Backgammon 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 backgammon is played for money game by game, and usually not allowed in matches.
If you want to learn more about backgammon rules, you can read more articles about backgammon :
- Backgammon Rules - The doubling cube
- Backgammon Rules - Beavers
- Backgammon Rules - Raccoons
- Backgammon Rules - Jacoby Rule
- Backgammon Rules - Crawford Rule
- Backgammon Rules - Automatic doubles