Board Game Arena

Has anyone else experience a change in the end of game sound effects? I now get the 'losing' sound even if, as per the example below, I finished 2nd of 4 players and my Elo rating increases... https://boardgamearena.com/tableview?table=902413361 Previously a mid-table finish a game gave a neutral so...

Two-player average of 434.5

https://boardgamearena.com/8/yatzy?table=245313150

High score 476:

https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=194602439

It shows Chinese Checkers. What I meant to say was that yesterday there was a gift (gold digger with plastic shovel), but today nothing. I might be misunderstand though and perhaps the gift was for the first day only. In that case, there is no problem!

Thanks for this. I don't see a gift for today (2nd July), however. It sort of spins to open the chest but nothing is revealed (?).

Yams is a great variant of Yahtzee, in my view; there's slightly more decision making and the two 'throwaway' turns (Plus and Minus) give more scope to deal with bad throws. I calculate the highest possible score is fixed at 530, it being lower than regular Yahtzee because there is no 'joker' bonus'...

This is helpful - thanks both!

The scoring in this game is confusing me, despite having read the rules multiple times. I'm playing solo games against Penny Dreadful who appears to score impossibly well. For example in the game below she scores 6pts on the very first turn. I don't see how this is possible, when you only have 5 car...

Continuing the above, the only thing I can suggest is having some sort of separate BGA league or group for people who can verify their real life WESPA / NASPA / ABSP Scrabble rating. I've no idea how practical or desirable that is, though.

There are some legitimate good players on here with competitive Scrabble records to match it. TrentonTron who you mention is one of them; I am another, having played for UK at three World Scrabble Championships (2003, 2005 and 2011)... and another regular Letter Tycoon player here is a former World ...