What's the difference between backgammon and tricktrack?

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.

Tricktrack


Definition:

  • (n.) An old game resembling backgammon.

Example Sentences:

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