Summer time is travel season, thus there is not a better time to learn how to prepare your very own miniature backgammon board you can carry around to wherever you plan to spend summer vacation (that unless you plan to drag an ultralight laptop and play backgammon online while swinging on a hammock in some deserted island).

The video shows you how to make a multi purpose game board (backgammon – chess – checkers – tic-tac-toe) board from an empty box of mint, using baked polymer clay sculptures and chopped pieces of magnet as checkers.

[via box in hand]

How to Make a Miniature Backgammon Board in four simple steps:

• Print the template sheet with your desired board game pattern and glue it on one side of the tin box (after washing and drying it).
• Create 15 X 2 game pieces from Fimo or find readymade objects that can fill this purpose (breath mints in two different colors?), just bear in mind that the checkers should not be much wider than the base of a triangle and a row of five-six checkers should not stretch much longer than the triangle’s height.
• Cut magnets into tiny pieces with pliers and glue them to the bottom of the game checkers. If Fimo it is, bake the pieces after attaching the magnets to their bases.
• Add pair of dice and a single doubling cube, and your travel backgammon board is ready to go!

Special Warnings

Keep those magnetic checkers away from kids and credit cards.

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