April 2012
Are you a guest interested in joining a club? If so, today may be your lucky day! Four GoldToken clubs that play a variety of games are offering a Six Month Silver membership to four players on condition you join and actively participate in playing games on one of the clubs teams. Write GoldToken Support for more information. Would you like to win 50 Golderos? The Gold Triathlon Marathon Club has a new type of challenge for you!!! Collect Goldies over 12 months & you could win 50 Golderos 60 different games are being played. be sure to join us!! Check the main page of The Gold Triathlon Marathon Club for more information. If you have any question please write Jacob1987 today! Are you voting? Player profiles, comments, polls, posts on the boards. Voting and commenting not only build site warmth and appeal for everyone, it could earn you Golderos! to the winner of the "How to join a ladder" Contest, Totty, who won 5 Golderos for his effort. The winning entry is: Ladders can be either site ladders or club ladders. To join a site ladder, find the link "See Ladders" in your Options box. From the list of ladders available, just click on the little box to join that ladder. You will now be competing against every site member who has joined that ladder. To join a club ladder you must first join the club. Usually the club owner will have to approve your membership, but the club owners are fabulous so that usually doesn't take more than a day. Once you have joined the club, it will appear on your gamesheet under My Clubs. Joining a ladder is now a case of clicking on the club name in My Clubs, finding the Club Ladder you are interested in, and joining it by clicking on the box. Times continue to be difficult for everyone, especially with the recession taking so long to recover around the world. Here on GoldToken, we are working at creative ways for players having a difficult time to win an advanced site membership. We really do want you to be able to play all the games and enjoy the benefits of being a greater part of our GoldToken family. As such, we have added a number of contests to our monthly newletter that give the winner a prize of Golderos or extended membership. I hope you enjoy them. Better yet, enter them! As the years quickly pass, there is always so much activity and personal business to attend to that it is easy to forget to thank our valued members, like you, for your continued support of GoldToken throughout the years. Without your kindness and generosity, we would not be able to offer as many important services as we do. Your memberships help pay for others to play who couldn't otherwise afford to do so, cover GoldToken's server access and bandwidth, new games, site features and incredible fun for the whole family. We couldn't do it without you! Have a wonderful month and play like you mean it! --Badger In this month's newsletter, we have:
-- Happy Birthday to dellajo on April 2nd! - From The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to Angel Baby on April 2nd! -- Happy Birthday to Mike K of the Renegades on April 2nd! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club, { Club }, { Club } -- Happy Birthday to AndrewB on April 2nd! - From { Club } -- Happy Birthday to phil on April 3rd! - From: { Club } -- Happy Birthday to Kriistina Jean on April 3rd! - From The Pork Chop Club -- Happy Birthday to SnowFlake on April 5th! - From The Pork Chop Club -- Happy Birthday to just lady on April 7th! -- Happy Birthday to Scubasteve on April 7th! -- Happy Birthday to Dr Gideon Fell on May 7th! From The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to Hillbilly on April 9th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club, { Club }, { Club }, The Pork Chop Club and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to heyred72 on April 9th! From The Pork Chop Club and The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to Lowell on April 10th! - From The Friendship Club, The Pork Chop Club, { Club }, { Club }, The Backgammon Tournament Club and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to tweeter42 on April 11th! -- Happy Birthday to Indiana Jones on April 12th! -- Happy Birthday to Pepper on April 12! - From: The Pork Chop Club and The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to Twisted Nerve on April 14th! -- Happy Birthday to AJK on April 15th! - From: { Club } -- Happy Birthday to Scoopdedew on April 15th! - From: The Pork Chop Club -- Happy Birthday to jackgammon on April 16th! - -- Happy Birthday to Sir Silver of the GoldTable on April 16th! -- Happy Birthday to Toybox38, my wonderful husband- From your wife Trish41 on April 16th! -- Happy Birthday to MsDot on April 17th! - From: The Gammon Addicts Club, The Word O'Rama Club and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to ChrisM on April 18th! -- Happy Birthday to Rimon on April 18th! -- Happy Birthday to losflores on April 19th! -- Happy Birthday to coop on April 19th! -- Happy Birthday to runabe on April 20th! -- Happy Birthday to snoopy57 on April 20th! -- Happy Birthday to aprildawn on April 20th! -- Happy Birthday to jenni on April 20th! -- Happy Birthday to aprildiamond on April 20th! -- Happy Birthday to Whistler Gandalf on April 21st! -- Happy Birthday to csesugar on April 21st! - From - { Club } -- Happy Birthday to Lyonsgirl on April 21st! - From - The Pork Chop Club and The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to Morticia on April 21st! -- Happy Birthday to betty on April 22nd! -- Happy Birthday to clare on April 22nd! - From cissy and The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to laura lee on April 22nd! - From { Club }, The Pork Chop Club and cissy -- Happy Birthday to Rhfuqua on April 22nd! - From The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to BobK on April 23rd! -- Happy Birthday to Millie on April 23rd! - From { Club } and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to sparkles43 on April 24th! - From { Club } and The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to TerryS on April 26th! -- Happy Birthday to rednose426 on April 26th! -- Happy Birthday to wingfoot on April 28th! From { Club } -- Happy Birthday to furryfeet on April 29th! -- Happy Birthday to mayonnaise on April 30th! - From The Pork Chop Club Anniversary & Other Wishes: -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to runabe and his wife on April 4th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to Miranda and her husband on April 16th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to tango2 & evan on April 17th! -- Happy 38th Wedding Anniversary to Bluefin and his wife on April 20th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to wldndn and her husband on April 20th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to Lady Sili and her husband on April 24th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to Snoopy and her husband on April 29th! -- Happy 6th Wedding Anniversary to Dragon101 and jazzbeth on April 29th! * If you would like to announce any birthdays, anniversaries or other special events coming up for next month, please send GoldToken's Newshound a message before the 25th of this month, so we can give them a shout out in next month's newsletter! (Please keep all announcements upcoming and not belated. Announcements submitted after the newsletter is published, cannot be put in after the fact, we're sorry!)
What's a Nugget? Nuggets, GoldToken's site articles, give all players an opportunity to write various tutorials, strategy guides, and other materials related to playing each of our many games. Once approved, the new article will be added to the appropriate category for all the players to see. (Please note GoldToken's Nugget Terms of Use below.) To write and submit a Nugget, click the Nuggets link at the top of your game sheet. Specific Game type and site related General categories are available. Since this is a new feature, we may not have all the needed categories available as yet. If you wish to post a Nugget in a general category that is not yet available, please contact GoldToken Support to request the addition of the category you require. Guest and Wood level players can submit one article per month. Players with a Silver membership or higher can submit as many articles as they want. Additionally, we are also working on a way for highly successful Guest article writers to obtain site membership as a reward - the details of this will be posted at a later time. When submitting articles, please be sure to only submit content that you have written yourself, or that you have a permission from its author to post here. Citations and links are obviously fine, as long as they do not lead to inappropriate content.
We hope you enjoy this lovely new feature brought to GoldToken to the creative genius of Mecir. Write A Nugget & Win! Write a knock-out Nugget and reap the rewards! If your Nugget is chosen as the winner for GoldToken's Game of the Month in GoldToken's Monthly Newsletter, you will win:
April's game of the month is Chinese Checkers! Join us in a fun Double Elimination Tournament by signing up today for The April 2012 - Game of the Month - Chinese Checkers Tournament! If you are not in the mood for the deep thinking required of other games, Chinese Checkers may be the game for you. This is a board game originally derived from Halma, in which you attempt to move all your marbles into your opponent's area before they can move into yours, can be played with up to six players and learned in a minimum amount of time, making it a great game for all ages. Play is simple. Move your marbles one space at a time in any of the six available directions. Jump your own or your opponents marbles if there is a space open after that marble and within the same line. You can also jump multiple times if there is sufficient space available between the marbles (like a double jump in checkers), even changing directions between jumps, for as many jumps as possible and desired. Get all of your marbles into your opponent's triangle area first, and you win the game. Choose your first move carefully. Just as in other strategic games, your opening moves are a very important part of winning the game. A good start can make the difference between quickly advancing your marbles across the board or struggling in your own corner. Make your initial moves to allow freedom of movement for the remainder of the marbles that are lined up behind it. Chinese Checkers is all about the number of moves it takes to place all your marbles in your opponents triangle. You will likely want to keep your pieces near the center of the board to cut down on the number of moves you need to win. Allowing one or two marbles to stray to the side provides a chance they will become stranded. If this happens, you will end up wasting extra moves getting your pieces to their goal. Be sure to keep an eye on your marble that is furthest from the goal too. You never want to let this piece get too far behind. Otherwise, just like your marbles that strayed to the side, you may waste time and moves getting that lagging marble to the goal. The one thing you need to keep mind with Chinese Checkers is to always plan ahead. An experienced player will always be looking for future multiple jump opportunities. Those are key to winning this game. If you see your opponent moving in a certain direction, you should plan ways to take advantage of it. Get a multiple jump here or there and you will soon find you're way ahead of the game. Also, while your goal is to get your marbles as far as possible, it is not always a good idea if you can block your opponent's jumps long enough to advance yourself further. Always plan ahead, looking for ways to take advantage of your opponent and that's going to make you a better Chinese Checker player. It may help to know that on GoldToken, if a player is prevented from moving his marble into a hole in the destination triangle because of the presence of an opposing marble in that hole, the player is entitled to swap the opposing piece with that of his own as long as it's a legal move as noted above. Knowing the opposing marble will land on the last hole your piece jumped from creates all sorts of strategical possibilities! Jumping on your opponent from the innermost corner after placing your other marbles around it, prevents them from easily getting out, for example. And last but not least, remember to The crucial rule to playing any game! We hope you enjoy it! Guess what! Nobody won this month! Badger wrote this NUGGET because no one submitted any new Nuggets this last month. So nobody won the extra membership! Don't let this happen again. You can write a knock-out Nugget and reap the rewards! If your Nugget is chosen as the winner for GoldToken's Game of the Month in GoldToken's Monthly Newsletter, you will win:
Just a small amount describing some of the types of officers and what they do to keep various clubs running. it is not all officers do but a fair amount of the unseen types of jobs that they do. 1st the different types of officers. 1. Club Owner main officer. 2. President. 3. Vice President. 4. Welcomer. (usually a vice President) 5. Board Officer. 6. Games officers. Owners. Are usually the one who set up the club or took over from the original owners. They tend to over see the running of the club some do a multiple of jobs in their club. Presidents. They do various jobs in a club like keeping the clubs tourneys up to date wiki work, entering results, game numbers and starting new tourneys when the entry is full. They also send messages to members about club tourneys needing players to get them started. Try to settle any problems that may happen in the club. Some set up various Chat boards were members can talk about interests that they have. Also ask about members not been on for a while. Vice Presidents. They tend to do a good few of the jobs that presidents do but don't have to do as much though some do a lot of the keeping tourneys up to date. Doing Club v Club events. Welcomers. Very important part of club life, new members need to be welcomed by the club officers, some clubs use the Vice Presidents to do this important job. The (sallyp and Friends club) my main club we tend to have a two tier way of welcoming our new members. We have our games officer set up a small match Officers against the Newbie usually 4 officers, they send the newbie the invites. also a small 8 player Knock-out (one game elimination) tourney we ask the newbie what their favourite game and do both the match and the Knock-out in that new players game. Our 2nd way is the club owner posts a welcome message on one of the clubs boards including the link to the newbie Knock-out. Board officers. Can be any of the clubs officers they have control of some of the clubs boards. they may do various things on the boards. Highlight something special like birthdays,anniversaries,births and other announcements. In my club there is a request board were members can request a game variant that the club has not had a tourney in for a while or discuss different types of tourneys not been done for a long time. Other boards officers can monitor the boards to keep them respectable. We have an `Ask cekj ` board were members can ask questions to the clubs officers about tourneys how they run and for help with editing wikis, copying and pasting. sometimes the board features some of the prominent members of the club being asked about themselves so club members can get to know a little about the clubs officers. Games Officers. These officers are very important to the club they do some of the unseen work that members do not usually know about. My main club I along with another couple of officers set up tourneys. Some officers belong to a number of clubs also as officers so they may be doing the same work in those clubs as well. This usually involves a lot of wiki work and can take a very long time. Coming up with a tourney sometimes it is not so easy, you need a title, gets a bit tedious if you call the tourneys Backgammon, Backgammon 2 , Backgammon 3 and so on. You can call the various tourneys using the month name ie. March Backgammon or Winter Backgammon or something like Halloween Backgammon. The types of tourneys can differ too. Setting the amount of players in each tourney is important too, if you ask for to many players they never fill so don`t start. Setting the tourney up is usually hard work but keeping those tourneys running is also something to keep officers busy as well. A list of a few different tourneys we run in my club 1) Knock-out single elimination games. 2) Round Robins ( I call these All Play Alls ) 3) Swiss Pairings. 4) Race Type Tourneys. 5) Team Tourneys ( in the club ) 6) Pairs Tourneys. 7) Special Day Tourneys. ie members birthdays using that members favourite game. 8) Themed series tourneys. a set of tourneys that form a theme with a leader board. There is also many other types of tourneys. As a footnote why do officers do this for members of clubs? If I take my own self I love the thought that members enjoy the competitions that are set up by officers. I also like to play in these competitions that I and others have set up.
March's winner is: Crockpot Corn Beef and Cabbage
4 Large Carrots, peeled and cut into matchsticks----10 Baby Red Potatoes,quartered----1 Onion,peeled and cut into bit-sized pieces--- 4 cups Water----1- 4 lb. Corned Beef Brisket with spice packet----6 oz. BEER ----1 Cabbage-coursely chopped Place the carrots, potatoes, and onion into bottom of a slow cooker, pour in the water, and place the brisket on top of the vegetables. Pour the beer over the brisket. Sprinkle on the spices from the packet, cover and set the cooker on High. COOK the brisket for about 8 hours. An hour before serving, stir in the cabbage and cook for 1 more hour Thats it, nice and easy ---- ENJOY GoldToken's skzoey will receive a "one time" access to the entire list of site icons, and can select any one that is not currently being used by another player, regardless of membership level (Silver and Wood members can keep the icon for 1 year!). Please send a big to skzoey! April's recipe contest is: "Egg Dishes". The winner will be given a "one time" access to the entire list of site icons, and can select any one that is not currently being used by another player, regardless of membership level (Guests, Wood and Silver members can keep the icon for 1 year!). Rules:
**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** We would like to say to Fliss for letting us step into their personal life for a bit. 1. What brought you to GoldToken? A friend of mine introduced me, we commute to London on the same train. He plays as jodrell on GT. How'd you choose your name for GT? Fliss is my nickname, plain and simple 2. What interests you most on GT? Tough call - I would say backgammon, cribbage and the domination variants. I don't get much chance to play board games at the moment. 3. Do you belong to any of the clubs? How about the chat only clubs (birds, kitties, garden)? I've joined a few - The Wolf Pack Club was my first - they gave me my current icon, even though I was on a trial membership at the time. I'm most active for games in the The Sallyp and Friends Club , and I joined the specialist clubs for the three games I like best. The Gammon Addicts Club 4. What State or Country do you reside in? I live in the UK, and am a British citizen. What in your State or Country do you think tourists should definitely see? Landmarks are probably well known and overcrowded. I'd say national parks are some of the best - Mount Snowdon in north Wales is one of my favourite mountains. Try the Watkin Path 5. What hobbies to you have? I love cycling and hill walking, cinema and reading. What other interest do you have? I collect books illustrated by Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac - especially fairytale collections and editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayaam. 6. Children? I have one child - daughter Ursula. Do any of them play on GT? She's nearly 16 weeks old, so not on GT yet 7. Do you work? Do you enjoy your job? Yes, though right now I'm on maternity leave. I do fairly standard IT portfolio work, but it's rewarding enough when it goes well 8. Any pets? A cat, Zen. she's a black tortoise-shell. She's very chatty, and loves jumping into the bath when it gets cool enough. 9. Are you under 30?___ 30 to 50? ___ or over 50? I'm 32 10. What's the farthest you've been from home? Was it a vacation or for business? I've been to the other side of the world! Half of my family lives in Australia, so whenever I can afford it I go over to see them all. 11. If you could be anywhere right now where would that be? Back on honeymoon in the Maldives with my husband, getting ready for a night dive If there are any questions you would like to see asked in future interviews, please let us know. Laura laura lee
LadyeFantasy Ladders and Tournies have my game count over four times my "norm" so I'm a bit busy at the moment. Unlike many players here, this is the only site I play on. It has been that way since I first discovered this site in 2008. I love GoldToken !!! The ever-growing selection of games and people I meet keep me here, and I have no interest in looking 'elsewhere'. I discovered this site by way of typing in free online Reversi. Originally, I only used my computer for offline use and was on WebTV, GoldToken was a site that 'worked' with my Webby and so I decided to give it and Pocket M a try, then I discovered GT had Grabble which is one of my favorite games and that was all it took for me !!! This became "my" game site. Now I have some very dear friends here, and cannot even imagine them no longer being in my life. This is also where I met my best friend, my fiance' WONRHAF. I am a OOAK Fantasy Porcelain artist focusing primarily on Faeries, Angels, and 'theme-based' Santas & Father Christmas'. WONRHAF had seen one of my Dallas Cowboy pieces and mentioned it. Then said he'd like to have a Green Bay Packer Santa. I didn't take him serious at first and he had to ask me three times before I realized he was serious. Later, he decided he wanted an Olde World Santa instead because "I can tell now that the quality of your work is better than I first thought." The change created a need to switch from a couple of games and PM's to phone conversations. That began our friendship which ever so slowly evolved into more. He is now my fiance' and he moved here to Oklahoma from Milwaukee (has never lived anywhere else in his life), left all he had ever known, his family and life-long friends for me. How could I not feel very loved as well as cherished ??? He is my very best friend and all due to GoldToken for bringing him into my life !!! Lace
April's contest of the month is the best Poem posted on GoldToken's DB. The winner will recieve 5 Golderos and be chosen by poll on the same board. Deadline to be entered in the poll is April 30th 2012. We have a winner for March!The banner submitted by katja won a full years banner exposure to this banner: The Friendship Club - { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/banner-1284.gif } Be sure to send The Friendship Club your for their excellent winning entry! katja! View all the banners entered in last months contest on the DB.
The Caption contest winner for the March 2012 newsletter is ladyvic with: ooooooh oh oh i got tha moves like Jaggar..the moves like Jaggar! ladyvic! To enter April's Caption Contest, click on the link and post your best caption. photo titled April 2012 Caption Contest The winner will be chosen by our news team, given 5 Golderos and announced in next months newsletter.
The Prime Time TV Club has finished another Limerick Game, the winner of each rounds puts in a line for the limerick, keeping with the theme of the club, this one is about the show "Myth Busters"
Authors of the limerick are aprildawn, gramat, roses4gypsy and Singlerose 533 NC { Club } Plays only multiplayer games and they run regulr multiplayer tournaments. The April tournament The Sixth Leap - Multiplayer Tournament has expanded the range of games to include multiplayer of : rockpaperscissors, salvo , xiphiastoo and of course our first game domination You do not have to play every game, and each type of game will have a club game champion. Contact the club owner for any further information The Knights of Camelot Club plays only Camelot. This game uses strategy, you need capture the opponent's castle, or capture all the opponent's pieces. The board is a rectangular grid divided into 12x16 squares, with some corner squares removed, it is played with two players. If you are interested in this game or would like more information on how to play, contact the club owner he will be happy to help you on your way with this exciting game. { Club } formerly known as Life's a Beach is running a series of games celebrating member's pets. When a member submits pictures of their pets, they also request what game they would like to play and a challenge is set up featuring their pet's picture and their favorite game. So if you would like to see your pets name up on a challenge of your choice, contact the club owner or any of the officers. { Club } has been around since July of 02, if you like backgammon and want to play with some of the toughest opponents for this game, contact Nancy for a invite. The High Rollers Club is now a Federation, the Club is a by invitation only. The only way you can get invited is by winning a site run shake tourney. This club only runs "wikiless tourney's" and keeps a running total of all your wins, so if you like shake games and win you will be getting an invite into this very popular club. Jacob1987 in the process of reformatting The Gold Triathlon Marathon Club for a new round that includes 50 Golderos as prize. A huge Congratulations to this last years winners for games well played. Our Golden Triathletes are: 1926 brosius GUINESS14 Hamsarnie jbdobie SarahMills shobee1 kinobi TrueIndian Withacee TallPaul The Kitties Korner & Doggie Daycare Club Invites you in to the club, if you are a pet owner of a cat or dog this club is for you. Play games or just talk about your furry ones if you'd like. If you have cat/dog issues, they have an open ear for them. Answers are free whether they work or not They would love to see you and don't forget to put a bell on your collar.
March's 2012 Olympic Winners! A big congratulations to these players & their clubs!
Competitions are published when gold, silver & bronze winners have been determined
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