Board Game Arena

Donuts (formerly Insert) is a Bruno Cathala designed pure abstract game. [Putting a new skin on Insert doesn't mean it's not abstract, just like Disney themed chess pieces doesn't make chess non-abstract.]

clarkkent1337 wrote: ↑26 April 2024, 12:58 edit: okay. The moment I posted this, I saw it. It's Darwin, right?. Due to the subject of the game. Well... there must be better phrases out there...

It's a very forced pun, but I think that's what they were going for.

What Darwin pun do you propose as an alternative?

I *think* that when the game has no tie-breaker, the tie-breaker for tournaments is the ELO. Best ELO goes forward. I vaguely remember something like that. You can search for it in the forums, it is most assuredly not specific to this game. Ah, I see someone talking about oldest account going forwa...

N_Faker wrote: ↑25 April 2024, 18:00As has been part of the ToS since, as far as I know, ever.

Do you have the quote from the ToS handy?

Did they fix it? I think it's lining up for me now. I'm very curious about how it got broken in the first place, but I doubt we'll ever know. There were some magic post processing on the phpBB tables to sort forums and that got broken by some side effects (too many games). Now you know. ;-) And yes...

This is a game I own that I almost never get to the table. I love that its full release has finally come!

In my understanding, guru-ship is reserved for those who play most frequently. In that case, it does make sense for the ones who spend the most hours to choose the ongoing format. It does not make sense for someone who doesn't play in Arena to choose the Arena format, as Calmon said. You ignored th...

I don't understand the scoring of this game. Both me and my opponent had 10 points and he won his bet. shouldn't it be a draw? :? It is literally written in rules that ties are won by the player who called Last Chance: If the triggering player’s hand is higher or equal to that of their opponents, b...

buy premium to play in hotseat mode. Hotseat is what I was looking for! Thanks! Is there penality to exit Hotseat games? (like real ones?) No, because you are only allowed to run Hotseat in Friendly mode (for reasons that should be obvious): "Friendly mode: no rankings, no time limit per turn,...

Ceaseless wrote: ↑19 April 2024, 16:22 Did they fix it? I think it's lining up for me now.

I'm very curious about how it got broken in the first place, but I doubt we'll ever know.