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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours (theonion.com)
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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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[โ€“] msage@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My SOs family played a lot of games kind of weirdly, they explained the rules to me, so I just joined and kept quiet at first, not to be a buzzkill.

For instance, they mixed Exploding Kittens two decks of cards, and some cards never did anything. Which felt weird. So after like third session I looked up the rules, and found out you can use two- and three-of-a-kind to pull cards from other players! It's not like they decided not to use them, they just never knew.

Since then, I always read the rules, no matter what they tell me. And lo and behold, the games are even more fun now.

[โ€“] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 23 hours ago

The exploding kittens have in the rules that you should first play it without the combo kittens and after few games introduce these rules.

So I guess that they just didn't bothered looking again at the rules after the first few rounds.