Play backgammon vs a smart AI — free. Four difficulty levels, online play, three themes, full doubling cube. No ads, no subscriptions.
Play backgammon against a smart AI opponent — free, with no ads and no subscriptions.
Backgammon AI brings the world's oldest board game to your iPhone and iPad with four AI difficulty levels, online multiplayer, and pass-and-play. Learn the game on Easy, then climb all the way to a near-expert neural-net opponent.
Smart AI Opponents
• Easy and Medium — free, perfect for learning and casual play
• Hard and Expert — a one-time unlock; Expert is a neural-net engine that plays near-expert backgammon and knows when to double
Play Online
Challenge players worldwide with Game Center multiplayer. Find opponents automatically or invite friends, with push notifications when it's your turn. Full doubling cube support.
Three Visual Themes
• E-Ink — clean black & white, perfect for focus
• Classic — the original board aesthetic
• Dark Walnut — rich wood tones, 3D checkers, and emerald felt
Move Previews & Animations
See where your checkers can go before you commit. Movable checkers are highlighted, arrows show legal destinations, and dice tumble with a satisfying bounce.
Doubling Cube
Full doubling cube support in every mode — offer doubles, accept or decline, just like tournament play.
Available in 14 languages.
Designed for iPhone and iPad with portrait menus and landscape gameplay. Free to play — unlock Hard and Expert AI once, forever.
so many backgammon apps on here are full of ads or have in-app purchases for really basic stuff. this one is just simple and nicely designed. worth it.
This game is rigged
dells68
Like so many of these games, the harder skill levels are really just rigging the dice.
Developer Response
Hi dells68, thanks for the feedback — I get why it can feel that way, but I want to be clear: the dice are never rigged. Every roll, at every difficulty, uses the same unbiased random number generator. Difficulty only changes how well the computer plays the moves it's given — Easy makes deliberate mistakes, while Expert uses a neural network to pick stronger moves and make smarter doubling decisions. It never sees the dice in advance and never gets better rolls than you.What you're noticing is real, though: a strong backgammon player structures the board so that more dice combinations work in their favor — more shots hit, fewer rolls dance on the bar. That can absolutely feel like luck is one-sided. It's the same reason expert human players seem "lucky" too.If you ever hit a sequence of rolls that seems truly off, I'd genuinely like to hear about it!
Simple
King block6
Super clean. No ads. Works great!
Doesn’t Work
Egypt🙃
Won’t work, very frustrating.
Developer Response
Hi there, we are sorry that you're having trouble with the app. We would love your specific feedback about the issues you are seeing. Please send us information and our development team will fix it ASAP!
Backgammon 6.1.0
• More reliable online multiplayer — if a move can't reach your opponent, the game now retries automatically and lets you know if anything needs your attention.
• Stability improvements and bug fixes.
Thank you for playing!
Version 6.1.0
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Information
Seller
Asa Ivry Block
Size
10.3 MB
Category
Board
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
