Category: backgammon...

backgammon to the accompaniment of chamber music and the warmth of a roaring fire
Henry David Thoreau said, "All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong."
Plakato, a form of backgammon, is widely played in Greek cafés.
Wooden boards were found in the royal tomb of the Ur al Chaldees, the center of Sumer, dated around 2600 BC, along with tetrahedral dice
a day of tennis, Bloody Marys, backgammon, Bloody Marys, and sailing
packing your backgammon board and a picnic and heading to the beach
In 1743, Edmond Hoyle codified the rules of play with his "Treatise on Backgammon," the first official set of modern rules in existence.
the excitement of a race around the backgammon board and the fine calculation of the odds involved in skilled play
a Sunday backgammon supper of sloppy joes and potato chips
The elaborate Dutch version of backgammon, Acey Deucy, is popular in the US Navy.
Elements of chance and skill are nicely balanced in backgammon so that each is usually essential to victory.
Backgammon's various names have been Vibhitika, Royal Game of Ur, Senet, oder Senat, 12-Linien-Spiel, Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum, Alea, Tabula, Tric-Trac, Jacquet, Nard oder Nardshir, T'shu-p'u, Swan liu, Sugoroku, Tavla, Tabli, Plakato, Acey Deucy, and Toccadille.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. (D. Jerrold)