Little is known about what they were trying to do, if anything -- but what they did do caused extreme distress. Distress in 93% psychological -- Alfred Hitchcock's movies make that clear.
As a person who rarely "stands by" in such situations -- similar tension-filled situations occur all the time in travel and in the transitional phases of daily living -- I'd have made something happen that would have exposed more "what was about". And gone from there -- each card played exposes more of the hand that was held close.
What a joke of an answer. What would have been your FIRST move?
If you don't have a first move, you have NO move.
Sorry I have to go check on my elderly parents. I will be back in the morning.
Take a while and really think it through. So far you would have lost even the simplest test of handling the simplest of conflicts.
Are you over 20? There is more to life than video games.