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Existing…",{"value":54,"source":55,"evidence":56},"People who want to play board games online with friends they already message","inferred",[57,58],{"id":50,"by":51,"text":52},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"4190359","shazow","I've been helping Brian play test this on and off. I love how low-friction and low-commitment it is. Especially in the age when everything requires a Facebook login. Really easy…",{"value":63,"source":47,"evidence":64},"Free to play; monetization not decided, premium accounts considered",[65],{"id":66,"by":51,"text":67},"4190536","Ideally we'll build something to play random users. It just wasn't something we build out at first. To answer about monetization, we have loose ideas. 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Why couldn't I just email…",{"id":107,"by":51,"text":108},"4191703","I think I should have made this more clear. We track anonymous accounts through the browser session. You can play many games all with the same account, and you'll have a…",{"value":110,"source":47,"evidence":111},"Possible copyright or trademark takedown from game owners",[112,116],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"4190434","saddino","Hasbro is a little crazy about defending their copyrighted board and rules (including point values, board layout, letter distribution), etc., so if WordBase gets any serious…",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"4192393","stevenringo","Looks awesome. However, I give you guys about a week before you get a takedown notice from Scrabble. http:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FLexulous#Legal_and_copyright_issues",{"value":121,"source":47,"evidence":122},"Bugs with out-of-sync boards and double jumps in checkers",[123,127],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"4190646","0Y5T","Really enjoyable, thanks! My opponent had some bugs where he could place chess pieces on top of each other. And he was unable to move pieces that were in certain positions. He…",{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"4191653","ElliotH","In Checkers if you need to 'double-jump' I find in Chrome I have to refresh my browser to do this",[132,143,151,162],{"value":133,"source":47,"evidence":134},"Random opponent matching",[135,139],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"4190488","_P_","IMO you should add an option to play a game with a random user. While I like playing every couple hours a la words with friends, it would be nice to be able to play with whomever…",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"4190711","graue","This looks very cool. I play a lot on http:\u002F\u002Figgamecenter.com, which has a zillion games, but is kinda clunky and does have the extra friction of requiring players to create an…",{"value":144,"source":47,"evidence":145},"Add Hex",[146,147],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"4191363","mmcnickle","This is cool, though it should be possible to create a cross-device URL for people who don't want to register. 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When this other URL is…",[171,175],{"value":172,"source":47,"evidence":173},"Is monetization planned?",[174],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},{"value":176,"source":47,"evidence":177},"Were the game engines built from scratch or existing ones?",[178,179],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},{"id":180,"by":51,"text":181},"4191639","Thanks for the feedback. We actually have something like that semi-implemented. They're called 'recall links', and they allow people to generate unique urls per game (secret)…",[183,190,194,200],{"value":184,"source":47,"evidence":185},"GameKnot",[186],{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"4191764","thejteam","A chess website that I subscribe to is gameknot.com. The model that they use are some simple text and picture ads for free members. 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