Board Game Arena

As the title says...

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vetowings wrote: ↑22 August 2026, 07:24 ***

I think they meant *during* the game. ***.

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Meeplelowda wrote: ↑22 August 2026, 19:24 I think they meant *during* the game. Not the Final Situation after the game.

During the game, the player‘s boards are hidden, as the rulebook says during the Game Setup:

Each player:
- Takes a player screen and places it in front of them
- Places a 5×5 Bingo Board behind the screen

Cant see others boards = not competitve at all, lol

wasd56 wrote: ↑30 August 2026, 05:35 Cant see others boards = not competitve at all, lol

Competitive doesn't mean interactive. I think, it is a classic multiplayer solitaire game: you can't mess with each other's boards, but you are still in direct competition to score higher than everyone else in each line. Keeping boards hidden matches the physical game design (which uses player screens). Real-time board sight would only lead to heavy analysis paralysis without changing your own best moves anyway.

Thomas wrote: ↑23 August 2026, 08:07

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑22 August 2026, 19:24 I think they meant *during* the game. ***.

During the game, the player‘s boards are hidden, as the rulebook says during the Game Setup:

Each player:
- Takes a player screen and places it in front of them
- Places a 5×5 Bingo Board behind the screen

But the game clearly wants you to see each other's boards. Why else is there something like the Tunnel card, which allows you to keep one card face down so your opponents can't see it. That wouldn't make any sense if opponents can't see your board anyway.

Godsmurf wrote: ↑02 September 2026, 11:29 But the game clearly wants you to see each other's boards. Why else is there something like the Tunnel card, which allows you to keep one card face down so your opponents can't see it. That wouldn't make any sense if opponents can't see your board anyway.

But the physical game clearly has player screens to hide the player boards. What gives you the impression that the game designer 'clearly wants you to see each other's boards'?

Thomas wrote: ↑02 September 2026, 13:34

Godsmurf wrote: ↑02 September 2026, 11:29 But the game clearly wants you to see each other's boards. Why else is there something like the Tunnel card, which allows you to keep one card face down so your opponents can't see it. That wouldn't make any sense if opponents can't see your board anyway.

But the physical game clearly has player screens to hide the player boards. What gives you the impression that the game designer 'clearly wants you to see each other's boards'?

I just told you. What's the point of a Tunnel card if your whole board is secret anyway?
Perhaps the screens are an option for when you choose to play without the special cards?

I am not the designer, nor the publisher of the game. But there is one obvious difference:

Normal play: 1 card is drawn that shows the tile for all players. The screen hides the position where each player placed them. You know, that each player have same same tiles, Ou don’t know, where others have placed it.

Tunnel card: each player draws a card of their own. You don’t know which players drew which card. You don’t know where and you don’t know what tile each player placed.