Play Backgammon Full Screen

The Full screen button

Once a game starts, look at the edge of the board, next to the settings and resign buttons. The Full screen button hides the browser's tabs and address bar so the board fills the display. Press it again — it now says Exit full screen — or hit Esc to return.

You'll see the button when two things are true:

• the screen is wide enough for the side-by-side layout: a computer, a tablet, or a phone turned sideways;
• your browser allows pages to go full screen — Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Samsung Internet do; Safari on iPhone doesn't.

On a computer: F11 works too

On Windows, F11 puts the whole browser into full-screen mode in Chrome, Edge and Firefox; on a Mac it's the green button in the window corner or Control–Command–F. The difference from the in-game button is small: F11 covers the whole browser, the game button just the game page. Either way you get a big board with nothing to install — see backgammon for PC for more on playing on Windows and Mac.

On a phone: add the game to your home screen

On a phone the best "full screen" is the home-screen app. NARDEON is a web app that can be added to your home screen; launched from the icon it opens in its own window, without the browser's address bar, like any app from a store.

• iPhone and iPad (Safari): open nardeon.com, tap Share (the square with an arrow), choose Add to Home Screen.
• Android (Chrome): open nardeon.com, tap the ⋮ menu, choose Add to Home screen or Install app.

Step-by-step instructions with more detail are on the backgammon app page.

Portrait or landscape?

Both work. Held upright, the board turns so it uses the height of the screen, and the buttons sit underneath. Turn the phone sideways and you get the wide layout with the Full screen button — a good fit for tablets.

More room on the board

• Zen hides your opponent's reactions for a calmer screen.
• Point numbers puts 1–24 on the board frame, handy when you're learning.
• Board themes — Walnut, Classic and Night — for daylight or a dark room.
• Animations can be turned off on an older phone for instant moves.

All of this is free, with no ads to cover the board. Full screen works the same in backgammon, long nardy, against the computer and on one screen for two.

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Updated: October 24, 2026