Pip

How it works in play

A pip is one point of movement: a 5 moves a checker five pips. Add up the pips all your checkers still have to travel and you have your pip count, the measure of the race.

Related terms

• Pip count — The total pips all your checkers still need to travel to bear off. Both sides start at 167.
• Race — A position with no remaining contact between the two sides.
• Roll — The two dice numbers thrown on a turn.

Go deeper

• Pip counting: the basics
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةالنقطة (Pip)
• ΕλληνικάΠιπ (pip)
• فارسیپیپ (Pip)
• עבריתפיפ (Pip)
• РусскийПип (pip)
• TürkçePip