Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] (2024)

It's such an interesting document full of fascinating tidbits, even if the overall structure is a bit dense and confusing.

>The first paragraph under Perform Main Ac�on says:

>To perform the Main ac�on of an Ac�on Board, first count the number of different coloured unlocked workers already present on the board. You must pay this much cocoa before performing the Main ac�on. If you cannot, you may not take the Main ac�on.

>In other words, you need to pay extra resources to use an ac�on space that already contains players' dice. The teacher didn't see this rule while scanning the rulebook, so we weren't paying this extra cost. Since our ac�ons had lower costs than they should have, we were taking lots of high-level ac�ons. We decided to finish the game with the same rules that we started with.

This exact same thing happened to me in Teotihuacan. Got to the end of the game wondering what cocoa was for.