Board Game Arena

There can be different situations with freezes. Sometimes you're no longer fighting for first place, but for second, and in that case it can make sense to freeze the player in second place. Or maybe the player in first place has already collected a 10, 11, and 12, so freezing them would actually hel...

Before anything else, I want to apologize for naming specific players in my original post. Regarding that, I understand why the names were removed, after all, cheating thrives in silence. Ultimately, I would simply like to congratulate the player who finished first in this season’s Arena. Not many p...

The arithmetic here isn’t particularly difficult. Out of their last 100 games, I’d say they played at the same table in at least 95 of them. One can only admire that kind of matchmaking luck. I only encountered them once myself. I started looking at their statistics after a series of very questionab...

How does the BGA community feel about two players systematically playing together against a third player in Arena? I’m talking specifically about ***. They repeatedly play together, and from what I’ve seen, their moves are consistently directed against the third player while benefiting each other. T...

A truly strong player always takes into account the possibility that their opponent can win with mermaids, both with four mermaids and with three. Depending on how many mermaids they have in hand, how many cards are left in the deck, which of the opponent’s cards are known, and so on, a truly strong...

Is this a bug or a feature? It seems that now, after one of the players reaches the required number of points (at least 40 in Arena, from what I’ve seen), the game does not end until all players press the button to confirm they’ve checked the result. There have been quite a few cases where losing pl...

I think you should play the Shark and the Swimmer immediately, or there's a great chance you'll be stuck with them until the end of the game, or your opponent could steal one of them.

I never give up, even if I'm losing 5-39. I just switch up my tactics and focus on collecting four mermaids, taking as many cards as I can with the help of boats, fish, sharks, and so on.