Legal Online Horse Betting: The Skill Game of 2012
May 2, 2012
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With the Kentucky Derby right around the corner, all eyes will be on Louisville to watch the spectacle, the celebrities, and, of course, the “Greatest Two Minutes in Sports”. What you may not realize, however, is that you don’t have to be at the race to participate in a little of the action. In fact, Churchill Downs has its own legal online horse betting site–TwinSpires.com–that is backed by one of the biggest names in the horse racing industry, Brisnet.
If you’ve never wagered on a horse before, TwinSpires gives you all the information you need to make an educated and perfectly legal horse wager online. With the muscle of Brisnet’s huge statistical powerhouse, you’ll have past performance information, race stats, access to live racing footage, and several handicapping tools the moment you set up your account.
TwinSpires gives you full access across nearly every medium: phone, web, mobile, even television. You’ll have access not only for legal online horse betting in the 2012 Kentucky Derby, but also for races around the world.
Why are we writing about legal online horse wagering in a Skill Games blog? Because being able to read through statistics, see patterns, make reasoned decisions, and place educated bets is indeed a skill, not unlike those needed for Poker and Backgammon. True, legal online horse betting is also a kind of sports bet, except it’s one you can do from any allowed part of the country.
Whether you agree or disagree with our statement that legal online horse betting is the next big thing in Skill Games, we’d love to here from you. Let the discussion commence!
Game Colony Features the Pharoah’s Treasure Tile Game
March 2, 2011
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Play Pharoah’s Treasure for free at Game Colony and test your strategy in this collapsing, tile-swapping game of skill. The object of Pharoah’s Treasure is to score the most possible points by collapsing groups of three or more vertical or horizontal tiles.
What looks like a complicated Egyptian pastime is actually a game based in skill and strategy. To score the most points in the fewest amount of moves, players will need to collapse large numbers of similar tiles simultaneously. The more tiles collapsed, the more points scored, and the more opportunity for advancement and bonus tiles.
Bonus tiles become available after a certain level of points has been achieved. The multi-colored Pharoah symbol is the Universal Tile, which appears after getting 360 points. It can be used as a wild to form larger combinations of tiles. The Diagonal Tile appears after players achieve 540 points, and it can be used to swap tiles diagonally–up to three different times.
As a timed game, Pharoah’s Treasure requires concentration, strategy and skill. Once you’ve mastered these in Game Colony’s Free Pharoah’s Treasure game, you may want to up the ante and play in Pharoah’s Treasure tournaments, where you can put some money where your brain is. Get more details at Game Colony and see how your game stacks up against players around the world.
Play Dominoes Online For Cash
February 24, 2011
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Game Colony offers games of free dominoes online as well as opportunities to play in real cash online dominoes tournaments. As a game of skill, playing dominoes online for money does not constitute a form of online gambling, at least as far as the 1968 UK Gaming Act is concerned.
That being said, you should probably be familiar with the laws in your province, state, and household. You should also be familiar with the three variations of dominoes that Game Colony offers:
- Five-up Dominoes: Also referred to as All Fives or Muggins, Five-up Dominoes is a game where the first player to get to an agreed number of points using all o wins. Points are awarded throughout play when the exposed ends of a dominoes chain total a multiple of five.
- Draw Dominoes: In this dominoes game, points are awarded at the end of each hand (once the game completes because someone has either used all their tiles or the game is jammed in a no-win situation). As the name suggests, Draw Dominoes requires players to make a play at every turn, even if they have to keep drawing from the pile in order to finally do so.
- Block Dominoes: A version of Draw Dominoes, except without the draw. Play continues around each of the players until no player can make a move. Once play is stalled, points are tallied, with the person bearing the lowest dominoes total declared the winner.
Whether you are new to the game of dominoes or have played it for years, you can brush up on the rules and various skill game links at Game Colony’s Dominoes section. When you play dominoes online, you not only open the doors to relationships with other dominoes fans, you can increase your skill level, channel some creative energy, and engage in some healthy competition with players all over the world.
Game Colony also offers several other skill games like Cribbage, Chess, and Bridge.
Play Solitaire Games Online For Cash
January 19, 2011
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One may be the loneliest number, but it doesn’t have to be the poorest. Nor does it have to be bored. At online skill sites around the world, you can put your one-player skills to the test and play online games for money. Take a site like GameColony, for example. They take a game like solitaire and set up tournaments where entry fees create the total prize pool. Winners are determined by who can play the best game (by fewest moves, shortest time, etc).
Like many of Game Colony’s arcarde tournaments, it’s not about the random deck you’ve been given, it’s about the moves you skillfully make to get as close as possible to a win or a high score. And if your boredom at work has taught you anything, it’s that you definitely have it in you to play competitive online solitaire.
As each solitaire game online has its own nuances and rules, make sure to familiarize yourself with how a particular game is played before launching into a full scale tournament. This may seem silly, but when there’s money on the line, you would hate to be the easy out who wasted time by looking up the rules or quit because the software didn’t respond as you had anticipated.
Solitaire online games are just the beginning. Sites like Game Colony have a whole assortment of competitive games like Aqua-Rush, BuckMan, Mahjong, and FreeCell; all games you love, and all games that can carry their own weight in prizes.
Put your boredom to good use! Play free games you love for the cash you crave at online skill sites, like Game Colony. And when you’re done, we’d love to get your feedback on the experience!
Kick off 2011 with $5 and Newbie Rummy Tourneys
January 7, 2011
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Learning how to play Rummy online isn’t hard to do. There are tons of resources available, in fact, we have a great snapshot of the game in our Gin Rummy tutorial. The truth of the matter is, however, that you must play the game to become better at the game. And you know how it is–you can find plenty of people who would love to come together to play a little Texas Hold’em at your place, but mention Gin Rummy and their eyes glaze over.
It’s true, Gin Rummy is not the high school quarterback of skill games. It doesn’t date the cheerleader or wear a Prom King crown. This doesn’t mean it’s not awesome. It just means it’s the type of game that requires some homegrown personality and a little grassroots marketing. It’s that quirky skill game that everyone wishes they knew better–just like that shy girl in homeroom you always knew was a knockout beneath those black-rimmed glasses.
If you play in online gin rummy tournaments, you open up a great opportunity to meet and play against people all over the globe, making the world seem smaller one online Gin Rummy tournament at a time.
How to play in online rummy tournaments, you ask? Simple. Go to Rummy Royal at the link below and check it out. They’ll even give you $5 free, no deposit required, just to have a look at the place and get a feel for it. If you like it enough to deposit, you’ll get a 100% match of whatever money you put in, up to $200. AND you’ll get a chance to play in exclusive New Depositor tournaments so you can learn the ropes at a slower speed.
Whether you learned to play rummy online or at home with friends and family, you have an opportunity at Rummy Royal to keep working at this entertaining game and maybe even spin a profit from it. And really, what isn’t great about that?
