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45 lines
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A backgammon clock for two players sharing one phone between them. Reserve time
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plus a fixed number of free seconds each turn that never carry over — the
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Backgammon Galaxy control. Defaults to 3:00 with a 12 second delay.
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It asks for no permissions at all. There is no network access, no analytics, no
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accounts, no ads, and nothing to configure before you can play. The whole clock
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is a single HTML file inside the app.
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<b>The delay is the point.</b> Most clocks give you the free seconds silently.
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Here a bar drains under the big number while they run, and a quiet tick tells you
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the moment your reserve starts moving. That is the moment worth hearing across a
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board.
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<b>How it works</b>
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* Tap your own half to end your turn and start your opponent's clock.
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* The waiting player's taps are ignored, so a stray hand can't stop the clock.
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* A tap registers when you lift your finger, and only if it didn't move — so
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swiping up to leave the app never costs anyone their turn.
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* Your clock runs until you lift, and holding past zero flags you.
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<b>Matches</b>
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Set the match length to any odd number of points up to 29. The time you set is
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per point, so a 5-point match at 2:00 a point puts 10:00 on each clock. Each half
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of the screen reads the score from that player's own side of the board, so both
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players see their own score on the top line.
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At one point there is no match to keep score of, and the score lines disappear
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entirely — you get a plain single-game clock with a move count.
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<b>It survives being closed</b>
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Settings and the match in progress are kept on the device: the score, both
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clocks, the move counts, whose turn it is and how much delay was left. Force-quit
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it mid-match and it all comes back. The one thing it can't restore is time that
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passed while the app was closed, so it returns paused rather than charging anyone
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for the gap — a crash shouldn't decide a game.
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Pause freezes mid-turn and resumes exactly where it stopped, delay included.
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Reset takes two taps, so one stray thumb can't wipe a live match.
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Five colour schemes, three sounds generated on the fly, and the screen stays
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awake while you play.
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