When we play board or card games, it often ends badly. We already try to play games where we have to find the solution together as a family or play short games where you win some and lose some rounds, but sometimes we play longer games as well. Yesterday the four of us plus my Mum played the card game Level 8. My 16 year old daughter was already upset in previous rounds, as she hadn't been able to get the cards she needed before someone else finished the round. In the last round she was in the lead together with myself, and if any of us two had managed to go out with our cards, we would have won the game. My husband had a stop card, and based on a gut feel that my daughter might have the better cards, he gave it to her. In his view, the strategic move to give himself the best chance to win. But it was me that ended up winning. My daughter was furious as she would have won if he hadn't stopped her. I was angry at him that he hadn't given me the stop card instead, since it had only been a gut feeling anyway. Should we have just stopped the game before it escalated? Should he have been nice and not tried to win himself by stopping his daughter? Should we have just treated her the same as anybody else in the game, ie stop her like my husband did, if we thought it might help us to win, and just let her be angry when she lost?