Fair Play

Every backgammon player has, at some point, been sure the dice were against them. Here is exactly how ours work.

Your phone does not roll the dice

In an online match, neither player's phone decides anything. Your device asks our server for a roll, the server generates it and stores it with the match, and both players are told the same numbers at the same moment. A modified app cannot pick its own numbers, because the numbers were never its to pick.

The dice do not know who you are

Rolls are random and independent. They are not weighted by your balance, your level, your win streak, your opponent, or whether you just bought anything. There is no code that makes you lose to keep a match close, and there is none that rewards a purchase with better numbers. The game has nothing to gain from it: your chips are virtual and stay in the app.

Illegal moves are impossible, not discouraged

The rules of backgammon live in one piece of code that both your app and our server use. Before a move counts, it is checked against every legal move for that roll. If it is not in the list, it does not happen. That is also why the board only ever highlights moves you are allowed to make.

Matches are recorded

Every roll and every move of a match is stored. If a game ends in a way you did not expect, we can replay it exactly as it happened and tell you what the server saw. Write to Support with roughly when it happened and we will look.

When your opponent is an AI

Matchmaking prefers a human. When no one is available at your tier, you are paired with an AI opponent so you are not left waiting. The AI plays the same board with the same rules and the same server-rolled dice as a person would — it does not see your dice in advance and it does not get extra ones. Difficulty comes from how well it picks moves, nothing else.

Cheating and collusion

Because the server owns the dice, the moves, and the score, the usual cheats simply have nothing to attack. What we do act on is human behaviour: stalling, dumping matches to move chips between accounts, or running multiple accounts. Our Community Rulesexplain what happens then.

Found something that looks wrong?

Tell us. A time, a screenshot, and your display name are enough for us to find the match. We would rather check a hundred honest complaints than leave one real bug running.