Board Game Arena

By default all games start player is random with no weight from other factors. UNLESS: You are playing a rematch against exactly the same player(s), in which case first player passes around the table to the left. (Whoever went second last time will go first this time, and table position will remain ...

The advantage to the last player with Lords is that they can count up and see exactly how many houses they need in each section to beat what everyone else has done. No one else gets to score lords with such specific information before hand.

This is cheating. So is writing down the cards. No one can stop you from cheating like that over the internet, but please don't promote it to others as something that's okay.

When you create a game, there is a button for restricting access to the game. There you can choose to restrict it to your friends or to a specific group. This wont send them an invite, but you can send them all the link to the game once it's restricted, and you will only get your group members joini...

Least thinking time.

Wonderful! Thanks. Do you have a tip jar somewhere?

I've been using this theme for a few days now, and I really like it. It's the first dark theme I've run across that doesn't bork things overmuch. I have one note: Some games, like Cant Stop have some black text directly on the background, and that becomes nearly unreadable. I have to highlight the t...

ROOT just got a release on Steam. It's unlikely we'll see it here anytime soon. I haven't tried the Steam version yet, though. I hope it's well done.

coincidence. First player is random every game EXCEPT: if you are starting a table as a rematch with the same players, it will shift the first player to whoever was second player last game.

This kind of thing has been suggested before for other games, and the answer is essentially: Where would you draw the line, if we start making multiple rankings for different forms of specific games, we need different rankings for different players numbers? different board layouts? and for games wit...