To make the site a better place for the players who are interested in a more competitive style of play, I have added a new option into the General preferences - Block loss-of-turn invitations. If enabled, you will still see invitations to loss-of-turn games as usual, but you will not be able to accept them. This should prevent situations where people would accidentally accept games with this type of penalty, despite not wanting to play in this way. This only works for friendly game invitations - ladder and tournament games are always played with the loss-of-game penalty.

Those who prefer a more casual gameplay can simply leave the option disabled and everything will remain unchanged for them.

In other news, blog writers will find that they can now mark each blog entry as private or semi-private. Private entries will only be readable by the blog owner, while semi-private entries will be readable by the blog owners and his or her chums.

Finally, players of the Fives and Threes Dominoes will find that the scoring board is now more accurate - if you play a variant that requires you to get 61 or 91 points, the scoring board will no longer include extra points up to 121.

Enjoy!