Stories
The Shape of an Idea
I never intended to create a game.
The idea began with a different question:
What makes an object worth passing on?
Not preserving. Not collecting. Passing on.
From one person to another. From one generation to the next.
The more I thought about it, the more I noticed a pattern.
Most objects disappear.
Some wear out. Some break. Some are forgotten.
Yet a few remain.
Not because they are perfect.
But because they become attached to stories, to rituals, to people.
They earn their place in our lives.
And eventually, in our memories.
That realization led to a search.
A search not for the most beautiful object.
But for a form capable of carrying meaning.
A form that could invite people to gather, to slow down, to spend time together.
At some point during that search, something became clear.
The object did not need to be invented.
It already existed.
What needed to change was the way it was made.
The game was backgammon — one of the oldest continuously played games in the world.
Not chosen for its rules.
But for what happens around it.
The conversation between moves.
The silence between words.
The ritual of sitting across from someone and sharing time without distraction.
The Original Edition is handcrafted in Mexico, where craft carries that same quality.
It takes time. It requires patience.
Each piece passes through many hands before it reaches the table.
The board. The nobuck. The quartz stones. The wooden dice. The red thread.
Every detail chosen not for appearance alone, but for what it means over time.
The circle provided the form.
The game provided the structure.
Mexico provided the craft.
The people who gather around it will provide the meaning.
That is how the first idea became the first object.
That search led to The Circular Backgammon: a collectible design object shaped by the circle and created as a reason to gather. Its first edition, the Original Edition, is handcrafted in Mexico.