Take

How it works in play

Taking a double means playing on at twice the stake with the cube on your side: from then on only you can double. Take whenever your chances are above the take point, about 25% in money play, a little lower in a race and higher when gammons loom.

Related terms

• Drop — Decline a double (also "pass"), conceding the current cube value.
• Take point — The minimum winning probability at which taking a double breaks even — about 25% in money play; score-dependent in matches.
• Double — An offer to double the stakes via the doubling cube, made before rolling.
• Beaver — Money play only: an immediate redouble by the player who was just doubled, keeping cube ownership.
• Live cube — A cube that can still be re-doubled, as opposed to a "dead cube."

Go deeper

• Cube theory: the 25% take point
• Cube theory: cube actions by winning chances
• Backgammon strategy, from first roll to bear-off

In other languages

• العربيةالقبول (Take)
• ΕλληνικάΔέχομαι (take)
• فارسیپذیرش (Take)
• עבריתלקחת (Take)
• РусскийТейк (take)
• TürkçeAlmak (Take)