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This is how we play... and it has resulted in some VERY long games.
Once we had some friends over and their 8 year old son was playing with us. He almost won a few times, but his dad did everything in his power to keep him from winning. It was close to midnight before that game ended and it was the first time I considered changing the house rules.
Adults cane be weirdly petty about kids winning games.
I barely beat my aunt and grandma at a game of scrabble when I was around 13 by playing the word "ulu," a type of Alaskan knife. It let me triple word score and clear my rack. I had no idea it was a valid word, but it was and it pushed me to a win.
The whining and complaining about that win nearly ruined the whole night.
My favorite Scrabble win was using 'eBay'... before playing that word I looked at the instruction sheet and it specifically said that "words that begin with a capital" are not allowed. There were some sour grapes after that one.