From SkillAddiction.com:

Continuing to unleash new features into skill gaming, our latest feature appeals to both the cash player and regular member audiences. Founded on one of the most intuitive and exciting activities, seeking treasure, the Skill Addiction Treasure Hunt guides the player around the world in search for the day’s top prizes.
Player’s are presented with a global map featuring landmarks from around the world; including the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, The Great Pyramids, and more.

The objective is to get out your skill compass and navigate around the map to uncover treasure. With over 2700 prizes available, Skill Addiction players are finding buried treasure daily. Don’t think you have the intuition of finding the buried treasure in such an immense playing field? Trust in our handy guides which tell you how close you are to a prize and hone in on the area to locate that treasure!
Prizes refresh daily, meaning every day brings a brand new treasure hunt with all new prizes to be found. There is a wide range of prizes to be won, here are just a few;
- (5) 1,000 Skill Token Prizes
- (2) 1,500 Skill Token Prizes
- $25 Cash Prize
- $50 Cash Prize
- Robo Panda – A fun loving, curious robotic friend
- Voodoo Kit
- And thousands more, in fact, we are looking for the players to make suggestions on what they’d like to see in the Treasure Hunt. So if you have an idea, let us know!
Join in the fun with thousands of other Skill Addiction players and take your piece of the treasure. Hurry up though, there are people winning constantly.
Our top Treasure Hunter, Macnasty18, has won over 40,000 tokens and over $100! He will be Skill Addiction’s first 100,000 Skill Token player all thanks to Treasure Hunt. What can you do with that many tokens? That will get you a $250 Gift Card!

Take a break from the cash games and set out on a Treasure Hunt; it’s free, fun, and exhilarating.

Click here to get started with SkillAddiction!

 Shagwana is a top Bejeweled 2 player on WorldWinner.com and is arguably the most consistent in placing well in Daily specials for Bejeweled 2. He is also the writer of a gaming blog that covers skill games from time to time. Below is some advice he wrote on the forums for players looking to improve their gameplay in Bejeweled 2:

From my experience, BJ2 on WW is all about the hyper cubes - once you have them you it’s a matter of advancing through those levels as fast as you can.

My golden rules for top scores are:

• Use hypergems (5 in a row) as soon as they spawn, the only time to save them for the next level is; if you’re on level 1 and you have les then 50 points to go or on level 2 with 50 points left before level 3!
• explosive gems need to be destroyed as soon as possible, don’t let them linger as they decrease the chance of figuring out how to make 5 in a row
• Once you set off a hyper gem, the chances of making another hyper gem is greater ( 6 color gems on screen rather then 7)
• On WorldWinner, don’t make more then 3 hyper gems in any one level, there is a bug that crashes the game when you make the 4th.
• Aim#1 should be to advance through the levels as fast as possible - the higher the level, the more points you get per a gem = higher final score
• There are certain patterns you can use to increase the chance of getting 5 in a row - like drop ins from off board to fill the middle of 5!
• Some boards have hyper gems ‘given’ to you (1st move) learn to identify those optunitys quick!
• In a tournament, if someone else has scored 13k+, then you know there is at least one good board in that tournament - so try again you might strike it lucky
• Play with the sound on, so you know when you are running out of time.

Ready for some twists in skill gaming?  SkillAddiction.com is going to be changing things around. With more prizes for its gamers, and a constantly growing community, this is the new skill gaming site you need to check out. 

Here are a few awesome reasons to join up with SkillAddiction:

·         Enjoy first deposit bonuses! Your initial deposit is matched with a 100% bonus! Deposit $20 and receive $20 in bonus money!

·         Collect ‘Skill Tokens’ that can be redeemed for cash, gift cards, electronics, IPods, computers, and much more! Simply play the games to start collecting skill tokens!

·         We all know that the games are what matters – we all want quality games to play!  SkillAddiction is partnering with game developers who have made popular games and incorporating them as cash games.

o        You’ll be seeing more games being implemented at a faster pace, and there’ll be enough variety for everyone to find games to enjoy! 

o        If you are a game developer, this opens up a whole new market for your games! You’ll get more exposure for your work and among other perks. 

·         Don’t like going head to head?  You can enjoy instant cash tournaments, progressive jackpot tournaments, Trophy (bracket, or multi-level) tournaments, play against a larger pool of members, or challenge people in the community!

·         You no longer have to worry about winning 4/5 games just to maintain a profit. With us, your skill really earns you the cash!

So, what are you waiting for?  Come check out what SkillAddiction has to offer and you’ll end up becoming part of a new promising gaming community!

Yup, that’s right…! STAY TUNED AND CHECK THE FORUMS OFTEN FOR UPDATES AND MORE INFO!

Games N’ Roses is a new skill gaming platform released by Osmose Entertainment in late 2007, and is one of the best new skill gaming sites we’ve seen in a while. 

Games N’ Roses currently features 10 different games, many of which have a resemblance to games we already love (Bejeweled, 9 Ball Pool, and Mah Jong to name a few). What seperates Games N’ Roses from other skill gaming sites is that you can immediately start playing for money upon signing up, with no cash deposit needed! After you sign up and verify your e-mail, you can either go straight to the weekly Freeplay or you can compete for “stars”.

In Games N’ Roses, stars are a form of in-game currency that can be eventually redeemed for real cash. After verifying your e-mail, you’re given 100 free stars to start off with. After competing and winning in enough star tournaments, you’ll be able to change them into real cash and either make a withdrawal or compete against other players using real money. There’s no risk at all with trying out Games N’ Roses, go check it out and let us know what you think!

Your bag of tricks is disorganized, and it is time to work some magic! Connect the magician’s tools in long chains to restore the order. Special pieces will enable you to create wonderful wizardry, combining different items in a single chain!

There are three levels of increasing difficulty, and you need to match all pieces in order to proceed to the next level. This means that it is very important not to leave a single symbol of a type, since you won’t be able to match it and complete the level.

You can take a path outside the playing field if doing so will connect two pieces. This means that two pieces that are located on the same outer line in the beginning can be matched.

Here’s a high scoring game of Abracadabra played by Wolfgang5352. Enjoy!

From: http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=6660

While all eyes in the gaming community focus on next week’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), game lovers are amped for another reason: the winner of GSN and WorldWinner’s 2009 W3Games Solitaire Rush Tournament was announced. An early favorite to take the World Champion title, Boersma5 (aka Amy from East Lansing, Michigan), won it all due to her expert skill level and immense support from the WorldWinner player community. She did not disappoint, winning $30,000, the largest slice of the tournament’s $100,000 cash prize, and the growing respect of fellow WorldWinner competitors.

The 2009 W3Games kicked off a virtual spectator sport for the WorldWinner community. In the first tournament of the 2009 W3Games championship series, fellow players had the opportunity to watch the bracket pairings as the final rounds unfolded, participating in the competitive spirit and rooting for their favorite players even after their own elimination. A top scorer in Solitaire Rush, Amy took it upon herself to help her fellow cash gamers excel at the game she already knew best, by recording a video of herself playing so others could learn and, ultimately, succeed. As a result, she had a massive fan base as she closed in on the win.

“One of my favorite things about this first tournament was that everyone could enter, and a few unexpected players popped up and proved how their skills rivaled those of the finalists. You really never know when you’re going to surprise yourself and show that you are a champion,” said Amy. “I want to thank all of my WorldWinner friends for their support, and I encourage more people to enter the tournaments – you really can win big!”

After cruising through the qualifying round in second place, Amy went on to win all five “best of three” remaining bracket rounds. She thought she had it in the bag, but her final match was surprisingly close. Despite the heated competition, Amy took the first entry by one point and the second entry by 14 points, securing her position as the Solitaire Rush World Champion.

The 2009 W3Games are a year-long series of online game tournaments featuring four marquee titles – Solitaire Rush, Bejeweled 2, Wheel of Fortune and Big Money – each with a $100,000 prize pool. Powered by WorldWinner, a GSN-affiliated site and provider of online game competitions, the tournaments are designed to find the World’s best casual gamers.

With the excitement of the Solitaire Rush tournament still lingering, WorldWinner players are now practicing hard to vie for the crown in the next W3Games marquee tournament – Bejeweled 2, starting April 27.

What is Amy going to do with all the money? Well, she just bought a stick of lip balm today. SHE COULD BUY 30,000 STICKS OF LIP BALM IF SHE WANTED TO. If you have any questions for her, check out the forums and give her a holla! Feel free to give her a shoutout congrats as well!

The object of the game is to match the falling cards with the stock cards in the bottom as quickly as possible. If you are quick enough, you will be able to play several courses in a single game.

Four separate cards will always fall from above, and you match them by finding a card that is one value higher or lower, regardless of suit. Kings can be matched with Aces and Queens, so every card has two possible other cards that it can be matched with. Drag the card to the flag and release (you don’t need to drag it all the way up to the actual card).

You need to create a chain of cards that holds at least as many cards as the number of the flag before you can submit the chain. A chain is submitted if you click it without grabbing a card. If you create a chain that holds twice the amount of cards indicated on the flag, it will be submitted automatically.

The cards will fall more slowly after you have started matching them, but if you let one of them fall all the way down, the game will be over.

Anyhow, there’s a Top Winner Jackpot tournament going on in King.com for Bejeweled 2 where a couple players scored EXTREMELY high. Check this out:

Now, the 2nd place score alone would be considered VERY VERY impressive — I don’t think anyone’s scored higher than 31,160 more than 5 times EVER.

But take a look at the first place score. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY CRAP. 61,336 is a BEASTLY SUPER AWESOME score. I’d pay to see that game in action.

I managed to take a placing in this tournament with a respectable score of 24,719…not too impressive considering the top two scores, but hey — I’m guaranteed some prize money so I’m not complaining. Here’s my score captured in its full glory:

I wish I had the game recorded for you guys to see — but basically, on level 4 there’s this HUGE pile of silver gems that rain down. They’ll all connect together, turn into power gems, and then create a giant explosion of awesomeness. If you haven’t played in the Bejeweled Top Winner Jackpot, YOU MUST DO SO NOW. USE ALL 5 ATTEMPTS AND ACHIEVE GREATNESS. THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS FOR SCORING POTENTIAL.

That’s all I’ve got to say about today’s results in the Top Winner Jackpot. Do any of you guys have videos, pictures, or even stories to tell about some awesome scores you’ve hit on either King or WorldWinner? If so, we want to hear it! Visit our forums and share the love.

Peace out, and may the skill be with you!