Overheard a guy at the library board game night say I was playing my hand completely wrong

I was at the public library last Tuesday for their weekly board game meetup. We were playing a 4-player game of Ticket to Ride and this quiet guy next to me says "you know you can hold more than 3 train cards at a time, right?" I had been playing for 6 months with a self-made limit of 3 cards because I misread the rulebook once. He showed me the actual rule on page 8 and I felt like an idiot. Has anyone else missed a simple rule for that long and then felt the game change completely?

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young.kim24d ago

Did the same thing with Settlers of Catan for almost a year.

eva_thompson24d ago

Wait, @young.kim, so you're telling me there's a whole year of my life I'll never get back from that game too? Guess we're both cursed to roll dice until we forget what grass looks like.

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ryantorres24d ago

Is it just me or does every hobby have that one version that just eats your soul for a whole year? I've seen it happen with people and their instant pot recipes, their gardening phases, even their workout routines. It's like we all have this switch that flips and suddenly we're obsessed with proving something to ourselves or just chasing that perfect result.