Signing in and opening the board

The first sign-in

The first time your assistant uses tcgreplay (or when you connect it), your browser opens Google’s account chooser straight away; there is no tcgreplay page in between. Pick your Google account. The playmat asks Google only for your email address; it never sees your password, name or photo. Then you are back in your assistant, which carries on.

Each Google account has its own game on the hosted playmat. The privacy page says what is kept and for how long.

Opening the board

When your assistant imports a game, starts a new one or sets the opponent’s deck, its reply includes a board link, an address like https://tcgreplay.demo.gs/board?board=…. Open it to watch the game on a live board and make moves yourself.

• In the same browser you signed in with, the board opens straight away: you are already signed in.
• In another browser or device, the board sends you to Google sign-in first. Sign in with the same Google account and the board opens.

The board’s menu shows the account you are signed in as, and Sign out.

If something goes wrong

• “Not your game”: you opened a board link while signed in as a different Google account from the one your assistant uses. Sign out from that page and sign in with the right account, or open your own board.
• “tcgreplay is busy”: the hosted playmat already has as many players as it serves at once. Try again later, or run it on your own computer.
• The board shows no game: your game may have been dropped after a while without activity, or when the playmat was updated. Ask your assistant to import the game again.