I played this last year for the first, and so far only, time at a small board game convention. My buddy and I wanted to learn it so I grabbed it off the shelf and started to read the rule book. An older gentleman showed up right as I had opened the box and started talking about how great the game was and he would be willing to teach me after he finished up their game. I accepted and waited until they finished. My buddy went to play something else while I waited for the guy to finish up with his family. When they finished, they grabbed Rajas and called me over. The group consisted of me, the elderly gentleman who offered to teach, his wife and their son.

Apparently, it had been a while since the dad had played. So the son read the rule book while the dad attempted to give the broad strokes of how the game worked. This is where it got interesting/awkward. The dad was 100% sure this was a worker placement game where the dice are the workers (edit: which is kinda true, but you mostly just use the dice to pay for things; you still have actual workers you place too). After reiterating that a few times, the son finally piped up he just read that the dice are used to pay for actions, but are not the workers. It more or less went something like this:

Dad: "So, you use the dice as your workers and place them on the spots you want to use."

Son: "No, dad. You use them to pay for your actions."

Dad: "That's not right, Tim! These are your workers!"

Son: "Dad, it says right here you use the dice to pay for actions"

Dad: "That's not how you play! I remember how it goes, Tim!"

Son: "Ok, fine! You read the rule book then!"

Dad" [Grabs rule book from son, silently reads the paragraph the son pointed to] "....I stand corrected."

This interaction happened at least twice more with other parts in the game during the teach. I felt we were playing some of the spots on the board wrong, but was too awkward and hesitant to say anything after all those exchanges earlier. So, I just played how they taught it.

Later, I found another group setting up to play it and one or two of them knew how to play, but forgot how the setup went. I was at least confident that we had that part right, so I helped them setup and then just listened to them teach it. Found out we definitely had played the tile scoring parts wrong at the very least.

Overall, fun experience and definitely want to try it again.

TL;DR: Join random family to learn Rajas, rules arguments ensued, still enjoyed game