Board Game Arena

Luck (of the draw) is a significant factor in Hand and Foot. I regularly play with similarly-skilled players, and our won-lost records are all over the place, with streaks of bad and good luck. The deck is randomly shuffled, and is completely determined at the start of each round. The game logic doe...

No. That would be a different game, like rummy. (It would also be a technical hassle to implement.)

Please check your UI in mobile modes. I looked at the current studio version in Firefox's iPhone emulation mode, and the hand was only partly visible in landscape, flowing out of the whitebox and becoming obscured by the right-side column of stuff. (It was fully visible in portrait, although you mig...

Partnerships and play order are determined randomly, unless the option to allow the table administrator to select the teams is chosen. In that case, the administrator can still randomize the teams, or not, as they choose, but the play order will still be random. I believe if you use the BGA's rematc...

I know I've mentioned this before elsewhere, but I specifically omitted implementing options for requiring (or disallowing) game-mediated going-out requests. This is something that IMHO should be decided and agreed at the table. (I don't think such requests are table talk, myself.) That said, if som...

What does it mean by friendly play, in the description for this preference? The game doesn't affect the rankings? By friendly play it is meant that the players are typically known to each other, and are not playing to gain ELO (i.e. they don't care about the ranking system). The game result will st...

I've pushed a new release of Hand and Foot. Noticeable changes include some new statistics, and
a redo of round summaries. The round summaries will no longer be automatically popped at the end
of the round, but can be accessed via the table status space above the draw and discard piles.

I've not (to my recollection) seen this sort of discard management documented anywhere, which is why this version of the game doesn't have it. Please file a suggestion in the bug tracking system, so it doesn't get lost or forgotten.

Please file requests for features in the bug tracking system. That's the best way to make sure they don't get forgotten.

I am finding BGA entirely useless on Android Chrome-based browsers (including the app, Chrome, Ghostery, and Vivaldi). No pages load, just the spinning icon. Happens for home page, lobby, games in progress.

I don't know if this is due to any recent changes in the browsers, or in BGA.