Board Game Arena

Several friends of us have been playing arena mode for a while, I have almost 500 games, and we are certain that it is very possible for people to see the cards in the deck and the opponent's.

Is the game protected against SQL injections?

I find it quite accessible.
It's not funny, you see very strange things...

It's not about losing or winning, my wife was top10 and me top25 (Although now I have descended to the underworld) Even though I won, there are very strange decisions. It is not a thread to cry.

Yeah, I see very VERY strange decisions, for example, having sea stars saved for winning a +3 points, just in case. Then, suddenly, the opponent stops the round, instead of calling a "last play", he has like 7-9 points, you have 6-7 (Plus the +3 sea star trio), you could clearly win with that emergency sea star. A really smelly play, like he knew you have those cards, even when you take those cards from the main deck.

Reiler wrote: ↑09 August 2024, 11:48 Yeah, I see very VERY strange decisions, for example, having sea stars saved for winning a +3 points, just in case. Then, suddenly, the opponent stops the round, instead of calling a "last play", he has like 7-9 points, you have 6-7 (Plus the +3 sea star trio), you could clearly win with that emergency sea star. A really smelly play, like he knew you have those cards, even when you take those cards from the main deck.

This needs more detail (or better yet a replay showing what you mean), depending on the scores and how many cards you were holding your opponent's play is just a standard strategy, not an indication they are cheating.

If a player is 10 points ahead then it's very common to see players call "Stop" rather than "Last Chance", why risk handing your opponent a way back into the game when calling Stop gets you one step closer to victory?

Also if you were holding a sea star back and were on 6 points then I'm assuming you had 5+ cards in your hand. 7-9 doesn't always win Last Chance if your opponent has a lot of cards in their hand, I've lost Last Chances where I called on 10 before. If they weren't sure they could win they could have just called Stop to play it safe.

I too believe there are people cheating. Who starts ignoring a mermaid in the discard pile? What are the chances the same player that ignored the mermaid always had a swimmer+shark at the 2nd turn on every round of the game? Many times I've seen players drawing the sea horse every round.

There is something fishy (no pun intended).

DirkAudaz wrote: ↑12 September 2024, 02:51 I too believe there are people cheating. Who starts ignoring a mermaid in the discard pile? What are the chances the same player that ignored the mermaid always had a swimmer+shark at the 2nd turn on every round of the game? Many times I've seen players drawing the sea horse every round.

There is something fishy (no pun intended).

Do you mean at the start or later on? I've ignored mermaids in the discard pile before. If I've got a hand where all 5 cards are a different colour then a mermaid is borderline useless - it only gives me one point. Meanwhile if I draw from the deck there's a good chance I'll get something that matches one of my cards.

At the very start

If you take the mermaid but let a shark, you might end being robbed of your mermaid.
If you take the shark but let a mermaid, you might end having both in the end

DirkAudaz wrote: ↑12 September 2024, 02:51 Many times I've seen players drawing the sea horse every round.

This just happened to me today. One player with sea horse during three consecutive rounds.

Also, another match with a guy getting 3-4 octopus at the very beginning of each round for another 3-4 consecutive rows.

So I was just obliterated by a player with 300 xp total, one game of SS&P - all three rounds they didn't use last chance, all three times they could stop just ONE turne before I could call 7-8 pts (not to mention I had boats and other pairs lined up) - it's like they could literally SEE the cards I had

It's just impossible, period.

I don't know what tech they use etc. but it's just so obvious.

Kater74 wrote: ↑19 January 2026, 21:00 So I was just obliterated by a player with 300 xp total, one game of SS&P - all three rounds they didn't use last chance, all three times they could stop just ONE turne before I could call 7-8 pts (not to mention I had boats and other pairs lined up) - it's like they could literally SEE the cards I had

It's just impossible, period.

I don't know what tech they use etc. but it's just so obvious.

I agree, players have been gaining superpowers unfairly. They need to stop letting players read your mind. One time, I saw a player use mind control to make their opponents make bad moves. I don't know how they do it, but it's just so obvious.