{"id":417,"date":"2011-04-24T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T05:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-04-24T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T05:44:35","slug":"backgammon_iphone_ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2011\/04\/backgammon_iphone_ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Backgammon on iPhone or iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am intending to review all my iPhone\/iPad apps and try to get myself more productive on both. But first I need to comment on the Backgammon game I have been playing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trivial Technology Backgammon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trivialtechnology.com\/games\/\">Trivial Technologies Backgammon<\/a> via the iTunes store for the iPad and iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that there is something fishy in its dice rolls. While I cannot say that it is statistically impossible for the rolls to occur, it must be statistically improbable!<\/p>\n<p>The most recent case was a clear gammon game for myself with the computer hanging around on the bar and with more points sitting around than was feasible for a win. I have one back marker sitting on the #1 point for the opposition and one more remaining from the umm, (not sure how to describe this) #12 point (where we start with 5).<\/p>\n<p>The only point not covered in my home area is the #6. The computer rolls a double 6 and plays it around the board to hit my two remaining markers and put me on the bar. Not even 1 &#8220;cannot move&#8221; because it was all blocked. Sheesh!<\/p>\n<p>The Achievements are a bit weird though. I am certain I have won some 64 point games in Easy, Medium and Hard but still have yet to get the achievements. I got all the rest except for 50 Easy games!\u00a0 Funny that I have been able achieve Winning 50 Easy Games without playing them!<\/p>\n<p>Still enjoy the game!<\/p>\n<p>See this <a title=\"Backgammon for iPhone or iPad at iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/backgammon-lite\/id299466486?mt=8\">game reviewed at iTunes AppStore.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am intending to review all my iPhone\/iPad apps and try to get myself more productive on both. But first I need to comment on the Backgammon game I have been playing. Trivial Technologies Backgammon via the iTunes store for the iPad and iPhone. I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that there is something fishy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-iphone-ipad-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}