Board Game Arena

Have never seen this happen before. I generally set all my tables to 24 moves per day to keep things moving, looking for other quick players in my time zone.

A person joined one of my games, made a move, and then on their next turn, did not act for hours. Their initial 12h turn time dwindled down to around 5h before making another move (which is fine).

However, when I made a move next, I noticed that their time to act jumped all the way up to "4 days" ?!

How does this happen?

Unfortunately, I also checked this person's profile and their reputation is around ~43%. Not great. Not sure if this is somehow related, but wanted to include it anyway.

That player used a Time Joker. A time joker grants +4 days thinking time in all currently running turn-based games (outside tournaments). Everyone has 4 of those per year. This is meant for situations when you go on holiday. You can find confirmation of this in the table log if you scroll down far enough.

Ah, had no idea about these. Thank you!

tectactoe wrote: ↑11 April 2025, 14:16Unfortunately, I also checked this person's profile and their reputation is around ~43%. Not great. Not sure if this is somehow related, but wanted to include it anyway.

There are filters to weed out low karma players.