Today's Victim: Power Grid
This one is a blast from the past! Back in my salad days of college gaming, this one was a regular. To be honest, we've been playing it for so long that my memories of learning it are somewhat dim; I believe in this case we may have been taught it wrong.
In any case, we played the rules for phase 3 incorrectly for at least a year before being put on the right path my by good friend, the eminent pizza chef and fellow board game enthusiast, Newbius.
So anyway, we'd been playing it so that when phase 3 came out we would begin removing power plants from the cheap end of the market but failed to incorporate any other changes in the rules. As Newbius so kindly pointed out, when phase 3 occurs, the power plant market changes substantially; there is no longer any futures market and the overall size of the market shifts to 6 plants.
What's remarkable about this rule is that we played literally dozens of games of Power Grid spread over the course of nearly a year without being aware of it, simply by not reading the manual.
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