It is about time to update you with the latest Play65 quiz and quiz results. Starting with the new quiz, number 16, it’s an easy one: in which popular TV series in which the backgammon game was taught? If you know the answer, mark, fill in the required details, submit and wait for a surprising extra $20 in your online account. 

Now for last week’s backgammon and hockey quiz. The hockey player who served as a stake in a backgammon game played by two hockey entrepreneurs is Wayne Gretzky, who is regarded by many as the best hockey player of all times. The story, described at Peter Gzowski’s book The Game of Our Lives, goes like this: 

In 1978, Canadian Wayne Gretzky was a young promising hockey player holding a $1.75 million contract with the Indianapolis Racers, Nelson Skalbania owned the Racers, Peter Pocklington owned the Edmonton Oilers, both teams did not belong to NHL and both owners engaged for a backgammon game during a flight in a private jet. 

And it was a high stakes backgammon game: Pocklington put $850,000, Wayne Gretzky and two more hockey players, and Skalbania bet on an artwork from his collection. Skalbania won the backgammon game, so Gretzky started wearing the Edmonton Oilers uniform, and the rest is written in hockey history. 

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