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Rolling on wrong side of board From:   Kit Woolsey Address:   kwoolsey@netcom.com Date:   29 January 1999 Subject:   Re: Keeping Right Forum:   rec.games.backgammon Google:   kwoolseyF6Bo1s.C85@netcom.com VSG wrote: > I'm trying to see why throwing on the left can be objectionable. > Surely it makes no odds which side the dice are thrown. Or is it a > traditional thing. Three reasons: 1) If you and your opponent are rolling in the same area, there could be some confusion if you roll before he has picked his dice up and the dice get mixed, your dice hit his hand, etc. 2) Suppose your dice jump over the center of the board and land on the other side (or suppose you forget and roll on the other side). Is it a legal roll? There are far fewer disputes when it is specified just where the dice have to land to make it a legal roll. 3) It's the rules (and 1) and 2) show the reason it's the rules). Kit   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

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