November 2015
In case you missed the earlier announcements, there were several improvements made in October: Message Folders and other improvements, including:
It's not too late to sign up! Join The Olympiads Club today, and post a request to be assigned to a team.
Below are the results of the 2014 Winter Olympics. to the winners! Thank you to all the volunteers who made it possible, and thank you to all who participated! Region with most points: { Club } Player with most points: AndrewB 216 tournaments out of 216 are finished.
We have a 3-way tie between pepperbeach, squiggy2 and RabidWolff of the Wolf Pack, all with 13 Year of the Horse Tokens! They will be playing a ??? tournament to determine the grand prize winner! Good luck to the three of you! It's been another busy month, and I can't believe it's November already! As "they" say, time flies when you're having fun! Hubby and I are trying to get the garage organized so we can get the cars in before winter weather arrives. Send me a game invite so I have an excuse to avoid the garage cleaning! LOL I hope you are all doing well and looking forward to more fun and games. --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 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 greggyw on November 1st! - -- Happy Birthday to idnelle on November 2nd! - -- Happy Birthday to Sea Dreams on November 4th! - From The Daily Laugh Club - -- Happy Birthday to Jude on 4th! - From The Pork Chop Club - -- Happy Birthday to Alex on November 4th! - -- Happy Birthday to Matt on November 5th! - -- Happy Birthday to Chris on November 6th! - -- Happy Birthday to gertess on November 9th! - From The Word O'Rama Club, The Daily Laugh Club, The He's Alive Club & The Scoop's Castle Club - - -- Happy Birthday to ChrisC on November 10th! - -- Happy Birthday to Budgie on November 10th! - -- Happy Birthday to Sir Legend50 of the GoldTable on November 11th! - -- Happy Birthday to cmacker(unknown photo) on November 12th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club, The Daily Laugh Club & The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to roses4gypsy on November 13th! - -- Happy Birthday to Ranga on November 14th! - -- Happy Birthday to willy on November 14th! - From The Daily Laugh Club, The Gammon Addicts Club & { Club } - -- Happy Birthday to Crispies on November 15th! - From The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to numptieheid on November 17th! - From The Word O'Rama Club & The Pork Chop Club -- Happy Birthday to Mumsie on November 18! - -- Happy Birthday to Brown_Velvet on November 18th! - -- Happy Birthday to Momsie on November 18! - From The Pork Chop Club, The Word O'Rama Club, The He's Alive Club & The Scoop's Castle Club - -- Happy Birthday to wakefield on November 20th! - From { Club } - -- Happy Birthday to arrows1 on November 20th! - From The Prime Time TV Club - -- Happy Birthday to Blue Moon on November 21st! - From The Prime Time TV Club & The He's Alive Club - -- Happy Birthday to Aphrodite on November 21st! - -- Happy Birthday to DINGEROO on November 21st! - -- Happy Birthday to GeorgiasGrandad on November 21st! - -- Happy Birthday to Miranda on November 21st! - -- Happy Birthday to funtobewith11 on November 21st! - -- Happy Birthday to Catmane on November 28th! - { Club } & The He's Alive Club - -- Happy Birthday to Radio on November 30th! - -- Happy Birthday to GrannyPatty on November 30th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club and { Club } - Anniversary & Other Wishes: -- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to sweeteyes and her husband on November 13th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to David and his wife on November 19th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to Beckie B and her husband on November 26th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to unicorn and wingfoot ~~ 32 years ~~ on November 26th! -- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to lyndab and kiwiyeti on November 30th! * 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!)
Banneros & Banners Banneros Banneros are special virtual GoldToken coins that are only available as prizes in various contests and tournaments, or as gifts from GoldToken administrators. Banneros work like Golderos when purchasing banner space, but the only way to obtain them is to have administration give you some (you can't buy, share or trade them to other players), and they can only be used to purchase Banners, nothing else ( Each Golderos or Banneros = 50 cents US each). If a player wants to extend a banner while not having enough Banneros, Golderos will be used to fill the missing amount. So if someone needs 12 Golderos or Banneros to extend their Banners, and has 5 Banneros and 15 Golderos, it will cost them 5 Banneros and 7 Golderos. If the player has no Banneros , only Golderos will be used. Banners are a wonderful way to promote your GoldToken club, federation, site contest or a special tournament to other GoldToken players. And yes, as long as it is family friendly, you can advertise your business using a GoldToken banner too! Start your own banner today! Banners Years ago, GoldToken ran banner and tower ads to help generate revenue to pay for system services for Guests. Many of you likely remember these ads as a nuisance to players more than anything even though members above a silver were allowed to turn them off. I personally hated the whole system and turned ads off altogether after GoldToken was subject to many ads that were not family friendly. But this has hurt GoldToken in the long run by cutting off the much needed revenue that allowed guests to play free here, which meant I was covering the extra cost for their memberships. Advertising revenue pays for Guest accounts. That is what banners are all about. I have personally been covering the cost of Guest accounts since we removed the ads a few years ago. That is why we have been working at changing it, to have better control over what ads are used so players are not subject to naughty ads or worse, ads that "took over" web pages with flash, Java etc. Whoever pays for banners will be paying for advertising. It could be anyone as long as the banners are family friendly and do not have additional script attached to them. It is this revenue that will hopefully cover Guest account costs. The only other option we have is to go back to the old way banners had been originally set up (...which was very similar to the way banners are currently used on all other game sites I know of). It is not about the number of moves or clicks a guest gets to use....any Guest account, regardless of clicks, moves etc. takes up a certain amount of database activity and has a share in programming costs, and that is what costs the site. Most sites not only limit Guest accounts, but also still run ads to cover the cost. GoldToken has never limited guests by game moves, which is pretty harsh in my opinion, and apt to run off even the nicest of players. Working with Mecir, we have been able to devise a way to set GoldToken's banner system back up, on a much more limited and governed system so we can once again generate funds to pay for the services guests use by hosting the banners ourselves. What does this mean for you? Clubs can run their own banners to search for team players and advertise for club matches etc. As a membership bonus, Platinum and Gold players will each be given banner credits at the time they renew their membership. Now clubs are seeing the wonderful benefit by advertising using this system. Are you interested? If so, read further below. Banner games? Yes, why not! Already several members are competing for the best banner creations and we are working on potential games with them. Stay tuned to the site news for upcoming contests and games using GoldToken's banner system. Hate the banners? No worry! Silver and above members have the option to turn banner ads off in any of the 3 ad positions. So you have the choice to see the banners in the middle and can block the ones on top, for example. Platinum members are also able to turn off all outside banners and still view those pointing at pages within GoldToken. It is our hope that by keeping the banners from being obnoxious and aimed more at GoldToken players directly, you will leave the boxes unchecked. Warmly yours, ;;bg2;;
Please note:
<B>How do the banners work and how many players will it display to?</B> The banners rotate with each page view. So each banner is displayed the same number of times as all the other banners. If you are not seeing it, it is being shown to someone else as its turn to display rolls around. Here are the basic numbers: A large number of players play every day, several times a day and some several times a week, but at least 50% or our players only login once or twice a week. There are over 1000 new games created every day, and an average of 50 game moves per game, while each player is also browsing the site for other reasons like messaging, tournament sign ups, forums, clubs, ladders, choosing new games etc. With these numbers, we estimate your banner is displayed several times to approx 3500/4500 individual players each day depending on the day.
( Each Golderos or Banneros = 50 cents US each) Central banner for 1 month = 5 Golderos or Banneros Central banner for 3 months = 8 Golderos or Banneros Central banner for 6 months = 15 Golderos or Banneros Central banner for 12 months = 20 Golderos or Banneros Right banner for 1 month = 8 Golderos or Banneros Right banner for 3 months = 12 Golderos or Banneros Right banner for 6 months = 18 Golderos or Banneros Right banner for 12 months = 25 Golderos or Banneros Top banner for 1 month = 10 Golderos or Banneros Top banner for 3 months = 16 Golderos or Banneros Top banner for 6 months = 21 Golderos or Banneros Top banner for 12 months = 30 Golderos or Banneros Membership bonus! As of 2011, players that go one year Plat when they renew, are gifted 12 Banneros to spend on their banners.
Having trouble creating your own banners or lack a photo editing program? Try one of the free services on the net that offers free banner creation. Free banners created using these systems can be incredible and very professional. Here are a couple links to sites that provide this service, however, you you might wish to find others more suited to your taste and abilities by Googling "Free Banners". Then it is just a matter of uploading your banner to your accounts Banner system. http://www.bannerfans.com/banner_maker.php <----my personal favorite http://www.bannersketch.com/ http://www.123-banner.com/ http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/freebanners/index.php http://www.addesigner.com/ http://www.animationonline.com/ http://www.puresilvabannermaker.com/ * 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.
sandi en margarita with (unknown photo) is October's Photozone competition winner who won the challenge with votes and will be awarded with a profile token. Autumn came in 2nd place with 17 votes for (unknown photo) dickfrank came 3rd place with 7 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 The theme for November's competetion will be;anything in the air, manmade or natural(unknown photo)
The Theme for this month was and we had some very spooky Entries! The Winner is: PattyMac with the Entry PattyMac's Album titled Haunted Houses nd place goes to Cheetah's Album titled Haunted Night rd place is Sapient's Album titled Halloween Thank you all for your participation The next Theme is (unknown photo) I hope you all will come join in on the fun at Photo Album Contest The winner receives this awesome Profile Token (unknown photo) Best of luck, ladyvic
November's game of the month is Twisted Cribbage! Join us in a fun Double Elimination Tournament by signing up today for The Nov 2015 - Game of the Month - Twisted Cribbage! 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:
October's winner is: Quinoa Muffins
Quinoa Muffins 1 cup quinoa, rinsed 1/4 cup canola oil 2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup packed dark-brown sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup cranberries or any other dried fruit 1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans 3/4 cup whole milk 1 large egg 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium saucepan, bring quinoa and 1 cup water to a boil. Reduce to a simmer; cover, and cook until water has been absorbed and quinoa is tender, 11 to 13 minutes. Meanwhile, brush a standard 12-cup muffin pan with oil; dust with flour, tapping out excess. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, raisins, and 2 cups cooked quinoa; reserve any leftover quinoa for another use. After quinoa is cooked rinse well, then make sure excess water is off from rinsing In a small bowl, whisk together oil, milk, egg, and vanilla. Add milk mixture to flour mixture, and stir just until combined; divide batter among prepared muffin cups. Bake until toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool muffins in pan, 5 minutes; transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. I also like to use chopped dry apricots and pecans in place of the cranberries and walnuts GoldToken's Gypsy 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 Gypsy! November's recipe contest is: "Asian 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:
{ Image: i994.photobucket.com/albums/af66/llwgirl/Thanksgiving/thanksgiving-3.gif } **~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** We would like to say to Scoopdedew for letting us step into their personal life for a bit. 1. What brought you to Goldtoken? I was playing a friend at another game site and they told me about Goldtoken. I have been here ever since. How'd you choose your name for GT? Years ago when I got my first computer I was trying to sign up on different sites with the name Scoop. Scoop was always already taken. A boyfriend of mine at the time, who was a policeman , suggested I try using Scoopdedew. I have had no problem signing up on sites with that name ever since. 2. What interest you most on GT? What interests me the most at GT is the running of my The Scoop's Castle Club . I enjoy the interaction with many wonderful members in my club. favorite game here? My favorite game here would be Loco Ochos. 3. What State or Country do you reside in? I live in the United States, in Kentucky. I love it here. Best place I have ever lived. What in your State or Country do you think tourist should definity see? The Kentucky Derby horse race. 4. What hobbies do you have? I enjoy playing online games , reading, watching tv, and walking my dog. 5. Children? Grandchildren? No children. I consider my pets my children. 6. Do you work? Nowhat kind of work do/did you do? I worked in the US military in the US Air Force as a Air Traffic Controller. 7. Any pets? I have a Yorkipoo dog named "Sugar" , She is 10 yrs. old. A red tabby cat named "Mikey" , He is five months old. And 2 guinea pigs named Huey and Luey , they are 2 months old. 8. Are you under 30?___ 30 to 50? ___ or over 50? Women don't tellMale or Female? Female last I checked. 9. What's the farthest you been from home? vacation or for business? Santa's Village, Santa Claus House, at the North Pole, Alaska. 10. If you could be anywhere right now where would that be? On a boat cruise. 11. Favorite season? Spring would be my favorite season. Love the flowers this time of year. 12, Favorite movie? One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest would be my favorite movie. Jack Nicholson was great in that movie. Actor? My favorite actor would be Brad Pit. ;;socute;; Actress? My favorite actress would be Shirley Temple. Singer? I am totally in love with Adam Levine on the TV show The Voice. Song? My favorite song would be "Imagine" by John Lennon Last Book Read? Betrayal by Danielle Steele If there are any questions you would like to see asked in future interviews, please let us know. Laura laura lee
I joined Gold Token in 2010 and had no idea what I was letting myself in for! My sister cekj introduced me to the site and then gave me an upgrade on my membership as a birthday gift! We always played games in our family and I grew up enjoying a large variety of card, domino and board games, and it was a delight to find most of them available here. It wasn't long before I was asked to help in a number of Clubs and I enjoyed the sometimes steep learning curve involved. With some trepidation I took on the ownership of The Daily Laugh Club in 2012 and thoroughly enjoy the challenges that provides and the fun I have with the members, my Lovely Laughers! Running Olympic Teams (I'm currently on my fifth one), running a DB and helping with the Monthly Newsletter are also part of my GT experience. I have been lucky enough to meet some of my GT friends in person. including sallyp , Specialsteel .Liz , berecca and Signman. I love the variety of games on offer, especially the word ones where I relish the friendly contests with CarolP, chris3, birdstoe, Hillbilly ,marcmandy and many more. Learning new skills and new games helps keep me entertained (and mostly out of mischief). I am hooked on the new game All Aboard at the moment! GT is a very supportive community and I am hugely grateful to blackangus and katja for helping make Daily Laugh a great Club........and for keeping me sane! I would encourage anyone who wants to get more involved to 'go for it'..........there is always someone to offer help and advice here. Please take a look at my profile to see the many great clubs to which I belong and enjoy the paraprosdokians too smiler5
Most Original Profile Contest November's Contest of the Month is Most Original Profile. The winner will receive two extra months on their current membership, or, if Guest, a two month Silver membership. If you know of an exceptional profile, or would like to submit your own, please post it on the Holiday Profile Contest DB, where everyone can check it out. Note: Entries must be posted on the Holiday Profile Contest DB no later than Wedesday, December 2, 2015. There were no entries for October's Best New Game Design contest.
The Caption Contest winner for the October, 2015, newsletter is TowneKook- with: (unknown photo) Hey' where did that Squirrel go to ? TowneKook-! To enter November'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.
The Thanksgiving icons will be handled like the Halloween, Silver, Wood and Guest can request a Holiday icon on the 15th of November, watch the board for that announcement or contact the GoldToken's Icon Fairy if your not sure. GoldToken wants all to enjoy the fun Holiday. Don't forget the Icon of the Day Icon Of The Day, these change often so be sure to tick the Discussion board here -> Icon Mania
(unknown photo) Coming in January - The Jan 2016 — New Year's Dice Chess tournament All set up for the February Tournament The Feb 2016 — Knight Jarlynn's 10×10 Dice Chess Tournament (unknown photo) COME JOIN THE FUN If you are in any of the clubs listed in these Site Club Challenges, you need to get signed up. Clubs if you are not listed, contact Jacob1987 to have your club added so your members can participate. Fun Games! November - The Site Club Challenge November 2015 Tournament December - The Site Club Challenge December 2015 Tournament January - The Site Club Challenge January 2016 Tournament Need Clubs to sign up for these Tournies, if your club is not represented contact your Club Officer to get your Club added. If your Club is on the list - SIGN UP TODAY All winners are announced in this newsletter [ Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Backgammon November 2015 ] [ Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Cribbage December 2015 ] [ Main: Site-Wide Club Vs Club Dice Pipe January 2015 ] Remember You can ONLY Play for one club
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 (unknown photo)? Our winner last month was Flowery. to her 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 heyred72 at 7:23PM on 8 November 2015 Find referring pages |
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