Day 36 - Backgammon or the flip side of the checker board

prompt-backgammon

I loved playing checkers as a kid. Not the nasty plastic kind but the hand worn round pieces of wood kind. There was such a pleasure at looking at their color variations and feeling the smoothness as you waited your turn to smugly say "King Me!"
But this prompt is about the game on the flip side of most checker boards.

Backgammon.

Seemed like a mystery game since most kids didn't know what it was let alone how to play it. When I asked adults they would mumble its name and said it was too hard for  children to play.

I came to learn that people who knew how to play it did so with a passion! We had one friend that carried his board everywhere looking for that other "gamer."

This prompt got me interested in finally learning how to play. And in this new era of instant gratification I shall download the app.