https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:31:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-476674 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:40:50 +0000 prettylizy 476674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: The funny thing is he's usually just as bad, the game for us has almost become who can pull off what. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-476648 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:27:36 +0000 mrbee 476648@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@prettylizy: I would be so upset! Your DH sounds super understanding!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-476629 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:19:44 +0000 prettylizy 476629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: Yup. I can't deny it. We have a new version of monopoly with electronic money distributed through a little 'bank' machine onto visa cards, and I overpay myself at Go, and under charge myself for properties. DH caught on and now he is wise to my ways!! lol!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-476621 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:16:41 +0000 mrbee 476621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@prettylizy: noooooooo... really?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-476617 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:15:10 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 476617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-476602 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:09:17 +0000 prettylizy 476602@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, I haven't played a game against a kid in a really long time, but I am guilty of CHEATING at games *cough*Monopoly*cough* . I really like winning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-476596 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:05:53 +0000 mrsmacandcheese 476596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With adults, we get even MORE competitive if it's family and not friends. With kids, I'll let 'em win more often than not but not every single time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475992 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:08:44 +0000 littlek 475992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, but I'm bad at them so I tend to lose. DH loves beating me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475970 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:00:39 +0000 LuLu Mom 475970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never, I'm known for my bad winning...I'm the annoying girl that really likes to rub it in the faces of those playing with me when I win. My husband hates playing games with me because he always loses hahaha (so bad I know!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475960 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:56:44 +0000 .twist. 475960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes. I'm a firm believer in playing fair. I was SUCH a sore loser growing up that I don't want my kids to be that way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475952 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:53:49 +0000 mrs. wagon 475952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: NEVER. </p> <p>ok, maybe. Haha. But actually pretty much NEVER. He does things to spice the game up, make it fun for others, and then ends up losing. Unless we're playing poker for fun (no buy-in)... then he always wins. If we're playing for money with people, he goes all-in on the first hand and always loses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475906 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:42:04 +0000 mrbee 475906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: In that case, maybe Mr. Wagon is throwing games then so you can win. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475806 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:08:54 +0000 Anagram 475806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know if I'm mean, or if it's the teacher in me, but I won't even let a kid win--at least not all the time. My husband does this with my neices and nephews, but I think it does them a disservice because they won't get better! I'll let our neices and nephews win occasionally, but only about 40% of the time. Especially because most games their level (chutes and ladders, uno, etc) are really random and not skill-based. It's good for them to lose sometimes (in my opinion). </p> <p>My own dad and I used to play tennis all the time growing up, and he would always beat me, until one day when I was in HS and I *finally* beat him, and it meant so much to me, because I knew I'd really won. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475799 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:06:13 +0000 mrs. wagon 475799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>NEVER. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475787 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:03:23 +0000 Bao 475787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If they are an adult, heck no! With kids...yes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-purposefully-lose-board-games-when-youre-playing-a-family-member#post-475723 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:45:37 +0000 mrbee 475723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes I try less hard in certain situations... that's all I've got to say about that!</p> <p>Unrelated but when I beat Charlie at something, he gets so upset! He'll say, "Noo... let's win it together!!" Then I let him win and he says, "We won it together!" I work really hard to never compete with him, but sometimes he'll turn a run home into a race and then I'm not sure what to do. </p> <p>Anyway tl;dr, my son is a poor loser so I let him win b/c I'm a bad parent.</p> <p>Do you ever purposefully lose board games when you're playing a family member? </p>