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Some people have played a game a lot in person before playing on BGA.

Don't sweat your elo. It is a bad measure for many games.

Don't sweat your elo and just play the game to enjoy it. If you want a more competitive mode, create a tournament or try arena. Elo is a flawed system for games with a luck component, although this game is relatively high skill. Elo is also a flawed system for a multiplayer game, because it can lead...

The reason they don't allow conceding before 50% is that people were abusing it. You can multi-account, play yourself and concede right away. I don't see any reason to forbid conceding after 90% in a 2 player game. There are some games like Quoridor, where it can be 10 or more moves between when it'...

Action cards can be given to players who have stayed or frozen. The only rule is you can't give a card to someone who busted. The "one more" recipient can choose to play the flip 4 on themselves. This is different from the original flip 7, where people who stayed or froze can't receive car...

It's possible to recover if the player before you bids 6 in this situation, especially if it's an early round. Bidding 7 usually is a bad idea, because that just validates their decision to bid 6. If you dump it on the 6 bidder, now you'll have more chips than them for the rest of the game and can g...

You can't have "search by quality", because everyone is going to have their own subjective definition of quality. You can search for "popularity", which is loosely correlated with quality, but not perfectly. You also can search for "award winning games" as one of the ta...

If nobody tries to block the science player, they win. If you're the only one blocking the green player, then one of the other two players will win. One possibility is to try and finish one set by the end of Age 2. That's taking some cards from the science player without ruining your scoring. Anothe...

If you're playing Arena, everyone's Arena elo resets at the start of a season. If you're a good player, you're going to get paired against weak players until your Arena elo recovers to its previous value.

In Age 3, I'm usually making the highest point play available. I'm not going to play a 4 point guild when there's another 6+ point move available. You can't decide ahead of time "I'm going guilds only", because you don't know which guilds are in the game and which will be passed to you.

If signaling is a thing, the game becomes completely solvable. There are 216 ways you can grab a chip and put it back 3 times, and there are 169 starting hands. If you assign each hand to a combination, you can always signal your exact hand.