Play65 has recently launched its 18^th language platform. Play65.br allows backgammon fans from Brazil and Portugal to download the software and play the game in their own language. 

In Portuguese, by the way, backgammon is called Gamão (pronounced gamago). What brings me to the next issue – do you know how to say backgammon in other languages? When you are playing backgammon online, especially in a 17-languages backgammon platform (18! 18!), knowing the precise term for the backgammon game is hardly an issue. But if you are on the Trans Siberian, you would like to know how to say backgammon in Russian (Narde) or in Turkey (Tavla), wouldn’t you?

In addition, if someone offers you a game of puff in Germany, his means are not necessarily indecent, since puff (or poof) is the traditional German name for backgammon. (But just out of precautious, note that another translation of puff is a brothel).

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