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Rant: I was teaching new players the rules wrong for 2 years at my Tuesday group
I run a board game night at my place in Portland every Tuesday and I always handle the rules teach. Last week a guy named Devin joined us and about 20 minutes into a game of Wingspan he politely asked why I skip the end of round goals during the first round. I told him that's just how we do it and he pulled out the rulebook and showed me the actual setup. Turns out I've been playing that part wrong since I bought the game 2 years ago, which means every new person I taught at my table learned it wrong too. I felt like such an idiot because I'm the one who's supposed to know this stuff, and my regulars just went along with it because they didn't know any better either. Now I'm going back through my whole shelf and rereading rulebooks for games I thought I had down cold. How many other house rules am I teaching people that are just straight up mistakes, and does anyone else have a regular group that's been silently playing something wrong for ages?
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nina_taylor10d ago
This happened to me with Ticket to Ride for like a year and a half, I was making everyone draw train cards face down instead of face up because I misread the rules on day one. My whole group just accepted it as normal and even got good at the game with that handicap, so when someone finally pointed it out we all felt so dumb. Stuff like this is way more common than people admit, we've all been rules lawyers who never actually read the law.
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