#125200: "Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee"
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Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
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• Please explain what you wanted to do, what you did and what happened
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boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=517183363 Move#129
"Purple power: Luca1981 sends an uncovered Bubblee to the opposing Planet"
The game allowed the wrong bubblee to be sent. The player sent the second-to-top (green) bubblee, which was covered by another (yellow) bubblee.
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Google Chrome v125
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Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
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• Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
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boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=517183363 Move#129
"Purple power: Luca1981 sends an uncovered Bubblee to the opposing Planet"
The game allowed the wrong bubblee to be sent. The player sent the second-to-top (green) bubblee, which was covered by another (yellow) bubblee.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• What was displayed on the screen when you were blocked (Blank screen? Part of the game interface? Error message?)
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• Which part of the rules was not followed by the BGA adaptation?
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
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• Is the rules violation visible on game replay? If yes, at which move number?
Yes
boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=517183363 Move#129
"Purple power: Luca1981 sends an uncovered Bubblee to the opposing Planet"
The game allowed the wrong bubblee to be sent. The player sent the second-to-top (green) bubblee, which was covered by another (yellow) bubblee.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• What was the game action you wanted to do?
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
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• What did you try to do to trigger this game action?
Yes
boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=517183363 Move#129
"Purple power: Luca1981 sends an uncovered Bubblee to the opposing Planet"
The game allowed the wrong bubblee to be sent. The player sent the second-to-top (green) bubblee, which was covered by another (yellow) bubblee.
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• What happened when you tried to do this (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• At which step of the game did the problem occur? What was the current game instruction?
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
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• What happened when you tried to do this game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
Yes
boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=517183363 Move#129
"Purple power: Luca1981 sends an uncovered Bubblee to the opposing Planet"
The game allowed the wrong bubblee to be sent. The player sent the second-to-top (green) bubblee, which was covered by another (yellow) bubblee.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• Please describe the display issue. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
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• Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
Yes
boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=517183363 Move#129
"Purple power: Luca1981 sends an uncovered Bubblee to the opposing Planet"
The game allowed the wrong bubblee to be sent. The player sent the second-to-top (green) bubblee, which was covered by another (yellow) bubblee.
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v125
Report history
The bug can affect both yellow and purple powers, when a column is temporarily overfilled until a player sends a bubblee away (to their score area, or to their opponent's planet). The rules allow the player to choose any "free"/"uncovered" bubblee to send. The rules state that "A Bubblee is considered free if no Bubblee stands on top of it." The player *should* be able to send the topmost bubblee, which is temporarily overflowing from their planet. Instead, the BGA implementation lets them send the bubblee from the topmost of the four positions in the 4x5 planet grid, even though that bubblee is covered by the newly-fallen bubblee.
The bug is 100% repeatable. Indeed the player in table 517183363 knows this bug, and chose a play to take advantage of the bug.
This bug has been reported previously (e.g. boardgamearena.com/bug?id=13968, and others), without any action/fix.
boardgamearena.com/bug?id=0&table=517183363#
I couldn't use the purple power to send my top black bubble in the middle column, because the interface wouldn't let me select a bubble that was "not on my planet" but illogically i was able to send the orange bubble underneath the black bubble. That does not follow the rules which state that purple power allows to send only a bubble that is NOT covered.
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