Spent 45 minutes explaining the rules of Splendor to one guy and he still tried to stack chips

Ngl, I hosted game night last Saturday and this one friend kept asking if he could combine two different gem tokens for a single purchase. I told him no like 7 times and even showed him the rulebook page for Splendor, but he still grabbed 3 reds and 2 blacks and said 'close enough.' Has anyone else had a player just completely ignore how resources work?

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williamm8214d ago

Oh man, I totally feel your pain here. Last year I had a guy in my group who kept trying to use gold tokens as wildcards for everything even though Splendor doesn't work like that. What finally worked was I made him sit out one round and just watch how the rest of us played. He saw that nobody was stacking colors or mixing chips, and after watching two full turns he finally got it. Sometimes people just need to see the flow instead of hearing the rules explained five times.

eva_adams6814d ago

Well, my friend had to do that with someone who kept grabbing other players' chips!