Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. One could argue that backgammon, a board game with roots going back to ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Jonathan Adler’s backgammon sets are all delightful, but the ones that ...

In order to meet Falafel, the highest ranked backgammon player in the world, I took a Greyhound bus to Atlantic City, and then hopped a jitney to the Borgata Hotel. Falafel’s real name is Matvey ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Backgammon has been around for thousands of years — Wikipedia clocks it at around 5,000 — and it is ...

A Manchester craftsman making luxury backgammon boards that sell for as much as £23,000 has secured funding for a new workshop and to expand into corporate events. Guy Haslam makes custom backgammon ...

At about 5,000 years old, backgammon is arguably the oldest board game in the world. Because it is so ancient, the exact facts concerning the origins of the game are mysterious and often left to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We humans have been playing backgammon in some form for five millennia. It has been unearthed by archaeologists ...

In Manhattan, the chicest people you know probably aren’t playing poker – they’re playing backgammon. Thanks in part to private members’ clubs like 7 Spring, where strategy salons, elaborate dinners, ...

As New Yorkers grow increasingly obsessed with mahjong, the tile-based Chinese game that has recently surged in popularity on this side of the Atlantic, a new social club is vying for the city’s ...