A classic game of skill and strategy mixed in with a little bit of luck, our backgammon game and online backgammon board date back to the earliest civilization - Mesopotamia (also know as the Royal game of UR). Simple yet challenging, when you play free backgammon online, you're challenging your mind and gaming skills simultaneously. In our backgammon game and backgammon board, players have fifteen pieces (checkers or men) and each which move between twenty-four triangles according to the numbers of the two dice. To win the game, you must be first to move all fifteen checkers off the board.