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games with less waiting times
Posted: 26 June 2023, 15:59
by rashes1
Hi, I've noticed 6 Nimmt having very less waiting time (a few secs usually) as compared to any other game I've played on bga so far. Even ticket to ride and it's a wonderful world also have decently low waiting time.
Are there other popular games like that with very low waiting time that I can explore? upto a min I would say...
TIA!
Re: games with less waiting times
Posted: 26 June 2023, 16:33
by cigma
I'd say look at the list of popular games:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?isPopular= or check the Play Now page
https://boardgamearena.com/lobby to see which of your favourite games have currently an open table.
Re: games with less waiting times
Posted: 26 June 2023, 17:51
by Shobu
The game in progress list will give you a good overview of game with low waiting time
https://boardgamearena.com/gameinprogress
Re: games with less waiting times
Posted: 27 June 2023, 08:25
by mturton
Games I have found have short waiting times are the ones you mentioned, plus:
Space Base
Yahtzee
Ark Nova
Azul
Akropolis
Re: games with less waiting times
Posted: 28 June 2023, 09:18
by rashes1
Very helpful and interesting.. Thanks folks!
Re: games with less waiting times
Posted: 29 June 2023, 04:03
by JoysJoy
You can do better than just trying to find a list of games that might have less wait time.
Click "Play Now" in the top banner. Select "simple game" and "real time" and "Manual". Then scroll down and you can choose to view all open tables for the games you know, or all games further down. Only games you can join will show unless to ask to see the ones you can't join. You can see who wants to play what game and is waiting
Re: games with less waiting times
Posted: 29 June 2023, 12:14
by King Hrothbeort
JoysJoy wrote: ↑29 June 2023, 04:03
You can do better than just trying to find a list of games that might have less wait time.
Click "Play Now" in the top banner. Select "simple game" and "real time" and "Manual". Then scroll down and you can choose to view all open tables for the games you know, or all games further down. Only games you can join will show unless to ask to see the ones you can't join. You can see who wants to play what game and is waiting
That will work great for two player games (or any games with any number of players as long as you are the last person to join), the game will start as soon as you join, as long as the person who started the table is actually there (which is not always the case). But games waiting for a large number of players may still have a long wait time.
Re: games with less waiting times
Posted: 30 June 2023, 01:29
by cigma
King Hrothbeort wrote: ↑29 June 2023, 12:14
the game will start as soon as you join, as long as the person who started the table is actually there (which is not always the case).
If this person is offline, you can enter the game and kick them (in the old lobby on the Play Now page, I don't know how the new lobby on the game page handles that).