Board Game Arena

Hearts has been around for hundreds of years. Traditionally it had 1 winner and 3 losers (or a 3 way tie for 2nd if you prefer). That 'prize' structure encourages a 3v1 against the point leader, making the game a bit of a team game. With ELO being awarded differently for 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th the ...

The way red thumbs work seems to have changed more than once since i've started using BGA. Now that RT to GT ratio is 1 to 5 (it used to be 1 to 1) it is difficult to hand them out at all. I have never seen any info previously about public vs private RT's , it would be nice if this was explained whe...

Preparations for 4p - for any character that doesn't start with enough coin for the village to be a decent move, -1 coin to be able to make the 1st friend is ok. but occasionally the first two characters to move both want to shop and even a 3rd out gets to make the friend and that possibility makes ...

I would like to see an order of play that reflects starting positions. In 2 & 3 player games the default spacing is even and cw or ccw play order is ok. In 4 player games you essentially have 2 'cats' and 2 'mice' due to spacing. I would like to see the play order for 4p games become mouse 1, mo...