Board Game Arena

I am very much in favour of this idea. The doorbell sound is very irritating both to myself and to others in the household, so I end up turning the sound off completely and missing notifications.

It's a sad reality IMO that most 3+ player games are just not designed in a way that allows one player to "quit" without damaging the game experience for the others. This seems like a really hard problem in game design :) I think it is wrong that you currently need to wait out some large f...

In this variation, do you need to catch (or maybe avoid? ) the Jack of Diamonds in order to shoot the moon?

My opinion: a system with more than a binary rating simply does not work. There is a reason that Youtube stopped providing a 5-star rating scale and moved to like/dislike: because in practice, people almost always only vote 5 or 0 anyway, and if you're one of the few who doesn't, your vote effective...