tavla
Noun
Meaning
tavla (usually uncountable, plural tavlas)
(backgammon) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.
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The other variant kız tavlası (meaning girls' tavla) is a game that depends only on the dice and involves no strategy.
There is another variant called asker tavlası (meaning soldiers' tavla) where the pieces are thrown to the board randomly and the opponents try to flip their pieces over the opponents' pieces to beat them.
The usual tavla is also known as erkek tavlası meaning boys' or men's tavla.