Hi everyone. This is Chicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today, we're playing backgammon. Okay. Today, what is today? Today is April 7th. Good evening, Catholic traditionalist. How are you doing? Let me bring out my chat here. I've got the text large so I can read it because I'm sitting a little bit further away from the computer. The computer is right across so I'm playing against you guys I guess. You guys are sitting where the opponent usually sits. Dragons, how are you doing? What's up guys? How's life for everyone? Yeah, today is January, sorry April 7th 2020. Okay and just to let you guys know, we do have a playlist and I'm gonna let me post this on the chat. Backgammon playlist. Okay and I started this playlist I don't know back in 2014 or something. Where basically the first backgammon related video that I put out was this video here where I was showing you my grandmother's backgammon board. So it's full on ASMR and I'm just showing you. It's a beautiful board. We have played thousands of games on that board through the last 60-70 years. It's the oldest board that we have in the family and that's the video that I showed you guys the board on. Hello Swiss, how are you doing? And what we ended up doing was playing six rounds with grandma. Hello X, how are you doing? Six rounds best of five with grandma. Okay, Huckleberry win, how are you doing? Hope life is treating you well, like Chichou in chat. So we played best of five, six rounds and one of the reasons we played this is because I want to collect all the data, the numbers, random rules that we're getting. And if you're curious, this is my grandma. This is, let me crack this up. That's my grandma down there. Okay, hey Chichou, Nicholas, how you doing? So glad I came for this. Missed backgammon, hope your grand is well. My grand is well. I haven't been able to see her, man, I miss her, right? Because I play backgammon with her every two weeks. And we, I used to play backgammon with her like multiple times a week, but since my move to a new city, I was playing every two weeks when I went back to Vancouver for the last few years. Sometimes every week I would go back and we haven't been able to play and she really misses the games, man. I make Phaserail. Phaserail, I'm not sure what that is. Luna, hello, wow, how old is she? She's 94, I think.   And this is our backgammon playlist, by the way. You'll find all of our backgammon games on that playlist. I'll have the link in the description of this video for those that are watching it on YouTube or Bitshoot, okay? Doing all right given the circumstances. Best wishes to you and yours. Awesome. Thank you very much. I'll call you as well, of course, everyone in chat and everyone around the world, really, right? So those are some of the games I showed you guys my my grandma's board. I've actually shown you guys my board as well. Okay, Martin Confession, I don't know how to play backgammon. Brother, you should learn. I'm going to give you a little tutorial in this live stream. I'm going to do one round of game and just me playing against myself. And then we're going to play together. You guys tell me what to move on. I'm just going to roll for you guys, right? So that's the plan anyway. We'll see where it goes. And one of the reasons we're doing this, I got into making the backgammon videos is because it's related in a big way, a huge way to mathematics, right? As you know, making the backgammon or a lot of mathematics videos and I want numbers, tables and all that jazz, right? So I put out a video even before the backgammon video, showing the probability distribution for a set of two die, right? Okay. So it's just a graph, sort of a distribution. And we're going to look into this a lot further, right? Because it's all about probability. And that's a huge branch of mathematics that was developed throughout history, right? And this is the graph that we looked at with what the distribution of two six-sided die are, right? And obviously you can play a lot of games with backgammon, with dice, right? And one other game that I've played a lot is craps, both in casinos and the street version. The street version we haven't played very much. We had it going for a few months when we were playing Monopoly during the down periods. But craps, straight-up craps, I've played a lot in casinos. That was a game I used to go to. So at some point we're going to create a playlist on how to play craps and the probability distribution there as well. Okay. Aside from that, just to let you know who I am, where you can find us, I do have a Patreon page. Okay. So you will find all the information on Patreon, the videos that we post and sometimes a little discussion on Patreon, questions being asked. For those that are supporting me through Patreon, thank you very much for the support. How 404. Thank you very much for the support. Very much appreciated. There's been a few people that have jumped on board in the last few weeks. Okay. Lolo. How are you doing? Hello everyone. Plus one for the craps tutorials. Yeah. I cannot wait. And that table that you see me sitting behind, that's a table I made. I bought the cloth and I made the table. And not only we used to go to the, you know, I graduated into craps. At some point, if you go to the casino, you graduate into craps. Okay. I did anyway. It's one of the most active games and it's brilliant. Right. But we used to play at home as well.  So that's the table I made for people to come and play craps at our house. Okay. And at some point we're going to hit it up. We're going to hit it up for sure. Right. So for those of you through Patreon, thank you very much for the support. It's a great way to support this work. Okay. My kids love the simplified craps you explained. They want to know the real deal. Oh yeah, no kidding. I can't wait to get into it. I just have to create a few other math videos so I can reference them. And it's all related to series four, which is units and conversions and stuff like this. It's been on a back burner for a while. I need to, I mean, it's related to Patreon. I need to kick up the funding a little bit because I have to dive into that stuff. Full load. Okay. Nice. You ran a gambling there to a certain degree. It wasn't. It was just friends and word of mouth that went out. At the most we had two poker tables going with seven people on each table. One was the kitty table. And kitty meaning the funds being exchanged weren't that much. And the second one is the grownups version. And there was a lot of funds being traded there. And sometimes people that would get knocked off the bigger pots, bigger aunties would go down to the smaller table and play there because that was the game. Right. It was fun. It was fun. The table from the games, the table from the games collection mark. There's a sort of simplified craps version I explained during that game. Okay. Chicho is a math. I just like math and anything, anything that layers math, right? And math layers everything. So I like, I find pleasure in many things as long as I can link it up to the mathematics of it. Right. I never had a great appreciation for how interesting craps is until I developed the online version of the game for AOL early in my career. Oh, no way. Catholic traditions. So many different ways to, so many different ways to bet each role, the role of the dice. Right. You could roll something and there's four different games being played on that role, five different games being played, six different games being played. So on a craps table, you could have a craps table full, full would be like, I don't know, you have like 10 people around the craps table, 12 people, 10, 11, 12 people around the craps table. And you can, you could have seven different games being played on every role. Right. And the mathematics is brilliant on it. So much fun. So much fun. Okay. Aside, this is becoming a nice chat intro to the whole thing. Right. Patreon is where we're at. I'm sort of going to start using that as the blog and start sharing more information. Okay. And obviously for those that are supporting through Patreon is the same sort of offer as those who are joining through YouTube and supporting me and everybody here and discord and following. If you guys have recommendations, suggestions, requests, let us know, we'll try to put some stuff together. Okay. We are live streaming this on Twitch for those watching live. Jet, how are you doing for those watching live? The reason we're doing this because I'm mentioning this is because we are going to be uploading this to YouTube and BitShoot.  Oh, for sure, Nicholas. I have the workout stream scheduled in this set. I forget when we're going to do it. But if you go to discord on our schedule folder, it's there. I'm pretty sure we're doing the fitness.  One of the things I do, the exercises, all you need is TheraBands and I use two five pound weights. I want to graduate to 10 pounds, but I'm using five pounds still, two of them. Okay. Is that the food for tonight? I'll show you what the, what the month she says. Okay. We do announce these live streams on Twitter, Gabs, Mine, VK and Elo. Those are five sort of announcement social sites that I'm on because I am decentralizing everything. Right now we are uploading these things on YouTube and BitShoot. Everything on BitShoot, almost everything on YouTube.  We'll see how much we can share on YouTube. We are being demonetized and stuff like that on YouTube, but that being said, we just got approved for YouTube membership. So if you are following us through YouTube, membership is also a great way to support this project. Okay. You can find a little join button on the videos or on the homepage and name of the game right now. We're in a pandemic. Everybody in lockdown, flatten the curve. Don't overwhelm your healthcare systems because you might need their help to save your life or someone you care about. Okay. So show a little respect. Keep your physical distancing. You can speak social online the way we are right now, but remove a little bit of stress. It's the best thing to do, I think. Excellent. My fitness has gone to ruin since lockdown. I need to get back at it. And I was sort of with the opposite. I've sort of become a little bit more active. I'm just more energy, right? Because I'm not going out as much. So I got lots of energy being built up. I need to release it, right? Dragons, yeah. I'm losing my deadbeat, that bud. Dragons. I use TRX and resistance bands. TRX. I don't know what TRX is. Hey, Connor, how are you doing? We'll show, by the way. How are you? Welcome to another live stream. Fitness stream will be on April 18th, according to our schedule. Okay, awesome. And April 18th is when is that April 18th? That's next Saturday, not this Saturday. Wow, on a Saturday. Let me show you our snacks. Let me take all these guys down. Okay. I'm just going to take down all these. I'll start off from these guys. We'll go in order. So again, board game, that was a first craps video, first backgammon video we put out. It's available on a backgammon playlist. We played six rounds with grandma. And there is my grandma. Hi, grandma. How are you doing? I wish she knew how to live stream or get online and stuff like this. She would love to see this right now. Okay. But I'm pretty sure I'm going to get my family members to show her that video. Hi, grandma. And then check this out. This is our dice we put out. And that's the distribution. And here's the quick version of the craps game. Keep your physical distance, flatten the curve. There's YouTube, BitShoot, Twitter, Twitch, and of course, Patreon. Nice intro. Lots of stuff to say. Let me show you what I got as snacks. I went out to shop today. I saw no one. Another 700 plus victims in the UK. Deaths in the UK. 700 just in today. Brutal. These are walnuts. Now what I did was soak. I mentioned last time I soaked these walnuts in water. So they're easier to digest. This is something that I learned the Persian community does a lot. And it's, you can break it easy, right? And it's softer. So it's really nice. I heard Boris wanted to critical lockdown as well, right? Or not lockdown, the ICU. Autumn Olive Liqueur on the rocks. Phenomenal. Really, really good. I'm going to look here with video coming out. I think live stream coming out this weekend maybe. We got, we got, we got, we got. Let me make sure everything's okay with the stream. Looks to be. I'm just going to do a little refresh here. Check this guy out. This is, this is applesauce that I made. Like about three weeks ago or so. And these are whole wheat coconut flour, honey, chocolate chip, walnut cookies. Okay. Because of the coconut flour, they're dry. Boris Johnson will try more. Because they're dry, they go amazing with the applesauce. And they're very crumbly. It's like apple crumble. Like you can do this, right? It breaks apart and you just mix it up with a little bit of apple. Really, it's crazy good. So freaking good. So freaking good. Seven people in your town have it. It's scary times for sure. Scary times for sure. What comes after though is going to be also pretty intense because of the laws and the draconian powers that centralized power has co-opted really. So we have to keep a close eye on that. Okay. My four-year-old is thrilled to be watching this and that you're eating. I'm also super delicious. If I could share it with you, I would. Really. This is the recipe, by the way, for these cookies. It's basically the same recipe I had where we had the video with how to make honey chocolate chip cookies. Okay. I just used more coconut flour, so it made it drier. It's really good. Like super good. I'd send some of your way if I could. That sounds incredible. Killer snacks today. I'm loving it. That liqueur sound. This liqueur is amazing. Really. Super good. Super good. The wise sage. How are you doing? I actually show everyone on chat. Iron smash. Have you heard of Cicada 3301, the potential resurgence in terms of recruiting extremely intelligent people? I don't know that. Iron smash. I haven't heard anything about it. Do you play the board games with chat? We're going to. Okay. So far, we've got two people here that haven't played the game. Right? I think, at least in the States, this will show that an overhaul of our healthcare system is necessary. Tons of people are getting sick and nothing being able to get healthier. Yeah. For sure. I think around the world, really. So three people so far. At least. Okay. Check this out. Let me give you four people. Okay. You guys got to learn how to play back. Hello. Always been making. Here's our backgammon playlist. Okay. Now, I showed the board. I've shown how to play the game. There's live streams of me and my grandma playing backgammon. There's videos that I shot of me and my grandma playing backgammon with the dice. It took me a long time to edit those videos. By the way, I had the videos, these ones here. I went a little overboard on them. These six rounds of games that we played. So I don't know how many games there are. Some of them were nine games. Some of them were five games. Anywhere between five to nine games. Right? Whenever I was rolling it, I was on the side. On the top, you would see the dice that came off. So I did the whole video like that. Took a long time to edit because we're going to tabulate all this information. Right? And there's sort of instructions, but I'm going to give you guys a little rundown on how to play the game. Right? Growing up, backgammon was the box blocking risk. Box blocking risk. Oh, no. I don't... Like the amount of games, backgammon games I've played in my life, I don't know what it would be into now. It's the earliest game really that I learned how to play. We'd sit down on people's laps and watch parents, grandparents watch them play. We'd stand at the corner when we're like this high, like we, we, we, this high and look over to get on our tiptoes to see what dice that we're rolling. Okay. So let me show you how to play the game. Now the colors of these things are a little faded. This is an old game we've had in the family for, I don't know, 50 years or something. The board is a beautiful board. My grandma's board we've had for like, really, I think it's like 80 years, like 75 years. Name of the game is this. When we sit like this, I'm the black, you guys would be the whites. Okay. They are a group that form... Okay. I'm going to iron smash. I'm going to pass this. I'm going to focus on the game so people can chat. I'm just going to give you instructions of how to play backgown. Okay. So I would be the black. You guys would be the white. Okay. Objective of the game is for me to bring all my pieces here. Okay. And then remove them off the table. For you, the objective would be to move this way and bring all the pieces here and remove all your pieces. Okay. And the way you remove the pieces is these numbers that you see here, this is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 on my side. And for you as well, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Right. So you want to bring all your pieces into 1 to 6 and pull them off. I need to bring all my pieces to 1 to 6 here and pull them off. Right. Are you talking about, hey Chico, man, the stream froze on me as you were talking about the walnuts lava. Did you say they're soaked in something? Yeah, they're soaked in water, twitching Jason. So I soak them in water just to make it easier to digest it. So it's not as hard on the tummy. Okay. And walking one hour a day. One hour a day. Nice, Martin. Nice. Nice. So this is the way it basically works. You roll the dice. Right. If you get doubles, you can play four of what you rolled. If you don't get doubles, you play one of each one you rolled. Right. So for example, by the way, tell me how the sound is here. I'm going to roll the dice. Hopefully it's not too loud. So I'm just going to roll the dice here and I'm going to roll it here. You guys tell me how the dice rolling is. Cool, Leo. How you doing? Are they equivalent? Okay. If they're equivalent, then I'll just roll on both. Same. Awesome. So I was only going to roll here, but I'll roll in both. I like rolling on both sides. Right. They sound the same. Awesome. Awesome. I'm not too loud. I'm assuming it's okay sound. Right. Sounds fine. Okay. Awesome. So let's check this out. I'm going to, I rolled both ways too. Yeah, you have to. I roll all over the place. I don't care if the dice rolls here or here. They just have to land flat on the board. If they roll on the pieces, it doesn't count. If they roll on the ledges here, if they get stuck there, it doesn't count. It has to be flat on the main part. Okay. Now let me roll a dice and I'll show you how the movement goes. Right. Usually we roll to see who goes first. So I'm going to roll. Okay. I get a two.  So I get to roll first. Right. So I'm going to roll my dice. Remember, name of the game is, for me, headphones are loud, but okay. Okay. Oh, sorry, Martin. I turned down the headphones a little bit, I think. This looks better than Scooby Doo Monopoly. So check this out. I have my two pieces here. I want to, five pieces here, three pieces here, and five pieces here. I want to bring everything here. Okay. So I'm going to roll the dice. I get five and a three. Okay. Let me put these here so you see. I got five and a three. Right. Now from here, one, two, three takes me to this spot. One, two, three, four, five takes me to this spot, but I can't land here. So if there's any spots, for example, here, if there's two of the opponent's piece on a specific spot, you can't go there. It's locked. Right. If there's one, you can hit that person and that person comes up here and they have to start here. Okay. And make their way back again. Okay. You'll, you'll see how it goes.  The best way to learn backgammon is to watch backgammon being played. Really. That's the best way to learn backgammon. Quinn, hey Chico, how's it going? Finally able to make it an awesome welcome. Welcome, Quinn. How's the board set at start? This is exactly the way how the board is set at start. Okay. So there is some natural plays that you end up doing at the beginning of the game. They're just optimum plays and what you in general want to do. Okay. So you go and then chat goes, yeah, that's what we're going to do. Right.  You'll see how the game goes once I go through a little explanation here. Okay. And then we'll play. Okay.  So check this out. One of the first roles you get, right, is if you roll a five and a three, you want to go, is this an Iranian game? It's a, did it originate from Iran? Challenge accepted, Kulio says. It might be. Okay. I would say Babylon. Babylonian. Chico versus the Chichonians. And by the way, this is the way we should do the movements when you're going to say you want something moved. Because you're coming from this side to this side, right? Give the, this number first and then this number. So the movement goes this way. So for example, actually, we'll go over that once we clarified, right? One, two, four. Yeah. One, two, four. One, two, two, six, two, four. Exactly. That's exactly what we're going to, Martin is a code breaker. So I think that's the way to go. Persian or Mesopotamia. Yeah. I say Babylonian to a certain degree. Its history can be tracked back nearly 5,000 years to archaeological discoveries in Persia or Mesopotamia also. Be, be this. Thank you very much for the Twitch Prime sub. Okay. So one of the natural plays you would have with five and three would be this. One, two, three, four, five and three. Right? So you zap this spot. Hope you're doing well. Doing, doing well, brother. Thank you very much. Right?  This will be my first back end game. So I'm going to lean heavily on the hopes. There are smarter people in chat. Backgammon is not about smartness. Backgammon is about it's, I consider backgammon to be the closest game to life because it involves skill and it involves luck. If we're both on the same skill level, then luck surpasses also triumphs really. Also, you can manipulate the other person to make mistakes. Right? So you can, it's very emotional game or it could be a very emotional game. Okay. Not as much as the diplomacy, but you end up teasing each other and, you know, trying to get the best game out of that person or throw them off. Yeah, my mind is number master. Nice. Salute gang. MTG. I don't know what MTG is. How does it compare to chess? A different game than chess. A chess doesn't involve luck. Chess involves mistakes. So does backgammon, right? In general, you win. Oh, magic gathering. Okay, magic to gathering too. If you're born rich, you win. Oh, that's right. You can buy all the cards, right? The expensive cards. As far as chess and backgammon, I used to play a lot of chess when I was younger as well. But chess doesn't have that luck element. Chess depends on your opponent on making a mistake in general, if you're on the same level. Right? Backgammon does as well, but backgammon, a person can turn it around and really the dice just go crazy sometimes. And watching dice go crazy is amazing. Backgammon is a lot about playing probability. Very much so. And it's about this thing, right? This distribution, right? This is the thing that we made the video of, this video and talked about the probability of dice, right? And luck. There's a lot of luck involved in the game. Hey, Chichou, how you doing? Currently playing Pokemon on my DS. Haven't played it in years. But thought I'd break out of playing nice, nice. What are the Pokemon it does? I understand chess, but I don't know anything about backgammon. You're about to learn and it's brilliant. So that's one role I would do, right? Let's say the white is rolling now. You guys would be it, right? So you guys roll, you get three and a one, right? Now think about what you're going to do with a three and a one. Three, one, remember these things are two numbers apart, right? The difference is two. So if you have any pieces that are two apart, that means you can lock up a spot, right? So check this out. One, two, three. So you would say eight to five and six to five, three and one.  So now if I get a five and a four, this guy is stuck. It can't move. Right? I can try to figure out how the piece, I roll. Four and a three, right? This guy can't go four, right? Because it goes one, two, three, four. It can't go there. That's already locked up. It could go three, right? So there's a three I have there. The four, if I go three here, the four is one, two, three, four. I can't go there, right? Am I going to open that up? Maybe, but I don't think so. What I'm going to do is I'm going to do this. I'm going to go one, two, three, four, and then I'm going to go one, two, three. I'm just going to bring a piece from there to here, okay? You guys roll. Four, five, right? From here to here is a five. One, two, three, four, five. That's not a bad move. And a four here is not a bad move, right? So one, two, three, four. Or you could go four here and then one, two, three, four, five, right? Come over here. You try to run.  But if I was you, I would do this because if you get another two dice that are close together, like two difference, you could zap a spot here, but you would leave this open if you have to use this up. So it's a good idea to keep three on here if you can, okay? I take one to go across the board. It reminds me of the one to 100 game. This game. Oh no, you guys are talking about a different game. Okay. My roll, right? You played a five and a four. Five and a two, right? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do exactly what I said. Oh, you're talking about the, talking about backgammon. If you're playing five and a two, or if I'm going to play five and a two, I'm going to bring this here. Make this a triple as well, right? As for the two, I'm going to play this. Okay, one, two. Thank you very much, Eric. It's been in the family for 50 years, at least, at least from the 1960s. Okay. I think one question on everybody's mind is, can you cheat at backgammon? Yes, okay. Your opponent can catch you, but cheating and backgammon doesn't help very much, really, because there's so many movements you're doing. And if you're cheating, the odds are you're not going to get too many games from other people. In general, I don't play with people who cheat in games. It's not fun, all right? I don't, sometimes they make a mistake and backgammon when you play rapid, you'll see in me and my grandma playing backgammon mistakes are sometimes made, right? But intentional cheating, I've caught some people cheating, especially when you play for money, right? And you got to keep a close eye, right? You got to keep a close eye. Now, who played? I played five on a two. Your role, double threes. Whenever you get a double, right? Whenever you get a double, it means you can play four threes, four of whatever doubles you get, right? So what's a good four double threes to play? Right now, you can take these two guys and go one, two, three. That's two doubles you played right there. So you knocked me down, right?  What I have to do with this piece is start back up here again. Okay, I'll show you how that works. When can you take your piece off the board? You can take, we haven't got there yet, you take your piece off the board only when you have all your pieces here and then you just have to roll one to six and you take out according to what you roll, okay? So you can only take out and this isn't the Greek version, Greek version, as long as you come out here, you can take it off and stuff like this. This is traditional version, right? Babylonian version, Mesopotamian version, Persian version, Armenian version, okay, Turkish version.  Your goal, one's goal are the opposite of the other, exactly, right? So once goal pieces are on the opposite ends, yeah, mine is here, yours is here, the white has to make it here, the black has to make it here, right? So you play two threes, you have two more threes left, right? So what are you going to do? This guy can't go, right? Because one, two, three, this is locked up. This guy can go one, two, three, and then one, two, three, come here, that's useless. I can bring one guy here, ask, he's not neither here nor there, or I can take two pieces, one, two, three, bring him there, right? So one, three, two, three, three, three, four, three, so I played four threes, so I played my double. It's my turn to roll. Now I have to be able to land here, right? If I roll a three, five, or six, I can't land, they're locked up. So I need to roll a one, two, or a four. I'm going to silently watch for a while and see if it starts to make sense, or coolio, it'll make sense, okay? Bipster, hey Chih-chou, I just passing by and I want to know if you know how to speak Guenia. No, I don't, I don't know what that is. So I'm going to roll, I need a, this game is such a good one, yeah amazing game, I need a one, a two, or a four, right? Good evening everyone, case man, how you doing? Why should we have three pieces in a row, like this? Okay, okay, have a nice day. Like this, because you can use this one without breaking your set, right? Without opening this up, because if you open it up, if I get a six and a one, I nail your piece and you start, have to start here. Wherever you get hit, you have to start here at the beginning, right? So my turn to roll one, two, four. I got a five and a three. I can't land, they're locked up, I can't do anything. It would be your roll. My kid is already saying, I'm hoping it'll be booping by the end of the stream. Are your poses a piece?  Should I put little dots on them to make it more visible? I could. Speedy Gonzales style. They have to use five and three or, hi, hi, hi. So whose turn is it? It's your turn, right? I couldn't land. You know what? I'm going to get stickies and put them on there. When you say here, where is that on the side? The one? Well, there's two different ones. There's a pink one here and there's purple one here, right? I mean, if you roll something, you have to use both the rolls. Yeah, and that's the thing, the dice can really mess with you as well. Also, maybe you should oil the board. It might help. It might help. You know what I'm going to do? Here, I'm going to roll. It's your roll.   Two and a one. What are you guys going to do with the two and a one? Two, one, two, one. Spot of T. How are you doing? Go from place 10 to eight and nine. From 10, which 10? Let's see. You guys aren't here. Go from place 10 to eight and nine. So you're going to go boop, boop, like this, you mean? That's a two and a one. Like that, you could. The 10 spot is worse to keep. So the one is the true master. Haha. Personally, this is what I would do. Right? Or I would do this. I would go one and a two. Okay. Wait, but we don't want a lone piece at the none. Not necessarily. Like that is not bad. But one thing you got to consider too, right? If you bring this piece here, that means you have a piece here that you can use to block spots if you get those nice rolls, right? Oh, what board games do I do? I have a video showing my board game collection. I play a lot of, right now we're going through like with the family, with our gaming group. We're playing a lot of Monopoly, believe it or not. And it's a phenomenal game. Absolutely amazing game. And we play variant rules. It's absolutely magnificent. I'm going to put green, green tape on your pieces. Okay. That way you guys can see them better. Good news. Doing well. Just found. Oh, where is this? I'm losing. Just found all my end of year exams. I have been officially canceled. Oh, wow. Okay. I'm going to set this up so we can continue the game. Apologies if I'm not reading the chats. I should have done this earlier, but we haven't played this for a while, so far. I forgot that it was harder for you guys to see it because I haven't oiled this thing as was mentioned. It's a beautiful game, this game. If I had to choose one game to play for the rest of my life, as long as I have the right opponents, backgammon would be it. Okay. The trick with backgammon is finding someone to play with that you really enjoy. Oh yeah, monopoly variant rules. Oh, by the way, I have the stats for the monopolies.  Actually, they're already loaded, but I'm going to release. If you guys have been around a while ago, a couple of years ago, two or three years ago, I had our gaming group come here and we played back monopoly live. We did a weekend of live streaming monopoly with the variant rules, and I haven't released the original live streams on YouTube. I released them on BitShoot only just because YouTube was dinging people for releasing Twitch streams and stuff like this, but because we're in pandemic zones, pandemic time, I'm going to release those live streams. There's 17 monopoly live streams that I'm going to release on YouTube. Okay. They're fun, phenomenal, and I miss playing monopoly. That's the other board game that I've been playing every two weeks with our gaming group. My board game activity is basically playing monopoly with our board game group and playing backgammon with my grandma and playing backgammon with you guys, right? 17 chichos and cousins playing live stream monopoly for money. Okay, did we get them all? We got them all. Nice, nice, nice. Let's play backgammon. So you got a two and a one. What were you guys going to do? This guy here? Oh, this one was here. So should we go two, one? How come chichos doesn't have a boops of sound? I don't know. I don't know how to create a monopoly with real money. That actually sounds fun. It's fantastic. Coolio. So much fun. In chess harder than this or easier. Chess is a different game. Chess is a more complicated game, more complex game. It's more, it could be more intense game. The fun factor of backgammon. There are very few board games that even come closer to fun factor of backgammon. Once you go, right? Chicho, you play poker. Oh, yes. With your game group, we have. But I sort of retired from poker. I took poker to a certain level that I sort of went, I saw people losing a lot of money, writing blank checks and putting them in the pot and stuff. I saw a lot of people getting hurt in poker. So I walked away a little bit. A fancier stuff like a monopoly, et cetera. Whose turn is it? My turn, right? I need one, two, four. I got two and a five, right? So I get two and a five. Right? So the two is, the five is not open. I can't land there, but the two is open. So I go to 500 pounds on a monopoly live game. Nice. So there is a two and I have to play the five. So what I'm going to do with the five is I can come here and force the white player or the green player, you guys, to try to hit me here and maybe leave a piece open. But I'm not going to do that. I'm going to bring the five here. Okay. Your role, four and a one. That's not a good role on your part. One thing you could do is play risky, but try to set me back on serious notch, right? You could go four and a one. Now, the way we play is Persian version, right? Armenian version. If you hit a piece, it's illegal to escape. Okay. You can cover it up, but you can't hit and run. Okay. So no hitting and running in the core areas in your spot. However, you can hit and run in these two areas, right? So I can't hit and run here, but I can hit and run here, here or here, and you can't hit and run here, but you can hit and run here, here and here. Okay. So one thing you could do, you could go four and a one because you're still open. You're not covering up. So you nail two of my pieces, right? You're hoping that I don't roll and the next roll you get is a seven or a nine because a seven will cover this up and a nine will cover this up, right? So I'm going to roll the dice. Two and a one. I land. That was a, that was a worst case scenario for you, right? Or for me, the white guy playing right now because you guys aren't really doing the movements. I'm playing just to show you how it's working, right? So it's not on you. If things go wrong, it's on me. That is a higher knowledge. I'm missing some chat, but I'm going to continue this. That way we can play a game together, right? Your roll. Six and a three. Check this out. That's a bad roll. Or I shouldn't say your roll yet, but it is because you guys are going to play it. Six and a three. If you look at here, the three and the six is covered, so you can't land, so you can't do anything. My roll. Four and a six. Check this out. This to here is a six and here's a four. And that's one thing that happens with backgammon. One wrong move. Laugh out not going to ring. One wrong move can really set you back, right? Your roll. You have two pieces you have to land now. Two and a three, right? Two and a three. Both two and three are taken. You can't land. This is serious pain right here. It's kind of like war. Stealing your opponent's land then going home. To a certain degree, I've never played war, but it sounds exactly the same. My roll. Four and a one. Here's what I'm going to do, right? Because you already have two pieces up, I'm going to try to eliminate you right off the bat, right? So I'm going to hit the one here. Okay, I can't cover, right? Like I'm stuck. I can't cover. This guy can't move four. That guy can't move four, so I'm going to move a four here. That gives me more opportunity to cover this up if you can't hit this right now. Now, your roll. You need to get a five, really. You need to land, okay? And you need to hit this guy. Four and a three, okay?  You can land a four. You can't land a three. You can't do anything else. My roll. For me, two and a one, I hit this guy. Four and a one, I hit this guy. Five and a one, I hit this guy. Five and a four, I hit this guy, cover up. Four and a two, I hit this guy, cover up. Double ones, I hit this guy and cover up. So there's a few rolls that might hurt you guys. Three and a one. Now, three and a one doesn't cover it up, but what I can do is just go three, cover this up, and I'm going to do a one here. Cover that up for now, okay? Your roll, five and a three. Five and three are both taken. You can't do anything. My roll. Six and a one. This guy can't go anywhere. This is a six, and here is a one. I'm going to move this guy here, okay? I'm hoping you don't land this round. You got a five and a one. You can't land a five where you can land the one. So you can't play the five, so you're stuck. That's all you got, right? I got to take this guy out. One of these guys I'm going to take out, no matter what, okay? Four, three. Check this out. This is a four, and here's a three.  My roll. Oh no, I'm sorry, your roll. Three and a six, no dice, right? You can't land. You're stuck. I'm going to try to take this guy out. Two and a one. I didn't even reach it.  And yeah, it's been on my watch list. This conversation is going on. That's good. Your roll. You guys need a one. You need to cover this up, because as soon as you cover it up, I can't hit it, right? That means you have at least one spot that you can land on. Can we cheat now? Not yet. My roll, six and a four, was it my roll? Whose roll was it? My roll or your roll? If that's your roll, that's not good, because four and a six you can't land. I think that was your roll, yeah? I lost track. Who's roll? Yours. My roll? Good. Go to replay. Go to replay. Six, I'm going to hit this, okay? And four, I'm going to bring this in so I can cover it up if you don't hit it. Your roll. Double threes. Would have been a nice roll if you had any pieces to play, right? My roll. Double fives. Here's one five. I've covered this whole lot. You can't land. So it's just my roll now, right? So that's one five. I got three more fives to play. Two, three, four. Okay? My roll. You can't roll because you can't land, right? So it's useless for you to roll. We do have the ability to clip it if we ever want to be sure. Okay, Coolio, keep track gang, because once we start playing, I'm just going to be rolling. Sometimes when I'm rolling, I lose track of if I'm rolling for you or me or whatever it is, right? So I continue to roll. Is this over if we can't land? Not yet. Not yet. You're in trouble, but it's not over yet. Because when I'm taking pieces off, I might, the dice, this is dice, I might have to just leave one spot open, one piece open. That means you can land and hit it. And I have to start back here with that one piece and try to make it back again. For us, that way it's easier to try. Yeah, watch this. So my roll because you can't land, right? Oh my God. Oh, check this out. Sorry for disturb. We can go on. Okay, check this out. It's not a disturb. It's question words, right? Now I roll double ones, right? This guy can't move because this is blocked. I can't go one, two, three. Like if a spot is blocked for you to move, you can't go, right? If I roll the two, I could have gone two, but I didn't. I rolled one, so I can only play once. I can play four ones. This guy can't go. This guy can't go because it's stuck. This guy has to move four pieces. If it has it, one, two, three, four. Perfect, right? If this guy was here, then I would have to go one, two. I still have to play two more ones. Then I would have had to open up, right? Luckily I don't because this guy was here, so I go one, two, three, four. Okay. I'm going to learn this ins and outs of this game in my own time.  Nice. Have you seen the royal game of you? No. I think you'll love it. I haven't seen it. No. Royal game of you are.  So I'm going to keep on rolling. Five and a two. Here's a five. Here's a two. I'm going to continue to roll. Double threes. One, three, two, three, three, three, four, three, right? Usually I would just go like this. Double threes, right? Now that I have all my pieces in my zone, my home base, whatever I roll, I'm taking off according to where the position is, right? Check this out. My roll, because you can't roll, you can't land. I roll four and a one. This is a four, right? Right here. And here's a one, right? This guy here. Now, when you're removing pieces, you have to consider what the dice can give you. You don't want to leave odd number of pieces on this end because if you leave an odd number of pieces on this end, the dice, the probability of dice giving you a number where you have to leave one piece unprotected becomes more. So you have to be careful with this. I could go one and a four, remove this, right? However, if I get double sixes or double fives, it means one man's going to be left unprotected. So I'm not going to do that. Instead of taking one and a four and a one out, because you don't want to do that, you don't want to leave a gap within your block, your wall, I'm going to do this. One, two, three, four, and a one. I'm going to move the pieces over here. I'm going to play safe, because the odds are if all of these three pieces now land, because my purpose right now is to get these guys out of here, your pieces out of here, because I'm pretty sure you're backgammon now, which means double game. If I finish all my pieces, removing all my pieces, and you haven't removed one piece, that's a double game. So if you were playing for favors, let's say, let's say one person buys the other person a movie, if you lost a double game, you got to buy two movies. That was always wins. He just got the crabs roll, fun crabs I missed too. My roll again, because you can't land. Four and a two. Here's a four, but then if I take off a four, I got to play a two, and if I play anything or remove a two, I leave a spot open. So I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do this. Here's two, here's four. So if you roll doubles, you obliterate it, optically to move those values four times. Exactly. You have to move four times if you move a roll doubles, any doubles. Now you can roll, because there is a spot open for you to land. I want you to land. I want you to move along. That way I can play my game, remove pieces without fear. Your roll, you didn't land. You got a four and a one. They're both taken. My roll. Six and a five. Now I don't have a six anymore. So I can take off a five for the six, and I have a five to take off.  So I remove five and a six. Now you have five and a six you can land on. I see. So there may be instances where doubles are not ideal, exactly twitching Jason. Doubles can seriously mess you up. And they can seriously put you at a huge advantage and bring you from behind to win a game. Your roll. Double fours. No dice. Four is taken. You can't do anything. My roll. Four and a two. Here's a four spot. I'm going to take this off, but I'm not going to take the two off, because if I take the two off, this is odd. The probability of me having to leave one thing unprotected on the next roll is seriously kicked up.  That way everything's even. So there's no way I could roll anything to have one unprotected piece left in the next roll. So it's not looking good for you guys, right? Because all my pieces are all basically stacking up here, which is good for me, right? Your roll. Four and a three. You don't land, right? Because they're both taken. Underrated, but do you like asterisks? The comic books? Yeah, for sure. Is that what we're talking about? The comic books from Belgium? European comic books? Is it Belgium? I think it's Belgium, isn't it? Oh yeah, for sure. When I was a kid I read those too. I had some of those comics as well, but I didn't bring them over. I just brought over Timpton. France, France, yeah. And the movies are fantastic. There's two movies, asterisks movies out. They're really good. They're super fun. They're animated movies. Okay. Your roll. Double twos. Nice doubles. Too bad you can't land, right? And you don't want to land right now anyway. Belgium. My roll. Three and a one. Now check this out. This is the three spot. If I take a three off, I've got to move a one here to make sure it's not left open, right? But I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do a little bit less dangerous move because you don't want to leave a spot open. I'm going to do this. One and a three. Okay. Now this isn't ideal for me because if I get two numbers that aren't doubles and they're three or more, then on the next roll, I'm going to have one open. Okay. Now for me, I want you to get double fours, double fives, or double sixes, so you get out of here. So you don't put me in that situation, right? Asterisks or the adventures of Asterisks. French. Asterisks. Is it Goloche? Goloche? Asterisks. The gold. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The gold. It's a French band. This series about, yeah, the gold is funny and the liquid they drink and the sage. It's fantastic. Okay. Your roll. Six and a one. Right? The one is taken. You can't land, but the six you can put one piece down. My roll. Four and a three. How unfortunate. Here is the three. Right? I don't have a four, so I have to take off from the three. Right?  Okay? You need to get a three. Send the vibes this way. Send the vibes this way.  Check this out. You got a three and a one. The one you can't land, but the three you hit me. Right? So now I can't take off any more pieces. This guy has to start here and make its way back for me to be able to take off more pieces again. Okay? We're still alive. You're still alive. Okay? Salut. Now we are sitting on 10. You may be lucky in your draw. Maybe. And by the way, right now, the game seriously changed because I have to be able to escape all these people and all your pieces to make it back here without being constantly knocked back again. Right? Difficult to do. Difficult to do. Okay. However, we'll see where we go from here. Lonely Piggy. How are you doing? Hey, Chico. How's it going? I see you've got some drinks and snacks as always. Always. I love drinks and snacks. I am still not sure what's going on in this game. You'll see how it plays out. This is, if this is the first time you're watching Backgammon, it's difficult to figure out how Backgammon's played in one go. Okay. Or to get a really good feel for it. My role. You just hit my piece, right? I want four and five to come here as far as I can. Or the black pieces in the winning areas. So far. However, I just got knocked. So we'll see. Four and a six. I can land the four, right? But the six takes me to here and I can't come to here, right? One, two, three, four, five, six. So four is it. I can't play the six. Okay. Hopefully you guys can see the dice. Your role. Now I'm hoping you don't land because I need just a little bit of time to make it back without you being able to hit me, right? So I'm rooting for you to get a two and one. You want to land. Double threes. What a nice role. Double threes. Here's one, three. Right? Now the name of the game is to make sure you don't allow me to move any pieces, right? Because if I get a double fives, check this out what double fives will do for me, right? One, five, two, five, three, five, four, five. I'm gone, right? You're not gonna pick six, move three. Pick six, move three, move it to here. I wouldn't do that. Okay. You nailed me one here, right? You can't afford to allow me to roll again. You need to hit me. Okay. So this is what I would do if I was you. There's two threes right there. So you're knocking me up. Okay. You're not knocking me up, but you're knocking me above the board, off the table, right? So I don't, the next role, I have to land and move, right? Now you could move the three here to give yourself more chance, bigger lap, more chance to cover this up. So you play two threes so far. I personally moved these two down there just to lock it up, just in case I get a four and a six again. Okay. Or you could move one piece there. So that's three threes you played and then move this guy here, which is not a bad idea. Distribute your pieces. Okay. My role, I want a four and a five or four and a three. I need to get out of here, right? Five and a three. I can't land your role, right? Now you want to cover this up. ASAP. Four and a one. Here's a four. That's done, right? The one split this. Distribute your pieces, right? My role. Physically impossible. My role? My role. You just played two and a five. Here's a two and the only five I have is this. Now almost anything you roll, you're going to hit me, except double fours, I think, right? Because double fours, you have to be here, here, here. Yeah, I'm hoping you get double fours. Yeah, double fours for you guys. Yeah? Oh, five and a three. So you do hit me. Here's a three and for sure you have to hit me. You can't afford to let me roll, right? That's a three and then you do five here to lock it up, right? Because if you lock this one up, too, if I land, I can't even move. So you're free to do whatever you want. Chichu's brain is too fast with this game. Calculating new super, case math. I've just been at this for so long. Like, seriously, this just comes, this comes more naturally to me than anything, I think. Okay. It's brilliant game. Love the game. Miss grandma. You want to see grandma? Here's grandma again. There's my grandma. There's my partner I play back at when with. And she was sitting here, by the way, when we're doing the live stream for this, and the camera was set up this way, right? Grandma, grandma. Okay, whose role is it? Whose role is it? I think it's my role, because you just hit me, right? I want a two and a five or one and a six. Two and a five. Nice. Two and a five. Sweet, sweet. I am seriously hoping that you guys get double ones, double twos, or two and a one. So you don't land, that means you can't move, right? Tonight, I feel, Martin, you'll pick this up. Martin, you got a numbers game, numbers mine. You'll pick this up quick, but you need someone to play with to improve your game, really, goes a long ways, right? Your role. You want anything with a three in it, numbers, numbers, so many numbers, right? Four and a three. Now you could land a three, but the four wouldn't hit, so you're going to land a four, and you're going to hit me with a three. I need a two and a five again, or one and a six. Yeah, multitasking. You're modding as well right now. Hopefully the mod, it sounds like the chat is pretty chill. We're not getting too many craziness going on, which is fantastic. Discord crew, we need to find a good free online client to play this. Yeah, backgammon man, it's amazing. I played online a little bit too, but there's something about the dice rolling on wood. Yo, let's go. I used to play so much younger with my dad. I thought everyone knew that. Void, I'm amazed. Everyone doesn't know backgammon. And by the way, hi Void, how are you doing? My role, two, five, six, one. Two, six. Two, six brings me here. I can't move. You need a five or six to hit me, because you can't afford for me to roll. Or you need a three and a six. You need a nine to lock this up. Once you lock this up, I'm done for, right?  Your role, double twos. This is not going to work. One, two, three, four. It doesn't do it. So you're going to hit me. One, two, three. That's three twos. You got to play one more two. Just to be on the safe side, because I've gotten two and a five before and a two and a six before, take one of these guys up. Here, take this guy up. Just in case I get a two and a six, right? Your role. Oh, my role. Sorry. I needed two and a five. Two and a five. Chicho. My girlfriend has come over. Nice, Martin. Say hi to her. And if she's into playing backgammon, teach her backgammon with this. Otherwise, have a good evening, brother. Good evening, brother. My role. Two and a five. Oh, no dice. No dice. Four and a six. I can't land. Right? Your role. Double twos. Oh, no. Two and a one. Oh, my god. You don't even reach it. Two and a one. Look at this. You don't even reach it. Crazy, crazy. This is what I would do. I would do two. Whoops. I would do two here. And I would move one here. Okay. Get closer just in case I come out. Chicho, I'm just now tuning in. How does this game work? Oh, we're just going through it, Tristan. We're just going through the types of movements, if it's not enough. It's basically if you get doubles of anything, you have to move four pieces. If you get singles, you have to move that many. Right? A three and a one means you've got to move a three and a one. You have to. Right? If you get two things, pieces, they're blocked. You can't be hit. A solo piece can be hit. The rest of it will take a little bit of time for me to explain. We're going to play a game together as soon as we're done and we're close to being done this game. I missed the beginning. I definitely need to see the setup. Okay. Valians, how you're doing? Thank you very much for the Twitch Prime. So my role. I need a two and a five or a two and a six. I need to hit, get out. Okay. Oh, double threes. No dice, no dice, no dice, no dice. Your role. One and a five. Oh my God. You still don't cover that, but you can do this. Five and a one. So you're locking up the one, one spot. So not only have just the two spots to land on. Right? Valians, it's been a while, hoping everyone is safe and well. You as well, Valians. My role. I need a two and a five. I need to get out of town. Right? Oh, no dice. Four and a six. Right? Your role. Three and a two. Now you're going to move this piece closer here, just in case I land and come out. Right? So I would do a three and then I would do, actually I would do a three here. I would move a two here. Okay. My role. Hello, hello, doing all right. Oh, no dice. Four and a six. Right? Four and a five. Sorry. Your role. Five and a six. I would move this guy here. Six and five. Five. Okay. My role. I need a two. Oh, no dice. Three and a five. Your role. Oops. Double ones. That's not a good role. Here. Let's do three here and two. One here. Okay. Just get closer. Line them up. You want to bring a piece here so you can do cover this guy up. Right? Do you know where the term no dice comes from? No, I don't know. Atlas brood. Where does it come from? My role. A two. No dice. Four and a six. Your role. Five and a two. Oh, look at this. You can't even move there. Two and a five. You're going to do this. Two and a five. Just in case you get a three one. The phrase no dice originally in America in the early 20th century, gambling was illegal in several states, making pro gamblers take care to hide their dice or even swallow them if challenged by authorities. Course would often throw gambling cases out if no dice were in evidence. No way. That's how absurd prohibition is, right? People have to swallow dice not to get arrested. What? That is cool. Whose turn is it? My turn? My turn, because you just came here, I think, right? I needed two. Oh, no, no, no. Four and a six again. I'm getting so many four sixes. Your role. Four and a five. Check this out. Here is a four and here is a five. Now you have more pieces here to cover this up, which is good. That's exactly what you want. My role. Two. Nope. Five and a one. Okay. Your role. Four and a three. You're not going to move that in. Oh, this is it, right? Check this out. Four and a three. Now it's your role. I can't land. I wonder if they made digestible dice from that hand case. One of your math websites in the 420 math with the slogan, learn math and prohibition, what does that mean? That's a series I want to create on the mathematics of prohibition. I haven't got around to it, Atlas Brute. I don't think I've made any videos on it. I might have put one out, but I want to make a whole series on the mathematics of prohibition, basically look at, collect the data just the same way we're doing for COVID, just the same way we're doing for dice and graph it and talk about the ratios and stuff like this. I am very anti-prohibition, by the way, right? So right now I can't land. So I'm in the position you guys were where I can't play. So it's just your role now, right? Six and a two. Two and a six. Now you have to be sort of careful when you're moving in. You want to account for double sixes or double five, so you don't accidentally leave one piece open, right? So for example, watch this. If you get double sixes right now, one goes here, two goes here, three goes here. No, you're okay, okay? Hasn't prohibition ended? Not everywhere, right? And not prohibition on everything, right? Your role. Two and a three. Here's two and that wouldn't be a good move. I would do this, two and a three, right? And you're in general the way we play, you can't take back. Your role, six and a two. Two and a six. The one on drugs comes to mind, exactly. Your role still, I still can't land. Five and a three. Now the way you want to do this is, I've already got a head start, check this out. I already have five pieces off the board, right? You want to make sure I don't get away fast enough to get ahead of you, right?  If you play three, you're going to move five. If you play five, you can take off a three, but you're not going to do that because that would leave an odd here. So the probability of you leaving an unprotected piece open stays. You don't want to do that. So you're going to go, personally, I would do this three and a five or it was like this, I think. Yeah, I would do five and a three. That's even better. Your role still, two and a one. Two and a one. This is off the board, by the way, right? It's not hit, so you're taking pieces off now. I'll put your pieces here. Your role still, because I can't land. You've hit one of my pieces. I can't land. I can't move. Five and a one. Now, check this out. This isn't a great role for you. You could go five and then move up one, but that leaves a gap. You don't want to do that. You'd rather do this, one and a five. There's less probability of you leaving something open because it's full. Yeah. Yeah. My role now, because I can land, right? I want double sixes. I want to go, I want to go ASAP. Even though you have an odd number of pieces, you might leave something open. I don't want to hang around. I got five pieces off the board.  Six, no dice. You don't want to get a five and a six, five and a four, four, four and a six. You don't want any of the two large numbers together, right? Or double sixes, double fives or double fours because you're going to leave a spot open, right? A man unprotected. Four to one. Perfect role. One, four. Right? Now you have two pieces off the board here. Let's put these here so you see what's going on. These are my pieces I've already taken off. Those are your pieces, right? I need to run. I need a six. Six and a two. Six and a two. Your role. Five and a two. Now you can remove pieces freely without worrying about me hitting them. Five and a two, right? I need doubles. Big doubles. Nice ASMR sound of your chain. Quite a funny hand. Five and a two came off, right? My role. Double. Five and a three. Here's a five. Here's a three. Okay. Your role. No, you're not disturbing. Oh, you need the number that it says on the board. Yeah. And if you don't have that number, you can take one below it, right? As long as you don't have anything on the other side of it. If you have bigger numbers, you've got to play it. Wait, wait. I'm starting to remember that I played Mojang in Hong Kong as a kid. Nice. I'm listening and head speakers and need to turn around all the time. Turn around. Whose role? Your role. Oh, double sixes. Look at the sweetness you got, right? Was it your role or my role? Double sixes.  You get to play four sixes, right? That's the way you could cheat. Hey, my role. So you don't have a six, right? That means you can remove pieces below. You can remove four sixes. Well, here's four pieces. Gone. The odds of me coming back from this are slim. So four pieces down. So check this out. I have five pieces off. You have eight pieces off. I need to get doubles. I need to get double sixes, double fives. Wow. That's a nice role. That is a phenomenal role, right? Double means four. Double means four. It's double the amount. Hey, that's a great way of saying it. My role. Come on, baby. Oh, we lost the die here. What was it? Oh, we don't want three and a one. Well, John is very similar. Nice comeback. Oh, five and a four. So close to double fives. Double fives would have been sweet. So here is one, two, three, four and a five, right? That's on the five spot. It goes off. Your role. Oh, double sixes. I'll check this out. There's four off. Now, there's absolutely no way for me to win right now. Double, double sixes. Yeah. So even if I get doubles, double sixes, double fives, double fives, double threes or double twos, I would remove these four, right? Let's say you don't get a double, you remove two. Even if I get doubles, the maximum number I can remove is four. And the next row you remove, you're done. But let's roll anyway. Let's use up your double wax, see where it goes, right? My role. Four and a three. Like there's no way I could win, right? Your role. Five and a two. And my role doesn't make a difference what I roll. I came back for almost losing. I came back from almost losing that one. Like this game. Nice, snake eyes. It doesn't matter. If I roll anything, it's all yours. Six and a four.  That's the game of backgammon. That's the speedy Gonzalez version of the rules of how to play and whatnot. Let's have one of our cookies. Chocolate chip, whole wheat, coconut flour, honey, chocolate chip, walnut cookies with a homemade apple sauce. I hope you guys have good snacks. I hope you guys have good snacks, right? They go amazing together. Should I set it up? Should we play? Tristan, if you want that recipe, do chicho chocolate chip cookies. I've made two videos where we made chocolate chip cookies, honey chocolate chip cookies, okay? One of them is a recorded version, I believe. Yeah, I believe one of them is a recorded version. And the other one is a live stream. Coconut flour. Yeah, it's coconut flour is dry, right? So it goes amazing with the apple sauce, right? And coconut flour behaves differently. So it gives it a coconut taste as well, right? So it's like coconut chocolate chip honey cookie with walnuts and apple sauce. You don't need to use wheat, Martin. I think one of the recipes we made, we made it, I don't know if we've done a gluten-free version, but I think we've done gluten-free version of cookies.  Like it flipped around, right? Like huge flip.  Was it late to me? Good night. I don't even know how to pronounce your name. Fait? Good night, Fiat. Thank you for popping in. Okay, now let's play backgammon. Okay, nifat. Thanks for dropping in nifat or milk. Oh, I don't use milk, Martin, in my cookies. I use flour, coconut oil, so no butter, okay. So I use coconut butter, coconut oil, and I use, this has two eggs, it's a big platter, so it has two eggs in it. That's it, right? So there's no dairy in this other, well, there's no dairy, period. Cool, I actually missed the setup in the beginning. This is the standard starting layout. This is the standard starting layout, Jason, okay? And we roll to see who goes first, okay? Now remember, we're going to roll and you guys use the numbers to tell me what you want to move, right? But we're, at the beginning of a game, we roll to see who goes first, and then during the day, okay, if we continue playing, whoever won gets to go first. So actually, you guys won, right? So you get to roll first, okay?  Autumn olive liqueur, it should be safe for you and you can, instead of wheat flour, I've made these cookies with coconut flour and tapioca flour. Coconut tapioca. Tapioca gives it a squishy feel. It's pretty good actually. Scotch. Kampai. What's Kampai? Kampai, Kampai, Kampai. Oh, Kampai is the salute. It's Kampai. It's Japanese, no? Or Korean. Bonjour from Quebec. Void, Void. So you guys are rolling. You got four and a one. What do you guys want to do? Four, one. Great way to learn the game, by the way. I'm heading to sleep.  Awesome Connor. Thanks for popping in. Hope you have amazing dreams. Because it is late in Europe. Two to eight. 12 to eight. 12 to eight. You have a screenshot. Nice. So four goes here, and then one there. Okay, that's a good play. My roll. Oh, it landed on the above thing, not on the flat. So I got a roll again. Switching to laptop as the animal crossing virus has taken a hold of me. I've heard it's an amazing game. Four, two. Four, two. Your roll. Three, one. What are you going to do with three, one? Void, you want it? Three, one. What should we do? 12 to nine. That's where you want to go? There's a better move out there. Anyone second in this? Anyone second in this? This is one of the best rolls you could get at the beginning of the game. Okay, I got two fingers of single mound. We went yet. Help, help. Watch this. Should I give you a hand? One, two, three, and a one. All right. That's one of the ideal rolls. At the beginning, three, one, four, two, five, three, and six, four, cover these spots, right? Three, one, four, two, five, three, six, four, and a six, one covers this. Okay. So that's what you really want to do. Cannabis, wine, and beer here. The happy camper. Cool you. My roll. Four, six. Six, four. Okay. Can we stack your two fingers? Left frog. Oh, I like that. Yeah, better to keep them together than isolating the one piece at the nine. Yeah, 100% twitching, Jason. And you want to cover spots here. The reason you want to cover spots in your home territory, because that way if you capture one of somebody's piece, if you hit them, knock them off on top of the table, they're going to have a harder time to land because the spots are taken, right? I played six and a four. Your turn. Three, two. What are you going to do? Three, two. What should we do for three, two? Three, two. Oh, I shouldn't bring them on top of the board. You guys are looking at it. What should we do? Three, two. You got no answer? Three, two. Three, two. Three, two. Five takes you from here to there. You do have other things you could do. You could do three, eight to six. I would do this. I would go three, brings you here. And two, I would put it there. Or two, I would start moving this guy up. Okay. Six, eight. Oh, you want it to do this. Like this. But that leaves that one open, unnecessary. Martin. I would do three. And I would start moving this guy's over. Okay. Because I have a piece open here, you want to get into a range to be able to hit it. So you're going to make me concerned about this piece, right? So I'm going to try to cover this piece. Is there much risk of leaving a single in our territory, territory now? Here, not much risk. But in general, you don't want to leave a single here because I'll hit it. And you don't want to leave a single piece unprotected within a range of one to six. Right? If you keep your piece here, it's going to take both die for you to reach this. It takes a seven to hit this. Right? But if you bring the two here, that means you can hit this with a five. So I'm going to try to protect this. So you're forcing me into a move. Right? Because if you leave it here, I'm not as concerned about this piece as if this guy was here. So I would do this. Martin, sorry. You don't have to be. I'm pretty sure your first game is better than my first game. Right? Just two on our. So you're my role now. Right? Double threes. That's a nice role. So check this out. Because you played this, brought this here, I'm concerned about this. Right? So I get to play four threes. Right? If this guy was here, I wouldn't be as concerned. I would have done something else, but now I got to take care of this guy. Right? So this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to move these two pieces here. That's two threes. And to protect this guy, I'm going to go one, three, two threes. Bring it up here. Right? I wasted two threes just to cover that guy. I could have done this with the other two threes come in this spot, which would have been really good. Right? But we'll stay here. Your role. Five and a six. There's a great play for you guys to do right now with a five and a six. Five and a six is a good role to have at the beginning. What are you going to do with five and a six? Addictive. Twelve to eight? No. I wouldn't do that. By the way, I'm interfering when you're game because I want, I want to show you some of the good moves you could do. Here's what you do with a five and a six. Six and a five. This guy from here to there gone. Right? Or six to one. No. You don't want to leave pieces here.  You want to cover these guys first. Right? Ah, I was thinking two pieces, but that 11 is nice. Yeah. For sure. Six and a five. One piece gone. And you're protected. This guy's protected now. Right? In here, if you kept it there, if I got a five and a one, I would have hidden covered. Right? But now this guy's sort of useless for me to a certain degree. Right? Because you don't want to move all your pieces behind your enemies. Most of your pieces behind your enemies. That way you don't have any power, any pieces to do combinations of stuff. Right?  Right? So you can also reverse your pieces back into your territory. Reverse your, you can't go the other way. You guys can only go in this motion. Right? And I can only go in this motion. I can't go that way. Is that what you mean? So you can also reverse your pieces back into your territory. Cover my pieces. Yes. But I can't move the other way. If that's what you mean more. My role. Double twos, double twos. Double twos. I'm going to go two twos and two twos. Okay? Your role. Six and a one. Now check this out. This guy can't move because the one spot is taken and the six spot is taken. Even though six and a one makes a seven and from here, from here to here is a seven, you can't go that seven because both the one and the six are taken. If the six was open, you could do six one. You could go. But if you can't move into either spot, you can't move at all. Right? Invisibility in defense. Possibility possibility of victory in the attacks. Nice. My check model. Nice. Invisibility in defense. Possibility of victory in the attacks. Nice. Nice. So you got a six and a one. What are you guys going to do? 12 to six. 12 to six. That's the best move. There's the six. There is the one. Yeah. The kicker is if you cover this, if you do this, then you leave that one open. Right? And I can nail it with a four so you don't want to do that. This is the better move. It's the safest move. Right? My role. Double fours. Wow. I'm getting a lot of doubles there. Double fours. Not too bad for me because this guy can't move. Right? It couldn't move double twos and it can't move double fours. I want to double fives or double threes or double sixes. That would have been super sweet. So double fours. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to do two here. Okay. And I'm going to go three, four. Okay. Crap. I'm becoming invested in this game and I have to go, go in a bit. Oh no. We'll try to roll faster. Your role. Four and a one. What are you going to do with four and a one? Sorry, Chicho. My guess is distracting me tonight, your girlfriend. That's a nice guess to have, brother. That's a nice guess to have. Hello, girlfriend. Four and a one. What are you going to do? There's only one safe move to do really. 12 to eight. Yeah. My role. 12 to eight. We had it second. We had it third. Everybody saw it. Right? My role. Double sixes. Very sweet. Very sweet. Very sweet. Very sweet. That's two sixes. Here is four sixes. Okay. Rig dice. By the way, I haven't shown you this. These are dice that came with the, they didn't come with the board, but my grandparents, my, oh no, these aren't my grandmother's dice. These, no, no, don't worry about this, but this is cracked. Check this out. This is cracked. Right? So it's not fair dye, but we were both rolling with cracked dice. So it doesn't matter. Right? So double sixes, double sixes. I moved four sixes here. I'm sitting pretty now. Initially, we were even right now in my head. Okay. Your role. Five, three. Now you can do try to do a run. It might be a good idea because if I get a two and a three, I nail you and you're in trouble. If I get a six and a three and nail you're in trouble, but five and a three only takes you to here. Right? So you're leaving me out of two and I'm ahead of the game right now. Right? So you have to consider where you are right now. If you stay here, then if I don't get a good role, I'm going to stay, play safe. Right?  Problematic. Only two spots. And you're also behind in the game. You got three pieces here, three pieces here. I got two here and two here. Right? He's using the secret change of crack dice maneuver when he rolls. No one said magic or magnetics. So five and a three. What are you guys going to do with a five and three? Of course you could also do five, three or five, three cover spots. So you can run or you can hold me back. Five and or six move closer. Five and six move closer. Do over this side? Run for it. Personally, maybe I would do this. Five here and a three here. Right? I don't know of this. I agree. Three to eleven. Three to eleven. You're running. We've got two people saying running. It's good before that piece falls too far behind. Or perhaps twelve to eight and eight to five. Okay. What is the optimal play here? Run. We've got three people saying run. It really depends how lucky do you feel. Right? Do you think you can get doubles and get caught up to me? Or are you going to risk me nailing you with a two? Let's run. We've got lots of runners. So we got five and a three. Now I need a two. Right? So as I see it, move into your enemy's territory without leaving free spaces in your wake. Basically. Right? Yeah. My roll. Two. Oh, five and a one. Now I can't move that because it'll leave a spot open. So I'm just going to move these. Five and a one. Now you need doubles. Two and a three. So you have no choice on this one. For sure, you got to do a three here to get rid of that guy. Now, what's your two move? You can either move this here or that there. Same move really. So as I see it, move into your enemy's territory without leaving. Yeah. So three, two. Why not? And when you're running, by the way, each segment is a step forward. Okay. Each segment is a good place to go. Right? So this moves your head one segment. That means basically with a six you can move into the next territory. Right? I'm just sure about the dice throw. My roll. Six and a two. I'm going. Here's a two. Here's a six. I'm ahead of the game. I'm not even going to hold back. Right? Your roll. Two and a three.  How many can you stack on one spot? As many as you like. Right? You could, hey Padre, how are you doing? Padre, Padre, Padre. You can stack as many as you like. Right? You have to play one but can ignore the other dice. No, you have to play both. You have no choice unless you can't move the second dice. So two and a three. Personally, it doesn't really make a difference if you do this. But what you can do is this is two spots away. So you want to get in here. You want to maximize your return. So you would move this as a two and move this as a three. 12 to 10. Yep. And what was the other one? One to 11. There was no one to 11. 11 to 8. 8 to 6. 8 to 6 for sure. But you don't want to move from here to here because if you get a five, this guy automatically enters here. So you're wasting one movement. When you're running, you're thinking segments now. The game has changed for you the way you're perceiving things. You want to jump from one territory to the next, one quadrant to the next. So you're not going to waste any moves moving a three spot from there to there while you could move a three from here to here or a three from here to here. That's the same deal. But this one can go to here with a two or right with a two spot.  You're going to move this guy here because it moves closer to here. Chichonians, I understand backgammon now. Nice one. My roll. Double ones. Here's one, two, three, and four. Double ones right now sucks, right? Your roll. Six and a five. It's not bad. It's pretty good. Yeah, the finer details is the key for backgammon. Really, the finer details just like almost anything. You can learn 90% of the game. It's the other 10% that matters, right? Five and a six. What are you guys going to do? 12 to eight. Sure. 12 to seven. 12 to seven is better, right? Because that gets you closer, fills the one spot so with the one you can move in. And then I would move this guy because the five goes from there to there. That's the closest you can be to get in there, right? Bring home 12 for sure. Just like chess. 10 to four. You could do 10 to... Well, 10 to four is a six spot. You'd rather go six spot to fill this. You're very good at chess. Yeah, I bet Martin, right? So I would do this. Five.  Which really sucks, right? Because you don't have the pieces here. So if you get small numbers, you've got to play inside, right? My role. Six and a five.  It's math on a board. It's math on a board. 100%. Your role. Oh, double ones. Nasty role. Nasty role. And right below it is double sixes, right? But you got double ones. What are you going to do? Double ones. Are you going to move these pieces? No, because they don't kick you into the next zone, right? So you're going to play the double ones with these guys. Here's one. Here's two. Here's three, right? Are you going to move these guys? No, you're going to move this guy to move closer. So if you get another one, you can move it here, right? I got to sleep now. Have a good evening, fellas. Good evening, Valens. Thank you for popping in. Thank you for the Twitch Prime sub, okay? Appreciate it. Like backgammon. Like backgammon is base's math used with treachery. Martin, treachery is the name of the game, right? My role. Two and a three, right? I have the three, right? The three can come off. Oh, no, that's a two. My bad. I have the two, right? The two can come off. I have to play it three. Now, I'm not going to play this as a three because that's already got pieces there. I'm going to try to fill these two guys because that way, if I roll the dice and a one or a three comes up, I can take pieces off and usually try to move the furthest ones out closer. So three goes there. Your role. Oh, brutal roles, brutal roles. Look at those two and a one. Nasty, nasty, nasty, right? The reason you had this piece here, because this guy can enter here with one role, with a one, right? Dang, slinging them dice. Here's a two, right? My role. Six and a one. Here's a six. I don't have a one, but I'm going to split this up. So I cover the one. I have a piece of one. So right now in the next role, I can take, no matter what I get, I've at least removed two. There's no holes. Know your enemy, find the weakness, exploit it. Yeah. Backgammon, huge, huge in this by the way, huge, huge, huge. Some people have a certain style of playing. You can counter their style. Okay. Double sixes. You need double sixes, case man. Oh, five and a four, better than two and a one. Geez. Five and a four, right? So five goes in, and a four goes in, right? So now you can start removing pieces. You need a lot of double sixes, and you need me to get low numbers. The only doubles we got were ones, like four doubles in the early game. Yeah, I'm crying. My role. Calling doubles, are you? Double fours for me. Sweetness, sweetness, right? So double fours, I get to play four fours, right? Yeah, for sure. Art of war to a certain degree, right? So I get to play four fours, one, two, three, right? And I have one more four left. I'm going to move a sixth piece to a two piece, two spot, okay? Your role. Swing it, swing it nice for you guys. Didn't work, didn't work. Four and a two, right? So you have the four spot, four comes off, two, break the six, right? Like the odds of you winning right now are really, really, really slim. More slim than the previous game, right? My role. Oh, snap, crackle, pop. Double sixes. Fast players, piler, definitive, attacking, and the Mr. Nix Blitzet, come on. Cheat, you're killing us. One, and I don't have any more sixes, so I take off from the fives. Boop, right? Four pieces comes off. Like there's absolutely no way you could win right now, but let's roll. Geez, really. I scripted, I swear. Your role. Oh, four and a two again, nastiness. Here's a four and a two, you break the six again. What are we rolling? What are we rolling? Oh, double fours. I don't have a four spot, so I played a five and I got three more fours. Here's three more fours, right? Like people won't walk away right now, basically. Your role. Oh, you got double fours. You only got one four. I'm done. You got one four, right? Here's two fours. Here's three fours. Here's four fours. No matter what I roll, this is done, right? And six and a one. Boop. Great game, great game. Chicho with the back to back doubles. Yeah, the doubles, once they start coming, is so weird. Like I said, Chicho, I see numbers rather than the game. Yeah, for certain things, I only see numbers as well, right? But for background, certain games is the games. It's, I've played them so much that the number is just, is a language now, right? It just flows. It's fantastic. It's fantastic. Fun game, gang? A fun game? I hope you like. I hope you like. Wow, we're at this two, two hours uptime. We're at two hours. We are. We started at four or six o'clock. Wow, wow, wow. It's a fantastic game, case man. It's a fantastic game. And if you, you want to see how the game is played, like how me and my grandma play, more streams of this in the future. For sure, Void, for sure. I think we're going to do. I'll, I've been holding off on doing them. I don't know why, just because we've had so much stuff that I want to, I want to put out. This sort of went on a back burner, but I forget who it was. I think you're watching right now with your son. Who is it? I forget who it is. Oh my God. But someone requested us play backgammon and I included it in the set of streams that we were doing. Games are a substitute for war. Yeah. Yeah. I'm 100% going to watch the grandma videos now. Do you guys play 421 in North America? I don't know 421. Case man, I think. 421. I don't know 421. Okay. And just to let everyone know again, Patreon is where I load the stuff, keep people posted to a certain degree. 42, you can't post links. Only mods and myself can post links. Okay. So these, this video will most likely be uploaded either tomorrow or the next day on YouTube and Bitshoot and I'll announce it on Patreon. And if you want to support this project, Patreon is a fantastic way to support this project. We are live streaming this on Twitch, so if you want to watch these live, if you're watching this on Bitshoot or YouTube or somewhere else, Twitch is where you want to be at. Do you know what 1000 Borns is? The card game with traffic lights and no, I haven't played that game. I know a lot of card games, but I played it. Let me just rephrase. I played a lot of card games in my life, but mainly with a deck of 52 cards. Right. I do announce everything on Twitter, Gap, Mines, VK and LO. Okay. So I'm active there. The video is being uploaded to Bitshoot and YouTube. Everything goes on Bitshoot. Almost everything is going on YouTube right now. Okay. We're in times of pandemics, flatten the curve, give your healthcare workers a break. Okay. My guest needs attention now. She has been very patient. Thank you very much Martin's guest for being patient with our game. Okay. Martin, thank you very much for taking care of business and coming down. What time is it? It's like two o'clock in the morning for your brother. Your guest has been very patient. Oh my, oh my. Treat her well. Yes. Go, go greet her. 100%. I have gloves. I've heard lotion is really good to protect you. Hey, Baked. How are you doing? How's life? And if you want to, here's our backgammon playlist. I'll post it on chat and the link will be in the description of the video. Okay. If you want to see some of the backgammon videos we put out, the first one was us. Take a look at my grandma's backgammon board and then we played six rounds with grandma where I videotaped it. I had the numbers, the roles showing up so you can follow the game really well because we're collecting data on dice. Okay. Here's my grandma. This is my backgammon partner. I've been playing with her since I was a wee, wee, wee little one. Right. Probably when I was like six years old, seven years old, I was playing backgammon with my grandma. Right. So 45 years of playing backgammon grandma. Now all I see is silence of the lambs, the gloves. Oh no. I hope not. And here's the dice video we put out regarding the probability distribution of dice. Okay. And we are going to link this up with ASMR math 100%. Right. And we already have, in a big way, when we looked at the probability distribution of the lice, the lotion, I know. I'm going to be careful what I say. And here's the actual probability distribution of dice. And we're going to explore this a lot further. Right. Including with backgammon as well as another video we put out which was sort of simplified craps version, street craps we ended up calling. And it's a great game, fun game to play. Right. And at some point, we will definitely create a whole series on, on craps. Okay. Fill the whole screen. It is what it is looking for. Oh no, Martin, don't do it. Well, actually, maybe do do it. It could be fun depending on how you end up using it. Right. You don't have to go silence of the lamb on the, on the deal. Right. It puts the links on the screen. Wait, stop. Aside from that gang, thank you very much for being here. Moz, thank you for taking care of business. We have a live stream tomorrow, 4 30. And I think we're doing finance economics, personal finance and economics, I believe. But if we go to our discord, let me find that on our discord. What's our schedule in discord? I think it's, I believe it's 4 30. And we're going to talk about personal finance, investing in economics, I believe. Oh, no, it's a drop in math tutoring session tomorrow. Oh, yeah, we're doing math tomorrow. 4 30pm math. Okay. If you got math questions, if you need help with math, high school mathematics, drop by. Okay. We'll do whatever we can to help you out. It starts at 4 30pm pacific time, my time. So if you need help, you want to drop by. Thank you very much, Caseman. I totally forgot it was the math session. It wasn't the economics session. Perfect stream as usual. Thanks for being, boy, thank you for popping by. My 40k needs investment. Oh my God. Math knowledge is life knowledge, people. Indeed. Next stream. I think it's the next one. Okay, next one is a personal finance, two days from now that we're going to do. I think it's 8 30pm or something. Right. So tomorrow, drop in math tutoring session. You need help with high school mathematics, and a lot of people need help right now because schools are closed and you tutorials and stuff like this. If you know someone that needs help, pass on the word. Tell them to drop by. We'll try our best to help them out for them to learn the material they need to learn to be able to understand what's coming next year. Okay. If they're continuing on with their math education, right? And there's a lot of people that are a little bit concerned right now. I know some of my students are concerned and I've picked up a few more students because they need the help. Okay. Awesome Martin. Okay gang. Good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon. Wherever you are, I hope you're taking care and enjoying your life and reducing your stress and realizing that things are going to pass. Storms come and go and we'll make the best of them. Okay. Have a good evening folks. Be blessed. Be blessed. Really fun time guys. Good night. Good night. Good night. Many of my friends are home schools. Yeah. Yeah, I have, I know a lot of people. Peace. Enjoy. Good night everyone. Bye. 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We saw some very interesting market moves this week that just show how important it is for investors to follow very closely everything that happens in the US. So in Europe, we saw stocks rise as bond yields finally cooled. And that was after surging for the last few months. And that was happening even before the latest rates decision from the Fed. That's because the US Treasury has slowed down its planned sales of longer-term securities, probably in response to those higher yields that we have been seeing in recent months. And then when the Fed announced it would hold rates steady for now, US stocks surged, coming back from what was quite a week October. Now, Jerome Powell didn't rule out another rate hike before the end of the year, but investors seem pretty confident. The FTSE 100 and the European stocks climbed even higher after the announcement. They don't seem to think that interest rates are going up in the States for now.