More than 4 time jokers?

[Eva2024]

Dear community,
I´m in a three-player-game right now where one person has used multiple time jokers in the last two weeks and has now 31 days remaining time on their clock, while the other two players have two days (which was the setting in the beginning of the game). So, my question is: How is it possible to have more than four time jokers? Can you buy them somewhere? I couldnt find an answer to this anywhere... Thanks a lot in advance.

[Meeplelowda]

Dear community,
I´m in a three-player-game right now where one person has used multiple time jokers in the last two weeks and has now 31 days remaining time on their clock, while the other two players have two days (which was the setting in the beginning of the game). So, my question is: How is it possible to have more than four time jokers? Can you buy them somewhere? I couldnt find an answer to this anywhere... Thanks a lot in advance.

They cannot be purchased. I'm only seeing one used since 2026-07-13, but you shouldn't be able to accumulate 31 days regardless, so this is a bug. But what is the nature of the bug? Is this person getting too many jokers, is each joker giving too much time, or both?

Scenario 1: They have used more than 4 jokers this year.
Because it says on the screen where you use them that "You will get your 4 Time Jokers back on January 1st every year," one could argue that using more than four in a calendar year constitutes exploiting a known bug, which is a reportable action.

Scenario 2: The have not used more than 4 jokers, but each joker gave them way too much time.
Has this person used more than four? If the bug is that they are getting more than 4 days per time joker, I'm not sure that is exploiting a known bug because it's not their fault that the jokers are broken.

Of course, if they have directly manipulated the numRemaining, numTotal, or numBonusDays fields themselves that is a serious site integrity issue.

[Eva2024]

I believe it was Scenario 1, but I cannot go back far enough to verify. But the last time joker they used gave them 4 more days, as it should be.

[Shivaware]

Here is a game with a complete log that shows the player using a total of 10 time jokers.

[JimBut]

I suspect scenario 2. 4 time jokers would give 16 days and the user has a note that this is their first game and turn time is doubled which would match the 32 days they have.

Seems like a bug - a time joker should give a flat 4 days even if it's your first game.

[Eva2024]

Here is a game with a complete log that shows the player using a total of 10 time jokers.

Thanks, thats very helpful!

[JimBut]

Here is a game with a complete log that shows the player using a total of 10 time jokers.

Even weirder this is a no time limit game which you'd assume would be exempt from jokers. I wonder if that's the cause of the bug there.

[Eva2024]

Thanks all. I wasn#t sure if it was a bug or not. Have a nice day!

[Meeplelowda]

Bug report here: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=232970