Board Game Arena

Jellby wrote: ↑31 January 2026, 09:23 The map rules explicitly say that the "conceal" bonus is not a placement bonus. It's more like the "H" spaces in Hollywood Hills, if I remember correctly.

I found that in the PDF now, but would be nice if it would be also part of the tooltip.

Hi, Is there an explanation why the two placement bonus for conceal don't trigger the border space bonus from Archeologist on Map 12? I ran into this in https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=798521229 where I wanted to place the large aquarium on the X border space bonus and the conceal, but only o...

yeah some have admitted It. I dont understand whats the point. its discouraging to play with smurf that is really on higher elo than you yeah I feel the same way. Soe players on the arena leader board top 5 with 90 percent win rate but only has 60 games total played are just ridiculous. I don't thi...

You can use the BGA browser extension to see it as well.

The timer are already quite friendly and you can also set the game speed. Those timers are there for a reason, it's still annoying that some players, even with high ELO in Arena take too much time on turns. While some are quite fast and with both competitive good players at a speed of 10-15mins each...

It looks like this issue only occurs if you enable the "Intro game" option variant.

This should be based on a lot of statistics, there is also enough arguments to ban the Eagles or the sunbear since the extra turns are quite over powered. One part is the approval by the publisher but there are other games that are run in a competitive mode that have banlists. So I wouldn't say it's...

If you are out of time and the other player proposes to abandon the game, then the game ends instantly like yours. Thats because only players with a positive clock are required to agree to abandon. Considering you undid a lot of moves on your last turn my best guess is you went over thinking time a...

The final log message is "All players (with a positive clock) chose to abandon this game." You said you did not click to concede, but did you touch anything else in the hamburger menu during your last turn? Nope, I play a lot so definetely not doing that. I was "clicking" to ear...

I just played https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=712023634 and while finishing my last turn the game ended all of a sudden. My opponent was a bit out of time and I did not click to concede. Is this a known Bug? The final log message is "All players (with a positive clock) chose to abandon ...