It opens itself
Leave video on and the call is already running when the match starts — no frame to tap, nothing to accept. The clock and the dice wait until both pictures are up, so nobody loses a turn to a camera that took its time.
Backgammon · Live video · Real stakes
See the face
across the board.
Facegammon puts the other player in front of you — a live video call for the length of the match, on tables that cost real coins to sit at. Backgammon has always been half argument. This is the half every other app leaves out.
- 6tables
- 25–800coin stakes
- 1500starting rating
The reason it is called Facegammon
You are not playing an account.
You are playing a person.
Turn the camera on and the two of you are face to face for the whole match — the double offered with a shrug, the pause before it is taken, the face when the six they needed actually comes up.
Priced with the table
Half the stake, never less than 50 coins — 50 at the low tables, 400 at Diamond. Both players pay their own share, and if the person opposite is short you can buy the call for the table instead of losing it.
The first each day is free
Nobody knows they want this until they have had one shouting match over a lucky double six. So the first call every day costs nothing, and you decide about the rest afterwards.
Video is between the two of you. It runs on Facegammon's own server rather than a third party's, it is never recorded or stored, and it exists only for the length of the match. It is off until you switch it on, the switch lives on the home screen, and it applies to online matches against a person — the AI has no face to show you.
One door to every match
Choosing a table and choosing an opponent
is the same decision.
Pick your stake. Whether a human or the Facegammon AI sits opposite, the ladder, the level gate and the price of the seat are identical — so your coins mean the same thing wherever you spend them.
Matched in seconds
Queue at your stake and the lobby seats you against whoever is waiting there. No opponent about? The AI takes the chair at the same price, and the table — not another player — pays out your win.
Full backgammon rules
Hitting, the bar, bearing off, gammons, backgammons and the doubling cube — all of it, on a turn clock, with a pot that grows every time somebody reaches for the cube.
A rating that follows you
Every account opens at 1500 and moves with each result. Rank globally or against your own country, and watch the board you are trying to reach get closer one match at a time.
The ladder
Six tables. Stakes double at every step.
Both players put their stake up before the first roll and the winner takes the whole pot, plus a flat 10 coin win bonus. A cube or a gammon pulls more out of the loser — capped at what they actually hold, so nobody ever leaves a table in debt.
Copper
25 coins
- Pot
- 50
- Unlocks at
- Level 1
Bronze
50 coins
- Pot
- 100
- Unlocks at
- Level 2
Silver
100 coins
- Pot
- 200
- Unlocks at
- Level 4
Gold
200 coins
- Pot
- 400
- Unlocks at
- Level 6
Ruby
400 coins
- Pot
- 800
- Unlocks at
- Level 8
Diamond
800 coins
- Pot
- 1600
- Unlocks at
- Level 10
There is no free seat anywhere in the game. A new account opens with 500 coins — twenty games at the Copper table, fewer if they go badly — and the only way to the expensive tables is to keep winning at the cheap ones.
Levels
Winning counts double.
Every game you finish earns a point toward your level; every game you win earns two more. The early levels arrive quickly and then the curve steepens, so Diamond is a genuine climb rather than a week of idling.
- Level is derived from your record — nothing to claim, nothing to expire.
- Each tier above Bronze sits two levels further up the curve.
- Tournament prizes can hand you levels outright, on top of the coins.
Level 225 pts
Level 4225 pts
Level 6625 pts
Level 81225 pts
Level 102025 pts
The shelf
Play on a board worth looking at.
Boards and checker sets are bought with the coins you win. Each one is hand-measured so the checkers sit exactly where the inlay says they should — and once it is yours, it is yours at every table.
Checker sets are sold separately from boards — mix any pair you own.
Tournaments
Four, eight or sixteen players.
One bracket. One winner.
Pay the entry fee and take a seat — there is no level requirement, so a Copper regular can knock a Diamond player out in the first round. Win the bracket and the declared prize is yours: coins, levels, or both.
- Single elimination, two to four rounds depending on the field.
- Seats fill live; a bracket that never fills refunds every entry fee.
- Prizes are set per tournament and shown before you commit a coin.
Your first 500 coins are on the house.
Everything after that, you win.
Store links go live at launch.
Questions
Before you sit down.
Is there a free table?
No. Every seat in the game costs coins, against a person and against the AI alike. A new account is granted 500 coins to get started — about twenty games at Copper — and coins after that come from winning matches, tournament prizes, or the store.
What happens if I run out of coins?
You cannot sit at a table below your balance, so the cheapest seat — 25 coins — is the line. Win at Copper to climb back, take a tournament prize, or top up in the store.
How is the pot settled?
Both stakes are held the moment the match starts, so the pot is funded before the first roll. The winner takes it back doubled, plus a 10 coin bonus. If the cube or a gammon made the game worth more than a point, the extra comes out of the loser's balance — but never more than they hold.
Is the AI just a filler opponent?
It plays the same rules at the same stakes and it will punish a loose blot. The difference is only in who funds the pot: online, the two of you do; against the AI the table matches your stake, so a win pays even money per point.
How much does the video call cost?
Half the table's stake, with a floor of 50 coins — so 50 at Copper, Bronze and Silver, then 100, 200 and 400 as the stakes climb. Each player pays their own share, and either of you can cover both if the other is short. The first call each day is free.
Is the video recorded?
No. It is relayed through Facegammon's own server, not a third party's, it is never written to disk, and it ends with the match. The camera stays off until you turn it on from the home screen.
Which devices does it run on?
Android, iOS and Windows, from a single build. Your profile, coins, skins and rating follow the account rather than the device.