Absolute Backgammon Lite
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | David Byrum | iPad |
Works with iOS 5.1 thru 8!
Designed for the iPad, Absolute Backgammon includes both backgammon and acey deucey. You can play against a computer opponent.
Board Design: Marco Olivares - STUDIOMARCOLI
You can download a manual from the website - bestbackgammon.com
Features:
• Play Backgammon or Acey Deucey
• Play against the Computer opponent
• Helpful messages during play
• Show possible moves when a piece is touched
• Show the last moves for the computer using arrows
• Display game statistics
• Gives advice on moves
If you purchase the full version of Absolute Backgammon, you will get these additional options and features:
• Play against another person on a different iPad using Bluetooth
• Play against another person on the same iPad
• 5 skill levels - 2 higher and to lower
• Option to use the doubling cube
• Doubling Cube Advice
• Ability to concede a game
• Option to have the computer opponent to concede game
• Option to have your move made automatically if only 1 possible move
• Save your game to finish later
• Switch board direction and piece colors
• Option to have messages spoken or not
• Change the speed of piece movement
• Beaver option
• Jacoby rule option
• Option to not allow backgammons
• Choice of shorter dice sound for faster play
• Display game and sessions statistics as well as running/cumulative statistics.
Reviews
Dreadful Game
you owe me 5 bucks
The engine for this game is horrible. I just played in Acey Deucey mode, I rolled one Acey Deucey to the CPU’s 9, and my 14 doubles to CPU’s 25... I Still won the game by 15 points. Bad engine and bad roll stats.
Program cheats
Dave FV
This backgammon gets quite an edge by picking the dice to suit the situation. It has a consistent but not constant bias towards good rolls for the program and poor rolls for the human. It is common for people to think a program cheats, and I usually dismiss the comments and am very reluctant to even now make this accusation. I don't have a problem with this cheating being an option in the configuration of how to play the game. On the plus side, being an option, but using cheating as a way to increase wins from a computer program makes playing this program useless to practice for playing against humans. If you adapt to its playing style, you will play very conservatively, because taking chances is unlikely to pay off. Some degree of stats are kept, and the bias shows in the number of doubles, and the total dice count. I think the lower skill levels of the computer program do not cheat. The dice rolls (a couple hundred) should be, on request, copied to the clipboard at the outset of the game. If a person uses that info to cheat, they are only hurting themselves. To be clear, I think this kind of cheating is legitimate as part of the game if it clear that the program is doing that . A good program, like a good human player, does not need to cheat.
Not Random Dice
dloverly
I love the look and sound of an the actual game. But it's rigged against the player. Most of the time the computer gets perfect dice for the play. Not fair. Why can't the dice be set for straight random?
Cheats
Metzger93
The game cheats when playing against the computer. It constantly gets the roll it needs. I can predict the roll it's gonna get by where my pips are. ??
I'll give it an extra star because ...
Dogbreath Monsou
It doesn't cheat quite as outrageously as the Mac version of the game, only about 70% of the time. It's a shame, if it wasn't for the crooked dice rolls, this would easily be a 5 star game.
