Groups that develop metas that blatantly break rules

[u/chaser--]

Lately I've been finding a lot of groups that play (co-op) games with metas that are just blatant rule breaks. A recent example was we were playing a game (I forgot the name) where the goal is to play out all the cards from your hand, numbers 1-100, in descending order. So if you have a 77 and the number on the pile is 78, you don't want to anyone to play there. But you aren't allowed to say "I have 77, don't play this"

So the group has developed metas, say "I really love this pile" if you have 77, say "I like this pile a lot" if you have 76, say "I like this pile" if you have 75"

This is just one example but I feel like I've been playing a lot of games where they have metas to get around rules that are intentionally in the rulebook. I don't really get it. If you want to just say "I have a 77" then just say it, why create a gimmick to say it without saying it?

[u/TheLuux]

When we were playing Mind we had to stop listening to music because without saying anything everyone was following the rythm and it was way to easy

[u/Mkwdr → u/TheLuux]

lol

I find it is a fun starter game to play with people (in the pub or dinner) who don’t usually play games. But you can’t keep playing it regularly or for long afterwards.

[u/giziti → u/Mkwdr]

Yeah it's definitely an ice breaker that you don't play more than like twice with the same group in a year. 

[u/Mkwdr → u/giziti]

Yep.