Are you feeling lost in backgammon terminology?
Do you find yourself in awkward situations, not understanding the backgammon terms used by your opponent?
Are you curious about learning the professional backgammon jargon?
Play65™’s Backgammon Glossary was created to provide you with the full backgammon dictionary. We have collected hundreds of backgammon terms and backgammon slang expressions, and the assemblage keeps growing.
Are you looking for a specific backgammon term?
Just click its first letter on the list below…
Do you find yourself in awkward situations, not understanding the backgammon terms used by your opponent?
Are you curious about learning the professional backgammon jargon?
Play65™’s Backgammon Glossary was created to provide you with the full backgammon dictionary. We have collected hundreds of backgammon terms and backgammon slang expressions, and the assemblage keeps growing.
Are you looking for a specific backgammon term?
Just click its first letter on the list below…
A
- ABT
- Ace-Point
- Ace-Point Game
- Acey Deucey
- Action Play
- Advanced anchor
- Advanced Level
- Ahead in the Count
- Ahead in the race
- Air Ball
- Anchor
- Annotation
- Attacking game
- Automatics (Automatic Doubles)
- Awkward Number

B
- Back game
- Backgammon
- Backgammon server
- Bar
- Bar point
- Barabino
- Bear In
- Bear Off
- Bearoff
- Beaver
- BIBA
- Blitz
- Block
- Blockade
- Blocking game
- Blot
- Board
- Bot
- Break a Point
- Break a Prime
- Break Contact
- Break the Board
- Builder
- Bury a Checker

C
- Candlesticks
- Cash a Game
- Checker
- Chess Clock
- Chouette
- Clear a Point
- Close a Point
- Closed board
- Cocked Dice
- Combination
- Combination Shot
- Communicate (Connectivity)
- Count (Pip Count)
- Counter
- Counterplay
- Cover a blot
- CPW
- Crawford Game
- Crawford Rule
- Crossover
- Crunch
- Cube Action
- Cube Ownership
- Cube play
- Cup (Dice Cup)
- Current stake

D
- Dead Checker
- Dead Cube
- Dead Number
- Decline a Double
- Deep
- Dice
- Dice Cup
- Dice Manipulation
- Dilly Builder
- Direct Hit
- Direct Range
- Direct Shot
- Disengage
- Distribution
- Diversification
- Division
- DMP
- Double
- Double Bump
- Double Elimination
- Double hit
- Double Match Point
- Double shot
- Doubling cube
- Doubling Window
- Down
- Drop
- Drop Point
- Dropper
- Duplicate Backgammon
- Duplication
- Dutch Backgammon

E
- Early Game
- Effective Pip Count (EPC)
- Eject
- Elimination Tournament Format
- ELO
- End Game
- Enter
- Equity
- Establish a Point

F
- Fan
- Favorite
- Fevga
- FIBS
- FIBS Rating
- Field Goal
- Finalist
- Finals
- Fischer Clock
- Fish
- Five-Point
- Flexibility
- Flight
- Forced Play
- French Backgammon
- Full Prime

G
- Game Plan
- Gamesmanship
- Game Winning Chances
- Gammon
- Gammon Count
- Gammon Rate
- Gammonish
- Gap
- Gin Position
- GNU Backgammon
- Golden Point
- Guff (Guffy)
- GWC

H
- Half a Roll
- Half-Crossover Method
- Handicap
- Head to Head
- Heavy Point
- Hedge
- Hit
- Hit and Cover
- Hit and Pass
- Hit and Run
- Hit and Split
- Hit Loose
- Holding Game
- Home Board
- Hyper Backgammon

I
- Illegal Move
- Illegal Moves Rule
- Inactive Builder
- Indirect Hit
- Indirect Shot
- Initial Double
- Initial Stake
- Inner Board
- Inner Table
- Intermediate Division
- Intermediate Level
- Irish

J
K
L
- Ladder
- Last Call for Breakfast
- Last Chance Event
- Last Roll Position
- Layout
- Leader
- Legal Move
- Liability
- Lift
- Loaded Dice
- Lock Up a Point
- LongGammon
- Loose Checker
- Loose Hit
- Loose Play
- Lover’s Leap

M
- Main division
- Main Flight
- Major Split
- Make a Point
- Make One’s Board
- Man
- Mandatory Double
- Market
- Match
- Match Equity
- Match Play
- Match Winning Chances
- Mechanical Play
- Mid – Point
- Money Play
- Move

N
O
- Odds
- On Roll
- One-Point
- One – Point Match
- Online Backgammon
- Open Division
- Open Point
- Open Tournament
- Opening Game
- Opening Roll
- Otter
- Outer Board
- Over the Board
- Own a Point
- Own the Cube

P
- Pass
- Pick and Pass
- Piece
- Pip
- Pip Count
- Plakoto
- Play
- Play Safe
- Point
- Point on a Blot
- Portes
- Position
- PRAT
- Prime
- Primed
- Priming Game
- Puff
- Pure Race

Q
R
- Raccoon
- Race
- Railroad Tracks
- Rake
- Rating
- Rating System
- Re-enter
- Resign
- Return Shot
- Rim
- Roll
- Root Number
- Round
- Round Robin Format
- Run
- Runner
- Running Game

S
- Safe Play
- Sandbag
- Save Backgammon
- Save Gammon
- Secure a Point
- Semifinals
- Setup
- Shark
- Shesh Besh
- Shift Gears
- Shift Points
- Shot
- Silver Point
- Six-Point
- Slot
- Slot and Split
- Snowie
- Spare Checker
- Speed Board
- Split
- Stack
- Stake
- Starting Position
- Stay Back
- Stay Off
- Stay Out
- Steam
- Stone
- Straggler
- Strategy
- Stretched
- Strip a Point
- Strong Board
- Suicide Play

T
- Table
- Tables
- Tabula
- Tactics
- Take Off
- Takhteh
- Tapa
- Tavla
- Tavli
- Tempo
- Tempo Move
- Tempt
- Time Delay
- TMP
- Touch Down
- Tournament
- Trailer
- Trice Count
- Triple Game
- Turn
