180 pages, and little learned, apparently!
Look, you want good even racing, get in a League, or go to one of the better shuffle or spec 'Clean' rooms. Plenty of good racing to be found any night of the week.
But if you want to do one of these 'made up', off the wall, utterly non-racing activities (which begs the question 'Why? Can't you race?') in rooms with little to no restrictions, with people of all ages (from 3 to 80, LOL), what on earth makes you think you are going to have a good time..?
Here's an analogy. Let's say you like golf. Now, walk into any grade school, and pick a half dozen kids at random. Don't ask them if they WANT to play golf, or care about it. Now walk outside the school. Pick the first 10 people you meet on the street. Old, young, men, women, no difference. Now stick them all on a golf course, don't tell them any rules, don't show them how to play, and see if you get a good game of golf!
Outside of well organized rooms, that's all you are doing in GT5.
Might as well take up crochet!