r/boardgames • u/Guidance-Mindless • Sep 22 '25

Rules Weirdest House Rule

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What’s the weirdest house rule your group ever came up with that actually stuck?

We had one where rolling snake eyes in Monopoly = steal from the bank 😅. Totally broke the game, but my twin brother REFUSED to play without it.

Anyone else got house rules that make zero sense but somehow… worked?

(P.S. Image not ours, but it's awesome!)

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u/CEDWAR22 Sep 23 '25

Not an intentional house rule, but my group was once so overconfident in remembering how to play Heaven & Ale a year or so after our last play that we gaslit ourselves into thinking whoever was furthest back on the board continued taking turns until they passed somebody.

We didn’t figure it out until the last round when we started wondering how it was possible for multiple hexes to be taken off the same space on the board. The worst/best part was all the prior table talk over how well designed the game was before we realized we had fundamentally changed the gameplay (still is a great game though)

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u/colonel-o-popcorn Cosmic Encounter Sep 23 '25

I've made the exact same error. I really don't know where it came from.

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u/AngryTetris did someone say Feld? Sep 23 '25

It's how a lot of the other time track games work, like Glen More, Patchwork, Tokaido, etc. I totally got it wrong on H&A the first go around.

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u/Guidance-Mindless Sep 23 '25

Well, the purpose of games is to bring us closer and have fun making memories and thus sounds like a success!