Backgammon Pro

Name: Backgammon Pro
Rating: 4.49477 (2484 reviews)

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Backgammon Pro

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User Reviews for Backgammon Pro

Good game

I've tried 4 backgammon v. AI games and this is the best so far. Some say that the hard setting wins by rolling doubles. I do find that to be true-when it d videos to win it has rolled the perfect shot or even up to 5 doubles in a row. I get almost as many doubles as it does at some opportune moments. I do wish hard were a bit harder but perhaps I'm a better player than I think. It does beat me sometimes though. Especially if I'm too wild in my moves but that's to be expected. I do enjoy whiling away my time on it.It doesn’t seem to understand the doubling cube, and will accept a double that it should not. Good game, worth the price.

13carmine, May 04, 2018

Lousy but entertaining

Update on Dec. 19, 2020: They change the look of the app. It is awful. All the older comments stand. Old comments: I use this app in advanced mode and still manage to beat the brown out of it. Once in a while, in order to beat me, poor app comes up with dice combinations that are against reason and statistics. Yes, it is possible one throws 4-5 doubles in a row, but NOT every other game and - mainly! - NOT so precisely what's needed to squeeze a victory. Though sometimes it does silly things like kicking you out while leaving 3-4 singles in its own field, for you to kick out at the next dice roll. Overall a poor game algorithm, unable to react at blocking tactics for example, with a strong optimization for bringing the stones home as soon as possible and helping that with "the right" dice numbers, easily beatable if it's not cheating. Still, entertaining enough and probably one of the decent games of its kind out there. But cheating, which some people may be annoyed with.

AerospaceXpert, Dec 20, 2020

Too many double rolls for computer

As others have mentioned, the double rolls that the computer gets is statistically very unlikely. It is somewhat frustrating to play a well thought out match only to lose it due to the computer rolling doubles 4 times out of 6 rolls. I also question the randomness of some of the other rolls when it’s tight or the computer is behind… if you roll in a way that forces you to open up a piece, the computer seems to almost always magically roll that number.However, it is just a game and you know when you’ve won on your strategy and merits and the loss is bogus…. So overall it’s still fun to play.

Davehudsn, Nov 16, 2021

Needs some work

It is a fun app, you can choose your difficulty levels. The part that gets tiresome is when playing the computer in a "hard" setting, they constantly roll doubles beyond anything you would see in normal dice rolling. Also, when your in the bearing off mode and there is no danger of hitting or being hit by another pip, this game has no automatic roll-off, in other words, you must tirelessly keep rolling and removing your men and waiting for the computer to so the same when at that point it should just be automated bearing off. I'm sure there are some apps that have that, I just don't know which ones do. In the meantime, this is a fun free app that will keep unnecessary occupied for hours.

Island 43, Oct 09, 2017

Computer rolls are a little unbelievable

If you want to learn how to count moves and take chances on open pieces you are not going to get a lot of practice. However, if you want to learn how to play as conservatively as possible then play this apps computer. If you leave one of your pieces vulnerable the computer WILL roll to knock you out. When you play an actual person you see that on one is that lucky. I will say you strengthen your skills because zero chances in this game are tolerated against the computer. Hence it teaches you to never take chances which is one way to play.

Joe1stbass, Nov 28, 2020

Good overall.

I like this game overall but you reach a point where you realize the dice rolls seem to your advantage when playing at a lower level and the dice rolls seem rigged against you at the hard level. I’d rather it was more of a strategic challenge than a challenge based on chance. Also it would be nice if you could forfeit if you clearly are going to lose to speed the match up. The computer too could offer to forfeit when losing is obviously inevitable. The doubling cube helps to a degree but there is still a lot of monotonous bearing off.

Mary Lu hu, Aug 01, 2020

Enjoy game but algorithm needs tweaking as does the scoring

Appreciate that it’s free, but seems to easy in both Easy and Medium and die rolls are NOT random in Hard. System should play strategically in Medium and even more so in Hard - but the Hard is just dice rolls favorably for AI and against player. Also, there is no scoring bonus for a multiple barred pieces, Prime, Semi-Prime or Gammon. Why is that? We should have options how we want game scores, such as wins (current scoring) vs Gammon, Backgammon and Pip Count.

Mitzi916, Nov 15, 2020

Hate the new colors

Earlier today my Backgammon game was normal. Just now (Dec 19, 2020 at 9:17pm CT) I wanted to play a game and discovered the game board has been changed. The colors are different and there’s no option to return to the original board. The colors are too glaring and literally HURT my aging eyes. I know the creators DON’T CARE about the effect changing the game board has on Senior citizens because the same thing happened a month ago to my Spades game, and despite NUMEROUS negative reviews by people, it has not been returned to normal. I can’t play my Spades game anymore, and apparently now I won’t be able to play my Backgammon game, either! I resent such a lack of consideration.

Shelbygirl88, Dec 20, 2020

Don't waste your money... REALLY!

Good app overall. My only problem is the cheating! The dice roll is almost always EXACTLY what the computer needs to win >80% of the time. Just by miracle ;) And in the case you undo to change your move, the computer will change as well in a way to get you! If it weren't for this problem, I would've rated it 5 stars.I am willing to bet my shirt that the game designer gets his/her a__ whooped when playing real opponents! Or else why would they feel compelled to cheat on the dice roll???

sltadros, Aug 06, 2017

Mysterious doubles show up out of nowhere

I like so many aspects of this game except when it’s time to bear off. That’s when the game starts getting back to back doubles (or, sometimes gives them to me.) This is a highly unlikely element in a real game. Honestly, it makes me angry that I can be 40 pips ahead and then the game gives itself double 6s, then double 4s, then double 5s and beat me by a lot. It’s also not a satisfying win the other way around, either. I’d like to win according to the strategy of how I have placed my pieces throughout the game, not on waiting for the luck of the roll of the dice. I’m looking for a different game, now.

Tenay10i, Oct 01, 2018

Description

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