Backgammon (2016)

Plotzle Expert · Puzzle #1 · April 4, 2026 · Mystery / Drama

Six plot descriptions for Backgammon (2016). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. Two gambling addicts meet weekly to play backgammon in a basement bar while one quietly drains the other's savings through a series of manipulated games that fund his dealer's operation.
2. A woman returns to her childhood home after her father's stroke and realizes the strategic patterns he taught her through board games were his way of encoding memories he knew dementia would erase.
3. An emotionally withdrawn chess prodigy investigates her mentor's disappearance and finds evidence he manipulated tournament outcomes to repay debts, though the games themselves were never actually rigged by him.
4. A funeral director in Glasgow discovers his estranged brother has been living under an assumed identity for twelve years and neither man acknowledges their shared past during the burial arrangements.
5. Someone witnesses a hit-and-run in a parking garage but the license plate matches a vehicle reported stolen years earlier and the driver resembles a man declared dead in that same timeframe.
6. A young man and a young woman stay alone in an isolated mansion for the weekend, feeling attracted to each other while worrying that her ex-boyfriend might be hiding somewhere inside the house.