Star Wars - Backgammon for Hoth

A full game of backgammon with a Star Wars twist: the famous Battle of Hoth.

FEATURES

• Complete tournament backgammon — opening roll, both die orderings, doubles as four moves, and the obligation to play as many dice as possible, including the rule that a lone playable die must be the larger one

• Bearing off with exact and oversized dice, and the ban on using an oversized die while a higher point is still occupied

• Single game, gammon and backgammon scoring

• Doubling cube with take/drop, cube ownership, and the Crawford rule

• Match play to 1, 3, 5 or 7 points

• Three opponents — Recruit plays at random, Veteran plays a noisy greedy game, Commander searches two plies across all 21 distinct rolls

• Two players on one screen

• A hint button that asks the Commander what it would do

• Undo any move inside your own turn, before you commit it

• Optional aids: pulse the base under every unit that can move, and drop a targeting reticle on every sector the unit in your hand can reach — neither changes what is legal

• A tactical readout the rules don't give you a number for: lanes held, exposed units, and the pip difference as a needle either side of centre

• Blaster fire, screen shake and voice-over callouts on every kill

• Runs in the browser. No install, no plugins, no account

CONTROLS

Click a miniature, then click where it should go. R rolls, U undoes, H asks for a hint.

A fan project, made out of affection for the setting. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Lucasfilm Ltd. or The Walt Disney Company. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.