Checker

How it works in play

Each side has fifteen checkers, and every one of them has to be borne off to win. In the standard starting position they sit on four points: two on your 24-point, five on your 13-point, three on your 8-point and five on your 6-point, a pip count of 167.

Related terms

• Point — One of the board’s 24 triangles. "To point on" a checker: make the point by landing two checkers on its blot.
• Stack — Multiple checkers piled on one point; tall stacks waste material.
• Pip count — The total pips all your checkers still need to travel to bear off. Both sides start at 167.
• Bear off — Remove a checker from the board, allowed once all 15 of your checkers are in your home board.

Go deeper

• Rules: the starting position
• Rules: the board and equipment
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةالحجر (Checker)
• ΕλληνικάΠούλι (checker)
• فارسیمهره (Checker)
• עבריתאבן (Checker)
• РусскийШашка (checker)
• TürkçePul (Checker)