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Board games
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Board games, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Rulebooks are ambiguous and gotcha-filled, forcing hours of learning and external clarifications2024-12-03
- Rulebooks are hard and slow to understand, taking much re-reading to grasp how a game plays2024-12-02
- Rules pile on unexplained terms, so new players get confused and frustrated waiting for definitions2024-12-02
- Rules are scattered out of order, forcing constant page flipping to follow a single action2024-12-02
- Dark blue and black counters are hard to tell apart in dim light2023-02-08
- Hard to reach the Start button on iPhone without rotating the screen2021-05-26
- Poorly translated rules are wordy and hard to follow2020-06-02
- Rules present piece details before basics, making it hard to learn how to play2020-06-02