Playing backgammon with a friend online

April 13, 2012 6:10 PM

I'm in one place and would like to play backgammon online with a friend in another. All I can seem to find on google are horribly spammy sites. What's the best way to do this?
posted by pdq to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (7 answers total)

Try Yahoo Games -- I haven't played Backgammon there, but I've played lots of other ones and generally you can play with strangers or make invite-only rooms and just play with your friend.
posted by brainmouse at 6:25 PM on April 13, 2012 [2 favorites]

Best answer: First Internet Backgammon Server is a popular backgammon site but it requires client software.
posted by davcoo at 6:26 PM on April 13, 2012

I've played yahoo games backgammon before. The sound effects are awful, and it gets a little lag sometimes, but otherwise, fun!

You do both need a yahoo username.
posted by bilabial at 6:36 PM on April 13, 2012

I like Game Colony. I used to play a fair amount of cribbage there. Tried backgammon, lost over and over again.
The log in and intro pages are really bright, and there is a popup to buy tokens right at the front, but after that it is surprisingly low-ad.
(Full disclosure: I haven't logged in for several months, so I hope my memory is accurate)
posted by SLC Mom at 9:14 PM on April 13, 2012

Response by poster: FIBS worked great, thanks!
posted by pdq at 4:17 AM on April 14, 2012

http://us.bugcafe.net
is great. They offer backgammon, cribbage, reversi, canasta, mancala, scrabble, scrabble variants including the ability to create your own, as well as other games.
posted by 2manyusernames at 4:33 AM on April 14, 2012

In case anyone else is looking, Yourturnmyturn has backgammon and many other games. It's asynchronous / turn based, so you don't have to be online at the same time as your opponent.
posted by BrashTech at 6:13 AM on April 14, 2012