Greece & Cyprus
In Greece, tables games are called tavli (related to the word tavla, meaning "board" or "table", and cognate to the Latin tabula). There are four major variants, portes, plakoto, fevga and asoduo. Portes resembles backgammon, with minor variations: there is no doubling cube, and a backgammon counts only as a gammon (called diplo, Greek for double). Plakoto is very similar to mahbusa or tapa, while fevga is similar to narde or the Turkish variant moultezim. The three are normally played consecutively, in three-, five- or seven-point matches.
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