Hi everyone!  Hope you’re enjoying the Labor Day holiday; we sure are!  We’re taking the day off and will return tomorrow.

Big Fish has put out the new September riddles for Riddle O’Day. We’ve posted the answers, thanks to the contributions of our loyal readers! Enjoy!

Big Fish has updated Unwell Mel with “Disease Pack #2″ — now all of you who have reached the maximum level in the game so far can cure new diseases up to level 115. If you have any hints or tips for this game or the new levels, feel free to post it here.

If you’re interested in helping Big Fish create the best possible games, consider signing up for their beta test program. Mind you, this isn’t all fun and games; you have to test games that might very well be broken, buggy, and crashing. You may be testing that aren’t finished at all and could be confusing. But in the end, you’ll be helping Big Fish with your suggestions and reports to create games that all of us will end up loving!

A funny little thing happened this morning in Riddle O’Day…

This unicorn (complete with painted toenails — yes, we’re looking at you vijay) came with 700,073 tokens instead of the usual 100,000. It was announced in chat that the unicorn was worth that many tokens as well. Anyone else experience this or a similar oddity?

Lure’s gotten into a rut. She’s been playing the same games every day for a few months and hasn’t re-visited games she used to play nor tried out a new game in a while. Help her out, give her a few suggestions by posting a comment:

Tell us about your favorite community game and why you love it so much.

(Here’s a direct link to the Community game list to refresh your memory, if needed.)

Big Fish Games has released the August riddles for Riddle O’Day and — although it took us longer than usual to get them to you — we’ve posted the new ones on our riddles and answers page. Also, we’ve archived last month’s riddles along with the others (links are at the bottom of the page). Enjoy!

The famous Riddle O’Day glitch is back today.  People are reporting being able to get more than one riddle/chest today by re-entering the room after they’ve already answered their riddle and received their chest.  As a result, people are getting a lot more tokens than usual.

Mind you, we’re pretty sure this violates the Terms of Service, so we warn you not to take advantage of this problem.  In fact, you may not even want to play Riddle O’Day at all today, because the shared room bonuses are coming quite often with all of those people taking advantage of the glitch and getting numerous chests.

A rumor we just heard: “you know they can see how many times you enter the room.  last time this happened they deducted 50,000 tokens from some people’s accounts”.  See, this is serious business people!

Update: Charlie (ION_Charlie) wrote in to let me know that taking advantage of the glitch is a clear violation of their terms of service and that the glitch was due to server upgrades (which were meant to fix the problems so they don’t happen again). –Lure

Thanks to Aardvark, we now have a great resource for Mouse Untrap solutions!  She and a few friends have put together screenshots of their solutions and have organized them by the starting location of the mouse:

Mouse Bottom
Mouse Top
Mouse Left
Mouse Right

If you want to submit your own screenshots to the growing collection, you may submit them via email to domme@comcast.net.  Aardvark requests that you please leave your screen shots at FULL SIZE so they are uniform when she puts them in the album.  (As far as how to take a screenshot, here’s a screenshot tutorial for PC users.)

Check out this interview with Rhonda, a Senior Game Artist at Big Fish Games.  She’s created the art we all know and love for Big Fish Slots, Petchu, Unwell Mel, Riddle O’Day, and L.O.B.E., and this interview gives us a glimpse into what her job is like.  Unfortunately she doesn’t give us any sneak peeks into upcoming games, except that she’d like to create one with bees sometime soon.

We’re so thrilled with our growing community — you guys have been busy helping each other out by providing hints for Ciphrase in this post.  We’ve compiled all of the answers — plus a bunch of our own — on our new Ciphrase Answers page.  If you have any more answers to contribute, feel free to leave a comment on this post.  Thanks!

Please only submit phrases you have seen in the game — all other submissions will be ignored.  If you have suggestions for Ciphrases that Big Fish may use in the future or for LOBE in general, contact Big Fish Games via email here.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE save us time and energy: check the master list for a Ciphrase before submitting it below.