Backgammon Premium 4+

Looking for a great inexpensive backgammon game. Try this one, no need to try any other. The game has been further improved is even more challenging. My last review was in 2022. In an uncorrected recent review sent in error, I mis quoted this date. I promised in that review to send another review when I could regain my status as 5 to one, playing the hardest level against the computer. January 2023 saw me regain my 5:1 position. I am now heading fast to a 6:1 status against. I have reached level #143. The random dice generator is excellent. However, the game is programmed to reward good play and punish bad. One weakness I take advantage of is, if I am about to be gammoned or backgammoned, I simply hit forfeit and lose only what’s on the doubling cube. I avoid losing the gammon or backgammon. After some more study, I am now fast approaching my 6:1 goal against the computer at hardest level. Want a challenge, this is it! (Please pardon any typing errors. Thanks.)

I have been an avid backgammon player for over 10 years. I gave up online playing because of the droppers. I now play only with this app or with humans. So this review in only for the backgammon software. I play daily. After playing enough, the outcome of the game gets pretty predictable and the computer's strategy becomes obvious: if you are winning too much, the dice your wings, but not so much as to become silly. But, if you double early in the game, this will not happen. This is just an example. As a computer scientist this made the game more fun, not less. Every software has regularities, like every human has biasses. Discovering them and using them to win is the real fun. This holds for any game. If you want to beat Messi at soccer, you need to try and find his systematic weaknesses. I gave you 4 stars because only simpletons fall for the 5-star reviews. Well... maybe only simpletons read reviews.... Excuse me for possible typos: I have no inclination to correct my writings. Cheers.

Nice visuals, and accurately responsive to touch. But...As other users have said, on the "Easy" level (the only one I have tried thus far), the proportion of doubles rolled by the AI far exceeds chance, given the proportion rolled by the player. I don't have to be a statistician (although I am one) to know that, if these dice rolls are random, there is a very, very slim likelihood of the AI getting 10 doubles in three games, when I rolled only 2. Is it mathematically *possible*? Of course it is. So is winning the lottery ten times in a row or getting hit by asteroids...multiple times. But given the other comments along this line, the data overwhelmingly suggest a strong bias in favor of the house. To have this bias so blatant at the "Easy" level rather defeats the purpose of an "Easy" level, and would be annoying at all levels. I am an experienced backgammon player and have won enough "real life" games that I'm not whining because I lost a few. I just don't like a blatantly stacked deck! I hope that the developer will adjust the algorithm to give players *on average, across games* as many doubles as the AI receives.