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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours (theonion.com)

submitted 1 day ago by AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works to c/boardgames@sopuli.xyz

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Though this is satire, we've all had that experience where we played a game (many times, even!) and only found out later that we got the rules massively wrong. Share your experience!

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most recently, I played half a dozen games of Unconscious Mind. After almost every session, we found a rule we got wrong the last game. The last one was finding out you can't have multiple ideas from a player pointing at the same action. In my defense... the game is OK, but the rulebook is horribly disorganised. Major rules are stuck in the middle of random paragraphs.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah my gf just got it in kickstarter and we haven't played it yet. I usually solo new games but I haven't had the time recently. Before Uncouncious Mind, my gf kickstartered Pest and let me tell you after 3 attempts I haven't been able to figure out how to get past turn 2. And I like GMT's MBT and the likes.