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Appreciation post: I finally understood worker placement after my friend in Seattle pointed at my Agricola board and said 'you're blocking yourself, not me'.
I'd been playing for over a year thinking the goal was to stop other players, but that comment made me see I was just making my own game harder, so what's a game that taught you a basic rule in a weird way?
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sanchez.kevin2mo ago
My first five games of Terraforming Mars, I kept buying every single card that came my way. I was broke by generation three every time. Then I watched someone just pass on like eight cards in a row, saving their money for actual projects. It clicked that card drafting isn't about collecting options, it's about filtering for the one thing you actually need. Changed my whole approach to engine builders.
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josephbutler2mo ago
What game made you realize you were playing it totally wrong for the longest time? That Terraforming Mars story is spot on, it's easy to miss the real goal. I had a similar thing with Scythe, thinking I needed to fight everyone. @barnes.karen gets how that filtering idea changes everything. Sometimes the rule isn't in the book, it's in seeing how someone else wins.
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