In backgammon an ace point game occurs in the late stages of the game, it means that a player can only win the game by getting a shot, then hitting it and finally keeping his checker coming back around. Using the classic backgammon terms, a player is anchored on the opponent's one-point.

Usually a player has two or more checkers in the opponent's Ace-point, but in a few cases it might happen that the player has only one checker in the opponent's Ace-point. Winning an Ace point game is quite hard because it depends mostly on luck, since the player has limited moves.