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Company behind UNO admits they have no idea how to play their game (hypebeast.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm with you on Monopoly. I will not play it. Both because it sucks as a game (by design!—it was intended to suck!) and because it's a rip-off of the landlord game which was designed to suck to show how bad capitalism is.

I enjoyed playing Catan a couple of times until I saw one pattern: in any game there's seemingly always one poor schmuck who gets shafted within the first two turns and can't quit the game, but has no hope of doing anything except forlornly asking if anybody wants to trade wheat or some other low-grade trade item that nobody else is really trading for any longer. It's just a badly designed game.