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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm fine with house rules.

I'm not fine with unstated house rules that pop up randomly, nor with seemingly everyone not even knowing that they are using a house rule.

So many games of Uno I've been in involve everyone discovering they are used to playing by different house rules, 10 or 20 minutes into a game, and then everyone discussing or arguing about which house rule is better.

... If you aren't actually playing by the stated rules, and you're randomly invoking new rules and then arguing over them... you're playing calvin ball.

All of this can be avoided if people actually state the house rules before a game, but in my experience, almost no one does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In the same way with any other light / party game, you're lucky if even one person at the table has ever read the actual rulebook. Given that, it's not surprising everybody thinks they're playing UNO the 'right' way.

Also: Calvinball is amazing.

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

Unsurprising, but mildly infuriating to my autistic ass.

I consider penny poker, or blackjack/21, to be light party games.

Been playing those games with friends and family since I was a kid.

Texas Hold'em rules for poker, declared at the start.

Either very low or no stakes, you either literally play with pennies, or just everyone gets say 50 completely worthless plastic chips, or just nothing.

If most people were in such a texas holdem or blackjack game and then started inventing or arguing over rules... this would generally be very obviously viewed as bullshit, unnaceptable, not normalized.

But... with Uno... this is not the case.