Someone help me out here. I simply don't understand how the score is calculated here. I've been playing backgammon for years and always the score is based on how many stones your opponent has left after you have bared off your last one, let's say the standard value of a stone is 5 points, then double x 2 will be 10 points, double x 4 20 points and so on. Here, I have entered games with XXX points, lost a double x 2 game and won a double  4 game and come out with two points less than I had when I started, how does that work? I have won games doubled to the value of 32 and only been 18 points better off, what's that?

Also, I have never played by rules that say the game can start with a double. The way I understood the game to start is that each player rolls 1 dice each and in the event that both get the same number they throw again until they have two different numbers then the player with the higher number takes the shot.

I've been playing with a board for years, I throw real dice out of a real cup, to throwing 6 & 6 is something you celebrate, it just doesn't happen all that much but here, I've had 6 & 63 times in a row! The worst ever game I had here was doubled by a value of 32, I had 3 stones off before my opponent was even ready to start baring off, he got 6 & 6, then 5 & 5, then 4 & 4 and finished off with 3 & 3. he then proceeded to send my lines full of smiley faces in the message box. Now, tell me that's random!