I think I broke my group's favorite game last night at the meetup

We were about 4 rounds into a game of Dune Imperium at the local game shop in Portland and I accidentally mixed up the spice cards with the conflict deck. Nobody noticed until like 3 turns later when we realized the spice was going to the wrong places. We just stopped playing and ordered pizza instead. Has anyone else completely derailed a game like that?

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viola1712d ago

Thing is, this happens way more often than people realize. We get so caught up in the rules and the routine of a game that we stop actually paying attention to the real mechanics. It's like driving the same route to work every day and then one day you realize you've been going to the grocery store instead. The brain just autopilots through the familiar motions. Maybe that's why so many games have those little reminder cards or player aids these days. We're all just following the pattern until something breaks it, right?

elizabethhart1d ago

I gotta push back on that "autopilot" idea, viola171. I think mixing up spice cards with conflict cards is just a straight up case of being distracted, not some deep brain pattern. If I'm really into a game, I'm usually laser focused on what each card does because one wrong move can sink me. Maybe it's different for people who play the same game every week, but that hasn't been my experience at all.