Backgammon Book & Gift Set Backgammon is a fast-paced board game that depends in equal measure on skill, strategy and good fortune. Success comes through decisions that must be made on each turn. Do you run, attack or hold your ground? Should you block your opponent, set a trap or make a sacrifice to gain a strategic advantage? Backgammon is a very simple game to learn, but it is far more complicated to learn to play well. Includes The Backgammon Book: All You Need to Know to Play the World’s Oldest Board Game is indeed all you need to know to play the world’s oldest board game well . The rules are laid out clearly and precisely while the intricacies of strategy are explained so that even beginners will be playing like experts in little time. Diagrams and illustrations aid clarification throughout the book. And, in addition to standard backgammon rules, the book includes discussions of optional rules as well as alternate games. Game board Wooden pieces Doubling cube 4 dice Dice cup It all begins with a roll of the dice. So what are you waiting for?