Board Game Arena

This is the people in general, and the internet. I’m not going to opine on your skill level, but people make rash judgments on limited information. When that happens, red thumb them, and move on. It’s not by any stretch unique to spades, but spades DOES have a high time commitment to a single result...

Even if this weren’t allowed, there are already chrome extensions that track cards. While, “hey, I am young and have a good memory” is a cool trait, it’s not necessarily the end all spades skill.

Curious what the consensus is on some things we house ruled locally. 1) Unrelated phrases: “judge Parthenon dash Mercury potato dishwasher”, in which only one word is intended to be meaningful. (We allowed, because it is as likely to backfire as succeed, in practice, and the team’s guesser has as mu...

There are a dozen toxic meta-aspects. Knowing the list of potential words is one of them. It’s a literal form of “insider knowledge” that the game is built around avoiding. But there’s not a lot that can be done about it. Just don’t play with people that have more than 100 games or so.

This feels familiar…

On the whole, it’s “a more competitive experience”. Specifically, it’s a ladder that resets every few months where you climb in rank and play people more or less near you in rank. Its more cutthroat and zero sum than your general rating.

No punctuation is allowed unless it’s part of the word. And while “orama” isn’t a word and is thus really questionable, “-orama” is way out of line.

I legitimately have no idea what this option really even means.

Anyone ever had a table that stops showing up as joinable, but can’t be left, either, and just lingers in your table list?

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I’ve noticed that you tend to mysteriously disappear after game start if you don’t like the matchup.