Board Game Arena

I swear arena is rigged so that players with higher elo get the routes with higher points. You can call me crazy if you want. I get 3 cards and they total 23 points if I connect all routes. My opponent get 2 cards and they are worth double. This happens every time I play someone with high elo in ar...

I decided to give this a chance, play through a couple tournaments to see if the changes grew on me, if I'd missed some advantages. I didn't find any. Other than "mobile-friendly," what was the point of all this? Was it actually driven by any feature list - and more importantly, did the de...

Arena format voting is done by "gurus" about a week before the start. Shouting this demand into the void, just a day after the new season start and nearly the full three months before the next vote is taken, may be the most pointless forum thread created recently. Furthermore, suggesting t...

Countes-Olivia-Manny wrote: ↑09 January 2026, 13:03 The longest route has become tedious!

Given that the guru voting for the new arena season format closed two days ago, it was doubly pointless that you necroed this old thread.

Here is an interview with the game designer, Alan R. Moon, talking about how blocking is part of the game he designed and how he likes to use that strategy. (The blocking discussion starts around time stamp 1:40 or so.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3goQNR3D0 How to close an infinite discussion...

If they would just make Swiss its own game, then we could have Swiss Arena! But it has been months and no change. Somewhere there is an old dusty thread where I and others advocated that Swiss was a distinct game because it had its own board, train count, and unique mechanisms (tunnels) vs USA. For...

Statistical analysis of every recorded chess game over last 175 years shows White wins 52-56% of the time (with probability increasing direcly in correlation with average ELO): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess You should also post over on the chess forum to demand chess ru...

Kudos to Ceaseless for checking into this so quickly (the same day) and explaining it! AnimatorVeritas, it's been a couple days now since Ceaseless did that, and I see you have been on BGA since, you were just on the site today. I don't know if you just haven't bothered yet to come back here since p...

p.s. I took a look & we've have played exactly one game of TTR, less than a month ago. In that game your initial tickets were LA-Miami, SanFran-Atlanta, and Phoenix-Portland. Mine were Dallas-New York, Vancouver-SantaFe, and Montreal- New Orleans. So please, do tell how "the algorithm"...

Is it just me or someone else also have observed the same? I've noticed thata a lot of people perceive meaningful patterns in random events. There's just something about human psychology that people notice it more when they suffer the consequences of a run of bad luck vs beneficiaries of a good luc...