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Backgammon glossary · P

Plakoto

Greek variant where blots are pinned (trapped in place) rather than hit.

How it works in play

In Plakoto a single checker that is landed on is not hit but pinned: it can’t move until the pinning checker leaves. All fifteen checkers start on one point, and pinning the opponent’s mother, their last checker still on its starting point, is the most crushing pin of all. It is the second game of a Greek tavli session.

  • Tavli — Greek backgammon — the session triplet of Portes, Plakoto and Fevga.
  • Fevga — Greek/Turkish variant with no hitting, where a single checker holds a point.
  • Blot — A point occupied by exactly one checker — vulnerable to being hit.
  • Point — One of the board’s 24 triangles. "To point on" a checker: make the point by landing two checkers on its blot.

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