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Rules Mistakes You Played With for YEARS

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@DontFlipTheTable · 3w · 993 views

Confession time. What rules did you get wrong for an embarrassingly long time?

Mine: We played Terraforming Mars for a YEAR without realizing you can't play cards from the draft face-up for everyone to see. We were showing our entire draft picks. Completely different game once we fixed that.

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@cardboardAddict 3w

Played Carcassonne for 2 years before realizing you can't place a meeple on a feature that connects to another player's meeple. We just... put them wherever. Chaos.

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@meeple_queen 3w

Wingspan: didn't realize you tuck cards UNDER the habitat, not discard them. Played 30 games before a friend corrected us. Those tucked cards are supposed to be points!

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@heavy_euro_bro 3w

Brass: Birmingham: forgot that selling to a trader tile flips it to the other side AND scores you money. Thought it just flipped. Played 5 games wondering why we were always broke.

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@solo_steve 3w

Spirit Island: played the entire first game without using innate powers. Thought the card powers were ALL you had. No wonder I was getting destroyed.

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@FlgsRegular 3w

This thread is making me want to re-read every rulebook I own. I'm probably still playing something wrong right now.