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BACKGAMMON. |
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on your bar-point to carry home, which lie in wait to catch your man, and that if you pass him you are to win the hit: suppose also that you have it in your choice to run the risk of being hit by seven or by eight, both of which are chances upon double dice. Which of these chances is it best for you to venture ?
Ans. That of seven, for the following reasons; first, because the chances of being hit by seven or eight are equal. Secondly, if he does not hit seven, you will then have in your favour 23 chances to 13, that by your next throw you either hit or pass beyond him. Thirdly, in case your second throw should happen to be under seven, and that therefore you cannot hit him, yet you may play that cast at home, and, consequently, leave the blot upon double dice, Whereas, if, on the contrary, you had left the blot upon eight, you wouldhave made a bad choice. First, because the chances of being hit by seven or by eight, are only equal. Secondly, because, if you should escape being hit by eight, yet you would then have but 17 chances in your favour against 19, for either hitting or passing beyond him by your next throw. Thirdly, in case your second throw should happen to be six-ace, which is short of him, you would then be obliged to play the man that is out of your table, not being able to play the six at home, and consequently to leave a blot to be hit by a single (or fiat) die, which event, upon supposition that you play for eighteen shillings a game, would entitle him to eleven shillings of the whole stake depending. |
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THE LAWS OF BACKGAMMON.
1. If you take a man or men from any point, that man or men must be played.
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