According to the stated rules for what happens when a tie occurs in Fringo, the higher placing goes to the “player who got the point total first.” But this is a LIE!
I just now completed a game in which I held 3200 points and was in 1st place up until the last call was made, at which point another player made a match and tied me. Yet THE OTHER PLAYER was awarded the 1st place prize! This is not a fluke; it has happened many times before. And given the amount of REAL $$$ it takes to buy enough gems to have even half a prayer at winning, this sort of treachery is inexcusable and unacceptable.
CW, please clean up your act. The least you can do is play by your own rules!
Yes, but not until after the final match. In any case, that isn’t relevant since the scoring factors that in, which is why the timing matters more. If the number of total Fringos matters, too, then CW needs to say that upfront. No one should have to guess at how the rules work.
Is it possible that the second-place player employed a MAGNET power-up to move up the list? Doing so at the last second would make sense, as they wouldn’t want to give you time to respond.
(I don’t play often enough to remember what visual cues would appear in such a case.)
I think it is likely what @Brondie mentioned. Fringo calculates the winning order by looking at three specific layers of priority: first is the total Score, then the number of Fringos achieved, and finally if those are tied who reached that point total first.
As the rules state, the timing only becomes the deciding factor if the scores and/or the number of Fringos are identical. It sounds like the other player may have caught up on the Fringo count right at the end, which pushed them ahead.
Where in the rules did you find the info about Fringo count being a factor? I referenced @Samantha 's post about Fringo and there is nothing there that mentions a tie. The only info regarding a tie that I can find comes from the end-score page where the bird states that in case of a tie, the ranking is determined by who achieved the point total first. Since the Fringo bonuses are included in achieving the score total, the number of Fringos should be irrelevant.
CW ought to have a “Rules” button on each game’s home page for easy reference. Or did I miss seeing it somehow?
If the player got more Fringo Points, they would win first place. If two players get all Fringos and have the same amount of Fringo Points, the first to get all Fringos wins first place. If a Magnet was used, they match your score and get placed above you.
It is possible to get more points by using Power Ups.
We have no way of looking into exactly what happened in the round. One of the factors listed above would have happened in order for another player to win first place.
Neither of us had all Fringos. I had 8 and the other player ended with 13, but the same score. Again, no magnet was used.
But the magnet (and bandit) brings up a separate issue: how are other players able to “target” another player using the magnet or bandit? Many times I have seen both come from players well above or well below me on the place chart. When I use either power-up, both operate only on the player above me.
Is there also an effect with the game combining players from playing different islands showing the positions of rank? Or are the rankings you see already combining the players? I bring this up wondering if a player using a magnet (or steal) it only does it to players in the same island. This would explain why it seems player above or below gets the reward. I have seen it also that a player a few above or below me seem to be the user of the power up and not the player one above or below me. Just curious if this factors in the game play.
Again I say, the number of Fringos makes no difference as their bonuses are added at the time of the score. If the number of Fringos is the determining factor in re a tie, what does the timing matter? I have had it happen where I got all the Fringos, yet someone else did too, later in the round, but they somehow ended up placing higher than me even though our scores were the same. I’ve also had points stolen from me by the bandit even though I had already filled my card.
Honestly, what good does it do to be the first with a particular score? And why does the bird on the final score page only say the first to achieve the point total gets the higher placing if that is actually not the case?
One reason is your computer or connection might freeze up for a few seconds, and the rest of the game for all other players continues without you. Therfore the game finishes up for everyone else those few seconds before you. It’s happened to me several times. Now I don’t bother using any power ups when that happens.
All of the players in the three islands are in the same room together, so the rankings would be for everyone in the room. Power Ups would not behave differently according to what island players are on.