So, What is Emotional Backgammon?
The answer to last week’s mysterious backgammon quiz will be revealed soon. But first, the 15th backgammon quiz:
Which famous hockey player was won in a backgammon game between two hockey entrepreneurs?
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Emotional backgammon is not the term that describes the coincidence of meeting your true love in a backgammon game (we call it backgammon match-making), and it’s definitely not a sequence of 3 double 6’s and it’s not even the familiar situation of being unable to stop playing backgammon (no, it is called backgammon addiction and it can be cured).
Emotional Backgammon is the name of a forgotten movie of 2003 with the unforgettable tagline: "Love is like a game of backgammon… You take your chances." The relationship comedy-drama uses backgammon as a metaphor for the love game or the battle between the sexes, depending on how you like to see it. And since backgammon is a game of skill more than it a game of chance, the movie’s hero, who was neglected by his girlfriend right before he went down on his knees to propose to her, gets strategy advice from his cynical friend.
While we are on the subject, here is a backgammon strategy advice from our mutual friend Phil Simborg: don’t show emotion or give away what you are thinking to your opponents.
Someone who has no doubts about the meaning of the term emotional backgammon is a Play65 member nicknamed krokrodil based in Zagreb, Croatia, who got away with last week’s $20 bonus.