Confessions, Cautionary Tales, and Contrition!

Confessions, Cautionary Tales, and Contrition!

Friday, December 24, 2010

We were playing it wrong: Lost Cities



Today's victim: Lost Cities!

Readers familiar with Lost Cities will be surprised to find this entry. However, even though Lost Cities has all of 4 rules, I still managed to screw one of them up. In his case, it just about killed the game and I did not manage to catch my error until it was caught up in a trade for Cafe Guatemala (update 01/24/11: Cafe Guatemala has in the meantime been traded for Balloon Cup, which appears in a later entry on this blog! The chain of sadness continues!).

So here it is:

1. Players may draw the top card of the discard pile instead of the the top card of the deck.

It's amazing how much this little rule would have changed the game. Alas, I doubt I'll have a chance to play it correctly, but I imagine the game would have been much more fun. Sorry, Lost Cities!

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