Backgammon - Lord of the Board

Backgammon is a great game, and this is a pretty good (and free) version of it. Yes, I’ve had some statistically improbable runs of bad luck that had me questioning the randomness of computer-generated dice rolls programmed by a developer who’s in the business of getting people to make in-game purchases — but “improbable” isn’t “impossible” and I win more than I lose, so I won’t go there. But speaking of being in the business of getting people to make in-game purchases, one of the frustrations of this game is that every time I open it — and often between opponents— I have to dismiss one in-house splash-screen ad after another: about 8 of them in a row, and the Close button is put in different places so I have to take the time to look at each one of them to figure out how to get it to go away. The game was free, though, so I can’t complain too much if I have to close a few ads to play. Another irritation is that the Double Cube is right next to the Roll Dice button, so it’s real easy to hit it unintentionally— and it doesn’t ask for confirmation that you want to double. Please, Developers, add a confirmation to the double cube! On the plus side, I can almost always find an opponent within a matter of seconds. Chat is very limited, but at least you can disable it to shut up annoying players who spam you with messages. One thing you can’t do is stop players from running out the clock when they are about to lose. But the game boots them after a minute, so not too bad. All in all a decent way to scratch the BG itch.

Think twice before you purchase coins on this site. After years of just ignoring the SUPER SPIN, I decided to give it a try. A huge mistake! The lowest amount on the wheel was 470,000 coins with a maximum of 3 million for 99 cents. Pretty tempting, right? Well, once I paid, rather than letting me spin the wheel, they just added 90,000 coins to my account. 90,000? Why? So I sent an email, the response was the “free Mega Bonus” randomly lands on a slot. Keep spinning and good luck!!!! In other words, the person did not even read my post. So, I took a screen shot of the wheel and sent it with more explanations. They then added another 10,000 coins. Again, I sent another screen shot of the wheel with more explanations. I added I did not understand why the person was ignoring the problem and demanded that they either refund me the .99 cents or let me spin the wheel to collect what is rightfully mine. At the same time, I contacted the app which I used to pay for the wheel spin and asked for a refund. This morning, again another 500,000 coins were added to my account rather than letting me spin the wheel. I am totally exhausted dealing with this game site. Never again will I purchase coins from them. It is not worth the hassle!

Nothing new to say here, I’m sure you have all read the countless reviews on dice algorithms. The game developers promise this is randomized but there’s an odd pattern to it that makes it look purposely done. If the 1 and 6 spots are blocked at the opposing players side I promise you’ll roll a 6 1 and be stuck there. This can’t be random. For people who play this in real life they know exactly what random dice combos look like. This game will give a player 3-4 doubles in a row. Statistically if you take 2 dice throw it the odds of rolling doubles a SINGLE time is 16.6%.... the fact that some people get it 3 or 4 times in a row is not impossible but statistically not probably at all. That’s a 1 in 1296 occurrence and you can look this up. I’ve played about 600 games on the app and this has happened multiple times so developers please realize that when we say it’s not randomized we don’t mean you guys rig the games but the algorithm for the dice are extremely unrealistic and you should find the proper solution. I know I’m gonna get a message saying “ we can assure you we use the best dice algorithm blah blah blah”. I know you guys tried but please look for a better way of doing this because it ruins the game.