by skyzero
I recently taught my wife and what worked teaching her was simply starting with the top left action box (buying vineyards) and we literally each played a practice round doing that action. I then proceeded to follow the action boxes BY YEAR reading top left all the way down to bottom right and we played a single practice round performing that action. That's 9 single round practice actions total. By the time we got to the "Banco" action, she had a clear understanding of the game.With regards to the festival, I waited until we were actually playing the game and we both agreed that neither one of us would "pass" early to do the festival (it was a learning game!). Instead, I taught her the festival at the end of year three with each of us submitting our wines and going through the actions. Although this is a complex game, she said the way I explained it made it very easy to understand and play. Hope this helps!