All may be fair in love and war, but when it comes to family board game nights, you can expect the gloves to come off if you go for below-the-belt strategies. Nothing causes family arguments like a competitive board game—heck, even Candy Land games can get heated when someone draws that plum card at the end of a close game—or rockets ahead with a lucky snowflake draw early on. And that's before you get into games that have actual strategy where one can intentionally put another player at an "unfair" disadvantage.
Board games from the beginning of the "Board Game Renaissance" of the late 90s and 00s, like Settlers of Catan, are especially heinous to play with a group of people who aren't of equal sill. "Settlers" especially can be basically won or lost from the pre-game piece placement, and if someone who doesn't know what they're doing accidentally encroaches on your space, ensuring you will both lose, you can be certain that you're in for a LONG game. Of course, intentionally going the route of spoiler and sabotaging someone else game remains an option in games like this, too, and you're not going to make many friends by doing so, even if it's a legitimate strategy.
That's pretty much what was going on in this family board game disagreement where this 17-year-old's fair-but-contemptible strategy earned her accusations of "cheating" from her mother. The teen shared her experience with this online community in a bid to see whether or not she was in the wrong for employing her dastardly strategy.
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