I'm going to present an opposing viewpoint here. I think it's unsportsmanlike. The right thing to do is to acknowledge that the game is essentially over, and call it a win by forfeit.
The two teams are obviously mismatched - which happens regularly during high school sports. There's no excuse to humiliate the other team by running up the score like that.
A life lesson here: it's better to win or lose gracefully than behave like jerks.
I've never played Candyland, so I don't know about that, but I disagree about Battleship being completely random.
In that game, only the first step is random. Once you get a "hit" then it's not random - you have to explore the statistically most probable places to sink your enemy's battleship. The initial randomness is very much like real life ...
The two teams are obviously mismatched - which happens regularly during high school sports. There's no excuse to humiliate the other team by running up the score like that.
A life lesson here: it's better to win or lose gracefully than behave like jerks.
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In that game, only the first step is random. Once you get a "hit" then it's not random - you have to explore the statistically most probable places to sink your enemy's battleship. The initial randomness is very much like real life ...
Talking about depression, my wife has a motto: "Don't get depressed, get angry instead!"