About O Regrista

Julio Jr. — the rules guy

Uberlândia, Brazil

I'm Julio Jr., I live in Uberlândia, Brazil, and I've loved board games since 2015, when someone handed me a box of Catan on a rainy Saturday. What started as a pastime quickly became a way to bring people together, create stories and share experiences around a table.

Over the years I've played hundreds of games, introduced countless titles to friends and kept running into the same situation: the excitement of a new game often gave way to long minutes of rules reading, while one person tried to make sense of the rulebook and everyone else waited to start. I always felt there had to be a better way.

That's when I noticed another pattern. In almost every game, at some point someone would look at me and ask: "wait, how does that rule work again?". I'm not sure exactly when that role became mine, but it stuck.

Maybe because I've always liked understanding how things work. More than memorizing rules, I like finding the logic behind them. Turning a rulebook dozens of pages long into something simple, clear and easy to explain. Taking complex systems and organizing the information in a rational way, so that anyone can quickly grasp what really matters to start playing.

That's where O Regrista ("the rules guy") came from.

This space was created to help players learn new games, clear up doubts and find straightforward explanations for rules that often seem more complicated than they really are. Here you'll find summaries, interpretations, tips and content made by someone who believes a good explanation can completely change the experience at the table.

Because, in the end, the best moments in games don't happen while reading the rulebook. They happen when everyone understands the game and can focus on what really matters: playing, competing, cooperating and making memories around the table.