greece and benefits from particularly handsome maple and walnut wood inlays. Semi-circular trays are located at either end of the board to store the counters, while the board can be neatly folded in half and secured with two polished brass fasteners.
Due to the distinctive natural patterns that are typical of olive burl, no two sets are the same – making for a truly unique addition to your home’s collection of board games.
Our olive burl backgammon set includes:
- 1 x foldable olive burl playing board, with 24 light and dark contrasting points – closed board 47.5cm x 30cm x 8cm (19″ x 12″ x 3″), open board 47.5cm x 60cm x 4cm (19″ x 24″ x 1.5″)
- 30 x 36mm olive wood counters – 15 light, 15 dark
- 4 x 12mm dice – 2 red, 2 white
- 1 x 16mm doubling dice
- 1 x bag for storing checkers and dice
- set weighs 4kg
The Ancient game of backgammon is one of the oldest board games that we know of. Early versions of the game have been discovered in the ruins of Pompei and buried with the ancient Pharaohs.
Over the years backgammon has undergone many modifications to become the game that we know and love today. With a family of variants, backgammon is played in countries across the world.
While as with any board game luck and chance can play a defining roll, backgammon is a game of strategy and skill. The playing pieces are moved according to the roll of a die. It is a contest between 2 players, who race to remove all of their pieces from the board.
