backgamon Rules - Raccoons
Another common rule that follows the beaver rule is a raccoon simply means that once a player had said beaver to an initial double and the opponent believes that was a mistake and wants to take advantage of it he can then call a raccoon and double the cube once more.
Similar to beavers, raccoons are commonly allowed when backgamon is played for money game by game, and usually not allowed in matches.
If you want to learn more about backgamon rules, you can read more articles about backgamon :
- backgamon Rules - The doubling cube
- backgamon Rules - Beavers
- backgamon Rules - Raccoons
- backgamon Rules - Jacoby Rule
- backgamon Rules - Crawford Rule
- backgamon Rules - Automatic doubles