Board Game Arena

I've working on a computer program to play this. Isn't finished, but I was shocked at just how many possible solutions can be eliminated just by looking at what verifiers are available. About a third of the time I can identify a single solution without making any tests at all. Most of the time there...

That's a good question, and I want to add another question, linked to your topic: If there are very good players at a certain game (in particular 1vs1 games), some people could give a red thumb to them so as not to play against them, not because of their bad behaviour, but just to try not to play (...

There are a couple of players that I want to red thumb for purely tactical reasons. They are decent enough people who perservered enough to make elite level while maintaining an ELO score in the low 100's. They just aren't very good at this particular game. If I get matched against them in arena mod...

Up until a few days ago, I was getting nice email notices when it was my turn to play in a turn based game. Those suddenly stopped, and I would really like to get them again. Is there some configuration setting somewhere that I cannot find? What is really curious is that I have been unable to find a...

You want to keep drawing cards from the deck as long as possible. Drawing a 2 or 3 from the board is usually a waste of valuable time, unless you have multiple investment cards or a realistic chance of playing 8 cards. Always play cards when there are no outstanding cards between that card and the m...

Good meta strategy that works for all games on BGA. Select desired game from the games tab and switch the ranking section to "All time" Click on the top players and display their game history to identify the ones that are still actively playing Click on their recent games and replay the ga...

I don't play Arena mode because the game are single round. The luck factor is pretty heavy even in a 3 round game. It is absurdly random in single round games. So yea, I would vote to make area mode games 3 rounds. Or maybe even 5 rounds.

This whole system is designed to discourage and heavily penalize players who need to drop out of a game in progress. Which is all well and good, but it means there is little or no discussion or advice on what to do if you really do have to drop out. It is going to happen to me more than most other p...