Board Game Arena

It can be frustrating when someone does that repeatedly. It seems like a trolling thing. However, if you find that a player has too low of a rep. rating, or their ELO is lower, and you are worried about dropping a lot of points if you lose, that could also be the case. There are settings where you c...

I was playing someone who was running out of thinking time and admitted to the fact that they were "still thinking". Time ran out and it looked like they disconnected. I clicked the expel button and instead it put MY name up. My connection was fine. Their connection came back online and as...

I don't hate Nordic, in fact I own IRL. The art is probably the most beautiful of all the maps. It is gorgeous. However, game balance-wise, it is actually a very poor map. I'm actually astonished that it got so many votes on BGA, it's quite the inverse opinion of others online. The main problem is t...

Poker is more luck than skill and is a basic card game and the Luck/Strat/Etc. is somewhat subjective. However, for new players I feel that the current ratings are a bit misleading. Complexity can arguably be a 3 but I'd say 2. Strategy should be 3. Luck should be 4. You can get dealt bad hands thro...