Backgammon by George App Reviews

The graphics are very good. The boards are vey nice looking. There are 4 different ones to choose from. I would only recommend this game for more experienced players though. There is a help file but it only covers the basics of the game. It will not help you learn to play if you have never played backgammon before. The is no explanation of the board layout or strategy. Also when you press the hint button it automatically makes a move for you. Thats not a hint thats the computer moving for you. And I cant change the setting for the move animation. Every time I set it to slow it doesnt work. It resets to fast by itself. Which makes the computer moves so fast its hard to see what move it made. It makes it fell like you are playing speed backgammon. The AI is very good too even on the easy level setting. Overall a good game.

This game the best of the best, has the excellent drawing and as an excellent gameplay. I play Backgammon with friends. thx for great game ^_^

This game is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! I love how it plays, and all of the options it has. The ONLY thing I wish it had, and this is minor (but would make it PERFECT for me! LOL) is if you could change the colors of the pieces. I LOVE the Pirate board, but would LOVE to be able to change the pieces to make them custom to my favorite colors. Thank you so much for such a great game!!! Ive bought most all of the other backgammon games on iTunes, and this one is by FAR the BEST!!!!!!

The game was fun and challenging with easy to figure out controls. The game is very configurable which I love. Its a great game for those just learning backgammon or those that have played it forever. I always like to give some positive critisism with each review, something that can be made better, but in this case I just can not think of anything that needs to be changed. If I had to stretch for something I think I would like an option at the end of the game to quit or play again As it is, you see the game stats then it starts a new game. This game is well worth the cost and I suggest everyone give it a try.

Ok, I have my setting set to play the computers AI. So why am I having to roll the dice when its the computers turn??? The computer moves by itself, but you have to touch the dice in order to roll its turn? And theres no setting to turn this off! I am not sure why all the 5 stars. Its ok, but not fantastic.

Best backgammon game for iPhone

Pretty fun and awesome graphics! 

Definitely the best looking iPhone Backgammon game I have seen. And fun to play. Great graphics, cool sounds, and fair (no cheating) strong AI.

The graphic design and features are well done, and it seems very fair, but the AI isnt real good. Ive won 40/52 pts against the highest level so far. Guess Ill keep looking for a BG app that is both fair and offers a challenge.

the graphics are much clearer, and the game is smarter and tougher to beat.

I had originally got the previous version of this game and thought "what moron wrote this program?". This updated version has great AI and is completely realistic. Apparently less Bong smoking during the writing of this masterpiece. Great Job!!!

I love this app. The graphics are clean and simple and dont detract from the purpose of the game. The AI is challenging but fair, and the interface works perfectly. Five stars!

Really like a lot about this game -BUT...two complaints 1) AI seems to roll a lot of doubles at crucial junctures (am playing at the hard level) 2) no way to reset score unless you delete & reinstall app ADDENDUM: changed to hardest setting. Seems fairer - AI rolls more appropriate # of doubles.

Nice looking game, fun to play, good challenge. Love the sounds and shake to roll feature.

love this ap. great for a quick game of backgammon during my commute to work

Just bought this & will avoid anything by George here on. Moving tiles to spaces that are directly adjacent to AI occupied spaces often come up with an annoying pop up window that the number of allowed moves doesnt match, but it works when youre no where near the AI tiles. Needs work, update, but annoyed I just got ripped by George.

I tried all the free backgammon games and was disgusted each time at how the dice rolls obviously favored the computet, so I decided to pay for one in hopes I would find one more fair. I researched many and the reviews for this one gave me hope that someone had finally written a game that was pretty fair in its dice rolls. I bought it, and two weeks later I did the suggested update. Big mistake. I had been pleasantly surprised at how fair it actually was to that point. Now its just like all the crappy free versions. The computer gets an inordinate number of high number doubles and rarely gets stuck waiting to reenter the game after getting picked off. Conversely, I have rolled and rolled and ROLLED high number doubles waiting to reenter when the computer only had pips on the fifth and sixth spots. I am more disappointed than I can say at this "update" that clearly skews the game in favor of the computer. Before the update I was very happy with this game, even though it ran a bit slowly. Now Im sorry I purchased it.

Plays a great game of backgammon. Easy and intuative to use. Lots of fun.

This thing so obviously cheats. Why is it so hard to find a game that just randomly rolls the dice?

Turn it on "difficult" and all of a sudden the game starts rolling itself a whole mess of doubles. Meanwhile, you start rolling 1-2 over and over again. The cheating is just brazen. Not worth the money.