Board Game Arena

The game was inspired from the puzzle.

The game designer mathgrant used to have an account here
https://boardgamearena.com/player?id=1166851

Not sure what has happened to him.

He also designed mammalath.

Use notifyPlayer() for information only that 1 player is allowed to see.
On a state change you could also use the 'args' feature, and load the data only if it's the correct player.

Why would they also be able to see the data on a reload? This also needs to be player specific when necessary.

What?
I had not come across the puzzle before.
Have you ever wondered about the puzzle that the game was inspired from?

What do you wonder?

Silene is right, and looking at 1 sample piece of data means nothing. Calculate the odds of rolling the exact die rolls in a game and it's 1 in an astronomical large number. Here is your data for all your backgammon games. You've rolled the correct amount of doubles: https://boardgamearena.com/playe...

Computer says no.

In a manual mode table. Select training mode, and then select the number of players to 1.

You can check their server status:
https://boardgamearena.com/serverstatus ... ves_played

Otherwise it will likely be something else non-BGA related.

Yes this. A lot of times this. This is very open to abuse as pointed out. The player experience in tournaments can be painful. The agricola tournament I'm playing in currently is just awful - 20 rounds of swiss - half the games have a timed out with various duff players. People don't know or care wh...

Wondered about the puzzle that the game was inspired from?

https://www.puzzle-lits.com/?size=4

Yes, surprising little interaction in Res Arcana, just the choice of table cards. But I've mainly played 2 players. But at least it is a brain burner with all the calculations. In a similar vein might be Race For The Galaxy. It might not quite be the brain burner, but tactics wise and game length it...

You're not being particularly clear. By stating non-abstract games and then using Hive and Santorini as examples of games you like... Also simple and deep normally describes most abstract games. Sounds like you're making your own life difficult. Games that have particularly tickled my fancy that mig...