Are you feeling lost in backgammon terminology?
Do you find yourself in awkward situations, not understanding the backgammon terms used by your opponent?
Are you curious about learning the professional backgammon jargon?
Oyna65™’s Backgammon Glossary was created to provide you with the full backgammon dictionary. We have collected hundreds of backgammon terms and backgammon slang expressions, and the assemblage keeps growing.
Are you looking for a specific backgammon term?
Just click its first letter on the list below…
A
B
C
- Candlesticks
- Cash a Game
- Checker
- Chess Clock
- Chouette
- Clear a Point
- Close a Point
- Closed board
- Cocked Dice
- Combination
- Combination Shot
- Communicate (Connectivity)
- Count (Pip Count)
- Counter
- Counterplay
- Cover a blot
- CPW
- Crawford Game
- Crawford Rule
- Crossover
- Crunch
- Cube Action
- Cube Ownership
- Cube play
- Cup (Dice Cup)
- Current stake
D
- Dead Checker
- Dead Cube
- Dead Number
- Decline a Double
- Deep
- Dice
- Dice Cup
- Dice Manipulation
- Dilly Builder
- Direct Hit
- Direct Range
- Direct Shot
- Disengage
- Distribution
- Diversification
- Division
- DMP
- Double
- Double Bump
- Double Elimination
- Double hit
- Double Match Point
- Double shot
- Doubling cube
- Doubling Window
- Down
- Drop
- Drop Point
- Dropper
- Duplicate Backgammon
- Duplication
- Dutch Backgammon
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
- Safe Play
- Sandbag
- Save Backgammon
- Save Gammon
- Secure a Point
- Semifinals
- Setup
- Shark
- Shesh Besh
- Shift Gears
- Shift Points
- Shot
- Silver Point
- Six-Point
- Slot
- Slot and Split
- Snowie
- Spare Checker
- Speed Board
- Split
- Stack
- Stake
- Starting Position
- Stay Back
- Stay Off
- Stay Out
- Steam
- Stone
- Straggler
- Strategy
- Stretched
- Strip a Point
- Strong Board
- Suicide Play