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Why did this route work? Using another player's station, in Ticket to Ride Online?
It's hard to tell with the big green destination marker, but it looks like there is a yellow train station in Berlin, which would allow Yellow to use the track from Essen to complete the ticket.
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Is there custom boardgame leaderboard online?
If you have an account on BoardGameGeek, then you can record "plays" of a game against that account. You can include details about other players, whether the game was stopped before the end, how long ...
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Online Pathfinder
There doesn't exist anything that fulfills all your requirements, but there are several good options that comes close. One of the reasons are licensing, if anything outside the SRD are to be legally ...
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Why did this route work? Using another player's station, in Ticket to Ride Online?
As far as I can tell that should not have worked at all. It seems like the T2R online simulation has a route calculation bug. I suggest reporting this to them.
Players can only use their own train ...
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Where can I practice MTG draft online and actually play against my opponents for free?
I know this question is extremely old by online standards, but I'm adding an answer in case anyone that doesn't know about Arena stumbles on this question in the future...
Answer: Wizards of the ...
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Board games Online
I'm playing on Board game arena (BGA) and I find it excellent for several reasons (IMHO):
Great catalogue of games, esp. for euro + family games.
Free to play along in all games
Cheap premium ...
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Online deck of cards
You can use any online board game engine to create your own module, upload cards/other components there and use it to share game state between players, or maybe just host a full game. Engines I know ...
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Online deck of cards
Inspired by your question, I created a Google Sheet that more-or-less does what you imagine, feel free to make a copy of it (it's in view mode).
You can load in an arbitrary list of cards, shuffle ...
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Is there a free site to play Yu-Gi-Oh?
I really enjoy using : http://ygopro.org/
Its really well made and constantly updating
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online bridge with 2 casual players vs computer?
Bridge Base Online allows you to play against AI, just create a table with all robots and then replace N with your partner. See for example this forum question.
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Is there custom boardgame leaderboard online?
You can use the iOS app BG Stats (Board Game Stats) for that use (and many others, this app is just awesome). Or you can use Nemestats, an online tool.
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Is there custom boardgame leaderboard online?
Rankade, our multipurpose ranking system, is free to use and it's designed to manage rankings (and stats, including matchup stats, and more) for small or large groups of players.
Its algorithm (...
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Making a family card game playable online
I know this is a very old question, but if the goal is just to play the game with your family (who already know the rules) then the easy way to make it happen is to just get a copy of Tabletop ...
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Ethical issue about duplicate bridge
When you play against the robots, a complete record of your play is kept. You can look it over afterwards, and ask anyone else to.
It would indeed be unethical to have someone advise you as you are ...
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Agricola Online
You can now also play online on Board Game Arena (BGA): https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=agricola
Currently in beta but will probably be released soon.
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Looking for an Online Card Shuffler and Drawer
The game Tabletop Simulator has many games on the workshop, including 7 Wonders.
Tabletop Simulator (TTS) is exactly what the name implies: it simulates a tabletop. You can play chess, checkers, ...
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Ticket to Ride multiplayer between OS X and iOS
According to the game maker's website, yes:
Online Play (WiFi or 3G) against other iPad, Android, Mac and PC gamers with Days of Wonder Online support
I would take that to mean that both device ...
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Othello (Reversi) Online community
Server where many good players play is Kurnik. If you're asking about communities this is a website of federation that organise international tournaments.
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Othello (Reversi) Online community
You can try Turn The Tides (I'm its developer) which has 24 different boards based on the idea of reversi. You also get to use powers and there are another 24 boards with hexagonal tiles as well. You ...
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Changing bot difficulty in Dominion Online
No, there is not currently any difficulty settings for the AI.
I cannot find an official source stating this to quote/link as reference, but you can read through the official FAQ and see some ...
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How can one use the "Guest Option" in Rankade?
Got the answer directly from the Rankade team:
You can add a new player during the faction step. Just type their email, and
then choose if you want them to be a 'member' or a 'guest'. Guest user ...
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Is there a site to play Go online against a computer, in 2018?
The accepted answer in your linked question is still valid: ELF (the Facebook go bot, account name "ELF") or variants of LeelaZero play on the Kiseido Go Server (usually bots have "LeelaZero" or "LZ" ...
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How can we play yu-gi-oh online after dueling network's shutdown?
Building off of DarkCygnus' answer, the "spiritual successor" to Dueling Network is Dueling Book. It is stylized in the way Dueling Network used to be, has both a competitive ladder and casual ...
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Where can I find in-depth analysis of different digital card games?
I don't think you are likely to find a one-stop-shop for many different card games (can't say for certain, because proving a negative and all). Coming up with those analyses are usually things that ...
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Where can I find in-depth analysis of different digital card games?
I have faced a similar problem, and my solution has been to talk to as many game playing people as I can. I have run into many people who have played MTG and some other online CCG. Talking to them, ...
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Board games Online
Yucata is a good one. It's designed for turn based games rather than live games and ones where everyone takes their turn simultaneously. It's almost exclusively card games.
You can play multiple ...
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How to find online players for San Juan?
You could consider joining BrettSpielWelt.
http://brettspielwelt.de
You may still play on your iDevice, even though it will be through the browser and not the San Juan app.
The user interface takes ...
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How can we play yu-gi-oh online after dueling network's shutdown?
Is there any way to play yu-gi-oh casually online now?
I've heard and seen that Dueling Nexus is a good place to play online (seems it's even automated), after Dueling Network shut down years ago.
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Telepresence Board Games
Try Diplomacy!
I have found Diplomacy to be an amazing solution to this sort of issue. Originally played by mail in the 60s (famously known as US President John F. Kennedy's favorite game), ...
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Limits to cities of a given resource in Antike Duellum?
The Yucata rules state (emphasis mine)
The game material comes in limited quantity. If a player has no more
legions or galleys, or if the bank has no more city tokens or temples,
the supply is ...
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