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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] 6 points 9 hours ago

My girlfriend and I played a lot of Disney's Villainous. The game features a board (your realm) with four locations, and a villain tracker that indicates where your villain is. Every turn, you move to an adjacent location and perform all actions there, until one player eventually wins... Or so we thought.

We played with dozens of villains before eventually Oogie Boogie came out. And one of the Hero cards (that are supposed to fuck you up) abilities ends up being "You're only allowed to move the villain tracker to an adjacent location!". Which we thought was the rule all along, for all villains.

Queue us having to replay all other villains now knowing you can just move to any location at all, no matter your current location. Our minds were blown that day.