- Join now to play in GoldToken's 2020 Winter Olympic Games!
You are invited to play in GoldToken’s premier winter tournament, the 2020 Winter Olympic Games!
This is a set of automated tournaments pitting player against player and team against team.
Each player chooses which game types to play.
If interested, please join The
GoldToken's Olympics Master Club! Click the link and look for the "invitations" box on the right-hand side of your screen, then click "yes" to join. If on a mobile device, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click “yes” to join. That's all you need to do to declare your desire to play - no need to send a PM or post a message on the discussion board. Please stay in the club until the games begin.
Note: If you have joined the club in the past, you will need to re-join. The club is emptied after each Olympics has begun.
Team assignments will be made soon, and you'll be invited to join your specific team's club then. At that time, you will be able to sign up for the games you wish to play. Players can sign up for as few or as many games as they care to. The first batch of games will begin in December.
For more information about the GoldToken Olympics, check out this wiki with information about rules, prizes, and previous Olympics scores: [
Main: Goldtoken Olympics ].
- Brand New Holiday Profile Tokens
Our graphics team has been knocking our socks off! Check out a sample of the new holiday tokens that are available:
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You can see them all on the
Recognition Tokens - GoldToken's Treasure Trove Info page. If you'd like to purchase one for yourself or a friend, they're available for 1 or 2 Golderos each. Head over to the
Recognition Tokens discussion board to make your request!
MeWe is an alternative social networking site that's currently experiencing a surge in new users. It bills itself as the “next-gen social network” and centers its sales pitch to new users around data privacy and providing an ad-free experience.
- Rest assured, GoldToken’s Facebook group will still be there.
Once you have an account on MeWe, join us at
https://mewe.com/join/goldtokencom/. This is where you can find information about GoldToken should our server have difficulties, etc. We look forward to seeing you there!
- Post on the DB for GoldToken assistance setting up your MeWe account.
Wishing you much luck and tons of fun! Have a joyous holiday season!
--
heyred72
In this month's newsletter, we have:
Birthdays & Special Announcements
Photozone Competition
Discussion Boards in the Spotlight
Australia's Amazing Attributes
Photo Album of the Month
Game Of The Month
Best Recipe Contest
Pony Up!
Up Front & Personal
Testimonial Of The Month
Contest of the Month
Caption Contest
Icon Mania!
Breaking Club News
Shout Out!
Olympic News
 | Birthdays & Special Announcements |  |
-- Happy Birthday to
Renekins on December 2nd! - From The
He's Alive Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Matrix on December 5th! - From The
Prime Time TV Club & The
To Your Health Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Mom-of-DJ on December 6th! - From The
Prime Time TV Club, The
To Your Health Club ,
The Wolf Pack Club & The
Word O'Rama Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Jaime
on December 6th! - From
The Wolf Pack Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
silknlacy on December 9th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
vivian99 on December 9th! - From
The Wolf Pack Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Senorita ZORRO_ on December 11th! From { Club } and
The Pork Chop Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Sea Breeze on December 11th! - From The
Classic TV & Music Club and The
Scoop's Castle Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
transfusion on December 12th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
anguslady on December 14th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
murrsquito on December 17th! - From The
Classic TV & Music Club , The
Friendship Club & The
Word O'Rama Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Pegasus on December 18th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
berecca on December 18th! - From The
Daily Laugh Club and { Club } -
-- Happy Birthday to
mastitcher2 on December 18th! - From The
Scoop's Castle Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Markelle on December 20th! - From The
Monkeytyper's Gaming Paradise Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
rushfan2000 on December 20th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
dizzy leeds lass on December 21st! - From The
To Your Health Club
-- Happy Birthday to
HeatherN on December 21st! -
-- Happy Birthday to
mysticdragon on December 22! - From The
Classic TV & Music Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Withacee on December 23rd! -
-- Happy Birthday to
SLAMDUNKER on December 23rd! -
-- Happy Birthday to
SUNSHINE on December 23rd! - From The
Word O'Rama Club, The
Scoop's Castle Club, The
He's Alive Club , The
To Your Health Club and The
Friendship Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
sallyp on December 24th! - From The
Daily Laugh Club, The
Scoop's Castle Club and
The Pork Chop Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
missdeedee2j on December 24th! - From The
Classic TV & Music Club, The
Scoop's Castle Club and The
Prime Time TV Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
erletd on December 25th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
klaashaas on December 28th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
GingerSnapPA on December 28th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
ZOE on December 28th! -
-- Happy Birthday to
eliphont551 on December 29th! - From
The Pork Chop Club and The
Word O'Rama Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
ladyvic on December 29th! - From The
Classic TV & Music Club, The
Daily Laugh Club, The
Scoop's Castle Club, The
He's Alive Club, The
To Your Health Club, The
Prime Time TV Club and The
Friendship Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
Alea on December 30th from
The Wolf Pack Club
-- Happy Birthday to
Handyman on December 30th! - From The
Prime Time TV Club, The
Scoop's Castle Club, The
To Your Health Club and The
Daily Laugh Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
* Sassy_Angel * on December 31st! - From
The Wolf Pack Club -
-- Happy Birthday to
nylady41 on December 31st! -
-- Happy Birthday to
Jools on December 31st! - From The
Daily Laugh Club -
Anniversary & Other Wishes:
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary
goes out to
Pegasus and her husband on December 14th! Many special wishes sent to you both!
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary
goes out to
AutumnLeaves and her husband on December 24th! Many special wishes sent to you both.
* 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!)
Macro Photography Contest
Come join GoldToken's Macro Photography Contest by posting your related image with a title on the Photozone discussion board. A new image will be revealed every 2 weeks. You will have 2 weeks to post your image before it's closed to reveal the next image. A poll will be posted for voting after the image is closed.
Win the most entries at the end of a year and collect a set of LIGHTBOX Macro Photography Cards!
To post your image you can visit the Photozone discussion board, and to see each image that is open visit Photozone Zepher's Album titled Macro Photography Contest.
This is our open image until Dec. 16th titled Toys: 
Anyone submitting an image in December will receive this Token, if you don't already have it: 
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 Discussion Boards in the Spotlight  |
| Brought to you by: LittleTree |
Graphic Requests - Hope to see a new Goldie, a squirrel banner or is an image needed for your club?
Post them on this board and the graphic team will attempt to make this happen for you. No promises, as they can be very busy at times, but they will do their best if it's a reasonable request.
- Curious
about the weather in other places or want others to know about the severe/interesting conditions in your area? Maybe even post a picture of your storm or interesting events you've seen online in other areas? Most of us have been affected one way or the other by our weather conditions so check this board out to see what's going on in our world, weather wise!
Other boards for your enjoyment:
Caption Humor
Crafters' Fair
Critics Corner
Cutting Board
General Chat
Jest for Puns
Jokes Board
Paraprosdokian Sentences
Photozone
Photo Album Contest
Polls
Pony Up!
Word Of The Week
| * Australia's Amazing Attributes* |
| Brought to you by: restivo46 |
Anna Creek Station is the world's largest working cattle station. It is located in the Australian state of South Australia.
Anna Creek Station has an area of 23,677 km^2 (9,142 sq mi; 5,851,000 acres) which is slightly larger than Israel. It is 8,000 km^2 (2,000,000 acres; 3,100 sq mi) larger than its nearest rival, Alexandria Station in the country's Northern Territory. It is
over seven times the size of the United States' biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 3,340 km^2 (830,000 acres; 1,290 sq mi). As of 16 December 2016, the station is owned by the Williams Cattle Company, a family business that bought Anna Creek from S. Kidman & Co, doubling their total area held under pastoral leases. The nearest township is William Creek (which is surrounded by the Anna Creek station), but the nearest town for freight is Coober Pedy.
The property was originally established in 1863 but moved to its current location in 1872. It was originally used for sheep, but due to losses from dingo attacks, they switched to cattle.
The land occupying the extent of the Anna Creek Station pastoral lease was gazetted as a locality by the Government of South Australia on 26 April 2013 with the name 'Anna Creek'.
There is a main homestead at Anna Creek and an outstation at The Peake. Although the homesteads are very isolated, they have satellite telecommunications including television and internet. The Coober Pedy Oodnadatta One Day Mail Run delivers mail twice a week and can bring a small amount of freight. The Peake Ruins, including those of a former telegraph office, cemetery, mine site and lime kilns at the outstation, are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. The Strangways Springs Telegraph Station Ruins on the station are also listed on the Heritage Register.
Once there was a large workforce of stockmen at Anna Creek, who mustered the cattle on horses. Today light aircraft are used for spotting animals which are rounded up by stockmen riding motorbikes, requiring a much smaller workforce.
| Photo Album of the Month |
| Brought to you by: ladyvic |
Barns was our theme for November.
nd place goes to: fatdaddy's Album titled Barns 
rd place Jewels21's Album 
Our December theme is: Christmas Art/Scenes
Talk about some beautiful pictures! You should see some already entered in the contest!
Come join us on the Photo Album Contest discussion board.
Everyone that enters an album in December will win this beautiful Token! 
ladyvic
December's game of the month is
Pente! Join us in a fun Double Elimination Tournament by signing up today for
The Tournament!
In this variant of Go Moku, players win by placing 5 (or more) of their own pieces in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) OR by capturing ten of their opponent's pieces. For additional information, see the
Rules of Pente.
We hope you enjoy it!
| Club ~VS~ Club Tournament Of The Month |
December's game of the month is
Rock Paper Scissors! Join us in a fun League Style Tournament by signing your club up today! Send your roster of 1 to 5 players from your club to
PattyMac or sign them up in The
Site Wide Club vs Club Tournament Club! Your club could win Club Tokens for their club created by our very own awesome graphics team, so get signed up and have fun!
November's winner is:
Green Bean Casserole
Ingredients
2 cans of green beans (I prefer fresh about 2 lbs cut and strings taken out par cooked)
2 Cans of Campbell's Mushroom or if someone is allergic to mushrooms I use Cream of celery soup
casserole pan.
Pam spray
French's Crispy fried onions in a can
a few shakes of pepper according to taste
350 degree oven approx 190 Celsius
Directions
Put together the soup, the green beans and pepper and stir till all well blended, put it in the Pam sprayed pan, then sprinkle the top of the soup/green bean mixture. I love the fried onions so put it on heavy. bake in oven for about Bake at 350°F. for 25 minutes or until the bean mixture is hot and bubbling.
Then ENJOY!!!!
GoldToken's
GinnyB 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
GinnyB!
December's recipe contest (In honor of our squirrels) is: "Nuts"! 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.
In addition, everyone who posts a recipe for December's contest is eligible to receive this Profile Token, if they don't already have it:
!
November has passed.
Where is time going?
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving
despite so many restrictions. Now Christmas is coming upon us and the
Pony Up! board wants to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!! (unknown photo)
We have a lot of fun on the Pony Up board, with all our players participating andkeeping us laughing and on our toes!
We currently have a "Write a Letter to Santa" contest with this token
going to the winner.
Our November winners on the Pony Up board are:
BettyAnn -
Riddle Me This
**YANKEE ROSE*JR FRANK PAB -
I'm Getting Tired of Flying
csain1 -
Watson's Choice
cindy1970 -
Soups On - Caption This
JanuarySnowAngel -
Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun Commercial Slogan
JanuarySnowAngel -
Riddle
Big Giant Head -
This is Your Life
No Winner -
What Did You Say? Players were stumped
with this one.
Winner of the Pony Up Champion token was
HeartOnFire with the most wins for the 3 month time frame. She received
.
to all our winners!
Merry_Christmas &
Happy_New_Year
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We would like to say
to
temari for letting us step into their personal life for a bit.
1. What brought you to GoldToken, and how'd you choose your name for GT?
- Someone told me about it. I do a craft making temari balls,
so that is how I chose my name.
2. What interests you most on GT? Do you have a favorite game?
- My favorite game is Mexican train and word games.
3. What state or country do you reside in? What do you think tourists should definitely see?
- I live in South Carolina. Tourists should definitely visit in the Spring. Our trees and flowers are beautiful!
4. What hobbies do you have?
- I love doing different crafts,
gardening (flowers) 
, reading,
and bowling! 
5. Children? Grandchildren?
6. Do you work? what kind of work do/did you do?
- I am retired. I worked in receiving and I drove a forklift.
7. Any pets?
- No pets.
8. Are you under 30?___ 30 to 50? ___ or over 50? Male or Female?
- 74 years old. Lady.
9. What's the farthest you've been from home?
- I have been to London, France and Spain.
10. If you could be anywhere right now where would that be?
- I like where I am right now. Safe in my home!
11. Favorite season?
- Fall
12. Favorite movie? Favorite TV show?
- No favorite movie. Downton Abbey is my favorite TV show.
13. If you could meet anyone (living or dead) in the world, who would it be ?
- 3 brothers who died before I was born.
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 have actually been playing here since 2003. My aunt Diana introduced me to the website and taught me about clubs, tournaments, and ladders. I would be her secretary, keeping track of the clubs, game numbers, and results in a large pile of spiral notebooks we had on the bed. She also taught me about being the president of a club, how to use the codes to create playable tournaments and message boards.
Then I suffered a grand mal seizure at the register when I was a store manager in 2004. I had to be brought back to life by the emergency responders. I sustained a severe blow to the head and became a liability to the company. So, I lost my employment, got placed on disability, and had to psychologically start over again. I used to be able to do math equations by mentally visualizing the formulas. I can't do that anymore. I also used to be able to track my game moves at least 3-4 ahead of the current state of play, but I can barely see and remember what my next move should be. And when I came back to GT, after a decade and a half later, I never thought that I would have to be so attentive to choose the best defensive or offensive play.
And this is the biggest reason why I don't talk to anyone during a game. I can't do both at the same time. But I have been able to gain some friends here, via private messages. One of them lives in the midst of the West Coast fires. I check on this person every single day when I log in. I even surprised him with a membership extension, so he would have something good to look forward to when he woke up in the morning, and his stress level would diminish. Another person lives in Romania. I send a message if she has not been online for more than a couple of days. I also have a friend that I met here from British Columbia, and we even talk on the phone. I wouldn't have these awesome people in my life if GoldToken didn't exist. GoldToken is an extremely important website to me. I would rather spend my valuable here than ANY social media outlets and TV/Movie apps.
Solway Firth
Most Original Photo Album - Eye Spy
December's contest of the month is the
Most Original Photo Album with the theme "Eye Spy". Winner will receive two extra months on their current membership, or, if Guest, a two-month Silver membership.
If you know of an exceptional album, or would like to submit your own, please post it on the
Most Original Photo Album Contest DB, where everyone can check it out.
Note: Entries must be posted on the
Most Original Photo Album Contest DB by no later than
December 30, 2020.
We have a winner for the Most Original Profile contest!
to
Lil Red! Be sure to check out her festive profile, and don't forget to leave a
while you're there!
Lil Red, please be sure to write to
GoldToken Support and reference this contest to claim your 2-month membership extension.
The Caption Contest winner for the November, 2020, newsletter is
Buddha with:
A "1 horsepower" "stripped down" version of a Ford "wagon" with "front seat" steering.
Buddha!
To enter December's Caption Contest, click on the link and post your best caption:
photo titled December Caption Contest.
The winner will be chosen by our news team, given 5
Golderos and announced in next month's newsletter.
It sure looks a lot like Christmas over on the
Name Icons Info page. There are beautiful Christmas trees
,
and Santas
,
. Don't stay under the mistletoe for long
. Decorate the tree
,
and wrap your presents
.
Don't forget the
Icon Of The Day and a lot more reindeer
,
!
Shout Out! to
Lorraine of the Renegades from South Carolina, member since 2001, one of the true pioneers of GoldToken and the owner of The Renegades Club which started in 2001. Thank you, Lorraine, for being such a faithful member of GoldToken and providing players with many hours of fun and competition. and we're glad you continue to be a part of the GoldToken family!
Shout Out! to
lwmc from Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, member since 2001 and another true pioneer of GoldToken, joining in 2001. Competitive player in Chess with stats to show it. Love the pictures of you and Samantha in your album! Thanks for sharing! Thank you
lwmc for being such a dedicated member of GoldToken and we're glad you continue to be a part of the GoldToken family!
Shout Out! to
TedEBear from Lindsay, Ontario, member since 2000 and once again, another true pioneer of GoldToken.
TedEBear loves to help others learn new games on here. Proficient player of cribbage with stats to show it! Thank you for being such a faithful member of GoldToken and we're glad you continue to be a part of the GoldToken family.
"Take that you waskally wabit"
What dedication these pioneers have and made it possible for all of us to continue playing here because of their faithfulness. There are many other pioneers on here and for that, we thank each and every one of you!
Players randomly chosen for the Shout Out! section will receive one of the following tokens from GoldToken.
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| Brought to you by: GoldToken's Olympic Presidents |
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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 ? Our winner last month was **Lover of Darkness**. to her for spotting it and being the first to send a message to GoldToken's Newshound. 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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