dominate spouse during game night if you're intellectually superior?

[Anonymous]

How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

[Anonymous]

I prefer games where luck and chance play a meaningful part. I like playing games, and if I was a dick and "showed no mercy and mopped the floor with them" such that they didn't want to play games with me anymore, it would be lose-lose. It's supposed to be fun.

[Anonymous]

Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

There's no mercy in Scrabble.

[Anonymous]

I'm very good at some games due to having some brains but I seek out other players who are as good or better than me so I will get better and be challenged. Also because I'm not an arrogant a*hole like you.

How about you try to find some games that your wife can beat you at, just for fun.

[Anonymous]

I’m much better than my husband at strategic games and word games. But there are a million board games that aren’t competitive strategy or word games. Spend sometime on board game geek site to get ideas.

[Anonymous]

Hey, it’s the Average Redditor in situ!
https://youtu.be/uH3Ed4DHuZU

[Anonymous]

This sounds like an enviable marriage.

[Anonymous]

You’re poorly matched. She needs someone with a higher EQ. You need someone who’s better at math.

[Anonymous]

I could never have married someone dumb. This is on you OP. Hope she's hot!

[Anonymous]

I hope your wife divorces you. You're an AH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, your contempt for your wife is ugly.

How exactly does his (or her) post show contempt toward the wife?

[Anonymous]

To OP:

There is IQ and there is EQ. You appear to have a lot of IQ--(the "I" stands for inbred).

[Anonymous]

There are different kinds of smarts. My dh hates playing certain games with me and the kids because we all beat him terribly. That said, he usually beats us on card games. We don't play the games that he is horrible at as a family. Why are you keeping track of your scrabble wins? And why did you let it go on so long? Also, can you post the name of the game you are talking about? I think my kids would like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you are much smarter than your spouse? What do you do during game night if you're in a situation where you are a league above your spouse in intellect? Let them win? Tonight, we were playing a game we've been playing for the past two months. My wife has 'won' every game we've played over that time (prob 13 times we've played). Little does she know I've let her win every game the entire time. Tonight, I was tired of it and then played for real. She was shocked she lost 4 times in a row once I really started trying this time. To put this into context, I have a graduate degree in engineering from a top school while my wife studied polysci. It's a game that requires stats and probabilities as well as discrete math principles (obviously stuff she's never even heard of). Once I started using concepts I learned in school like the pigeonhole principle, ideas from graph theory, and basic stats/prob I started to wipe the floor with her in the game. She ended up getting quite angry at losing the entire night and stormed off to bed without saying goodnight.

If you are far more intellectually superior than your spouse, what do you during game night? Purposefully let them win because you know you can pretty much beat them 100% of the time? Stick to games only that are 'fun' and that are built in random change so that very little strategy is involved? Or show no mercy and mop the floor with them every time until they cry uncle and refuse to play the anymore? I already ruined Scrabble with my spouse, because I beat her over 36 times in a row (played for real the entire time).

What makes you think that the fact you studied math and statistics makes you intellectually superior?