How to get the "bell" to appear for lesser played games

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yodamus
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How to get the "bell" to appear for lesser played games

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Hopefully this helps someone. As it has taken me at least a month to figure out how to make the "bell" appear on lesser played games so that it makes it much easier to find a game with those. Just going to a game in new lobby will not make it appear. First, in the old lobby. You have to create a table. With your restrictions. Then go back to play now. Then click that game to enter new lobby. And scroll down and you will see that the "bell" function is available. It works really good for the games I have used it on.

I am still unsure how to know if a game will have the bell function. Anyone know that answer. Is there a list of games somewhere. Or do I just test each game
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Re: How to get the "bell" to appear for lesser played games

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Games need to be less popular and therefore slower to start on average. I think if it's over 15 minutes predicted wait time for a RT table? But I don't use the function, so I don't know for sure.
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Re: How to get the "bell" to appear for lesser played games

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yodamus wrote: 28 July 2025, 21:06 Just going to a game in new lobby will not make it appear. First, in the old lobby. You have to create a table. With your restrictions. Then go back to play now. Then click that game to enter new lobby. And scroll down and you will see that the "bell" function is available.
That's not the same for me. I go to the game page, click on Play and Real-time and the bell shows up. I wonder why this doesn't work for you?
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Re: How to get the "bell" to appear for lesser played games

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Thanks nik. Ah ha. I would just goto game page. I never clicked play. To setup a table . As i use the old lobby to setup my games. I do see now. Where all that is needed is to click on game. Click on play. And if one of those games a bell will appear. The function has worked great . As I mainly play real time. Seems hard to find a turn based player that plays more like real time without the timer
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