Backgammon Without Ads

What "no ads" means here

• No interstitials. When a game ends you see the result and a button for the next one — not a 30-second video.
• No banners on the board. On a phone every inch of the screen goes to the board and your checkers. A banner at the bottom is exactly where your home board would be.
• No "watch to continue". Undo, rematch, a new game against the computer — none of it is gated behind an ad.
• No ad trackers. The site has no advertising or analytics cookies and no third-party trackers. The details are in the privacy policy.

Why ads ruin backgammon in particular

Backgammon is a game of short games. A one-point match can take three minutes, so an app that shows a video after every game can easily make you watch an ad for every few minutes of play. Ads also break concentration in the middle of a match: you're counting how many shots hit your blot, and a pop-up asks you to rate the app.

There's a quieter problem too. Ad-funded games make money from your time on screen, which pushes them toward tricks that keep you playing — and makes players suspicious of everything, including the dice. If you've ever wondered whether a backgammon app is rigged to keep you hooked, the fair-dice section below is for you.

What you get instead

• Two games: backgammon (short nardy) and long nardy.
• Real opponents online, matched by game and match length — see multiplayer backgammon.
• Friends by link and two players on one screen.
• The computer at three levels: Beginner, Amateur, Master.
• Matches to 1, 3, 5 or 7 points, with a fair clock in online games.
• An account if you want one: rating, leaderboard, match history and replays. Guests can play everything.

Dice you can check

An ad-free game still has to prove its dice are honest. In online games the server commits to a secret before the first roll and reveals it after the match; your browser then recomputes every roll and confirms nothing was changed along the way. You don't have to trust us — the fair dice page shows how the check works.

Light on your phone

Without ad networks loading in the background, the game stays light: it opens quickly, the board only animates when something moves, and it runs smoothly even on an older phone. There's nothing to install — you can add it to your home screen in two taps. Instructions: the backgammon app without a store.

Free, ad-free, and no stakes

NARDEON has no playing for stakes. Nobody bets on the outcome of a match, and there's nothing to win except the game itself and a place on the leaderboard. That's how backgammon is played at a kitchen table, and that's how it's played here.

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Updated: October 24, 2026