[logfromblammo]

Ah yes, the "let the Wookiee win" strategy. You lose all the games, but you do get to keep playing with both your arms.

I tried strategically throwing games a long time ago. It backfired after I conceded defeat, and rather than bask in victory, the "winning" player gave me a narrowed-eyes suspicious look and flipped over my hidden cards. They made it obvious that I would have won already if I had made the optimal play on my previous turn. She was pissed, because even though she won the game, she didn't beat me, because I wasn't even playing the same game as everyone else. We have some seriously competitive people in my family, and we had a good argument about whether one was required to make a guaranteed winning move if it was possible to do so.