How to play Greek Acey Deucey

Greek Acey Deucey is an exciting Backgammon variant and part of 3 games of Acey Deucey (Greek Acey Deucey, European Acey Deucey, and American Acey Deucey). Acey Deucey is translated to 1-2. A roll of 1-2 has a unique meaning in Greek Acey Deucey – as you will see later in this article.

How to play Greek Acey Deucey

The game starts with each player having 15 pieces arranged on the board in the following way:

One player will use the red pieces and the second will use the white pieces (the colors represent this example)

To begin playing Greek Acey Deucey, each player rolls one die, and the player with the highest roll goes first – he rolls again for his first turn. Then the play alternates.

Pieces can only be moved forward along the board toward your inner home base, It looks like this:

The basic object of the game is for players to remove all their pieces off the board before their opponents do – the first to do it is the winner!

To remove all the pieces off the board – also called bearing-off, the player must first move all his pieces into his home base, for example:

After a player successfully moves all his pieces to his home base, he can start bearing off

pieces from the board. Later in this article, we are going to talk about the Greek Acey Deucey bearing-off rules.

To move all the pieces to the home base Greek Acey Deucey has rules. After a player rolls the dice he can move the pieces according to the following rules (same as Backgammon):

• players need to move by each dice number, for example, if a player rolls 2 and 4, he needs to move the piece 2 and then 4, or 4 and then 2, otherwise is illegal (move one time 6 (2+4) is illegal).
• A player can move more than one piece in a single turn.
• Pieces can only be moved to open points on the board, which are points that are not occupied by two or more of the opponent’s pieces.
• Pieces can’t be removed before all pieces in the home base:
• Dice can’t be summed up. As mentioned above, a piece can be moved only by each dice number, which means dice can’t be summed up into one big move. For example, if a player rolls 1 and 2 he can’t make a big move of 3:
• If a player can’t move any piece the opponents get another turn until a move is possible.
• If a player has the option to move a piece, he has to do it! Even if only one of the dice.

Greek Acey Deucey also features doubles where both dice are matching numbers. For example, if you roll two twos. this means you can choose pieces to move up to four times as many points as shown on the dice.

• For instance, a double three would allow a single piece to move up 12 points along with other possible combinations moving different numbers of points with other individual pieces according to what was rolled totals available move values add up too!
• In Greek Acey Deucey 1-2 roll is very valuable: if you rolled 1 and 2 you play the 1 and 2 regularly, and in addition, you get to choose a double to play and play it as if you rolled it.

if your piece lands on a point where there is only one of your opponent’s pieces then they will be sent back to their bar which is essentially like being sent to jail (Like Backgammon).

To release pieces from the bar a player needs to roll the dice and hope for numbers that indicate open points at the opponent’s home base.

Once a piece is released from the bar it needs to go all the way back to your home base – so be careful!

A player must release his piece before playing with another piece!

There is no limit on the number of pieces that can be on the bar. Both players can have pieces on the bar at the same time.

Another interesting feature of Greek Acey Deucey is called Compulsory hit. After a player’s turn, they have the option to choose one of their own game pieces to be hit by the opponent. The player must make this request before the opponent rolls the dice. If the opponent has the opportunity to hit the chosen game piece, they must do so on their turn. If there are multiple ways for the opponent to hit the chosen piece, they are free to choose whichever way they prefer. This can help a lot when you are in a situation where you still have a piece in your enemy’s home and he already started to bear off.

• The bear-off rules are the same as in Backgammon.
• Pieces of both players can reach the bar even if the player started removing already.
• Once the player’s piece reaches the bar while the removal has started, the player needs to stop removing and bring back the piece to the home base. When he managed to do it, he can continue the removal.
• There are no gammons or backgammons.
• There is no doubling cube.