Board Game Arena

For anyone else that finds this if you search for games from the Play Now page instead of the game's page you can click the gear on each game to specify that you don't want to play against people with way different ELO. Shoutout to No Wonders for this very helpful video https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Suoivax wrote: ↑02 August 2026, 01:34 No, it does not. The only thing used in matchmaing for arena is arena rank.

Like once a session I get games like this where it seems to even ignore arena rank? Not fun spending 30 min playing games like this But playing against good players is amazing!

Suoivax wrote: ↑02 August 2026, 01:34 No, it does not. The only thing used in matchmaing for arena is arena rank.

Huh I just checked and the player was not ranked at all and I definitely did arena search. Maybe a bug or they were searching for a long time already. Thanks for the info.

I am ~400 elo and just instantly matched with a brand new 100 elo player. The game was not close at all and was not really fun for either player. This seems to happen fairly often as well. I would understand matching with opponents with much different elo after waiting for a long time but instantly ...