Backgammon NJ App Reviews

Developers need to improve online stability. I drop too many real time games when I havent lost a connection. Maybe when a game is dropped it can save it for a week or turn it into a turn based match, like my FIBS app does. It should allow chat after a move has been submitted and after the end of the game instead of only allowing chat during your turn. Also when rematching on turn based it should keep the previous score (same as real time) instead of restarting 0:0. Having a Bluetooth feature would be excellent! The AI is very good but parts of the computers endgame and bearing off i find questionable. If you cant hardly win just play an easier level and improve your game. It doesnt cheat but it does allow you to so before you take a double go look at the dice and see whats coming.

How is it that the computer player consistently bears off with only two spots open, yet it takes my player two or three tries with four spaces open? And whats with the impossible amount of double rolls while bearing off?! Sometimes for you, but much more often for the computer player. Either way, it spoils an otherwise great/close match with unrealistic rolls.

You wont be disappointed

Flawless game play and great design.

This is the most frustrating backgammon app I have ever played. In expert mode, the AI consistently gets favorable rolls. I have been stuck forever trying to roll out and yet the AI can roll out and hit my only open piece in the same roll. It is not easy to build a 5 to 7 length prime, yet the AI does this almost every game. Dont waste your time or money.

I really love this Backgammon. The AI is expert level and will crush you unless you play at expert level. You really learn a good Backgammon game as youre schooled by the AI. Turning on the tutorials will tell you when youre making bad moves, making this a great Backgammon instructor. Youll whoop for joy when you finally get your first gammon against the AI! As an aside, Im really shocked at the unfounded store reviews by haters, accusing the developer of cheating; e.g.using non-random dice rolls. I encourage these reviewers to use the tutorials and learn the game. You dont win at chess against masters right away. Same applies to this app AI.

Computer is unbeatable in the long run on expert level Its rigged

From the third move, over 90% of the time i would know that this will force me to be hit and cover its ground. Loss is certain. Nothing could be done once the game has been decided for the program to win. I have tried many strategies with the similar outcome.

I was playing about 7 other BG games but BGNJ is something else I like this update And I hope the designer team make us surprised if they renew the board

As a 40-year player, I cant win against this algorithm beyond the lowest level. If the rolls at the lowest level were realistic, Id win 90% of the time. At higher levels, I lose most of the time. It is what it is. Opponent gets off the bar in one roll. For me, its often 8 to 10. Opponent gets doubles bearing off. I dont. Dont expect a normal distribution of rolls. That aint happening! Never accept opponents double. You will lose EVERY time. This is still true, despite developers claims to contrary.

A waste of time for real players. After thousands of games it’s pretty clear that the computer can see the roll events before they are played or even rolled. The computer then moves it’s pieces dependent on what the upcoming rolls will be. The computer will inexplicably leave pieces open and make what looks like bad moves but each and every time those moves work out in its favor because it knows that the human will not have the dice to knock them off and it will have the dice to win. Total fail. Why not simply make it random dice and not lie to purchasers.

The best backgammon app bar none! I have found no other that comes close to backgammon nj.

This has to be the luckiest backgammon player in the world. The computer gets doubles while you roll 1 / 2.

Reasonable simulation of expert level play. Still some inconsistencies, but overall best of its type.

If you like to play Backgammon, this is the app for u! But its addicting, i have a hard time putting it down! With that said, I found the same predictability in the increasingly difficult levels with the computers "lucky dice rolls" & timing. Its still a lot of fun... Enjoy!

Ive tried a lot of backgammon apps for the iPhone and iPad; this is the best. Online play is also great. If you love Backgammon, it is easily worth the money.

Ive been playing backgammon for over 30 years and have never had any opponent with this much "luck"or skill. Before I wrote this review I played over 500 best of five game matches at the expert level only. Ive noticed that I get an incredible amount of 2-5, 6-3 and 6-3 opening and subsequent moves, and that I get hit and boxed in about 40% to 60% of the time. Whereas my opponent gets nothing but cover moves and doubles with regularity. No matter what moves I make I get hit 90% of the time. In real and tournament play it is never happened to me. When I do hit my opponent yes usually back on the board between one and two moves usually one. Not so when Im hit. It can take me anywhere from 6 to 9 rolls before I can get back on. Im not qualified to say its rigged but I am qualified to say somethings just not right with this game.

Dependable, never crashes. Fair play across all levels

Its OK, but given the other backgammon games around, it doesnt have much competition. The computer doesnt so much get harder to beat, it just gets mind-boggingly lucky, therefore impossible to beat no matter how good you are.

Ive played many apps for the game and this is the fairest by far. Even playing at highest level I am able to beat the computer--maybe thats why I like it. If you are unhappy with your app this is well worth it. Havent played a "real opponent " yet.