MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the board game Wingspan incorrectly for the past six hours. “Wait, were we supposed to have set up these goal tiles earlier?” said Elliott Barnes, 31, grabbing […]

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!

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    People seem to forget the point of monopoly is as a social commentary to make you hate capitalism, rather than an RPG in which you learn all the things that make capitalism great.

    The game is unbalanced and broken on purpose, if it is fair and everyone has an equal shot you aren’t playing monopoly