Homestretch

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How to play

Homestretch is the bear-off phase of backgammon, played solo on a stretched ten-point home board.

1. Setup. Twenty checkers begin two to a point, on points 1 through 10.
2. Rolling. Roll two dice. Doubles play four times instead of two.
3. Choosing a move. Tap a checker — every spot it could legally land on lights up red, the Goal box included. Tap one to play it.
4. Exact bear-off. A die matching an occupied point bears a checker off to the Goal box.
5. Moving in. A die larger than a point's number can't bear it off unless that's the highest occupied point — otherwise it moves a checker inward from a higher point by that many spaces.
6. Overage. If the highest occupied point is lower than the die, that checker bears off instead.
7. Waste. Bearing off with a bigger die than the point needs wastes the difference — a 6 clearing point 4 wastes 2 pips, tallied in the Waste stat.
8. Combining dice. Unused dice can add together on one checker — rolling a 2 and a 3 also offers a move of 5.
9. Dead dice. A die with no legal move, alone or combined, is skipped automatically.
10. Winning. Bear off all checkers in as few moves as possible.

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Table settings

Reshape the board. Applying starts a new game.

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Stats

Results for the board you're playing now, plus a running history across every board you've tried.

History