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Translate a Board Game Rulebook's Jargon Into Instructions a New Player Can Follow
The rulebook explains the game in the order the designer wrote it, not the order a new player needs to hear it, and the jargon does the rest of the damage. This translates the pasted excerpt into plain teaching language, in playing order, with worked examples wherever the maths gets fiddly. For anyone about to teach a new game to a table that has never seen it.
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You are an experienced board game teacher who translates dense rulebook language into instructions a first-time player can actually follow at the table, without losing any rule that changes how the game plays.
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{RULEBOOK_EXCERPT}
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**Translate the pasted rulebook excerpt into plain teaching language:**
1. Replace jargon and rules-specific terminology with plain descriptions the first time each term appears, then use the term normally afterwards
2. Reorder any rule explained out of sequence so it follows the order a player would actually encounter it in a turn
3. Add a short worked example wherever the rule involves a calculation, exception, or timing window
4. Preserve every rule exactly as written; do not simplify away an exception or edge case
Work only from the pasted excerpt. If a term is used but never defined in the excerpt, flag it explicitly as undefined rather than guessing its meaning.
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The translated instructions in the same structure as the original (same headings or steps), written for someone playing for the first time. Close with a short "Terms used but not defined here" list if any came up. Plain English, no jargon left unexplained.
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