In our house it was very much the same. So many of the house rules are generations old, and the parents teaching kids how to play weren't even taught by people that had read the rules. We just know how to play.

[This guy is where I am with Monopoly these days](https://imgur.com/a/vX3zm), but back when we were kids, 5 player family games were a 1-2 evening setting, or an entire afternoon. Not so great for the first eliminated, but dad still holds our record of being eliminated in under 15 minutes. His plus side to that though was that he holds our comeback record, from just the orange set when head to head started to winning the game. Fun was had, but there are many better games out there these days. [Just a bit of a list](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/stop-playing-monopoly-with-your-kids-and-play-these-games-instead/) (they also have a post on why you should play it with kids too...)

I still think everyone needs to experience it, mostly so they can recognize what is good and bad in the game, but most of the basic concepts can be gathered from other games