Board Game Arena

i recently got into the game, i am not sure game count is that good there are people who have 100s of games and don't play much better than me, i feel it should probably be both elo and game count to get close skill level match but then you have to worry about queue times

for me i just feel like it would be cool to win one, top players usually don't play in them so i have a chance to at the games i am good/decent at i find it difficult to understand why players at the 100~ elo level join

double elimination would be cool, the abillity to choose whic 8n hours count as my night would be nice

i am curious to know what keeps people away from Dartmoor is it just the queue times?

luck, opponent skill level variance, losing a lot made you feel bad, so you played worse.

it's probably just a feeling we tend to assign meaning and find faux patterns in randomness, if it was more than that the game would need to give you handful of bats and end games the moment you are behind considering your win rate

i have recently played a lot of both forest shuffle (35 games) and Dartmoor (25 games) and noticed i won a lot more on dartmoor i think i played higher rated players on average on normal forest shuffle, but still my winrate on dartmoor was 66 compared to 28 forest shuffle is it just luck? are player...

In relation to abstract games... I've always had trouble with the notion of "mastering" a game, starting when I long ago heard the expression, "Minute to learn, lifetime to master," in reference to Go. (Incidentally, Go is a long way from "minute to learn." I still don...

I was the "World ELO Leader" of High Season. The trick? ... You play a new game often enough :) Anyways, I do like High Season and The White Castle, I feel while they are not necessarily the most interesting board games on an actual table, the combo-y nature of the very explosive turns re...

i would like to hear about your experience. what is the meta, what are the noob traps, is your game luck heavy enough that you lose to 100-200 players, what keeps you hooked, just nerd iut if you want i am pretty deep into terraforming mars so i am less interested in opinions about it You have a 50...