Board Game Arena

FSKFSK wrote: ↑03 June 2025, 03:17 The 2x and second chance cards are extremely strong. It's a 20+ point boost to whoever draws them.

Reshuffling after each round equalizes the chance of everyone getting it?

Exactly - it removes the memory element and also balances out the swingier cards.

Rather than tracking cards, I'd rather have the option to reshuffle the entire deck after each hand. I feel like the only reason this isn't a rule in real life is to make the game quicker by avoiding shuffling. I've played with shuffling and thought it was a better game for it.

Thanks for the great summary. I assume that the player id's are conferred sequentially by account creation date, so xorsyst_uk has the earlier creation date. We can say for certain that the rule here is not that the older account advances. Also, there is "member since" if you click on the ...

If it was conservation points I'd have won the tie-breaker, I had 26 to 25

In this game: https://boardgamearena.com/6/arknova?table=508652835
My opponent and I scored the same, and the same tie-breaker.
I had more time remaining.

Why did they advance instead of me? I couldn't find an answer in the FAQ as to how BGA decides.