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I appreciate the credit, but masterofbluff actually taught me about secret convention ages ago, after I asked about her reference to it on her page description. I'm unsure who the original creator of the gameplay or website is. I have never actually played a full game of secret convention; I just en...

I’m not sure that that change actually affects Hanabi, due to the fact that in Hanabi we aren’t winning our ELO points from another player (but instead from an imaginary “bot”, which never actually has its rating reduced). Interesting. Would be curious to see what developers say, but I'm unsure how...

I'm a bit rusty on the exact numbers since I haven't played in ages on here, but I think it's something like 700 avg elo in a 3p game gets +0, 975 for 5p game gets +0, and 2p / 4p is i think 950. https://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4814 There are many more cases where you canno...

I've seen a noticeable decline in the quality of play in the last few months. Not sure what the problem is. I think the average level of play in masters-only games has plummeted. It's painful and it's embarrassing. Selection bias. 1. If a player plays enough to improve their hanabi skills, their pe...

This is the first I’ve heard of that, and I’m active and fairly good. Some of us have used a very limited form of chop focus for ages, but I don’t believe there’s a widespread move to generalised chop focus. When playing with high-level partners, I generally try to regard a number clue touching cho...

Personally, I don't see any improvement. I still see tons of masters players that clearly have not mastered the basics, let alone more complicated skills like board vision. I disagree that the goal was to weed out bad players. There is definitely a skill difference between 300 vs 500 vs 700 elo in ...

You are assuming that everything you play with came from logic, while it's not the case at all. You're extrapolating my statement to wreckage's conventions of [if I play a middle 1 it means this, vs if I play a chop 1 it means this], to speaking for how I feel about "everything" I play. O...

Here's one that can help everyone in games of any player count with no black powder. If someone gives you a 1 clue at the start, and it hits three 1s, which do you play? Most of you would immediately say the right 1. But what if you played the middle one, or the left. What can you be telling them b...