We are excited to share with you a new variant of Backgammon is now available on PlayStrategy: Hyper Backgammon!
Hyper is very similar to standard backgammon but you only start with 3 pieces each. You can read the full rules and information about our new game here: playstrategy.org/variant/hyper

As always, there will be an Introductory tournament for Hyper, scheduled for Saturday 30th November at 17:00 UTC+0: playstrategy.org/tournament/zIOB9HPl

You can play Hyper against our bots such as @PS-Greedy-Two-Move.

We have also altered our Backgammon medleys to include Hyper, these include the monthly shield on 7th December starting at 1600 UTC+0 playstrategy.org/tournament/HLDoLLLD, as well as the 24hr Backgammon Medley Marathon Arena, which is now scheduled for 13th December playstrategy.org/tournament/nOXj8HrE

We hope you are hyper with excitement to give this new variant a go!

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Finally something worthwhile! Keep it up!

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None of the bots want to accept the challenge. Please fix it.

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I think making doubles not have the 2x multiplier would make the game more balanced. It's easy to see that when playing and getting double 5's and 6's, it makes the game too luck-based, especially in endgame.

Hi @FiveKnights

Hyper is an established Backgammon variant and it uses the standard rule for doubles in it and so we won't be changing this rule.

I can however understand your frustration with a well timed high double seemingly ruining a close mid/end game.

There will be a bit more to Hyper when the doubling cube is introduced.

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