DECEMBER 2006
| Introduction |
Greetings everyone! Welcome to our final newsletter of the 2006 year! As the months quickly fly by, we can already find ourselves crossing off days in the final month of the year, December! This month is always exceptionally important and special for many people around the entire world. As the year starts to wind down and everyone is celebrating their cherished and special occasions with family and friends, we would just like to take this moment to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas as well as a Happy Hanukkah, Bodhi Day, Eid-ul-Adha and Kwanzaa!
GoldToken Support and our entire staff, want to thank all of you for being a part of our site and for becoming a special addition to our extended family! Please take care this holiday season and remember to join us here as often as you can!
** Happy Holidays Everyone! ** 
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In this month's newsletter, we have:
- Site News
- Birthdays & Special Announcements
- Badger's Monthly Message
- Kran's Tournament News
- Tournament Play Etiquette
- Special Edition: Story Of The Month
- Locker n Rocker Room Newsletter Game
- Random Trivia Announcement
- Newsletter Picture Hunt
- Puzzles-N-Riddles
- Olympic Asian African & Australiasia Club
- Testimonial Of The Month
- A Special Poem To Be Shared!
| Site News |
A big high five and thumbs up go to the programming of our newest game creations that arrived last month! GoldDots, with it's variations of MiniDots and Small GoldDots, along with Rock Paper Scissors have been a successful hit among us here in GoldToken Land! Be sure to stay tuned for the arrival of more new game additions to our site, as you just never know when one of them will pop up!
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Due to child endangerment, GoldToken Support has had to create a new rule pertaining to any online social networking services such as, but are not limited to; MySpace, Yahoo360 and YouTube. Sites containing personal spaces, blogs or video along these lines will no longer be allowed to be posted or advertised anywhere in GoldToken. This means; profiles, discussion boards or wikis, containing these types of links will need to be removed. While Management realizes it may seem unfair to some players, we have found it extremely necessary to enforce this rule due to safety reasons. These types of sites, attract many under-age kids who want to be part of the "scene", but due to the extreme dangers that are involved with sites like these, it is in the best interest of all children playing here, not be exposed to these types of links or sites. It is imperative that all children are as protected as they can be while playing online. Police and educators have found it necessary to hold classes and seminars about these types of personal spaces, and similar venues, warning parents and children that child predators are at work at such sites. These sites contain very personal information and is readily available to anyone of any nature. Not only do these online social networking services put many children at serious risk every day, but the links also expose many other inappropriate text, forums, photos or videos connected to one space alone. These additional links definitely do not meet GoldToken's policies or rule guidelines for it's family based site. Players who have these types of social personal web site links created and listed on their profiles, or somewhere else in GoldToken, are asked to please remove them right away. GoldToken Support would like to thank everyone for their full support and cooperation in keeping our children safe, as well as free from viewing any inappropriate material from these kind of sites!
Olympic News
If you missed this news on your game sheet, then be sure to catch it here! GoldToken Olympics are starting up again, so be sure to join one of the club regions listed below that suits you!
The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Apollo Club
{ Club }
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The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Minerva Club
{ Club }
The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Vulcan Club
{ Club }
The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Ceres Club
A list of Olympic games can be found at The Olympic Club Presidents Club.
Don't delay, sign up today, as the games will start to get underway sometime in February 2007! See you there!
 | Birthdays & Special Announcements |  |
Birthday Wishes:
-- Happy 14th Birthday to Baby Ice Princess on December 1st! - Love from your mom, *Ice Princess*
-- Happy Birthday to macbann on December 4th!
-- Happy Birthday to Cutie Patootie on December 6th!
-- Happy Birthday to Feaster on December 9th!
-- Happy Birthday to TypeOMarty on December 9th!
-- Happy Birthday to Senorita ZORRO_ on December 11th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Ghostrider1 on December 11th!
-- Happy Birthday to Sea Breeze on December 11th!
-- Happy Birthday to darn on December 13th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to GUMMY on December 17th!
-- Happy Birthday to murrsquito on December 17th!
-- Happy Birthday to Peg on December 17th!
-- Happy 41st Birthday to Pegasus on December 18th!
-- Happy Birthday to deinerwon on December 18th! - From HeartOnFire
-- Happy Birthday to bxlines_babydoll on December 18th!
-- Happy Birthday to Tlingit on December 19th! - From The MasterClass Club
-- Happy Birthday to N_a_z on December 19th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Lady Butterfly on December 20th!
-- Happy Birthday to Lady Sili on December 20th!
-- Happy Birthday to Jane on December 21st!
-- Happy Birthday to HeatherN on December 21st!
-- Happy Birthday to AZD159 on December 23rd!
-- Happy Birthday to Withacee on December 23rd!
-- Happy Birthday to sallyp on December 24th!
-- Happy Birthday to ontherocks on December 26th!
-- Happy Birthday to striker2 on December 27th!
-- Happy Birthday to klaashaas on December 28th! - From { Club }!
-- Happy Birthday to eliphont551 on December 29th!
-- Happy Birthday to mahogany on December 30th!
-- Happy Birthday to sharkbite on December 30th!
-- Happy Birthday to * Sassy_Angel * on December 31st! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Slowgamer on December 31st!
-- Happy Birthday to nylady41 on December 31st!
-- Happy Birthday to RamblinMan on December 31st!
-- Happy Birthday to WoodToken Queen on December 31st!
-- Happy Birthday to Jools on December 31st!
Anniversary & Other Wishes:
-- Happy 10th Wedding Anniversary
goes out to Pegasus and her husband on December 14th! Many special wishes sent to you both! -- { Club } would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays!
* 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!)
| Monthly Message from Badger |
I know it is a repeat, but if you want a copy of GoldToken's 2006 Year Book *"Memories of Gold",* please contact Sondra. She is also taking contributions of player stories, club news, remembrance, favorite recipes, pictures, and poetry. You have your choice of a professionally bound soft cover book, CD or DVD. Please note: Bound copies will only be available between now and the end of December, but the CD and DVD will be available for a few months into 2007.
The gift giving season is well underway here at GoldToken. If you are planning on sending something special from the GoldToken Store, now is the time to ensure your gift can be received before the 25th.
The Olympics give a chance for the world's nations to set aside their differences and have fun. We have a brotherhood here at GoldToken not found anywhere else online. And our GoldToken Olympics are much the same when the world's finest gamers from countries all around the world gather to play. A world of fun playing games in a unified challenge. If there's one thing more important in the GoldToken Olympics than winning, it's remembering why we're here in the first place. I hope everyone is looking forward to the exciting challenge as much as I am!
--Badger
| Tournament News by Kran |
- See the tournament sign up page here: http://www.goldtoken.com/games/tournaments?toc=F
- For December, 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!!
- When playing in tournaments, make sure you read our Tournament and Ladder Rules and Provisions Page for all pertinent rules concerning tournament play.
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!
Thank you for participating in our site tournaments!
- Kran -
| Tournament Play Etiquette by 39289 |
There have been a few instances brought to Abuse Manager's attention lately involving tournament play that require we remind everyone of Tournament play etiquette and policy. In several tournament rounds recently players have resigned games when there was still a fairly reasonable chance that they could have still won the game, albeit with some lucky rolls but certainly not out of the realm of possibility. One game for example was a backgammon game where one player had cleared off 6 stones and the other only 1, and were just a couple of doubles would have easily put the downside player right back in the game. The player resigned however. This caused the winning player to advance to the next round alone. A loss would have thrown the tournament into a tie and other players would have advanced to the next round. This was not really fair to the others in the round who were rooting for the leader too lose a game.
Point being, that for fair play and to make the tournaments fun for everyone, we would really like to see you play out games as long as there is still a chance of winning while playing in tournament match play. Please try to keep this in mind if you are a tournament player.
On another note, please remember that you must get management permission to offer or accept a draw during match play in site sponsored tournaments.
Thank you
39289
| SPECIAL Edition - Story Of The Month |
A GOLDTOKEN ROMANCE! When Badger asked me if I would like to write an article on how my husband and I met, I jumped at the chance to let everyone know, and also to say how much I like GoldToken. It is my favorite game site.
Sir Silver of the GoldTable was using the name "Airborne" when we met on line. I was fascinated by the name, so I invited him to play a game. I thought he was a military man. I was a military woman in the States, and I thought we would have some good stories to tell about our experiences. As it turned out, it was his cat's name. It had taken a flying leap off a 6th floor balcony, hence the name Airborne. We started talking using the games' message boxes, and found out we had similar values. I was a widow of almost two years at that time, and was going through some serious bouts of depression. Just talking to him helped me, and one night he asked if he could call me, so I gave him my phone number. Sir Silver was single and was lonely for female company, and when he called me the first time I knew that he was the man I wanted for my soul mate! I was working then and had to be at work at 6 a.m.; this was in Florida. There were times when he would call me around midnight and we would talk until around 4 or 4:30 and then I would have to get ready for work at six. We had so much in common that we decided we should meet. Sir Silver said he would come to Florida. He firmly believed it was the guy's place to go to the gal, and not the other way around. He had sent me a picture of himself by e-mail, but I couldn't send him one. I was using Web-TV back then, and didn't have a way to send one. So--he got into his trusty Oldsmobile and drove over 1300 miles in three days - from Toronto to Lakeland, Florida to see me. We got along from the first day we met, which was March 3, 2002. He stayed in Florida for three weeks, during which time he proposed to me and bought my rings. We got married on July 1, 2002 [Canada Day] in his daughter's back yard. His sister, who is a minister, married us and I asked his oldest daughter to be my Matron of Honor.
Thanks to GoldToken, I have found my soul mate, my love, my life.
Lady Silver
| Locker-n-Rocker Room Trivia |
| Brought to you by: The Locker Room Crew |
November 2006 Music Trivia Answers
1. WHAT IS If You Want It To Be Good Girl (Get Yourself A Bad Boy)
2. WHAT IS Every move that your body makes, Only makes me want you more
3. WHAT IS Anywhere For You
4. WHAT IS Never thought that I'd be left behind
5. WHAT IS Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
This Month's Winners Are:
TN-T - 1st place
Saphfyre - 2nd place
Chutzpah - 3rd place
If your name is mentioned above as a winner, please send the Locker Room Crew a message with your name and address to collect your prize. Thank you for playing!
TIS the SEASON to be JOLLY!
December is upon us.. This month the Locker-n-Rocker Room Brings HOLIDAY CHEER to end the year.. WHAT is the Name of the Song !!!!
- All answers must be PRIVATE MESSAGED directly to the Locker Room Crew.
- Only one private message from each player is allowed. Any more than one will not be accepted.
- Please place in the subject line: December Trivia.
- All answers are to be submitted IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION. (EXAMPLE: WHO IS OR WHAT IS).
- Answers that are not in question form will not be accepted.
- Answers will be accepted until 9pm on the 15th of December.
- Answers posted on the Discussion Board will not be accepted.
December 2006 Questions:
1. In Bethlehem, in Israel,This blessed Babe was born.
2. Feed the world,Let them know it's Christmastime again.
3. And so I'm offering this simple phrase, To kids from one to ninety-two,
4. What a bright time, it's the right time,To rock the night away
5. It doesn't show signs of stopping, And I brought some corn for popping
To end the year, the Locker-N-Rocker room brings an EXTRA TREAT SCRAMBLER!
1. TERINW DRWNEODALN
2. PU NO HET SEOTOPUH
3. PELES LEWL TLEILT NERDHCIL
Happy Holidays!
-- Locker Room Crew
| Random Trivia Announcement |
| Brought to you by: Allison |
If you read the boards on a regular basis, you'll notice that every now and again for the past 6 months or so, you'll see some Random Trivia questions appear on different discussion boards all over GoldToken. If you would like to win a GoldToken
then all you have to do is be the first player to post the correct answer, and as long as you haven't won in that particular month already, a could be winging its way to you! It's that simple! 
Gifts can be anything from Bic style pens to Post-it notes. Every month we try to be different. Congratulations to ALL the Random Trivia winners of the year, (so far)!
- From April - fatdaddy, boop2004, Nancy, MontainMist, Nan51, SarahMills, Aphrodite, joannamarie, Rose of Sharon, SassyAngel.
- From May - boop2004, superkaempe the gentle giant, Aphrodite, numptieheid c'mon the Scots!, grade1teacher, Silkwood, Buz, Mr Blue Sky, llwgirl, EagleOne and ponygirl.
- June brought us even more winners, SarahMills, Buz, Aphrodite, Judy, llwgirl, yayamom, dgb, Rose of Sharon, MountainMist, ponygirl, Plunky, Sondra and LA Linda.
- July and holiday time - MountainMist, llwgirl, Judy, Monkeytyper and Aphrodite.
- August didn't stop the usual suspects - llwgirl, Buz, dawn1968, Aphrodite, SarahMills and yayamom.
- September and only 2 winners that month - Buz and MountainMist were the winners!
- October, we had new blood - Robyn Hode, Sir Tytalus of the GoldTable Karen Q, Buz, Aphrodite, SarahMills and Judy.
If you look on my profile, you'll notice that I did not do any Random Trivia for November, but that I have something a l'il bit special for December, so keep watch!
p.s. Just for the guests in Goldtoken, a
could be winging its way to you if you can get just 1 of these questions correct! Rules for this special Christmas random trivia are:
1: You can only enter if you are a guest
2: Answers to Allison by message only.
3: In the subject line the number of the question you are answering
4: You can only win 1
in this special Christmas RT 5: No correspondence will be entered to
6: The answer I have is the only one to be accepted.
& 
Here's the questions, all Christmas related
1: In the 1964 classic Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, what was the name of the elf that wanted to be a dentist?
2: What was Rudolph's father's name?
3: What was the name of the coach of the Reindeer Games?
4: What is the name of the rabbit in the magic hat in Frosty the Snowman?
5: What was the little girl in Frosty the Snowman's name?
6: What does Alvin want for Christmas in The Chipmunk Song?
7: It would of been a laugh to see Mommy doing what last night?
8: In the song "Winter Wonderland", who do we pretend the snowman is?
9: Where in the world would I be if I called Santa:
(a) Jultomten?
(b) Jouluvana?
(c) Kaledu Senu?
& Allison
| Newsletter Picture Hunt |
Hooray! to November's Logo winners!! The winners are:
1) violet unicorns
2) SarahMills
3) Buz
4) Nancy
5) Irishrose
6) Honeybear
7) pepperbeach
8) Nan54
9) Sondra
10) butterfly
11) gingerbread gurlie
This months treasure hunt is December Decorations. Be among the first ten players to find all 12 GoldToken Logos hidden among player's profiles - each featuring the GoldToken horse with a home improvement theme. A special thanks to firefly for providing our GoldToken logo with this wonderful fun adventure!!
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):
Kreator
tyshy4me
Unique1
ST GEORGE OF ENGLAND
Angel Baby
mugglewump
Mecir
Man of Steel
mahogany
Lil Red
Just a Sweetheart
hANDYman the Rebel
Thank you to all 12 players for allowing us to borrow your profiles for this fun hunt!
Each treasure hunt player who has not won the treasure hunt contest in the last 6 months, that finds all 12 wins one of the new GoldToken Embroidered Patches!! Best of all, guests that find all 12 will win a 2 month silver membership!
Everyone can play! Guests included! Once you have found all 12, message Contest Director with Profile Treasure Hunt in the subject line. Good luck!!
* Note: sharing the logo locations before the contest ends disqualifies you. So please play fair.
| 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 month, we have a tricky puzzle stumper! So get your drawing fingers working and show us your answer on the discussion board!!
This Months Puzzles-N-Riddle is:
Question: I have 12 trees and need to plant them in 6 rows, with 4 trees in each row, how can I do this?
What is the answer to this puzzle? (Remember to post your answers only on the discussion board!)
and everyone! to last months winner: gunther mcbride!!! Well done! -- Contest Director
| *The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Apollo Club* |
The The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Apollo Club is looking for more members to play in the GoldToken 2007 Olympics!! You do not need to be Asian, African or Australian to join. If you are not already in the Olympics & have a GoldToken Silver membership or above & want to have fun and play games, this is the place to be. If you don't have the necessary membership, message me and I will arrange for you to start with a two month silver membership to get you started in the The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Apollo Club team. Now is the time to join the Olympics!
Please join now!Thanks eliphont551
| Testimonials Of The Month |
A friend had asked me to come play some games with her here on GoldToken. It wasn't long and others were inviting me to games, some had to teach me games I never played, and we would chat. I feel welcome here. Then GoldToken offered the "join the Guest Club with a free 60 day silver membership". I decided to join so I could see more of the site and play more games. I was having so much fun, but due to health problems and not working right now I couldn't afford to join and my time as a silver member was running out. I was
but then a member stepped forward and I guess you can say adopted me (can I call them mom or dad now?), they gave me another 6 month membership. 
I decided to join a couple clubs. One of them is The Gammon Addicts Club . I am having a blast in that club, the games never end, one finishes and another starts right away. Everyone I have played with in that club has been great. Sondra is the club owner. She asked me if I'd like to be club vice president. Wow, more fun!
... I also belong to { Club }, { Club } , The SweetHeart's Club and { Club } now!GoldToken, from what I have seen runs a clean site, and I want to thank them for that. It is the only game site I play on now.
to GoldToken, my adopted new parent, and all the players for having a wonderful place to come to relax and enjoy.~~laura lee - a.k.a Laura
* Would you like to make your affection for GoldToken known? Please send your testimonials or any other material submissions to GoldToken Support for possible inclusion in future editions.
| A Special Poem To Be Shared! |
| Brought to you by: Sondra |
I would like to thank im_larry_boy for writing a great poem for me on my birthday. I would also like to share it with everyone.
It's Sondra's New Year!
‘Twas the night before Sondra’s birthday, when all through GoldToken,
She checked every wiki, to see if they were broken.
The next rounds to start were all posted with care,
In hopes that game numbers would be entered there.
The players were all nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of mailed prizes danced in their heads.
With InvaderZiM watching challenges, and Laura watching the boards,
Sondra knew Gammon Addicts was safe from the hordes.
When out in Halma Alley there arose such a clatter,
Sondra sprung to her keyboard to see what was the matter.
Opening new windows, she looked over club members,
And was shocked to see so many she hardly remembers.
The list rambled on like a list of Who’s Who,
And she saw so many new games, she didn't know what to do.
When, what to her wondering eyes should appear,
But Larry Boy posting “It’s Sondra’s New Year!”
More rapidly members were all posting the same,
When Badger came on and called out to her by name.
“On Gammon Addicts, On Halma Alley, On Members Living With Christ,
On Guest Club we're all here, are you surprised?”
Sondra looked around and no players were griping,
And new games were getting created as fast as monkeytyper was typing.
Bit-O-Honey was announcing the latest Club match,
When she noticed the fresh chocolate chip cookie batch.
Ponygirl exclaimed, “We know you like these the best!
Now just put your feet up, this is your day of rest.”
And there, CATCHER211 was playing just fine,
So Sondra wished her, “Good luck, break a… never mind.”
A knock on the door, and the doorbell rang, too,
Who else walks in, but heyred72!
BlueJeans followed, carrying armloads of presents,
Given by all who have appeared in her presence.
Last but not least, came out Norman the sage,
Who promised to Sondra not to reveal her age.
He said, “Oh Sondra, your beauty’s divine,
No one can tell that you are forty-nine!”
Her friends gathered around, their spirits all soared,
Their voices rung out, speaking all in one accord,
“Sondra, we came here with one thing to say,
It’s our wish to you: Have a Happy Birthday!”
Brian, You are such a great writer! I would also like to thank everyone for the birthday wishes. Everyone made my day the best!
Sondra 
| Wanted |
- 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!
** (Please note: All submissions are added on a first come first serve basis.) **
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