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EPISODE · Jun 14, 2026

Backgammon from Mesopotamia to AI

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Pick up a backgammon set and you are touching one of the oldest games still played anywhere on earth. The 24 points and 30 checkers describe a structure that has barely changed in two thousand years, and parts of it are older than the pyramids. Mesopotamian kings played a version.

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Pick up a backgammon set and you are touching one of the oldest games still played anywhere on earth. The 24 points and 30 checkers describe a structure that has barely changed in two thousand years, and parts of it are older than the pyramids. Mesopotamian kings played a version.

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