Did a backgammon game ever drive you so mad that you flipped the board, tossed it off the window and threatened to choke your game opponent? Board Games Geek ran a contest on the wildest, most dramatic real life scenes following an innocent seeming board game. The winner was a story about a Trivial Pursuit player (with a tendency to sing the questions and shout out wrong answers) who founds himself dangling between earth and heaven from a second story balcony held by an annoyed game partner. 

Two backgammon stories pop in mind:

The first backgammon story started with a random shared cab drive in the streets of Moscow, continued with a proposal to play backgammon on a special handmade board and ended with the losing player’s being stabbed to death. However, no anger or loss of control preceded the fatal event; according to the reports, the alleged butcher agreed to play the game in one condition: the stake will be the losing player’s life. He even coolly asked his neighbor to clear up the bleeding body from the apartment. 

lost in a backgammon game

The second story does involve shaky tempers, and how. Not to mention who. Kenny Mayne, who you might recognize from ESPN sports channel, was reported accusing his 4.5 years old niece of cheating in a game of backgammon. Kenny’s sister, the poor girl’s mother, told the press she found her brother was shouting ‘You’re cheating, little girl! You’re cheating! You can’t cheat on me. I’m Kenny MickeyFickey Mayne!’ and her child crying of fear. After being expelled from his sister house, Kenny Mayne got a chance to rethink his behavior and arrived to the conclusion that: 

"I don’t feel bad about the situation. I feel bad about that punk cheating kid, and her dimwitted, enabler of a mother." 

cheated in backgammon

I think it is a winner. Do you think you can excel this one?

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