My one missing meeple turned a 3 hour game night into a rulebook fight in my Columbus kitchen

Tessa Carr · 2026-11-11T17:20:05.056059+00:00

So last Friday we finally got Twilight Imperium on the table, four of us, and about two hours in my buddy goes quiet and starts counting his ships. Turns out he was supposed to have one more plastic cruiser and it was just gone. Not misplaced, gone, because I bought the thing used off a guy at a Columbus game store back in March and never counted every piece. We spent the next 45 minutes tearing apart the box, checking under the table, digging through the carpet, while two other people just sat there holding their turns. I ended up pulling a plain gray d6 out of my dice bag and saying 'pretend this is the cruiser' and it actually worked, but the mood was dead. Now I feel dumb because this is the third used game I've bought where a piece was missing and I never checked. What do you all do, count every single component right there in the parking lot before you hand over cash? Because I clearly need a system.

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