Watching a guy at the Portland convention spend 45 minutes teaching a 4-player game to just one other person made me ditch the big teach entirely.

Now I just hand out the rulebook and say 'first one to figure it out teaches the rest of us', which cuts setup from an hour to maybe 20 minutes.

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grace_gonzalez4611d ago

Wait, doesn't that just make one person do all the work you didn't want to do? I've been that person handed the rulebook while everyone else chats, and it feels kind of rude. It's faster for the group, sure, but it's slower and more stressful for that one person trying to learn alone. Maybe a better middle ground is everyone skims the rules together for five minutes first?

felix_williams7111d ago

My friend tried that once and we ended up arguing about a turn order diagram for twenty minutes. The person who read the rules still had to step in and explain it anyway. Sometimes a group skim just means more people are confused together.

richard22611d ago

Actually, the person who read the rules first still has to explain it either way. The group skim just wastes five minutes before that happens. It's better to let one person learn it properly.