If I can give my 50 cents, teaching a game and discovering all together at the same time depend very much on who is doing it. Hardcore gamers, even though they are easier to teach to, because they often go: “Oh, that’s like such and such”, they can be more challenging with their questions, and in a mixed group of gamers and casuals, they can monopolize the attention and make everybody else feel a bit like, what was that?
On the other hand for discovering a game together, I have had mixed experiences. After having watched videos from Battle for Rokugan, or Love Letter, on the teach I did find some difficulties from making mistakes interpreting some rules, and for example, with Love Letter I did put off my OH from it.
Also, it is tricky to consider what will be easy or difficult to teach. I remember struggling to teach Welcome To to a group of friends that are casual gamers, when it had been really easy to teach at home to my partner and eldest daughter.
And finally, I would beware of the cheeky teach. I have had a couple of occasions where I have been taught games, and then sort of taken advantage of. Kind of like not being given all the info so then later they could get advantage from. I would be very wary of ever doing that intentionally. Kind of like on my game of Western Legends, where I was never told that you could arrest somebody that I dueled instead, and it costed me some points. I wouldn’t have won the game, but still I felt cheated.
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