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¿Question #219647?
PolarDad: Teaching Ticket to ride to my non-board gaming in-laws (in the 80s)... Nearing the end of the game, I could pass some advice to m-i-l to sabotage my wife's play which allowed her to win. If I had told my m-i-l how to stop her, it would have been a 42 point swing and I would've won. Would you have quarterbacked? (again, I did not)

TomTi89: When learning and/or teaching a game, we must universally announce "practice game!" in which case wins and losses aren't important, and pointing plays out is fine. In this case, pointing things out would be fine. Not sure I'm reading this right, but you say inactivity would let your wife win, but mentioning it would cause you to win? I probably wouldn't suggest it. That said, we play Ticket to Ride with low levels of interactions - for example, if I am pretty sure someone is going for a certain ticket, I don't block them just to stop them winning. However, if I see that they may take a certain route which would block me, I'll get there first. We favour doing as best as we individually can over winning at any costs. That's no judgment on your game - just that I likely wouldn't have pointed out such a play :)
RealGuest: Uh, you did the right thing
pwilz: How stupid do you think I am? Ticket To Ride didn't exist in the 80's except as a song!
Woelf: I might point out something to a non-gamer that would sabotage me, but not if it did it to someone else, and especially not if it benefitted me.
oriecat: No, you did the right thing there. The only way doing that would have been okay would be if the MIL would have won by doing it. Since you would have won, that would just be trying to manipulate a newbie into helping you win.