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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

theonion.com Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

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 goa...

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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Was gifted a copy of Canopy a few months back. Played through the first game before we realized that there weren't any "middle" tree trunk cards (there are only tree bases and canopies, and you're supposed to overlap the base cards to make your trees taller).
Then, I promptly forgot all about it until nearly the end of the second game. Damned jungle.