July 2012
Together We Make a Difference My GoldToken anniversary came and went so fast (June 2nd), I had forgotten it was my anniversary! It has been a wonderful 8 years sitting in the hot seat of GoldToken. I wish to thank all those who have been so supportive and helpful. Your memberships have kept this little game site functioning at it's best. Without you, GoldToken would not be the incredible site it is today. Perhaps that is what so many of you don't realise. GoldToken is supported by your memberships. I cannot say this loud enough: We would not be here if it were not for your generous support.   Our Goold'en Winner Is  to Jools who was the first to discover this Goold on GoldToken page headers: { Image: goldtoken.com/images/logo2.gif } As per last months newsletter: In celebration (of my wedding), the first player who sees (hidden somewhere on GoldToken where everyone can see it but not in my personal profile, photo albums or blog) and then correctly sends me the location of a special notice of this fact will win a one month extension of their membership (if guest, a free two month Silver!). Hint: In plain view! Inter-Club Ladders! GoldToken's newest feature - These are similar to regular ladders, but instead of individual players participating, club teams do, and instead of single games, an inter-club challenge is created for each match. The club that wins the challenge advances to the next rung. Club presidents can sign up their club to inter-club ladders in the club settings, as long as the club teams have at least five members participating. The list of inter-club ladders can be accessed from the Tournaments page, just like the regular ladders. Special  to Mecir for putting this awesome feature together for us!!New Jiggles For those who like to be Grammatically as well as Dramatically Correct, we have now added more punch with punctuation to the Jiggle_Word *Family* In addition to the already existing ampersand *&; parenthesis (hi_there); plus and minus signs +and-; and asterisk **; we have now added a question mark *?; exclamation point !*; comma ,; colon*:; semi-colon ;*; apostrophe '; quotation marks *"; and for finality, a period .*! For those of you new to Jiggle_Word you can go to the FAQ page at Jiggle words - How to create them for the full explanation of how to create these bouncing babies! You may study there to your heart's content, but remember, there will NOT be a test ! The new Jiggle letters have been brought to you by marcmandy, be sure to thank him for his traditionally awesome work! New Goldies  : : bb : : =  : : gb : : =  : : rb : : =  : : yb : : =  : : ob : : =  : : pb : : =  : : ppb : : =  : : wb : : =  : : pie : : =  : : cake : : =  : : bcake : : =  : : camera : : =  : : poo : : =  : : donate : : =  Have a wonderful month and play like you mean it! --Badger In this month's newsletter, we have:
Birthday Wishes: -- Happy Birthday to Massimo Villa on July 1st!  -- Happy Birthday to Rebel Rider on July 2nd! -- Happy Birthday to BahamaMama on July 2nd! From laura lee  -- Happy Birthday to garbear on July 4th! -- Happy Birthday to REBEL DJ on July 5th! - From { Club },The Backgammon Tournament Club and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to Linda Sue on July 6th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club -- Happy Birthday to Santa Claus on July 8th! - From { Club },{ Club } and The MasterClass Club -- Happy Birthday to Dru on July 9th! - From The MasterClass Club -- Happy Birthday to jenna on July 9th! -- Happy Birthday to Sir Geoff on July 10th! - From { Club }, The Word O'Rama Club & The Pork Chop Club -- Happy Birthday to theagle on July 11th! -- Happy Birthday to Eunhye on 11th! - From The Pork Chop Club -- Happy Birthday to **YANKEE ROSE*JR FRANK PAB on 11th! -- Happy Birthday to smokey164 on 12th! - From The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club -- Happy Birthday to Karen Q on July 13th! - From { Club }, The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to LadyeFantasy on 13th! - From The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club and The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to DAKOTA on July 15th! -- Happy Birthday to Lucille on July 15th! -- Happy Birthday to seabird on 15th! - From The Pork Chop Club -- Happy Birthday to Scrapbooking Maven on 16th! - From The Pork Chop Club and The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club -- Happy Birthday to Shosie on July 17th! -- Happy Birthday to Pinksmoke on July 18th! - From { Club } and The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to SpillerGodt on July 20th! -- Happy Birthday to Lady Silver on July 21st! -- Happy Birthday to Hoosierenvy on July 21st! -- Happy Birthday to estick on 21st! - From The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club -- Happy Birthday to RubyJoy on July 23rd! -- Happy Birthday to toymum on 23rd! - From The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to rUsureU_ want2doTHAT on July 24th! - From The Word O'Rama Club -- Happy Birthday to Corinne on July 25th! -- Happy Birthday to SarahMills on July 26th! - From The Pork Chop Club and The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club -- Happy Birthday to Pepsi Fan on July 26th! -- Happy Birthday to sweeteyes on July 27th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club, The Pork Chop Club,The Word O'Rama Club and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to Chester on July 28th! -- Happy Birthday to AutumnLeaves on July 28th! -- Happy Birthday to peanuts on July 28th! - From The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club -- Happy Birthday to Cinnamon on July 29th! -- Happy Birthday to Vonnie on July 30th! -- Happy Birthday to antibs on July 31st! Anniversary & Other Wishes: -- Happy Wedding Anniversary   goes out to Lady Silver and Sir Silver of the GoldTable on July 1st!-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to Baby Cakes and her husband on July 2nd!-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to asmdrm and her husband on July 15th!-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to cdc11 and her husband on July 16th!-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to Country_Gal and her husband on July 16th !-- Happy 61st Wedding Anniversary goes out to partygirl and rsm31 with V from Gypsyfire on July 23rd !* 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, can not be put in after the fact, we're sorry!)
What is GoldTokeneze? GoldTokeneze is the term firefly gave the unique language used to refer to various parts of GoldToken and our activities here. Following this article, is a short list of some well known and some not so well known GoldTokeneze words we have heard used. If you have more GoldToken words you commonly use, please send them to  to be added to our list. Contest - Send GoldToken Support the best GoldTokenized message about your experience here (our support team gets to choose the winner), and win a one month extention to your membership, or if guest, a two month Silver!
The winner of June's Photozone contest is Specialsteel who won a GoldToken signature for their moniker:  July's Contest Theme is It's all there in Black and White To enter, post your image on the Photozone DB with the subject of the current month and the theme. Complete contest rules can be found on the profile of Photozone Zepher.  The deadline for this month's contest is: 12:00 Midnight, Pacific Time, Tuesday, July 31, 2012The winner for GoldToken's Photozone contest will be announced in next months newsletter and will win a GoldToken signature for their moniker. Example: 
July's game of the month is Hangman! Join us in a fun Double Elimination Tournament by signing up today for The July 2012 Game of the Month - Hangman! Tournament!  A tip for immediate feedback on the correctness or incorrectness of your guess. Due to the nature of the beast, we were unable to program an immediate screen displaying the accuracy of your guess, but there is a straightforward work-around. Immediately after you submit your move, hit the Back arrow on your browser. I believe the Windows keyboard shortcut for that is CTRL + [ {open bracket]. That will return you to the page you just left. (Mac users use the Command button instead of CTRL) Then hit the Refresh button on the browser, or CTRL + R. That will refresh the page and show you where the letter you just guessed appears or give the poor li'l guy another addition to his body. What I do at that point is, if I see the next letter I want to guess, or have an epiphany as to the solution, I write a note to myself in the yellow Game Notes box and then hit the Update Notes button to the right of the box and I'm ready to hit the Gamesheet button or the GT Logo at the top of the page or Ctrl + ] and return to my game playing. An alternative to that if you are playing a lot of Hangman games is to go into Preferences and click on General. At the top of that page, the first option presented is After I make a move in a game: If you choose Show me the move and then hit Apply and Finish at the bottom of the page, you will find that after you Save the Move you will return to the game and it will show you if you made a correct or incorrect choice. Beware of the downside though, that this will now happen with every game you play unless you click on "Save and go to Gamesheet" or "Save and go to next similar game". We hope you enjoy it! Special to *marcmandy* for writing this month's Game of the Month Nugget. You too, 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:
June's winner is: Grilled Potatoes and Onions
Yummy Potatoes and Onions for the grill Needed: 2 alum. Pie pans Potatoes, slices very thin (I usually use about one med. potato per person) Onions, sliced very thin Butter Salt and pepper to taste Butter inside of both alum pans before starting to put this together. In one of the pans layer the potatoes then onions, add dollop of butter and a bit of the seasonings. Continue making layers until the pan is full. Put other pan on top of the first one and using a strip of alum. foil, seal the edges of the two pans. Place on grill and turn frequently and continue grilling for a total of about 20-30 min. One pan full will serve 2-3 people. Easy and simple, but oh so yummy!!! GoldToken's Trish41 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 Trish41!  July's recipe contest is: "Colorful Side 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 Darla (USA) for letting us step into their personal life for a bit.- 1. What brought you to GoldToken? I was playing on another site and someone from that site referred me here. How'd you choose your name for GT? It's just a variation of my real name 2. What interests you most on GT? Playing games.  . At first, I only played backgammon but I like the shake it games  and I am trying very hard to get better at domination. and Spades  is my absolute favorite.3. Do you belong to any of the clubs? Yes, { Club }, The 80's Breakfast Club, The Card Sharks Club, The Chip and a Chair Club, The Deck of Cards Club, The High Rollers Club The LOCO OCHOS MAU MAU SWITCH CLUB, The Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club, The Olympiads Club The Pet Lovers Club, The Prime Time TV Club How about the chat only clubs (birds, kitties, garden)? I don't really go for club chatting. 4. What State or Country do you reside in? California California Do you live in the City or Country? In the City, near Los Angeles What in your State or Country do you think tourists should definitely see? There is so much to see in California, but I guess the beaches are what attract most people.   5. What hobbies to you have? Cooking,  sewing and computers  What other interests do you have? I am very involved with my church. I love to sing.  6. Children? One son who is 19  Grandchildren? no Do any of them play on GT. No 7. Do you work? Yes I am employed full time If so what kind of work do you do? I work in Social Services for the Government Do you enjoy your job? Like all jobs, there are good days  and bad days  , but I am thankful and blessed  to be employed. I love my co-workers  and they are like family to me.8. Any pets? I have a Cat name Cali  – she is a Calico and a dog named Shorty  . He is a Chiweenie (Chihuahua and Dachshund mix) We named him Shorty because he has short legs.9. Are you under 30?___ 30 to 50? ___ or over 50? 48 but I will be 49 next month. 10. What's the farthest you've been from home? Not far just to Alabama, Texas, Nevada. I hope one day to travel to Greece and Italy 11. If you could be anywhere right now where would that be? On a cruise ship  If there are any questions you would like to see asked in future interviews, please let us know. Laura laura lee
My name is Adam, I go by the nickname KINGSLAYER and many goldtoken players know me . I was the first beta-tester this site had and founder of its first club The Chess4Fun Club (Editors note: Club #1!). Back when Chad and Taylor decided to try to create this site so we could move here from itsyourturn.com I thought it was too big a task. I was VERY wrong. In this day and age of social networking, Goldtoken stands out as a place where many feel at HOME. I know this feeling only too well. After three years I had too many personal things going on and then two of my closest friends Ishkabibble & Kingpin1 passed away. I left goldtoken and lost contact with many of my closest friends. Friends, might I add that I never met in person... Chess4fun was abandoned but two club members refused to let it die. Triple D and then quietman. I can not thank them enough for preserving the legacy that is club gaming. I returned to goldtoken 1 year ago first as a guest then as a member in good standing once again. Badger has done an amazing job since Chad's departure. I recently received a letter from Taylor who was about 12 years old when Goldtoken was born. The letter brought tears to my eyes and reminded me that no matter what life dishes out Goldtoken is a home that never forgets its members. Thank you all for the best site on my long favorites list! KINGSLAYER
July's contest of the month is: Best Blog Contest A blog (according to Wikipedia) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. If you decide to enter the world of blogging, you should decide what kind of blog you want your blog to be. What do you want to write about? Are you going to write about many things or something specific? Decide how often you are going to add entries, every day, once a week, once a month. Once you have decided what you are going to write about, you need to think about how you are going to write it or enter it into your blog. Be it by text, by pictures, or even external links. A great blog will take advantage of all of the above things, your blog story or viewpoint can be enhanced and made much more enjoyable and interesting to read by the use of pictures and links. Write about what you are passionate about, write about what you know and make sure you know what you are writing about. For the more serious bloggers, you won't be taken very seriously if your blog is full of grammar and spelling mistakes. So make sure you spellcheck. No matter your blog content, people will continue to come back to read it as long as you continue to make it interesting. Winner will receive a GoldToken signature Goldie to sign their blog with, like this The contest winner will be chosen by poll on the Blog Entries DB. Deadline to enter is July 31st, 2012. We have a winner for June 2012's Best Short Story contest!It's hard to believe we have only one player with enough talent to write a short story based on "Best Friends" for our once a year contest, but it was indeed stellar enough to scare off even the best of writers. ;;congrats;; to Blockhead .... You won 5 Golderos! Below is the short story: It didn't look good, I didn't feel good. I looked up to see Les Whittle's smiling face, a friendly open smile. Only when it was Les's turn to move did his smile dim. ... Forty years ago I made my first visit to Morpeth chess club - two weeks before my first game with Les. I had convincingly beaten four club match players. Someone said, "You should play Les, Les Whittle, he's the club champion. Before I could protest someone said, "I'll see Les and sort something out". The following week I met Les Whittle and his warm welcoming smile for the first time. Hand shakes and preliminaries done we sat down facing each other. I looked at Les and the chess board. I thought, 'I can't loose this game.' The game started in conventional fashion, I was white, Les black. He played a masterful game with all his pieces arranged in ideal positions, both his bishops slashing diagonally across the board directly into my kings position, and most impressive of all - his queen, poised, glaring at my puny king side pawns. Perfect symmetry, lines of force, points of power - a savage relentless beauty, all gathering up in unison to storm, and kill my king. Les sacrificed a knight in a mating attack. As I was released from my misery, Omar Khayyam came to mind: 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays And one by one back in the Closet lays.' Les and I became good chess mates, good friends, best friends. I eventually wrested the club championship from Les. He smiled as graciously in defeat as in victory. I recently visited Les at his home in Morpeth. Les answered the door. "Hello Les, how are you?" After a slight pause his courtesy half smile quickly broadened; "Come in, good to see you Peter - what brings you all this way?" "I was sight-seeing hereabouts and thought I'd drop in to see you." "Glad you did. I'll be heading off soon for a club match. Look, come along - your bound to see some familiar faces.". While Les was out of the room, sorting out his brief case, I browsed around and happened on a large photograph album; flicking through it I saw a beaming Les, smartly dressed in top hat and tails, holding his MBE at the gates of Buckingham palace. A few minutes later Les was lugging his brief case to the front door and, grabbing a long white cane cane from the hat-stand, he grinned as he quipped, "Forget the carrot, just give'em the stick!". Outside, he pointed the cane down at the pavement - a divining rod probing his path, seeking safe passage. We, Les Whittle MBE and I, made our way to Morpeth chess club, chattering our song of friendship to the steady rhythmic taping of wood on stone.
The Caption contest winner for the June 2012 newsletter is Sapient with:  I'm hanging on your every word.. "tell me you love me, quick!" Sapient!To enter July's Caption Contest, click on the link and post your best caption. photo titled July 2012 Caption Contest The winner will be chosen by our news team, given 5 Golderos and announced in next months newsletter.
During the month of July The Overall Competition Club will begin discussing the 2013 edition of its annual competition scheduled to start next January. The 2012 Overall Competition started last January. More than 110 players are competing in a total of 60 variants from all 37 games offered at GoldToken. Currently the leader-board is led by {Player:csain1 } with 31 points, followed by jklh (30) and EPICURUS 75 (28). The overall best three players at the end of the competition will receive 40, 20, and 10 golderos. The For the Love of Draughts (Tiger) Club is looking for a good competition of Checkers, this is for American Checkers Only, If interested contact the club owner Purple The Chess4Fun Club recently sponsored a trophy bearing Chess4fun chess event called the Co-Founder's cup. It was to commemorate the founding of the first club at GoldToken. khayman took first place. Trophies were given in Beginners, Intermediates, and Experts divisions. It was such a success they will be having this tournament annually. The { Club } runs regular wiki-less tournaments in paper football, and has recently finished its preseason tournament, and the following are the results
Congratulations to Cat*Scratch on a fine defensive display and the preseason title. Some stats from the preseason: - Only 6 of the 56 games were scoreless - Only 9 of the games had both players score - Fastest Goal - 10 moves by Red Panda number 6 right midfielder - Side attacking first scores 49 goals while defending first scores 31 - 45 goals were scored in the moves 41-60 while 35 were scored in the first 40 moves Top Goal Scorer : Red Panda number 10 - right wing with 6 Top Assists : Red Panda number 8 - Left midfielder and Cat*Scratch number 6 - right midfielder both with 5 The initial premier league will start soon with the following teams participating Cat*Scratch, Red Panda,Hamsarnie,EKIN Dude,eli,Ocirne,HRTrules & corpi The The Silver Token Championship Season 1 Tournament which is open for new joiners as well as club members not in the premier league will start on July 10 with 2 or 3 teams being promoted to the following season premier league. If you are interested contact the owner Red Panda ClubvsClub has successfully launched the first of many clubvsclub tournaments. The game is tourne-case with 16 clubs participating. July the game will be Backgammon and Rock Paper Scissors, the seats are filling up fast, watch for announcements in your club for these exciting tournaments. Sign up and support your club and its members, a win over 16 clubs is bragging rights worth celebrating. If you are a club owner and would like your club to participate contact any of the Presidents { Club }.
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| The DiceDots Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 3B Tournament | |||
| DiceDots | GOLD | { Club } | katja |
| DiceDots | SILVER | { Club } | SarahMills |
| DiceDots | BRONZE | { Club } | funtobewith11 |
| The River Camelot Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 3B Tournament | |||
| Mystery Game 5-River Camelot | GOLD | { Club } | brosius |
| Mystery Game 5-River Camelot | SILVER & BRONZE | { Club } | 1926 |
| Mystery Game 5-River Camelot | SILVER & BRONZE | { Club } | golfnutrof |
| The Quicksand Four In a Row Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 3A Tournament | |||
| Quicksand 4iar | GOLD | { Club } | grade1teacher |
| Quicksand 4iar | SILVER | { Club } | Zanda |
| Quicksand 4iar | BRONZE | { Club } | B*Elanna |
| Quicksand 4iar | BRONZE | { Club } | Rodius |
| The Nackgammon Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 2B Tournament | |||
| Nackgammon | GOLD | { Club } | johnnyyboy |
| Nackgammon | SILVER | { Club } | HAF |
| Nackgammon | BRONZE | { Club } | Tian-Xian |
| The Large Outbreak Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 1B Tournament | |||
| Large Outbreak | GOLD | { Club } | Road Runner |
| Large Outbreak | SILVER | { Club } | Jon *the return* |
| Large Outbreak | BRONZE | { Club } | golfnutrof |
| The Small Outbreak Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 4A Tournament | |||
| Small Outbreak | GOLD | { Club } | Jon *the return* |
| Small Outbreak | SILVER | { Club } | SOcean255 |
| Small Outbreak | BRONZE | { Club } | G_net |
| The Straight Rummikub Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 5B Tournament | |||
| Straight Rummikub | GOLD | { Club } | Chris |
| Straight Rummikub | SILVER | { Club } | Rodney |
| Straight Rummikub | BRONZE | { Club } | funtobewith11 |
| The 123 Dots Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 4B Tournament | |||
| 123 Dots | GOLD | { Club } | BrnIdGirl |
| 123 Dots | SILVER | { Club } | sparkles43 |
| 123 Dots | BRONZE | { Club } | wldndn |
| The Loco Ochos Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 2A Tournament | |||
| Loco Ochos | GOLD | { Club } | randy1 |
| Loco Ochos | SILVER | { Club } | estick |
| Loco Ochos | BRONZE | { Club } | boneylegs |
| Loco Ochos | BRONZE | { Club } | smelly feet |
| The Fives and Threes Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 2B Tournament | |||
| Fives and Threes | GOLD | { Club } | sir_gary |
| Fives and Threes | SILVER | { Club } | smiler5 |
| Fives and Threes | BRONZE | { Club } | heyred72 |
| The Salvo Plus Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 4B Tournament | |||
| Mystery Game 9-Salvo Plus | GOLD & SILVER | { Club } | cmacker |
| Mystery Game 9-Salvo Plus | GOLD & SILVER | { Club } | DavidJ |
| Mystery Game 9-Salvo Plus | BRONZE | { Club } | Brewmaster |
| The Paper Basketball Competition in The 2011 Olympic Tournament Group 4A Tournament | |||
| Mystery Game 7-Paper Basketball | GOLD | { Club } | Ray of Light |
| Mystery Game 7-Paper Basketball | SILVER | { Club } | Cat*Scratch |
| Mystery Game 7-Paper Basketball | BRONZE | { Club } | cmacker |
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