Backgammon – Horses

Backgammon – Horses

In every kafeneio around Greece and many Greek run cafes worldwide you are guaranteed to find people playing the beloved game of Tavli.

Although it looks like the western game of backgammon, there are different rules to Tavli, Greeceв longest running and favourite board game, which dates back to ancient times.

Tavli means board in Greek and there are three games of Tavli commonly played:

Portes –   most similar to Western backgammon

Plakoto – a game where one checker can trap another checker at the same point

Fevga – where one checker by itself can block a point

These games are played one after another, in matches of three, five, or seven points.