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I find pure luck games really boring. Why not just flip a coin and be done with it.

I also find pure skill games boring. I mean like running races. You might as well play "who's tallest?"

But I seem to be in a minority

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> But I seem to be in a minority

Given the design of nearly all popular modern board games, that seems very unlikely.

I got lost in the double negatives and inversions of this interaction.

But then again, I’m not unconvinced that I didn’t fail to misunderstand it correctly.

As in: most popular modern board games combine both luck and skill. That would imply that like the parent, most people enjoy games that combine both rather than being purely skill xor luck based.

How do you feel about chess?

You might as well play "who can memorize the most openings and lines"

Seems dismissive at first, but I interviewed a chess team captain once and he told me they prepared for upcoming matches by learning new lines they wanted to play and studying the lines the opposing school was deemed likely to play.

It is a memory game yes! But still you can choose what to memorise.

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