Illuminati: Tips for Teaching New Players

laughingfuzzball · 01-15-2012, 05:31 PM

So I got the Deluxe Edition as a late Christmas gift, and watch to teach it to my friends and dorm mates. I thought it was pretty straightforward and intuitive, but then the gaming bug bit me more than a few years ago and with what I've since learned were notoriously complicated games.

So far I've tried to get through a couple two-player games with my girlfriend (who ALWAYS beats me at munchkin, regardless of set or number of players) and she finds the rules frustrating and confusing, even after reading the rules a couple times and going through a couple of heavily-coached games.

The usual way I would go about teaching a new player would be to have them join a game with several more experienced players (it's the way I've learned and taught Munchkin, Catan, and other similar games), but there aren't any "experienced players" here.

One poster here is trying to pare down the Deluxe Edition into the older-edition sets it's made up of, but it's been my experience so far is that the confusion is in the rules themselves, not in the cards (the exact opposite of Munchkin in that regard).

Any tips?

01-15-2012, 05:31 PM	#1
laughingfuzzball Join Date: Jan 2012	Illuminati: Tips for Teaching New Players So I got the Deluxe Edition as a late Christmas gift, and watch to teach it to my friends and dorm mates. I thought it was pretty straightforward and intuitive, but then the gaming bug bit me more than a few years ago and with what I've since learned were notoriously complicated games. So far I've tried to get through a couple two-player games with my girlfriend (who ALWAYS beats me at munchkin, regardless of set or number of players) and she finds the rules frustrating and confusing, even after reading the rules a couple times and going through a couple of heavily-coached games. The usual way I would go about teaching a new player would be to have them join a game with several more experienced players (it's the way I've learned and taught Munchkin, Catan, and other similar games), but there aren't any "experienced players" here. One poster here is trying to pare down the Deluxe Edition into the older-edition sets it's made up of, but it's been my experience so far is that the confusion is in the rules themselves, not in the cards (the exact opposite of Munchkin in that regard). Any tips?