Doubling Cube Backgammon Rules
As any player knows, the basic backgammon rules are pretty simple. If you’re a casual blackjack player, any working of the mind you’ve encountered has most likely been due to working out dice numbers or working out a strategy. However, if you’re looking to venture from casual play to casino backgammon play, there is something you should become familiar with; the doubling cube.
Backgammon rules state that the doubling cube be placed on the board at the beginning of the game with the number 64 showing. The cube has the numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 marked on its side. The doubling cube simply acts as a way to double the stakes by a power of two. When you decide to start a round of doubling, you take the cube and place the number to be doubled by face up. If you’re doubling by 2, the two is up. The other player can either reject and end the game or redouble bringing the number to 4. The original player to double will hold the cube however. In fact, the original player can also raise the stakes for a 3rd time.
Although the doubling cube only goes to 64, backgammon rules allow for the betting to increase as high as the players want, always to the power of two. In most backgammon games, however, the betting does not exceed betting does not redouble beyond four times the original stakes.
That is the basic backgammon rules for the doubling cube, although there are other ways to incorporate it strategically. In the end, it is another strategic backgammon maneuver, much like raising the stakes in a poker match.
