Board Game Arena

I have had some days off recently and been trying to play Beyond the Sun spending what feels like 14+ hours each day trying to find games. I can find other games within a decent amount of time, but not this one. Then I see some of my recently added friends jumping into games right away and others telling me it only takes them a 1/2 hour to find a game. I know I'm not a premium player, but this is starting to get really annoying.

I'm assuming you're searching for real time games. You might have more luck with turn-based games.

Indeed, as I am typing this, there is only 5 real time game of BTS, 3 of them being between friends (so I assume they didn't open the table to others), one of the two others in which you are currently playing.
With number so low, if you're not premium that means that to have a chance to play, you need to search at the exact moment where a premium player is opening a table, and if more than 3 other players are waiting for a table, be lucky enough to be of a similar ELO than the premium player that opened the table.

(Compared to turn-based where there are 800 games running, with one table currently searching for players.)

Somehow got lucky with 2 or 3 games popping right up after I posted this. Even won my first! Busy night

Found out Automatic is broken at least some of the time thanks to a friend not seeing me at any tables after I waited 3 hours. Since then I have switched to manually choosing games.