Why backgammon is having a moment with the super rich, from Mick Jagger to Jay-Z Orders for bespoke backgammon boards for private jets and super yachts can cost as much as £300,000 Gift this article ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jonathan Adler’s backgammon sets are all delightful, but the ones that ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. One could argue that backgammon, a board game with roots going back to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

Now seems as a good a time as any for a confession. Before I got my grubby hands on Backgammon Blitz, I hadn’t played, or knew how to play the game in the slightest. Fortunately for me and my lacking ...

Alexandra Llewellyn customizes game boards with cows, flowers and anything else you might fancy. By Felicia Craddock Reporting from London On a recent fall afternoon in her sunny studio in London’s ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Backgammon has been around for thousands of years — Wikipedia clocks it at around 5,000 — and it is ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. As one of the oldest board games in history (dating back almost ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m a big board game fan. But few board games are as innately aesthetically pleasing as backgammon; chess is a close second. So it’s perhaps not so surprising that many ...

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey ...