Backgammon multi-player game

Abstract

The invention is a new variation on the game of backgammon. The game consists of six color-coded game boards and six sets of colored playing stones (15 per set). This game allows 3-6 players to challenge each other to be the first player to successfully bear off all of his or her stones. To accomplish this, each player moves his or her stones around the board from point to point (space to space) as per the roll of the dice towards their own color-coded home base. During the process they must try to avoid leaving “blots” (a single stone on a point) that make their stones vulnerable for a “hit” (another player landing on their blot). A “hit” from an opponent will send their stone “to the bar” (back to the beginning). At the same time, each player will try to prevent their opponents from reaching their own color-coded home bases. Once a player has all of his or her stones in their color-coded home base, they are able to start “bearing off” (removing stones from play).

1 . A game comprising six color-coded game boards (using six different colors) and corresponding color-coded sets of 15 stones that allow from 3 to 6 players to participate in the game.  
     
     
         2 . A game that expands on the concept of Backgammon to include strategic play against not just one opponent, but 2, 3, 4 or 5 opponents.  
     
     
         3 . A game that instructs players to arrange their game boards so that the top left and right corners are touching their opponents' game boards. A three-player game will have the game boards arranged in a triangle shape, while a four-player game would be in more of a square shape. The five and six player games would take on a more circular appearance.  
     
     
         4 . A game in which each game board has a color-coded home base consisting of six (6) triangles that are alternating in a dark and a light shade of the player's chosen color (three of each).  
     
     
         5 . A game that has three triangles outside of the color-coded home base that are alternating black and white in color (two of one and one of the other).  
     
     
         6 . A game that has colored circles within four of the triangles on your game board for guiding the initial set-up of the game. Five of your stones start in your color-coded home base on the rightmost triangle with five circles containing a shade of the player's chosen color. Three of your stones start just outside of your home base on the white triangle containing the three circles that are a shade of the player's chosen color. Another five start in the color-coded home base of the opponent to your immediate right on the triangle containing the five neutral-colored circles. The remaining two of your stones start in the color-coded home base of the second opponent to your right on the triangle containing the two neutral-colored circles.