Sorry to hear you wasted your money.
Agricola is very successful for me and surprisingly easy to teach.
I always teach games backwards. I begin from the end and finish at the start so we can begin there. I have never had an issue teaching the biggest noobs how to play.
Two most important tips
Tell me to seek out variety in scoring, specializing is bad.
Never let your family starve, ever.
With those two tips noobs have a good idea of how to go about the game.
The rest is explaining each of the 14 action cards.
Then you just take the plunge. After the first harvest or two, they "get" it.
I also assume that your negative attitude toward the game doesn't help the noobs as they likely pick up on your negativity.
Luckily there are some 60 000 games on BGG so if agricola aint for you, you have plenty of alternatives.
My opinion of it is that it is a masterpiece.
Happy gaming
Agricola is very successful for me and surprisingly easy to teach.
I always teach games backwards. I begin from the end and finish at the start so we can begin there. I have never had an issue teaching the biggest noobs how to play.
Two most important tips
Tell me to seek out variety in scoring, specializing is bad.
Never let your family starve, ever.
With those two tips noobs have a good idea of how to go about the game.
The rest is explaining each of the 14 action cards.
Then you just take the plunge. After the first harvest or two, they "get" it.
I also assume that your negative attitude toward the game doesn't help the noobs as they likely pick up on your negativity.
Luckily there are some 60 000 games on BGG so if agricola aint for you, you have plenty of alternatives.
My opinion of it is that it is a masterpiece.
Happy gaming