Backgammon ▽‪▲‬ 17+

This game is very good for an older operating system. Great graphics, classic games like this are hard to get wrong. Drawbacks include clunky gameplay & possibilities of loaded dice/bias towards computer.

This game is ok to look at...with one exception I will come to in a moment. The main flaw in it is that even on the 'hard' setting, the computer player is completely stupid. I have just played my second game, which lasted about 40 minutes because it kept doing things like taking my pieces from its home board, leaving six singletons. By the finish, I had fourteen pieces on my 1 point and spent AGES trying to move the fifteenth one in. Of course, the computer kept taking that piece and we ended up in stalemate. It didn't help that the dice kept rolling double one for me. About nine times.

The other really annoying thing is that unlike any backgammon board I have ever seen, the points either side of the bar are the same colour! So whereas on a standard board, an even roll moves a piece between points of the same colour, this is SOMETIMES true and SOMETIMES not with this game. It's infuriating! Maybe to get a standard board you have to upgrade to the paid version?

Whatever. Two games were two too many for me. It's gone.

It's super nice to get to grips with the game if you are complete novice like I am, but after a couple days of playing to and from work, I went from playing with the computer on easy to hard. Long story short, the computer is a rubbish player since this step up in difficulty didn't make the game any more challenging, just longer because it takes longer to decide where it's going to move. I'm no rain man or anything but I would have expected the computer on hard to actually beat me occasionally. The only added challenge is that dice rolls favour the computer a little more often. I guess at this stage the only positive is that if you're low on self esteem this game will make you feel like a backgammon grand master!