Backgammon hitting: blots and the bar
In Backgammon a single checker is a blot. Land on one to hit it and send it to the bar, and learn how checkers come back in from the bar. How Backgammon works Ā· lesson 3 of 4.
The lesson in words
You canāt land on a point with two or more of your opponentās checkers. That point is blocked, or made.
But a point with just one opposing checker, called a blot, is open. Land on it and you hit it: the blot goes to the bar in the middle and has to start again.
Ivory has left a blot on point 10.
Try it: Hit the blot.
Now one of your checkers is on the bar. Before you move anything else, it must come back in, on your opponentās home board at the top right. A 1 enters on point 24, a 2 on 23, and so on down to a 6 on 19.
You rolled 6 and 4. Point 19 is blocked, so the 6 canāt bring it in.
Try it: Bring your checker in from the bar, then play the other die.
Hit lone checkers, and come in from the bar before anything else. Next: bearing off.