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#125200: "Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee"
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Rules: a rule of the game has not been respected
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• Which part of the rules was not respected by the BGA adaptation
Purple/Yellow Power: Game allows sending-off of a covered bubblee• 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.
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Report history
26. May 2024 17:51 • gaylon • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:
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#
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#
22. Aug 2024 10:41 • ArturU • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:
I have had the same bug : boardgamearena.com/14/bubbleepop?table=552183552&replayFrom=125
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.
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.
22. Aug 2024 11:47 • ArturU • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:
Another example in a previous bug report : table #60813847 move 150
19. Mar 2025 17:28 • puce 87 • Bug has not been reproduced by delopers yet:
Depuis plusieurs parties je ne cumule plus de. Elo
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