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- Get a Cool T-Shirt or Hoodie for a Good Cause!
GoldToken is selling T-Shirts and Hoodies. These limited edition t-shirts and hoodies are available for a mere $20 and $27!
https://www.booster.com/tomasmecir
Shipping is $5.00 US, included on check out.
...or, if you live outside the USA, ship to Badger and she will ship it to you. Please add an extra at time of purchase:
- $10.00 for shipping to the UK,
- $15 for shipping to Europe
- $20 for shipping to Australia
The proceeds from sales of these sweatshirts will help fund
Mecir's vacation to the United States. Please consider showing your appreciation for all his hard work! Tomas has programmed for GoldToken for 12 years. The ticket and his stay in the USA is an estimated $1600 to $2100. Let's show him some appreciation for all his hard work by helping Badger buy him a ticket to the USA! If you can donate extra for his trip, that would be awesome!
ALSO...wait For it...
We will be making a "GoldToken Family Album" in honor of this event. Once you get your T-Shirt or Hoodie, send your picture with you sporting your new shirt to GoldToken Support. It will be so much fun to see and meet everyone in the Family Album, because life is nothing without
Family and Friends.
Please help get the word out by sharing the T-Shirt link https://www.booster.com/tomasmecir on Facebook! 
- Lots of Odd Bugs Corrected
This month Tomas focused on a number of odd bugs that have been haunting out games and website. A few of which have not been loaded to our main site yet, but will later this week. Clearing a timed out players pieces off the board, correcting the Salvo past move list, correcting Heart bugs, adding a 'final turn' notice for All Aboard, and some log updates to help your pages flow a little better are among the many changes. I hope that your games play so well, you won't even notice the improvements.
Sometime this week, you will also be able to see and use our new and improved payment process. Well, it won't look much different but will be far easier to use! If you have any problems with it at all, please report them to our
Bug Reports DB.
April's scheduled maintenance took just a bit longer than anticipated. Your patience was appreciated, and all paying members were awarded a well deserved 1-week extension!
This month of May, we will be working on server and password security. The little bumps and jumps that come with any new site improvement should hardly be noticeable, but will surely keep all of us safer. There are also plans to add an entirely new game to our beta for testing. If interested in helping put this new game through the ropes, please keep watch on the
Gold Members DB for announcements!
Have a wonderful month and play like you mean it!
--
Badger
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
Up Front & Personal
Testimonial Of The Month
Contest of the Month
Caption Contest
Icon Mania!
Breaking Club News
Olympic News
-- Happy Birthday to
supermann8 on May 2nd! -
-- Happy Birthday to
Nina on May 3rd! - From The
Deborah's Cove Family Club, The
Diamonds Are Forever Club, The
Friendship Club, The
Scoop's Castle Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
* on May 4th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
Fian on May 4th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
lemmy66 on May 5th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
carouselhorse on May 6th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
Rand al*Thor on May 6th! - From The
He's Alive Club & The
Prime Time TV Club -
-- 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, The
Friendship Club, { Club }, { Club }, The
He's Alive Club , The
Scoop's Castle Club & The
Prime Time TV 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 , The
Classic TV & Music Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
CarolP on May 19th! - From The
Word O'Rama Club, The
Friendship Club , The
Prime Time TV 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! - From The
Classic TV & Music Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
porkpie1 on May 21st! - From The
Classic TV & Music Club , The
Friendship Club ,
The Pork Chop Club & The
Scoop's Castle Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
raceky on May 21st! - From: The
Daily Laugh Club, The
Classic TV & Music Club , The
Friendship Club , The
Scoop's Castle Club & The
Prime Time TV Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Athena46 on May 22nd! - From: The
Classic TV & Music Club-
-- Happy Birthday to
Lil Red on May 23rd! - From { Club }, The
Classic TV & Music Club, The
Friendship Club ,The
He's Alive 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, The
Classic TV & Music Club, The
Friendship Club, The
Prime Time TV Club , The
He's Alive Club, { Club } & The
Scoop's Castle Club -
-- 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, The
Friendship 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 31st! - - From The
Friendship Club and The
Prime Time TV Club-
-- Happy Birthday to
MrsT on May 31st! - From: The
Scoop's Castle Club & The
He's Alive Club -
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
32nd 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, cannot be put in after the fact, we're sorry!)
| 1st Stop Information |
| Site tips and helpful tools |
I noticed a "Spoof" link by my profile tokens. What's that all about?
Spoof is a fun profile token trading game. The idea is that each participant can pick some of their profile tokens to Spoof, and any other participant can then attempt to guess how many tokens the player has Spoofed. If successful, the guesser receives one random Spoofed token from the target.
Tokens that are not added to Spoof cannot be obtained in this way - if you have tokens that you would like to keep, you can still participate with your other tokens, without putting the valuable tokens at risk!
To join Spoof, a link has been provided on your profile page, right above the token list. Once you have joined, you can also Spoof your tokens and use the Spoof player list page to make your guesses.
Several important restrictions exist to ensure that the game is enjoyable:
- Your number of guesses per day is limited to the number of your Spoofed tokens
- You can only target any player once per week
- You cannot leave Spoof if you have made any guess within the last week
- As soon as you make a guess, all your Spoofed tokens become frozen and you cannot remove them from your Spoof list for one week.
- You can still add more tokens and remove those newly added ones
- If you make a correct guess, the token that you receive is not frozen - you can remove it right away if you wish
To make a Spoof guess, you can either access the list of Spoof participants from your profile page (above the token list), or you can perform a guess from the profile page of your desired target, if he or she is also participating (the link is on the right side of the profile, below the search form). The participant list is randomized to ensure that players with names earlier in the alphabet are not disadvantaged.
* 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.
| Photozone Competition |
| Brought to you by: Jools |
smiler5 with (unknown photo) is April's Photozone competition winner who won the challenge with a
massive 
votes and will be awarded with a profile token.
LittleTree came in 2nd place with 11 votes for (unknown photo)
ladyvic came 3rd place with 10 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 active
You can view all the images submitted for the Photozone Competition by using the following link
Photozone Zepher's Album
The theme for May's competition will be: WHEELS
Anything on wheels (yes anything!!)
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| Photo Album of the Month |
| Brought to you by: ladyvic |
Our Theme this month was Nature's Gifts
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The winner of the Photo Album Contest is....
MM David littlefair XI's Album 
nd Place goes to....
(steelbound)'s Album titled Around the House 
for all the great entries! Better luck next time..
The next theme will be People. There are all kinds of People to make the world go round
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Get your Album ready and stop by Photo Album Contest and enter it in the Contest
and you may be the next to win this cool Profile Token! (unknown photo)
Best of Luck,
ladyvic
May's game of the month is
Tabula! Join us in a fun Double Elimination Tournament by signing up today for
The May 2016 - Game of the Month - Tabula Tournament!
We hope you enjoy it!
There were no
Nuggets submitted this month.
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:
- Silver, Gold, and Platinum Members: a one month extension to your current membership
- Wood Members: a free membership upgrade
- Guests: a free two-month Silver Membership
So, what are you waiting for? Start writing!
.
April's winner is:
Baked Fish Italian Style
Ingredients
4 fish fillets ( of your favorite kind )
2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp. butter or margarine
1/1/2 pound mushrooms , sliced ( or 1 cup canned )
2 gloves of garlic, finely minced
2 tbsp. sliced green onions
2 tbsp. minced fresh parsley
salt and pepper to taste
4 tbsp. fine dry Italian style bread crumbs
lemon wedges
Directions
Spray or oil a shallow baking dish with olive oil non-stick spay
Add sliced mushrooms, onions, 1 tbsp. of parsley and garlic.
Arrange fish in baking pan brush with olive oil and dot with a tbsp. of butter.
Melt remaining butter and toss with bread crumbs, sprinkle over fish.
Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes, or until fish is flaky and crumbs are lightly golden brown.
Sprinkle with remaining parsley and garnish with lemon wedges.
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:
Casserole. 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:
- Entries must be posted by the recipe guardian/creator on the Cutting Board DB.
- Recipe must be original and have never been posted on the Cutting Board DB before.
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We would like to say
to
Whimjest for letting us step into their personal life for a bit.
1. What brought you to Goldtoken?
I really don't remember, 
but what keeps me here is the community. 
How'd you choose your name for GT?
It's a nickname from my school days. 
2. What interests you most on GT?
The conversations, 
learning new games, (unknown photo) getting better at some. 
favorite game here?
Mostly backgammon,
All Aboard is a close rival. 
3. What State or Country do you reside in?
Colorado for now
What in your State or Country do you think tourists should definitely see?
Rocky Mountain National Park (unknown photo)
4. What hobbies do you have?
Other than Goldtoken? Reading, Late night TV 
5. Children? Grandchildren?
Five 
and One 
6. Do you work?
Yes
what kind of work do/did you do?
Interim Pastor 
at a Lutheran Church 
7. Any pets?
None but that may change. 
8. Are you under 30?___ 30 to 50? or over 50?
over 
Male or Female?
Male
9. What's the farthest you've been from home?
Australia
vacation or for business?
Business 
10. If you could be anywhere right now where would that be?
April in Paris comes to mind.
11. Favorite season?
Spring ;;dividerbee;;
12, Favorite movie?
The Sound of Music
Actor?
Benedict Cumberbatch
Actress?
Julie Andrews
Song?
A Mighty Fortress
13. If you could meet anyone (living and dead) in the world. Who would it be?
Martin Luther, if unavailable, then J.S. Bach.
If there are any questions you would like to see asked in future interviews, please let us know.
Laura
laura lee
| Testimonial Of The Month |
| Brought to you by: *GoldToken* Players |
I like many came from IYT, I believe it was when they (IYT) were having a lot of trouble keeping their site up and I was looking for a place to play games. After 10 years I don't remember who told me of Goldtoken, or if I found it on my own frankly. What I do remember is once here I never looked back! The game graphics were excellent, the game selection was better, and the players were super friendly!
Many friends helped me through a nasty divorce, I was a member of many clubs, and a Club President of one of the first Olympics. Life got complicated and I walked away for a while. A while I say, it was really about 4 or 5 years. My life changed but I always missed my 'gaming friends'. When I returned I was welcomed back with open arms and people who I barely remembered picked up our friendships right where they left off. It was like coming home again.
Lots of new games, lots of variations, and I even jumped back into being an Olympic President. It has been like I never left. Thanks Goldtoken, you are family!
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MamaBear
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 2016's Club of the Year will run on Thursday, June 2nd. Please vote for the most helpful and friendly club on the list!
Note: Entries must be posted by no later than June 1, 2016.
- Club must have at least 10 active members
- Club must have been running for at least 12 months
- Club may not have won this award previously:
If you know of an exceptional club, post your nomination on the
Club of the Year Nominations discussion board.
We had only one entry for
Best New Discussion Board Idea.
MM David littlefair XI's idea has been filed away for possible future use:
Clued game DB
Like the game cluedo one player is secretly chosen as the suspect and rest as to figure out who by giving clues.
Rules
1.clues can be given in anagram form or cryptic form
2. The chosen player may try and trick the rest
3. The one who figures out who the suspect is can pick the next player to be the new suspect
Thanks for your entry, David!
The Caption Contest winner for the April, 2016, newsletter is
jfp with:
(unknown photo)
OK. So I have a reptile dysfunction.
jfp!
To enter May's Caption Contest, click on the link and post your best caption. (unknown photo)
The winner will be chosen by our news team, given 5
Golderos and announced in next month's newsletter.
*Our Winner for the Icon Hunt was
(steelbound) The icon fairy has placed this token for you (unknown photo). I'm sure everyone understands that The Icon fairy loves to spread joy to as many players as possible
, so for that reason players are only eligible to win the Icon hunt prize once every six months.
Below is the five icons for the May Hunt 
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While your looking come on over to the
Name Icons and find that icon just for you. We are concentrating on a special theme in Row 6. First feature was all flowers, you will find all birds as the feature theme now and soon to come, Horses, cats, dogs, etc....be sure to tick the board so you will be notified all all changes
The
Icon Of The Day, love that Jello
| Breaking Club News: |
| Brought to you by GoldToken's roving reporter, PattyMac |
The
West of the Setting Sun Club reports that
The First Meijin Tournament 2016 Tournament continues. Also in the Go related news GoGameGuru reported there has been a world wide shortage of Go boards and stones following the Google vs Lee Sedol match and the interest sparked in this wonderful game
. It was also said by Google that 280 million people watched those games live around the world - which must be some kind of record!
So come and join The
West of the Setting Sun Club and discover WooHoo!! Contact
tzorec for more information.
The
Save Our Earth Club is celebrating
Earth Day this month with a PRIZE game. Come join in on the game and the celebration. Contact
ladyvic for all the information about this great club and the prize games.
The
Berecca's Variety Club The club owner
berecca reports that she will be gone from May 11th til the 20th of May. Wiki duties may not happen as fast as usual so please have patience.
berecca is going to New York State to visit her parents and celebrate their
60th Wedding Anniversary. Congrats to
coop and wife on this awesome Life Event
Make May your Membership Drive Month.
Clubs always enjoy more members, do a membership drive this month. Have two clubs reporting a up in membership, The
Chess & Variants Club and { Club }
Hope to have yours in the news next month
Is your club in the news? Get your club news out there, be sure to send in all your club activities during the month, Assign a "Newshound", I would really like to see your club listed here
Need to get your Club signed up for these Tournies
April Grabble Race - [
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Grabble Race April 2016 ]
May Dominoes - [
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Dominoes May 2016 ]
Sign your team up @ [
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Sign Up ]
Contact
Jacob1987 for any additional information and Best Of Luck to your CLUB
Winners
[
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Dominoes March 2014 ]
Winners -
aprildawn & The
Innocent Instigators Club
Winners -
jd91 & The
Scoop's Castle Club
Winners -
wilsoni & The
Scoop's Castle Club
[
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Acey Deucey September 2014 ]
Winner -
pepperbeach & The
Backgammon Tournament Club
[
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Whist October 2014 ]
Winner -
Specialsteel & The
Sallyp and Friends Club
[
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Ludocrous November 2014 ]
Winner -
Mary & The
Sallyp and Friends Club
[
Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Cribbage December 2014 ]
Winner -
johnnyyboy & The
Sallyp and Friends Club
| Olympic News |
| Brought to you by: *GoldTokens* Olympic *Presidents* |
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
- Do you have a special story, poem or testimonial you would like to share? How about some club news, announcements or any other special events? Then don't delay, send GoldToken's Newshound your submissions today! We look forward to hearing from you!
** (Please note: All submissions are added on a first come first serve basis.) **
Did you find the hidden coin in the newsletter (unknown photo)? 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.
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