Tanya's+Card+&+Board+Games

Sites I've been looking at: [] http://www.cms.playcatan.com/content/view/137/59/lang,en_US/ http://games.yahoo.com/card-games

I've been playing Blackjack online: http://casino.bodog.com/free-blackjack.jsp The site allows you to play for free, or pay to become a member. Since I'm not that skilled at Blackjack (yet ;D) I've just been playing for free. I don't have a lot of the "insider" skills when it comes to gambling, but hopefully I'll learn something through my time on the site.

Here are some screenshots of my first game:



So Blackjack proved to be unsuccessful. I got very bored, very quickly and I needed to find something with a little more excitement. So I went to pogo.com and created a free account so I could play Monopoly online. The game is very similar to the real life version, but it goes by much faster. Instead of playing until someone goes bankrupt or forfeits, you play for a certain number of turns and then a winner is calculated based on net worth. Here are a couple of screen shots of my first game:



I ended up taking 3rd place - but I was the "Quickest turn-taker" :) Also, throughout the game I earned 270 tokens. I'm not quite sure what they are used for, but that brings my total to 10,270. A couple of things I noticed during the game: - even though the "speedy dialogues" was activated, no one used it - you can come and go as you please (miller1739 was there for my entire game, but computer 1 and computer 2 had a total of 4 different players join/leave) - there didn't seem to be any tension between players, or community standards that included/excluded anyone - it is not a high concentration game, you can play while watching a movie & not get confused

I found out that tokens can get me free stuff for my avatar in the Mini Mall! Here is my newly dressed/prepped avatar: Super cute, right?! Yeah ... I thought so too ...

Other than that, game play has pretty much remained the same. People are still avoiding the "chat" feature, and no one has tried to be my friend yet. But I've discovered a way to get more token, more quickly. Individual player games. So, good news, I'm getting better at Poppit! :) And here people actually utilize the "chat." Poppit! is an individual player game, but you can chat with others who are playing the same game as you, but in different locations. I suppose this somewhat increases the community feel of the site, but not by a lot. The closest friends I've made are the cute characters that bid me a du after I sign out of my account: Goodbye friends! I'll see you soon ...