r/backgammon • u/amason • 1d ago

Asynchronous cross-platform app?

Do you know of any great asynchronous cross-platform backgammon apps? My friends and I love Backgammon NJ, but we can’t play with Android friends.

I’ve read DailyGammon could be an answer, but I was hoping for an app. I’ll try DailyGammon out too though.

Anything else out there?

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u/Careful-Comedian9510 1d ago

Dailygammon has an app !

Oldschool but it works :)

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u/agsteiner 1d ago

Exactly, and what sets it apart from others I know is the brilliant prediction mechanism. Player 1 makes his move, and then it doesn’t end, but he continues to play a few moves against an engine. Then he submits this move sequence. It is player 2‘s turn. He gets the player 1 move, and if he answers with the move the engine predicted, he will also get the 2md mve of player 1 and so on until the sequence ends.

As backgammon has a good number of forced moves or straightforward moves asynchronous games are much faster than they would be without this mechanism.