May 2015
In April, we introduced the new two-player game "Polar Poultry"! Try to collect more fish than your opponent. There's still time to sign up and play in The May 2015 — New game, Polar Poultry Tournament! to Jools for designing the beautiful graphics, and to Mecir whose brains and programming capabilities allowed us to implement the game here on GoldToken!
There's an interesting development being tested for the Hangman games! Gold and Platinum members are invited to help with testing at: http://beta.goldtoken.com/. We appreciate player input during the testing phase!
Are you a speedy player? If you have completed a game with an average of less than 24 hours per move (check your clock time and divide it by your total number of moves) you are eligible for this beautiful Token: . Send a PM to GoldToken Support with a link to the game number. For example, take a look at game #5481739, (linked by typing: { Game#5481739 }). My clock time, visible under the game board, is 08:17 (8 hours and 17 minutes). My total moves are 9, also seen beneath the game board. I'll round for simplicity. 8.25 hours/9 moves = .92 hours per move. It definitely qualifies as a speedy game. Summer is almost here, in my part of the world! We've got a nest with 4 baby robins in one of the windows on the second floor. The babies from a different nest have been learning to fly in our front yard. It's so much fun to watch them! Our 3 cats (indoor, thank goodness!) like to watch them too. I hope you've got some interesting happenings in your outdoor environment, too! --heyred72 In this month's newsletter, we have: Birthdays & Special Announcements 1st Stop Information Photozone Competition Photo Album of the Month Game Of The Month Best Recipe Contest Red Panda's Trivia Connection Up Front & Personal Testimonial Of The Month Contest of the Month Caption Contest Icon Mania! Breaking Club News Olympic News
Birthday Wishes: -- Happy Birthday to MsLady on May 2nd! - From { Club }, The Word O'Rama Club, The Deborah's Cove Family Club, The Diamonds Are Forever Club & The Backgammon Tournament Club - -- Happy Birthday to supermann8 on May 2nd! - -- Happy Birthday to Nina on May 3rd! - -- Happy Birthday to MBAfriend on May 4th! - -- Happy Birthday to * on May 4th! - -- Happy Birthday to Fian on May 4th! - -- Happy Birthday to carouselhorse on May 6th! - -- Happy Birthday to cissy on May 7th! - From laura lee and clare - -- Happy Birthday to tweets on May 8th! - -- Happy Birthday to Kjelle on May 8th! - From The Daily Laugh Club - -- Happy Birthday to Mary on May 9th! - From The Word O'Rama Club, The Deborah's Cove Family Club, The Diamonds Are Forever Club, The Daily Laugh Club, { Club }, { Club } & The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to rabbitoid on May 10th! - From The Chess & Variants Club, The Daily Laugh Club and alexlee - -- Happy Birthday to bluelady on May 13th! - -- Happy Birthday to sidders on May 15th! - -- Happy Birthday to maintenance man on May 17th! - From { Club }, The MasterClass Club and alexlee - -- Happy Birthday to stanley7 on May 18th! - -- Happy Birthday to STUSTU on May 18th! - From The Pork Chop Club - -- Happy Birthday to CarolP on May 19th! - From The Word O'Rama Club and The Daily Laugh Club - -- Happy Birthday to the loneranger on May 19th! - -- Happy Birthday to GeorgeF on May 20th! - -- Happy Birthday to GoneFishin on May 20th! - -- Happy Birthday to porkpie1 on May 21st! - From The Pork Chop Club & The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to raceky on May 21st! - From: The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to Athena46 on May 22nd! - -- Happy Birthday to Lil Red on May 23rd! - From { Club }, The Deborah's Cove Family Club, The Diamonds Are Forever Club & The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to tango2 on May 23rd! - -- Happy Birthday to pegasiswolf on May 24th! - -- Happy Birthday to unicorn on May 25th! - From The Word O'Rama Club, The Daily Laugh Club, { Club } & The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to Misfit Lenrad6672 on May 25th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club, The Daily Laugh Club and your husband Dbledee - -- Happy Birthday to blue eyes on May 27th! - -- Happy Birthday to Arctic Warrior on May 27th! - -- Happy Birthday to nw2425 on May 29th! - From: The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to Nj on May 30th! - -- Happy Birthday to dixiegal47 on May 30th! - From The Word O'Rama Club - -- Happy Birthday to BethA on May 31th! - Anniversary: -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to Capricorn and her husband on May 4th! - -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to Mary and her husband on May 9th! - From The Daily Laugh Club - -- Happy 31st Wedding Anniversary to Man of Steel and B*Elanna on May 26th! From The Word O'Rama Club and The Daily Laugh Club - -- Happy Wedding Anniversary to Opulent and her husband on May 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, can not be put in after the fact, we're sorry!)
Clubs & Federations
Clubs are groups of like-minded players who join together to talk, share common beliefs, debate, or play games and challenge other clubs in competitions. GoldToken's special style of clubs, with their private chat groups and close camaraderie are unique to GoldToken alone. You just can't find any other turn based game site with the advanced club capabilities that are featured here.
In order to start a club, you must have purchased a Gold Membership. To join a club that has already been formed, you only need to have a Silver Membership. Don't miss out! If you are a Wood or Guest member, you can find out more about our Membership Options and then purchase a Silver, Gold or Platinum Membership to join one of GoldToken's clubs. How to join a club:
By joining a club, you join a group of players all centered around a certain type of game or group theme. Included in the club privileges are:
The seating chart allows club members to see how well their game skills compare to others within the club, and the club challenge feature allows them to quickly start games with other club members, while other club members are provided a quick link to view the game. The Club vs Club Tournaments are invites to a challenge that are sent from one club to another.
Like all new sites, the club might take a little to figure out, but hopefully you will find it fairly straight forward. Here is a brief description of what each of the abilities manage: Just under the Club Boards, you will see a Club Options box. These are your management tools.
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To Add a Discussion Board
NOTE: *Keep in mind that posts will expire after 6 months if they have not already been pushed off the board. If there is a post or information you would like to save a wiki is a better option.* To Modify or Add A Sticky Note To A Discussion Board
To Delete A Discussion Board
There is a lot more information on this subject, on the Info page Clubs and Federations! Here are some of the highlights:
* If you have a question about a site tip or helpful tool you would like answered next month, please send GoldToken's Newshound a message before the 25th of this month.
phil with (unknown photo) is April's Photozone competition winner who won the challenge with votes and will be awarded with a profile token. robin50 came in 2nd place with 13 votes for (unknown photo) golfnutrof came 3rd place with 12 votes for (unknown photo) to all the winners and to all of the members who participated either by submitting photos or voting and commenting. We had a total of entries and votes this month.Without you all, this competition wouldn't be activeYou can view all the images submitted for the Photozone Competition by using the following link Photozone Zepher's Album titled 2015-04 Flowers The theme for May's competetion will be SMALL(unknown photo)
Our Theme for April was Homes (unknown photo) The winner is blackangus's Album titled FairyTale Homes nd Place is sandi en margarita's Album rd Place is MM David littlefair XI's Album for entering.. We enjoyed seeing all of the pictures! The theme for May is Food Get your Photo albums ready and come to Photo Album Contest to win this Profile Token! Best of luck,
May's game of the month is American Rummikub (100-point)! Join us in a fun Double Elimination Tournament by signing up today for The May, 2015 Game of the Month, Amer Rummikub (100pt) Tournament! We hope you enjoy it! Can you believe it? There are no Nuggets for this game! 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:
April's winner is: Cheese Stuffed Shells
Ingredients 12 oz Mullers (or any brand) Jumbo Shells 2 eggs 2 cups (80z) shredded Mozzarella cheese 1 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley or 2 tbsp dried Parsley 1 tbsp dried basil 1 tsp salt 3 cups spaghetti sauce or Pasta Sauce of your liking Directions 1. cook Jumbo shells for 15 minutes, drain cover and set aside 2. in medium bowl beat eggs lightly, stir in Ricotta, Mozzarella, 3/4 cup Parmesan parsley, basil and salt 3. spoon about one tablespoon of cheese mixture into each shell 4. arrange filled shells in 13x9 baking dish and top with sauce 5. sprinkle with remaining Parmesan Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes Note: I save Shells that broke during cooking, freeze and use in in Chicken Noodle Soup at a later date. Some I pack in Portions and freeze, comes in handy for a fast meal. GoldToken's Cheetah 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 Cheetah! May's recipe contest is: "Chinese Dish". 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:
PRIZESPrizes have been updated for 2015 thanks to the efforts of Jools
Rules of The Trivia Connection
Questions
Last month's winner.The answers to the last quiz are 1 Fred Flintstone 2 Erik the Red 3 Red Faber 4 Red Symons 5 robert Redford 6 Ottis Redding 7 Raymond Redington 8 James Tredwell 9 Fredric Chopin 10. Mickey Redmond The connection from last month was all had "Red" in their names. 2 people solved all ten questions. 4 others got over the 50% they need. Congratulations to smiler5 who is the monthly winner.
{ Image: i994.photobucket.com/albums/af66/llwgirl/cats/Animation1-1.gif } **~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** We would like to say to kittyrambo for letting us step into their personal life for a bit. 1. What brought you to GoldToken? GrannyPatty sent me the invite to join, and I used the name I had picked for my first email address- which came from my cat at the time. 2. What interests you most on GT? My favorite games are the salvos, the gammons, some of the shakes and American Rummikub. I like trying the new games as I've found some I like and others I don't. I like the comraderie here as well. 3. What State or Country do you reside in? I live in southern West Virginia USA. What in your State or Country do you think tourists should definitely see? Some of the places I would take a tourist to are the coal mine tour and Tamarack in Beckley and maybe the walkway of the New River Gorge Bridge around Bridge Day. 4. What hobbies do you have? Hobbies include reading, movies, embroidery, quilting, Halloween, Christmas and cats among others. lol 5. Children? No kids but many nieces & nephews. 6. Do you work? What kind of work do/did you do? Was a bookkeeper 7. Any pets? I have 2 indoor cats named Purrcy & Elvira and have been feeding about a half dozen strays outside. Ihey help keep away the rats & mice. 8. Are you under 30?___ 30 to 50? ___ or over 50? Am 12 with 42 years experience. Female 9. What's the farthest you've been from home? The furthest I've been from home was when visiting an uncle in Missouri and a brief visit to Canada. 10. If you could be anywhere right now where would that be? Happy here but if I had to pick somewhere else to live it would be near Huntington. 11. Favorite season? Favorite season is autumn. 12, Favorite movie? Actor? Actress? Song? Listing 1 favorite movie would be hard. They include Star Wars, Casablanca, Clue, Night Of The Living Dead The Princess Bride as well as b movies, older horror movies like the ones from Hammer and Universal. Absolute favorite actor is Harrison Ford, but am a big fan of Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart & Peter Lorre. Actresses include Bette Davis and Kathrine Hepburn. Would have trouble limiting to just one favorite book or author as well, but my tastes run to mysteries, fantasy, scifi and horror. Favorite song is I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Marvin Gaye. Favorite group is the Eagles. If there are any questions you would like to see asked in future interviews, please let us know. Laura laura lee
I first heard about GoldToken around 2010, at the time I was a member of ITY and YTMT. Was doing my turns at those two places, when I happened to glace over at my wife playing a card game, and asked her where she was at to play that game. She replied GoldToken, and was amazed that there was a turn-based game that you can play card games. So I started out in GoldToken with a guest membership, to try it out, and found out in no time to go ahead and get a paid membership because I really liked the look and feel of the games I started playing. Then I found the tournaments, and was astonished at how well GoldToken's tournaments was run, their tournaments was awesome. Guess what? I was really getting addicted to GoldToken, that I ended up getting first a Gold, and Finally a Platinum member ship, and quitting ITY and YTMT, because I was spending all my time with GoldToken, a bigger selection of games, with a variety of each game, very friendly people, with many clubs to choose from. Needless to say, if someone asks me for a place to play games, I immediately say 'GoldToken' eagledaddy97
Club of the Year May's contest of the month is Club of the Year. The members of the winning club will all receive a special Profile Token commemorating their win! All of GoldToken's clubs are special. But each year, we want to recognize the one that stands out over and above the norm. GoldToken's Club Of The Year is not only a great club, but has members that are helpful, friendly, and make playing here a joy. The poll for 2015's Club of the Year will run on Thursday, May 28th. Please vote for the most helpful and friendly club on the list! Note: Entries must be posted by no later than May 27, 2015.
If you know of an exceptional club, post your nomination on the discussion board. We have a winner for the Best Prank Ever!to hypnotist for submitting the Best Prank Ever, "Phony Phone Call": A company at which I worked many years ago at long last installed a sophisticated PABX (private automatic branch exchange) which placed a multitude of advanced functions in the hands of each telephone extension user. The two functions relevant to this story are 1. Picking up a call from another extension in the office if a phone rang & 2. Requesting an automatic callback if the extension which had been dialed was busy, once the extension was free. I shall change the names to protect the innocent. I'm the guilty party so it doesn't matter if you know who I am. John had left his desk to consult Paul at his desk about some technical detail which is not relevant to this story. During the discussion Paul's phone rang & Paul answered it. I noticed the combination of factors at once & headed for John's desk where I lifted his phone, dialled Paul's number & got the busy tone as expected. I quickly punched in the code to request an automatic callback, quietly replaced the receiver, & headed back to my desk. Shortly afterwards Paul wrapped up his telephonic conversation & replaced his telephone receiver on the cradle. The PABX detected that Paul's line was free & commenced the callback by ringing John's extension. John heard his phone ring &, rather than run back to his desk to take his incoming call, picked up Paul's phone intending to punch in the code to pick up a call from another phone in the office. The PABX detected that Paul's extension was no longer free so stopped ringing John's phone. John hung up Paul's telephone receiver. The PABX detected that Paul's extension was again free so again commenced the callback process by ringing John's line. John again heard his phone ring & again picked up Paul's phone to remotely retrieve his incoming call. The PABX again detected that Paul's extension was no longer free so stopped ringing John's phone. John again heard his phone stop ringing so put down Paul's phone. John's phone started ringing again. John picked up Paul's phone again. John's phone stopped ringing. John put down Paul's phone. John's phone started ringing again. John picked up Paul's phone. John's phone stopped ringing. John put down Paul's phone. John's phone started ringing again. John, realising that something wasn't quite working as it should, gave up on trying to retrieve his incoming call remotely & dashed across the length of the office to his desk & snatched up his phone. The PABX detected that John had picked up his phone & that Paul's extension was still free so rang Paul's phone which he picked up. John said, "Hello". Paul said, "Hello". A moment of silence ensued. John asked, "Who is that?" Paul said, "It's Paul.. Who is that?" John said, "It's John. Why did you phone me? I was at your desk just a moment ago." Paul said, "I didn't phone you, you phoned me!" John said, "No I didn't, my phone was ringing & I ran from your desk to my desk to answer it." To this day I'm sure they haven't worked out what happened. hypnotist 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!).
The Caption Contest winner for the April, 2015, newsletter is Red Panda with: Not a Daschund, but a Dish-hund Red Panda! To enter May's Caption Contest, click on the link and post your best caption. photo titled May, 2015, Caption Contest The winner will be chosen by our news team, given 5 Golderos and announced in next month's newsletter.
Can you find these name icons? { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon110404164037.png } { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon131022141659.png } { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon090502170040.gif } { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon110305172714.gif } { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon110508144823.gif } Be the first to post your answers to the Icon Mania or send a PM to the GoldToken's Icon Fairy I am sure you have noticed the sweet Kitty Icon that the Icon Fairy is wearing, this belongs to our "Club Collection" called KitKats. This collection is suitable for a small club. We have a lot of other super icons for Club Adoption. Contact the GoldToken's Icon Fairy if your club is looking for some unique and fun icons suitable for your Club. And don't forget these club icons can also be worn by your club silver members! Have you met the Stong Man, he is our star today Icon Of The Day. Come on over to the Name Icons and find that perfect icon for you.
Knight Jarlynn has also started a new club, the The World Chess Dice Club Fedration Club. There will be 'club vs club' and 'team vs team' offered in this club, They will show anyone interested in the game of chess how to play, and discuss tactics. They will also have larger Tournaments and are looking for single players to form new teams. Get in on the forming of this club, Knight Jarlynn welcome all new comers and anyone wanting to learn the game of Chess, so contact him and . BIG NEWS from funtobewith11!!! He is starting a new club called "The Training New or Experienced Club Owners Club". It will be a school for members that would like to learn how to own and run a club or for members that want to learn new areas of club ownership. It will be open to all once the classrooms are set up. Right now he is looking for teachers that would like to help out. They will be given a subject and will be expected to run a wiki to tech what to do and to answer questions that might come up. Right now he is looking for teachers in all areas except Wikis. What to join in on this, send funtobewith11 a message for more information. Hope to see you there as this is a wonderful concept. There is a new owner and new name for the Lines of Action club, MrLarry47 is currently the new owner of { Club }. This club is dedicated to the games known as Lines of Action (LOA or LoA) and its two-player variants. They have active Teams, Ladders, Club Tournaments and InterClub Matches. Want to hear more, please feel free to contact MrLarry47 for more information about this fun club! We are sorry to announce, by due to inactivity and lack of interest in the club, we have decided disband the Great Debate club. We thank those who made contributions over the club's life. Jools & Red Panda Our Club Highlight This Month { Club } This Club is for all Halma Game Lovers! They also have Ladders and Teams in ALL Games, Plus Wikiless Tournaments Open Invitation to all eligible GoldToken members.
April Olympic Winners! A big congratulations to these players & their clubs!Winter Olympic Winners
Summer Olympic Winners
Competitions are published when gold, silver & bronze winners have been determined
** (Please note: All submissions are added on a first come first serve basis.) **Did you find the hidden coin in the newsletter ? Our winner last month was golfnutrof. to him for spotting it and being the first to send a message to GoldToken Support. We would like to give everyone a chance to play this fun game and win 5 Golderos,so you will only be eligible to win the Coin Hunt once every six months.[ Main: GoldToken's Monthly Newsletter - Past Issues ] Wiki Options This page was last edited by GoldToken Support at 2:21PM on 8 May 2015 Find referring pages |
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