A kid at the library game night told me my Catan board looked like a real map

I was setting up a game at the local library's monthly event, just placing the hexes randomly like always. This boy, maybe ten years old, stopped and stared at it for a minute. He pointed at a cluster of forest and mountain tiles and said, 'That looks like a real place, like a little country with hills.' I'd never thought of it that way before. Has a small comment from a new player ever changed how you see a game you've played a hundred times?

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elizabetht561mo ago

Yeah kids say stuff like that, makes you see it new.

mason_ward1mo ago

Totally agree with @elizabetht56. Kids have a way of pointing out the obvious stuff we've all just accepted as normal (and then you feel a little dumb for not seeing it).

umaprice29d ago

Wait, so that kid actually saw like a whole country in your Catan board? That's wild, I don't think I've ever looked at the hexes that way before.