or2ak.com: I have never played 4 player, but have played 3 player Chess, and that was fun

BrainKing is getting great with all the 2 player games and MANY variations, but sadly we seem to be stuck there. Many of our rival turn-based game sites now have 3 & 4 player board games and have for ages now (excluding Ponds of course).

I wish we could concentrate on 3 and/or 4 players games here soon, some great ones we have here are already lend themselves so well to it, e.g. Chess, Assimilation, Ataxx, Ludo, Scrambled Eggs, Froglet, Dice Poker etc.....

Now they would be awesome

As MadMonkey said, there are many games which 3-4 player games would be very very very very very cool!

It would take some extra programming work by Fencer, but I would not think it would be too hard. (The hardest part might be trying to figure out how the ratings are calculated).

Time outs - for some games like chess, that would be hard since what do you do with the timed-out users pieces. Do you end the game for everyone (The people who did not time out co-winners) - what if player 3 is in a very good attack position towards player 4 - but player 3 times out - do their pieces stay on the board (limiting player 4), are they removed, which hurts player 2 since he was "attacking player 3 and now his pieces are not in a very good position", etc.....

But other games would be perfect for 3-4 players - Dice poker, boats, etc... And my favorite - the game that WAS MADE to be played with 3-4 players, Frog Finder.

I'm sure it would take a lot of work to get it made, but having the ability to play games between 3-4 players would be very cool.

As for the ratings - that is where it can get tricky - since many times, the game is played totally different between 2 players and between 3-4 players. I know other sites just clump all the ratings together.... which at that point, some avoid the 3-4 player games since it hurts their ratings too bad. Maybe a way to have 3 ratings for 1 games.

Over all rating

Rating on 2 player games

Rating on 3+ player games

or2ak.com: What should happen to a 4 player chess game if one player times out (or resigns)?

Many multiplayer games don't work well on turn based sites because there's no good way of solving timeouts/resigns.