Backgammon
Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games. Its history can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archeological discoveries in the Middle East, originally in Iran. It is a two player game where each player has fifteen pieces ("checkers") which move between twenty-four triangles ("points") according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to "bear off", i.e. move all fifteen checkers off the board. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games.
Mak-yek
Mak-yek (, ) is a two-player abstract strategy board game played in Thailand (formerly called Siam) and Myanmar (formerly called Burma). Players move their pieces as in the rook in Chess and attempt to capture their opponent's pieces through custodian and intervention capture. The game may have been first described in literature by Captain James Low a writing contributor in the 1839 work "Asiatic Researches; or, Transactions of the Society, Instituted in Bengal, For Inquiring into The History, The Antiquities, The Arts and Sciences, and Literature of Asian, Second Part of the Twentieth Volume" in which he wrote chapter X "On Siamese Literature" and documented the game as Maak yék. Another early description of the game is by H.J.R. Murray in his 1913 work "A History of Chess", and the game was written as Maak-yek.