Usage examples for backgammon:

• Let us have a conversation room, where young men can chat or play their game of chess or backgammon "Amusement: A Force in Christian Training" – Rev. Marvin R. Vincent.

• All his favorite pieces were sung to him, and then, with the patience of a martyr, the young lady seated herself at the backgammon board, playing game after game, until she could scarcely tell her men from his. "'Lena Rivers" – Mary J. Holmes

• " Did you notice," said the Baron de Besenval to Lord Adhemar, with whom he was playing a game of backgammon in the saloon, " did you notice the tableau that the queen is presenting, taking for her theme a group representing Friendship?" "Marie Antoinette And Her Son" – Louise Muhlbach Official

• She makes more blunders at piquet and backgammon than you would expect from her; and the servants find her awake and dressed, however early they may rise. "The Virginians" – William Makepeace Thackeray