Two players, thirty checkers, two dice.

01

Roll to move. Two dice, two numbers. Each number moves one checker that many points forward, and a double moves it twice.

02

Watch the bar. A point with one checker on it is a blot. Land on it and that checker goes back to the bar and has to re-enter the board before anything else moves.

03

Bear off to win. Bring all fifteen checkers into your own board and take them off. First one with nothing left on the board wins.

One game of backgammon decides the shop.

L'Eterna Vacanza is a leather bag that opens into a backgammon board, and this is the game that guards it. Play one game against the house: win and the collection opens, lose and you are welcome back tomorrow. The board is a real one — thirty points, fifteen checkers a side, and the rules you would play at home, the bar and bearing off included.

The bag underneath it is cut from full-grain leather in Italy and made in Colombia. Unfolded, it is a complete board; folded, it carries fifteen cream and fifteen black checkers, four dice and a doubling cube in a pocket of its own. It is the object the game is protecting, and you can look at it first if you would rather not play for it.

Nothing here is a puzzle. Move your checkers into your home board and bear them off before the house bears off its own. Doubles give you four moves instead of two. A checker left alone on a point can be hit and sent to the bar, where it has to come back on before anything else moves.

The leather: Full-grain, from Italy
Made: In Colombia
The set: Fifteen cream, fifteen black, four dice, a doubling cube
The price: $600

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