Hot take: “Winning” at board games is really about making friends or having generalizeable insights while playing. Playing to win in the narrow sense you focus on here is a great way to lose big at the real and more important objectives.
This is roughly orthogonal to having fun, since some people naturally have more fun winning in either sense. This is an argument that there’s a real win condition, and it’s not the one you think it is.
Hot take: “Winning” at board games is really about making friends or having generalizeable insights while playing. Playing to win in the narrow sense you focus on here is a great way to lose big at the real and more important objectives.
This is roughly orthogonal to having fun, since some people naturally have more fun winning in either sense. This is an argument that there’s a real win condition, and it’s not the one you think it is.