Board Game Arena

So, if you poke around youtube you can find videos that explain how matchmaking algorithms generally work. The specifics are obviously going to change from site to site, but the overarching algorithms are pretty similar. Problem here is that the OP didn't say if they are playing live or turn based. ...

I was playing a game of Decrypto and could not take my turn because the options I needed to access were not appearing in the interface. The only way to end the game was to have the other players boot me. There are several reports of similar issues in the bugs forum for this game and you can check th...

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Wrathberry said: "do you think that giving both players the same map in Arena mode is the right choice?" Probably Yes, but in earnest I'm going to make some points that go both directions on this. I am one of the top ranked players in Fruit Picking, another game which has a variable "...

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=40405

Probably the best you could do would be to thumb this up.

Can someone explain to me where this map bonus is shown? I don't have a physical copy of the game and when I look at the replay from the table, I can see the map, but I don't see anything that states this map has this bonus.

GeraldineMerida wrote: ↑10 June 2023, 22:23 I find strawberries unacceptably provocative

ahh.. yes. I see it now. Next time I'll go with "Your father smelt of elderberries."

Jellby wrote: ↑10 June 2023, 17:22 I think it's "goofed": https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=143307

Thats is... umm... wow. ok then.

mturton wrote: ↑11 June 2023, 03:18 I don't get the sense that it is that powerful. Is it possible to set up a player poll to ask about which maps are the most unbalanced?

You mean like this one?
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2848276/best-zoo-map

I tried to message a player the following and it got flagged as being "provocative or an insult": "I think I goofed back when I claimed that strawberry. gonna be hard to worm my way out of this. Well played by you either way." I mean, I supposed technically "worm" is a ...