It only works with passengers on your same flight. In practice, it's good for kids in the same family or school group who are sitting across the aisle from each other. I've used it for some of their other games

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billforsternz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I know I'm getting old when I read comments like this. It wouldn't have occurred to me in a million years that it might pair me with passengers on another flight. I'm conditioned by having first experienced this feature probably 30 years or so ago when pairing to passengers on other flights would have been science fiction.

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dheera 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aren't they all hooked up to Wi-Fi now? Why the restriction on same flight?

	▲	DaSHacka 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's how the system was originally designed, before in flight WiFi was common. If they're gonna hook it up to the broader internet and allow playing games cross-flight, they might as well just hook it up to an existing service like chess.com and have a significantly larger user base imo