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How does one know how many tiers a given game has for the season?

I got a weird message that I "was unable to finish a game" and of course one of the little FAQs on that message recommends setting the game to "friendly mode" if you don't want to get dinged for things like that. I noticed the game was supposedly started today, and I didn't join ...

Thanks, I have upvoted both of those!

I play only 4-player games, and most are turn-based. I have hardly ever experienced someone leaving for no apparent reason. Timing out is even more rare as that only happens if the one of other players decides to kick you out for going over-time, and, since it's turn-based, nobody is all that uptigh...

I have a lot of questions about how tournaments work, so I was delighted to find that there was a "Tournaments FAQ" pinned post, but the information listed there seems very incomplete, and possibly just way out of date, since that post was written ten years ago (!) For example, it says tha...

I am in a game of more than four people now, and the space at the top where it shows the other players takes up so much room that I can't see the whole game at once (on a desktop computer, no less). It seems to me that there's no reason to show the backs of four cards in each other players hand. All...

Does that mean that wins or losses don't count towards my ranking? If I'm trying to raise my ranking in a game, I must necessarily take someone else's down? Also, it's 2025. I'm surprised this STILL isn't explained anywhere, and I had to do an internet search to find the answer here on the forums. ...

Does that mean that wins or losses don't count towards my ranking? If I'm trying to raise my ranking in a game, I must necessarily take someone else's down? Also, it's 2025. I'm surprised this STILL isn't explained anywhere, and I had to do an internet search to find the answer here on the forums. F...