April 2007

Introduction


April has arrived! We are proud to announce that Goldtoken has made the headlines with our signing with The American Checker Federation. Check out the story here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20070320/bs_prweb/prweb512414_2.

While you are stuck inside waiting out all those April Showers, make sure you try Goldtoken's new game Shake Rattle & Roll and it's variants: Shake it Fast, Shake your Bootie, Maxi Shake, Neapolitan Shake, Shake it Baby, Shake it Up, and Triple Shake! We can all thank Mecir for these great new games, and firefly for the great graphics. They are just an awesome team! High five Let's get Shaking Smiling

Check out the new Discussion Board . The game is played for purely for entertainment value gained by watching others' reactions.

Also check out the games at http://silver-song.com/. If you love Sudoku there's Sissy's Sudoku. And for those who enjoy a nice game of hangman (and we know some of you have wanted to shake the crazy wolf himself, El Lobo Loco), here's your chance to string him up with the Hang El Lobo game.




In this month's newsletter, we have:
  • Monthly News by Badger
  • Birthdays & Special Announcements
  • Club News & Announcements
  • Locker-n-Rocker Room Trivia
  • Joggle Jungle
  • Treasure Hunt Contest
  • Puzzles-N-Riddles
  • Tournament News
  • April Fools
  • Testimonial Of The Month



Monthly News by Badger

It was thrilling to see The American Checker Federation and GoldToken noted in the MSN and Yahoo news last month! But I was not suprized. Ever since Chad and Taylor came up with the concept that has made GoldToken what it is today, we were bound for greatness! And for years, Alan Millhone, the ACF president has been working on placing the American Checker Federation members out front in world competion. Only more wonderful things can come from this union!

If you are a Gold or Platinum member, be sure to check out what is happening in beta! Mecir and firefly have been working on several projects that need testing...and what better way to contribute to GoldToken than testing our latest suprizes! You can get the beta URL on the Gold Members board.

The 2007 Go As You Please National (GAYP) checker tournaments will be held in Las Vegas at the Plaza Hotel from
July 22 through 27. Check out http://usacheckers.com/index.php for more information on inexpensive hotel rates and the Arthur Niederhoffer" youth event with a $5000 top prize! I will personally be handing out cool GoldToken/ACF mugs to the players that show up for this event. Hope to see you there!

Badger typing
--Badger



Birthday cakeBirthdays & Special AnnouncementsOffering gift

Birthday Wishes:

-- Happy Birthday to Cinderella on April 1st! - From: { Club } Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to dreamflight on April 1st! - From: { Club } and The Gammon Addicts Club Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Angel Baby on April 2nd! I love you very much from your Seedie Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Mike K of the Renegades on April 2nd! - Love from, all your friends! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to Kriistina Jean on April 3rd! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to phil on April 3rd! - From: THE CLUB Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to SnowFlake on April 5th! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to lindaiscool on April 8th! - From: THE CLUB Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Hillbilly on April 9th! - Love from, all your friends! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to heyred72 on April 9th! - From: { Club } Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Lowell on April 10th! - Love from, all your friends! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Pooh on April 12th! - From: { Club } and The Gammon Addicts ClubOffering flower
-- Happy Birthday to AJK on April 15th! - From: { Club } and The Gammon Addicts Club Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to Red Arrow on April 15th! - From: { Club } Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to jackgammon on April 16th! - From: The Gammon Addicts Club Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to Freight Train on April 16th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to Sir Silver of the GoldTable on April 16th! - Love from, all your friends! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to I_am_4_OU on April 17th! - Love from, all your friends! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to MsDot on April 17th! - From: { Club } and The Gammon Addicts Club Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Unique1 on April 17th! - From: { Club } Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Rimon on April 18th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to spaceghost on April 18th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to lil cricket 11 on April 18th! I love you. From Seedie Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to runabe on April 20th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to snoopy57 on April 20th! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Whistler Gandalf on April 21st! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to TaUrUsRoSe on April 21st! - Love from, all your friends! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to Lyonsgirl on April 21st! - From: { Club } and THE CLUB Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to Morticia on April 21st! - From: { Club } Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Weth on April 22nd! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to cats4954 on April 22nd! - Love from, all your friends! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to laura lee on April 22nd! - Love from, all your friends! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Rhfuqua on April 22nd! - From: { Club } Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to sparkles43 on April 23rd! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to BobK on April 24th! from The MasterClass Club Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to jlang on April 25th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to TerryS on April 26th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to psychospaz mom on April 27th! Offering flower
-- Happy Birthday to Missing Sock Fairy of TA on April 28th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to DON CARLOS on April 28th! - From: THE CLUB Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to furryfeet on April 29th! Offering gift
-- Happy Birthday to STrek on April 29th! Offering gift

Anniversary & Other Wishes:

-- Happy Wedding Anniversary to Leeeeeesa and her husband on April 24th! Bride Groom - Love from all your GoldToken friends!

-- Happy Wedding Anniversary Bride Groom goes out to Lady Sili and her husband on April 24th! Many special wishes sent to you both!

-- Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary goes out to Dragon101 Bride and jazzbeth Groom on April 29th! Many special wishes sent to you both!

-- Congratulations to *Leo The Lion and Christina on the birth of their triplet boys,
Alexander Thomas 2 lbs. 13 oz. ,Tristen Chase 3 lbs. 3 oz., and Hunter Miles 2 lbs. 12 oz.. They were
born on March 6, 2007.They are still in the hospital in the NICU but are doing okay considering they
were 2 and a half months early. Pushing baby strollerPushing baby strollerPushing baby stroller


If you would like to announce any birthdays, anniversaries or other special events coming up for next month, please send GoldToken Support 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!)



Club News & Announcements

If you love any of the gammon games, you will love The Gammon Addicts Club. We play only gammon games. We play all the different variants. We also have an addict of the day ( AOTD ). If you want to be included in that, you just sign up on the wiki, and then about once a month your name will be chosen and players will send you games. We have so many players signed up for AOTD that we are starting to pick 2 per day, Monday through Friday. We don't do it on the weekend because too many players take that time off. If this sounds good to you, come check us out! We are an open to new members club! Just click here: ------> The Gammon Addicts Club

Can't wait to see you there!

-- Sondra --




{ Club } is pleased to announce we have 3 players as of March 27th who will compete in the next round of Olympic games.


{ Player: TBear } Backgammon
{ Player: boop2004 } Grabble
Penny GrabbleRace

Many of our other players are doing well and we expect more players to advance!

Peg





Locker-n-Rocker Room Trivia
Brought to you by: The Locker Room Crew

The Trivia Answers were:

Correct Answers
1. Who is Mia Hamm
2. Who is Tony Gwynn
3. Who is Sandy Koufax
4. What is 160 Feet
5. What is Bowling

Winners

If your name is mentioned above as a winner PLEASE private message the Locker Room Crew with your name and address. Thank you for playing!

There will be no trivia this month....


HOWEVER STAY TUNED FOR A SPECIAL SPRING TREAT!

-- Locker Room Crew



Joggle Jungle
Brought to you by: The Joggle Jungle

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE ... Spring is in the Air!!!!


All Entries must be private messaged to Joggle Jungle and received NO later then the 8th of the month, 8pm EST.

These are the rules for the words:
  • Only one private message from each player, any more than one will not be accepted.
    • Words with first letter in Alphabetical Order will get 5 Pts.
  • The letters have to be touching.
    • They can zig-zag but must form a line.
    • If the letters don't touch, the word isn't acceptable.
  • No proper nouns (No words, starting w/capital letters).
    • However.. john (toilet), is acceptable, whereas, John, the name is not..
  • No words under 4 letters long.
  • No abbreviations and contractions.
  • When a word is posted by 2 or more players, that word is eliminated.
  • You can not use a square more than once in a word.
  • Words not found in the Webster's Dictionary and or Dictionary.com will not be accepted.
    • NO Acronyms or Thesaurus words will be taken.

Points for words are listed below:
NO. OF LETTERS:45678+
BONUS POINTS:123511

GET_READY_TO_PLAY!!!!!

AREESBT
TDYATNI
TGPETRO
YESHCCP
EDRIOMT
NAAAFES
NVTAEGD

Good luck

-- Joggle Jungle



Treasure Hunt Contest

This months treasure hunt is April Showers! Be among the first ten players to find all 12 GoldToken logos hidden among different player's profiles! Each logo will be featuring our theme of the month, so try and spot them! A special thank you goes out to firefly for providing all our GoldToken logos for this wonderful and fun adventure!!

Everyone can play! Guests included! Once you have found all 12 logos, please send a private message to the Contest Director with "Profile Treasure Hunt" in the subject line, to see if you've won! Be sure to keep an eye on the "Who Is Here?" page to see if you spot our logos hiding on someone's profile!

Hooray! to last month's LOGO winners!! The winners are:

1) Honeybear
2) cissy Winner of 2 month silver! Congratulations
3) Nancy
4) Lindap957
5) Tolp
6) SarahMills
7) Buz
8) ArkAngel
9) Aphrodite
10) asmdrm
11) MamaBear
12) shirley
13) birdstoe

Last months logos were hidden on these players profiles, (you may still be able to see some of the logos by looking at these profiles):

Aphrodite
GUINESS14
Alex
Abaitha
39289
Acedog
Adam
adopt 3
aerohiker
Allison
Amanda
aprilflower

Thank you to all 12 players for allowing us to borrow your profiles for this fun hunt!

Players who have not won the treasure hunt contest in the last 6 months, will win one of the new GoldToken Embroidered Patches!! Best of all, guests that find all 12, will win a 2 month Silver membership!

** Please note: Sharing logo locations before the contest ends will disqualify you, so please play fair. **

Good luck

-- Contest Director



Puzzles-N-Riddles

Welcome to our Puzzles-N-Riddles section! If you think you know the answer to this months riddle or puzzle, then be the FIRST player to post the correct answer on the discussion board and Badger will have a GoldToken key chain pen just for you!

This Months Puzzles-N-Riddle is:

Question:

What is the next word in the following series: aid, nature, world, estate, column, sense ...?

Is it (a) water, (b) music, (c) welcome, or (d) heaven?

What is the answer? (Remember to post your answers only on the discussion board!)

Good luck and Have fun everyone!

Congratulations to last months winner: superkaempe the gentle giant!!! WOOHOO way to go!!!!

-- Contest Director



Tournament News - By Sondra

  • This month, our tourney prizes are GoldToken Patches and Squiggle Pens! Join today for your chance to win one of these great prizes!

  • Be sure to join our sponsorship tournaments for a chance to win a membership if you are a guest, and look for our combined Cube Galore tournaments!! These are a great way to get those elusive gammon tournament ratings!!


GoldToken would also like to take the time to send a big congratulations out to all our recent tournament winners!!! If your name is on this list, please send Badger your mailing address and a link to the tournament for your prize!

Tournament:The Winners are:
The January 2007 3 Day - 2 Player Matches Tournament Knights vs. Bishops ChessRay of Light
The March Top Challengers Rating Limit Matches 2007 Tournament 8x8 TraxGringoNZ
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Backgammon (Intermediate Division)(((INTENSITY)))
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament ReversiM and M
The October Large Outbreak 2006 TournamentRoad Runner and firefly
The July Dbl Nine Dominoes TournamentMorticia
The February Top Challengers Rating Limit Matches 2007 Tournament Giveaway CheckersDaddy Maq and Buz
The January 2007 3 Day - 2 Player Matches Tournament Grabble Race (Intermediate Division)Slippy
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Loop Traxypercube
The January 2007 3 Day - 2 Player Matches Tournament Hypergammon (Advanced Division)Buz
The December Dbl 12 5&3's TournamentLorry
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Four In a Row (Upper Division)grade1teacher
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Los Alamos ChessMan of Steel
The March 3 Day - 2 Player Matches 2007 Tournament Blackhole Reversigatorbon007 and M and M
The Tessa's Go Moku TournamentDavidJ
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Large Go MokuM and M
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Hypergammon (Lower Division)ponygirl
The March Go Moku Tournamentdawn1968 and rabbitoid
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Fives and Threes (Novice Division)Namdnas
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Rock Paper Scissors (Upper Division)MsLady
The *NEW* 3 pt back cube tourney! TournamentRapunzel
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Large Halmalion52fr
The June Large Outbreak TournamentThe Viking
The November Thematic Chess '05 TournamentDoffen
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Nackgammon (Intermediate Division)brosius
The February Top Challengers Rating Limit Matches 2007 Tournament Zero G Four In a RowTalan & Michaels Grandma and Buz
The August Blackhole Chess Tournamenthansie
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament 8x8 TraxB Line electric streetcar
The January 2007 3 Day - 2 Player Matches Tournament Traxdgb
The January 2007 3 Day - 2 Player Matches Tournament 8x8 Traxdgb
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Hypergammon (Advanced Division)Dollar Store Queen and jamchug
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Giveaway CheckersRogue Trooper
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Chess (Budapest Gambit)DevouR
The Cheesehead's All Membership Level Grabble Memorial Tournament Grabble (Expert Division)Lyonsgirl
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Go MokuM and M
The October Cube Nack '05 TournamentWrighty
The January 2007 3 Day Lucky Trax Tournament Upper DivisionB Line electric streetcar
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Fives and Threes (Advanced Division)Ozzy
The Playoff for The Unionmans Nackgammon Tournamentdrgnrdr and Taz1616
The October Grabble Race 2006 TournamentSlippy
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Nackgammon (Upper Division)Nukkle Dragger and Chutzpah and NEUROTIKA
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Traxdgb
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Backgammon (Advanced Division)brosius
The November All Levels Backgammon Tournament (Expert Division)Jim Nemesis
The Dots n Rocks Tournament Rock Paper Scissors (Division 5)lady of amber and Spiydar
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Double Trouble Four In a RowPK
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament PenteStmhawk
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Four In a Row (Lower Division)**YANKEE ROSE*JR FRANK PAB
The Unionmans Membership Guest Only Backgammon Tournament Backgammon (Advanced Division)Lady Madonna
The December Go Moku Tournamentbingoworld
The August All Levels Reversi Tournamentgreggyw
The February Salvo TournamentOartkickel of the Wolf Pack
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Golden PenteStmhawk
The October Hypergammon 2006 TournamentBearRuff
The December Stealth Salvo Tournament Stealth Salvo (Lower Division)JAncira
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Wormhole Four In A Rowypercube
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Chessgidcoop
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Quicksand Four In a RowMORRIS
The October Dbl 12 Muggins 2006 TournamentWrighty
The November Small Reversi Tournamentnil
The July Double 12 5's and 3's TournamentMORRIS and pioenroosje
The December Blackhole Reversi Tournamentnil
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Blackhole Four In a RowKreator
The November 2006 Tournament Reversigreggyw
The November Reversi Tournamentgreggyw
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Hotspot Four In a RowMORRIS
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Small ChessRay of Light and Man of Steel
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Grabble (Upper Division)vic223
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Grabble Swapper (Upper Division)vic223
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Small Go Moku (Upper Division)nil
The December Thematic Chess TournamentChuckV
The May Quicksand Four in a Row TournamentKreator and N_a_z
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Four In a RowKreator
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Blackhole Reversigreggyw and SarahMills
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Backgammon (Grand Master Division)China_Blue
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament 10x10 Halmalion52fr
The September Blackhole 4iar Tournament1karlos
The July Small Go Moku TournamentDavidJ
The April Blackhole Four in a Row Tournament1karlos
The December Fast Checkers TournamentFuzzyDuck
The Cheesehead's All Membership Level Grabble Memorial Tournament Grabble (Novice Division)Bill
The October Giveaway Checkers 2006 Tournamentneonlicht
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament 8x8 Traxdgb
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Backgammon (Master Division)BigDaddyTuaine and Dollar Store Queen
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Small ReversiTurn-Key
The September Giveaway 4iar Tournament1karlos
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Backgammon (Expert Division)tjb
The February 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Grabble Race (Upper Division)Rob68
The Cheesehead's All Membership Level Grabble Memorial Tournament Grabble (Advanced Division)EvilEmpire
The January 1 Day Speed Games 2007 Tournament Small Outbreak (Upper Division)greggyw

Thank you for participating in our site tournaments!

-- Sondra --



April Fools

April 1 is here, so be on the lookout for the usual April Fools' hijinks. A typical prankster, I love a good joke and have put together a collection of software pranks you can find by Googling to play on your co-workers and housemates. Be warned about prank backlash, however. While these jokes may cement your role as the office crack-up, they may also guarantee you won't be invited to your co-workers' off-site functions.
  • Mouse Move - Fool your friends by configuring their mouse to move in random positions.
  • Copy Cursor - Replicate the Windows mouse cursor all over your friends' screens.
  • Avoid – My favorite: Make the Windows Start button run away and avoid your mouse clicks.
  • ReplaceKeys - This little prank app lets you change what different keyboard keystrokes will do to the computer.

Written by Anonymous Tongue



Testimonials Of The Month

When I first joined GoldToken, my mom ponygirl had to talk me into it because I had been to numerous other game sites and did not like the language or atmosphere. I am so glad I joined. I am a GoldToken Addict. It did not take me long at all to get a Platinum Membership. I just can't get enough of the games. I love the people and the fact that this is a family site. I have made many friends and joined many clubs. I think it's great that you all do the Cards for people who need get well wishes, people who have deaths in their family, etc. I know it means a lot to those people who receive the cards to know that people care about them. Aside from the games, the Goldies are my favorite.

-- Lady Sili



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  • 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 Support your submissions today! We look forward to hearing from you! Smiling
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