American MoMA colorful backgammon set board game wooden game chess and cards children's educational toys

Backgammon is an important member of the large family of tabletop games, considered the national game of many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is a board game played on a tabletop board with counters and dice. The family of games can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to Mesopotamia and Persia, while backgammon can be traced back to 17th century England. Backgammon is a two-player game in which each player has fifteen pieces that move along 24 "spots" based on the roll of two dice. The object of the game is to move fifteen pieces around the board and be the first to remove them from the board. This high-quality beechwood box set features an exciting, colorful design inside and out, and contains 30 game pieces and 5 dice in a black fabric bag.