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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"i'm sorry, my thoughts were too loud for me to hear you over them..."

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best card games have the rules and attributes stated on each card, preferably with a cool picture and blurb of flavor text.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reading the card, explains the card.

Enter textless Cryptic Command.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 5 points 2 years ago

In that case, my opponent could probably tell me that I had to play the rest of the game doing a headstand and I wouldn't know enough to say otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Hmm ok, I think I'd understand better if I could watch you play a few rounds"

[–] LordOfTheChia 7 points 2 years ago

"That's Numberwang!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just ask them to start playing and learn as I go. Lot easier that way.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Then you get bored and don't actually learn anything... Or maybe that's just me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Please be Prozd please be Prozd please be Prozd.... Yes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yo how do you get the old YouTube shortened links?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used the share function on ReVanced, must be functionality from the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use ReVanced too, perhaps a newer version. Recently the Share links changed, they no longer use the youtu.be shortener.

[–] meant2live218 11 points 2 years ago

This is why I'm the rules guy in my board game group. I sit down, absorb the rulebook, think about edge cases and check online for answers, simulate a game on my own, and then I get everyone together to sit down and learn the game.

Turns out the ability to hold the rules to like 6 different board games in my head, while not vital for daily life, is a superpower that I intend to fully use.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I prefer to be the one reading the rules and showing others after i got the basics. Youtube is also a great help for learning almost any board game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

teaching other people is one of the best ways to learn

[–] Noodle07 1 points 2 years ago

Got my far in uni, having a few friends who didn't listen during lectures made it easy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Me - I understand all the words you just used, but not in this context.

Boyfriend is a huge board gaming nerd. He's a very patient person lol.

[–] AquaTofana 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Me whenever my Midwesterner husband tries to explain the rules to Euchre.

I swear to God, those rules just keep changing so only the real Midwesterner can win!

Edited: Corrected "Eucher" from "Yuker".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If no one else knows the rules, you get you make them up lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Euchre* Its almost the primary game played where im from. I hate it. I don't really care for card games as it is.

[–] AquaTofana 1 points 2 years ago

Noted! Adjusting my response! But yes, it's super frustrating to learn!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This combined with some reason all the rooms lights are on and at full blast. There is no air flow not even a breeze and you expected to remember every little thing. If you ask a question you get a grin and condescending attitude.

[–] hark 4 points 2 years ago

That's me when I'd play board games with friends. Then we'd play through the game and I'd learn as we played and get an okay grasp of strategy, but they had so many board games that we'd just move onto the next board game and the process starts all over again.

[–] instamat 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this why I hate card games?

[–] cerberus_cat 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. Yes it is.

[–] citrusface 3 points 2 years ago

If you want to learn a game, just start playing with someone who knows how to play - or watch youtube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Numa numa yay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Jokes on you! I’m hyper-focusing on that shit. Card games and board games are my jam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Waking up to a 100+ messages explaining Magic rules and lore and trying to read it without letting my eyes glaze the text challenge level impossible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Waking up to a 2 part text message just to only read the first and last sentence and try to make an educated guess on what i could answer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You get it.

[–] debil 1 points 2 years ago

It's been too long since my last Seinfeld binge session...

[–] qevlarr 1 points 2 years ago