What's the difference between backgammon and tableman?
Backgammon
Definition:
(n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
(v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-seven undergraduate students played two consecutive games of backgammon where manipulated interplay intervals were either 10, 22.5, 45, or 90 sec in length.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pensioners play backgammon in front of closed shops in Athens, Greece.
(3) I think Emma and Charles played backgammon pretty much every night for the whole of their lives, and he kept a score book… PB: We didn't get to that in the film.
(4) The man, a Sunni fighter in the last round of civil war, stole a concerned glance at the men around him, some playing cards or backgammon.
(5) It's a real regret of Jen and mine is that the backgammon didn't make it into the film.
(6) Thanatos and Eros seated across from each other over the backgammon board on table four, the onlookers suspending the judgment of ridicule and extending the courtesy of tolerance.
(7) They met, he whipped her at backgammon, and they agreed to disagree.
(8) He wouldn’t be visiting us in the form of a wailing bed sheet, or playing backgammon on a cloud with Jerry Orbach and my childhood cat.
Tableman
Definition:
(n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.