With all of the changes that are coming to the Game Community and the numerous game redesigns, Riddle O’Day is getting an upgrade! It’ll have ranks and yes, new creatures! Check out these screenshots:
The game play is the same — start the game, find the leprechaun, answer her riddle, and then wait for creatures to appear. The good news is that the creatures come far more often and all of them (even the wisps and fairies) make noise to alert you to their presence. Here are the token values for some of the items (of course, this is subject to change before the release date):
Wisp: 20 tokens
Fairy: 30 tokens
Brownie: 40 tokens
Gnome: 80 tokens
Dryad: 100 tokens
…and more, including a 4,000 token Fairy King!
Here’s what a brownie looks like:
And a dryad:
And a Fairy King:
You’ll be ranking up in the game based on the number of tokens you earn, so you’ll want to stay in the forest to find those new creatures!
There are also what appear to be daytime and nighttime forest views (that change as you play). Having played the from nighttime into daytime and back again, I can tell you that it can get pretty dark, but the creatures I found stood out enough and the sunrise was FANTASTIC to watch. Very cool.
Filed under: Coming Soon/Rumors, Riddle O'Day
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looks nice lure do you know when the new site will be up
or will they surprise us one day it is down and come back up to the new site
seems like all the games are getting ranks good so do you know anything about team bingo ranks
hi dee! i’m assuming there will be clues on the beta site that it’s ready to go. still, the ’scorecard’ and ‘trophies’ sections of the new site haven’t been completed yet. once those are done, i’ll be watching closely to see if we can guesstimate a release date. :)
team bingo hasn’t popped up on the new site yet, but as i said in another comment earlier, plunder and suits me canfield will get an update, but i haven’t had time to post about them yet.
thank you lure keep us posted
Lure everything sounds wonderful. Didn’t know till now a site was comming thats awesome. Any chace we will see badges with game ranks.
ty lure
buti hope it wont give us the problems we been having playing here
joyce
another new update , woww hope they are going to all be available soon – been waiting a long time for thunderbolt and the others already promised
awesome lure are the new changes going to be free to all or is some going to be for paid members only just wondered i think the changes are going to be awesome and the new website sounds like fun thanks lure for the news i look everyday to see if you have updated it
The updated game looks beautiful, and the new creatures are a fun and much needed addition, as is the fresher background to give us all something newer to look at, but the paltry amount offered in tokens now make it hardly worth staying around for long. I’d guess the low amounts will make the game less popular despite the new fancy bells and whistles after the first rush of new shiny game wears off.
I notice they have decreased the tokens won for everything. Why am I not surprised?
Lure, I am so excited! The new Riddle O’Day background is going to be great. TY TY TY
Sweething: I think they’ll be for everyone, but don’t quote me on that. :)
To those of you worried about the low token amounts for creatures: there are so many of them popping up all the time, you’ll be getting more tokens than you ever got with the original!
when is this going to happen……. soon I hope
Bigfish,
The improvements look great for Riddle! Just a suggestion: the new creatures look great. But there is such a wide gap between the 20,000 for FQ and 100000 for Uni. Could you have a few inbetween those, maybe one for 35,000, 50,000, and 75,000? Perhaps sprites, elves, trolls? Of course, these wouldn’t pop up as often. Just a thought.
Thank you,
NashvilleBelle
another question….do you have to be a member in order to enjoy the new upgrade or will it be open for everyone to enjoy?
clogger: check out my comment, 3 up from this one. :)
tyvm lure your doing an awesome job with site so glad your here
I wonder how one gets chosen to try out these new games. Could you enlighten me? Thank you for your time.
Jean: I think all paid subscribers got an email a few months ago with information about and access to the beta site, but I’m not sure. I *think* I got an invitation early because of my site, but I could be wrong on that. I deleted the invitation letter a long time ago, so I can’t remember if it was personalized or just a form letter.
By request, here’s a picture of the nighttime forest:
http://www.bigfishgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/nighttimeforest.png
There was a rumor going around that there was a unicorn with purple hoofs worth 300,000 is there any turth to this.
tweetybirdfly: as you can see from the 3rd screenshot up there, the regular 100,000 token unicorn has purple hooves. :) So, there was no truth to that, it was just a rumor.
Lure, is it true that there is going to be a Troll in Riddle O’Day that is going to be worth 1,000,000 tokens? That is the rumor.
Anna: that seems far-fetched to me! Rumor, I’m guessing. Big Fish would never give away that many tokens, they hardly give out the possible 200,000 they claim for treasure chests!
I`ll belive it when I see it.
i am a paying member and i dont think i received any email from bigfish about looking at the new beta site but then i am in australia and i am not sure if only american people were invited.
Thank you so much. GREAT
In looking at the night time scene I see the screen is bigger. Will that be the size of the screen. It would be nice to see bigger screens in a lot of the games.
Hi Molly! Yes, all of the games are *bigger*. I didn’t resize the nighttime scene, but it’s slightly smaller than the actual game as I took a pretty quick and dirty screenshot and didn’t try to crop too close to the edges of the window.
I’ll see what I can do to put together a post that will show the new game windows and their new size.
Hi,
I, too am a paying member, and can’t get onto the beta site. I did ask BF why in a message, and should hear soon. Will come back and post. Jackdragon, don’t feel alone, just because you are in Australia!
Happy Trails,
HorseDancer
Hi Lure, Just want to thank you for the update on Riddle O Day!! It’s nice to know that all our ‘whining’ has paid off. lol Sounds like they took some of the suggestions to heart.
I myself am looking forward to the changes. The new view looks wonderful and the nighttime screen I can’t wait to see. The addition of more critters is good so as now not to get as bored waiting. When I get bored I write small poems to keep chat room amused !! lol Maybe now I can give it a rest. Hve written almost 50 now…..just to make ppl laugh. Sounds like I may not need to anymore if the critters show up as often as you say.
Pls keep us up to date on any further developments as we are looking forward to seeing new changes to the game
Thank you again, Mah
same here…i never recieved an email about a beta site!!!and i love beta testing.
Wish I could get on a beta site too. I am a member but never was invited. I have been invited to do various other surveys and stuff, just not that. Would sure love to though. You know, last year about this time Big Fish Games rolled out new game after new game and it was GREAT! I can hardly wait until the new updates and site improvements start showing up. Every morning when I go to the site I have my fingers crossed that this will be the lucky day it starts. And Lure, you are doing a great service to give us all a forum to talk about all this and to share all the info you know about. It’s greatly appreciated! I check your site several times a day to see if there is anything new.
re: Beta testing: hey, I just *thought* all members were invited — apparently I was wrong. So, I’m not sure how or why people were invited to beta, but I can tell you it’s a small pool of people. There’s never more than 5-6 people online at any given time that I’ve seen.
Debi: thanks! I still have more posts to write in my mental queue, so thanks for visiting and hopefully there will be more to read in the near future.
just want to say thanks lure and debi for clearin that up for me hagd and gl
im a paying member too and I didn’t get any email asking to try out the new Riddle game……………..sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
is there a link to the beta site?????? If so Lure could you please let us know
clogger: Sorry, I can’t give that out. :)
no problem lure….thanks anyway…………..
I sent an email about the beta testing. They told me they randomly chose testers from their members.
I am really looking forward to the new riddle.I have been playing now for almost 12 mths. and have made some awesome friends.1 thing though…..Will the rooms still be the same names? ty for a great game
Thanks lindaridder! That clears things up a lot.
Hi,
I too, wrote and whined a bit about the beta testing. They said they choose randomly. They send out requests from the people who get their daily news letter. I get the daily news letter, and was not invited. And if you aren’t invited, you can’t access the site. Someone gave me the address and I tried to access it. You get a very cute page that says “No Access” and suggests that you go play games with a link to the game community.
One real problem for me on the current game is hearing the rustling. I have a slight hearing loss, and if I turn the sound up enough to hear the rustling that indicates creatures, the other sounds hurt my ears.
Could you please comment on that when you turn in your review for big fish??
It would make me so happy to hear the creatures in the forest! lol
Thanks so much – love your site
HorseDancer
Hey HorseDancer: you won’t have a problem with the new game. There are no ‘ambient’ forest noises. There is, however, a thunderstorm that rolls through every once in a while, in addition to the fact that every creature now makes rustling noises. I suspect it’ll be a lot easier on your ears, though, without the background noises.
how does one get the daily news letter emailed to them? Where do you sign up
Hi Clogger, that question’s been asked before in the comments of another post (or two, or three), but every time I go in search of a link or an answer, I come up emptyhanded. At this point, I’m just going to throw my hands up in frustration.
Maybe someone else here has insight?
Thank you so much for the new scenes and and more creatures that show will up faster. I had almost stopped playing the game because it was so boring. I’m sure I’ll like the ranking system too. Way to go.
COOOL CHANGE IS NICE. CANT WAIT.
Hi guys! I heard from Big Fish Games today and here’s what they have to say:
Here’s hoping you all get beta invites soon! <3
There are two newsletters available. I am signed up for both. One is called ‘Daily Game Rush’ and comes every day of the week, even weekends. It focuses on the Onine Games Section (not Games Community) of the site. To sign up for this one click on the Online Games tab and it’s on the main page at the bottom left side of the screen. The other newsletter is called ‘Games Splash’ and comes every couple days or so, and mainly features their Download Games. They state on their site that people are automatically signed up for this newsletter when they “create an account using their email address” and they offer no way to sign up for the newsletter serperately, only to unsubscribe if so desired. I know of no newsletter for strictly for the Games Community section, though I wish like anything there was one because I would most definately subscribe! Hope this helps.
It was posted in December that there were to be changes to several games. These changes have not happened yet. When do you forsee the change for Riddle to actually take place.
Thanks Debi! The problem is that there *is* one for the GC section, but I have yet to find a direct, linkable way to sign up. In fact, I can’t even remember how I got myself signed up for it. In addition, it’s totally unreliable — one week I’ll get one, and the next I won’t; and I know for a fact that one went out. *boggle*
Molly: it’s going to be *a while*. I can’t put a timeline on it because I’m not familiar with BFG’s development cycle enough to say. They aren’t going to put a pinpoint on a date because there are always hitches in software development lifecycles. It’s just the way things go. If you can just find patience (and perhaps a little comfort in what I can post and show you) it’ll be worth it, trust me.
Hi, i just played in Riddle and someone said that we will lose any tokens that we have gotten from the game when you go to play the upgrade. Is there any truth to this. A few people have said they will not play it if it is true.
Barb: you’ve got to be kidding me. Of course you won’t lose your tokens; people are just spreading rumors to stir people up.
thanks Debi for the info. The 2nd newsletter you talk about wherein you said we are supposed to automatically sent one ….I have never received it. Anyway I am going to get the first one you talk about that is on the On Line Games Main Page. Again, thanks
Thank you for getting back to me. I didn’t think you could or would do that. But so many people wanted to know for sure that they would not lose their tokens
re Barbs comment I think what some people were hoping for was all the tokens they have already won in Riddle to be counted towards the ranks – I very much doubt that as BFG probably dont know what we have won just in that game
Charlie: ahh! Yeah, I’d assume everyone is going to start at the first rank. The ranks advance pretty quickly, though. :)
I got signed up for the Games Community newlsetter by sending an email to Big Fish Games customer support. So anyone who wants to subscribe to that one, there is the way to do it. If enough people ask I am sure they will add a link to do it directly from that section of the site. And Lure is correct. I was told by the person who helped me, that it isn’t sent out very often.
~~Yippeeeeeee~~
Luv the new forest and new creatures
Hi, thanks for all the updates. can you tell me if there will still be sharing in new riddle? if this was asked and answered already then so sorry missed it.
I think the confusion is that the tokens you earn in the BETA testing games wont be carried over to your usual ones, dunno about any rank you earn tho’…. hmmmmmmmm…
Well I gotta say the new Riddle is much prettier to look at The lower points are a bummer but there are a lot more of them so hopefully it evens out.
script4tears: right. I don’t think anything you earn in beta — ranks or tokens — will carry over to the public site at launch.
gamesnacker: yes, there will be sharing. Everyone in the room earns tokens when there’s a high-value chest as well as when someone ranks up (like in BF Slots).
Hi Lure
I asked earlier but did not get an answer. Do you know if any of the Rank games will be getting badges for ranking up.
Thanks
Michelle: sorry, I thought I’d answered you! Yes, they’ll have ranks and “badges”, which are being called “trophies”.
Thanks Lure I can’t wait. I am assuming the trophies will be for certain ranks you reach like rank 5 then 10 then 20 etc.
thanks
Michelle: we don’t know yet. It hasn’t been implemented yet, so I can’t say if it’ll be like Pogo’s system or not. :)
why are you DECREASING the value of the critters from the forest? It would be nice to get them more often but I can see no reason to decrease their value.
More news from the testing front: there’s a shamrock you can find that will give a jackpot spin. And, my special friend mzmunchken gave me a screenshot of the Fairy King! It’s now in the post above.
Can’t wait til RiddleO’Day is changed.I think it would be a great change.Wish I could play it now.
Thanks Tamara
When?
i have heard that changes are going to be made around 3/27 do you know if this is true
I just noticed that on the screenshot of the unicorn the amount of tokens is 10,000. Have they lowered that from the 100,000 or could it be a misprint?
lindaridder: yes, they’ve lowered the amounts for everything. They have, however, increased the frequency. You’ll get about the same amount of points on average, from what I’ve experienced.
it says that the upgrade of riddle will be on the 27/3/09 can you tell me roughly what time .. thankyou
I actually have only heard rumors that it’ll be 3/27. I don’t have any confirmation, nor any reason to believe that it’s anything other than a rumor. Sorry, but I don’t think it’s likely.
Hi Lure, Thanks for all the info. It is currently 5:56 (Eastern Time) on 3/18/09, I have been trying sinse 3:00 am to get into BF and do my daily Riddle and found the whole BF community has been shut down for maintainence so hopefully when it comes back up all of our waiting for this update will be over and everything will run smoothly as it should. In the mean time looks like I am gonna have to get to bed without my nightly fix of my favorite game of Riddle!
PS thats 5:56 AM lol
oops make that 3/28/09 the late hour must be getting to me lol
ok thankyou lure
…and I’m still pretty sure the changes aren’t coming anytime soon. There’s simply too much that’s changing (the whole site, every game’s game window, avatars, trophies and scoreboards, et cetera) and I know for a fact it’s just not ready. I’m just as eager to see the changes as you guys are, but game and web site development takes time. Trust me when I say you’ll think it’s all worth the wait.
3/29/09 1:38 AM oh poop I was wrong nothing has changed yet, I feel like someone wizzed in my Wheaties now lol. Thanks for the info Lure
Hi Lure,
Thanx for the info…can’t wait for the new site to begin. I hope that in the new site the chat box again will not be covering over the playing screen as it does now. It is very frustrating when you see a creature hovering but can’t reach it!
I thought that the change was going to happen on march 27th can we put a date on when this is going to happen.
Nope, Big Fish won’t put a date to it because software development doesn’t work like that. I’d guesstimate summer, at earliest. As I said, sorry if any of these sneak peeks have gotten your hopes up, but I just tell it like I see it. Would you all prefer it if I didn’t share anything until it was released? I could do that…
I for one enjoy all of the info you are sharing with us. Please continue to do so Lure — waiting is difficult, but at least we can see what is in development.
Thanks again for this site and all that you do.
Lure, I am of the mind set that I would rather know and have to wait than to think I might have quit playing Riddle because of boredom. They heard our pleas and now they are acting upon them. Be patient people and good things will come
I was wondering does the one that we are playing now have a full screen it seems like items are alomst off the screen when they appear… Needed help figuring out what to do or is that way it is suppose to be. As of now my screen only shows the mushroom she is sitting on nothing outside of that area…. :(
You do a good job of letting us know that all of this is far from being ready so that we won’t get our hopes too high. I think that it just gets lost when the comments section gets this long and not every post gets read. Keep up the good work!
i agree with itsme07…and i would also like to tell you thank you…you do a great job
Can’t wait for the new updates to come! I am wondering if there are ever going to be new patterns for the pattern bingos. The ones that are there have been for a long, long time and quite frankly, are getting boring. Would love to see some new ones.
HI I JUST WANT TO SAY IN THE FIRST PLACE I AM GETTING HALF OF A FOREST AND CAN NOT SEE PAST THE FIRST MUSHROOM. SECOND I NEVER CAUGHT A FAIRY QUEEN OR A UNICORN SINCE I BEEN IN THE FOREST AND I HAVE BEEN IN THE FOREST FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS AND THATS NOT COOL. I HOPE THESE UPDATE IS REALLY COOL SO I CAN PLAY WELL. AND ARE WE GOING TO LOST THE TOKENS WE HAVE BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO LOST WHAT I GOT. ITS NOT ONLY FROM THIS GAME BUT FROM OTHER GAMES I PLAY ON BIG FISH COMM. I WANT TO SEE THE FOREST MORE THANK YOU. IT IS NICE BUT WHY PUT THE POINTS DOWN WITH THE FAIRIES AND WISPS, YOU ALL READY ESTABLISH THEM. AND I DONT THINK IT IS FAIR. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
I have been playing the game for a year now and haven’t gotten a unicorn either Monique. Lots of people still haven’t got it yet, it’s very rare and hardly every shows up.
Monique, a unicorn sighting is sometimes rare and that’s what makes it fun and exciting. I have played for over a year and have only had 1 unicorn. The new forest is supposed to produce creatures more frequently so perhaps you will get one then. Keep playing and enjoy!
We saw a picture of the new forest,the one now is getting old. Not
many creatures except one gnome and too many fairies and wisps.
What is beta? Love the games,great site. let us try the new forest
Long time without news.Nothing new about the new site????Hope they will go a little faster to put the new stuff getting tired of playing those games and waiting. :o(
Ty for the info its looking like a lot of fun and really different from the site we have right now.But i think its worth the patience wew have to wait a bit for to have this new site.Yeessss.
is oh hi ev1 this is changeloose hi to you all what work of design and everything you all did great work the pictures of everything is grrrrr great how when is the going to start with us all i hope asap everyone is getting antsy pants cant wait
Still trying to figure out if the screen for the game is suppose to be the way that it is. Did not know if I needed to fix something on my end….. It cuts off on the left right beside the mushroom she sits on and right a the middle of the tree on the right…. figured that this was right but sometimes hear rustling but cannot find it anywhere. Thanks so much looking forward to the new version. Cannot wait :)
it would be nice to have face emotions like when you are texting online in the game rooms, then you wont miss so many exciting figures like that fairy queen and the gnomes! Alot of us love this game its one big happy family!
I am gettin tired of the riddle o day. my forest is small i only get half a mushroom at the bottom an been playin for over yr now an not one unicorn. an only one of the big faires.. when is this update suppose to happen? i would like a bigger forest.
candybear1: as stated in this post, sometime in July or August.
How do I sign in for the new bigsea games site…..I can’t find it. Have been trying for 6 hours.
I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW TO GET THE NAME I USED MOST ON BIGFISHGAMES BACK WITHOUT LOOSING MY TOKENS…….NAME WAS
kandi_pj IT IS SPECIAL TO ME B/C IT IS NAMES OF MY TWO OLDER CHIHUAHUA’S……. THAT IS THE NAME E1 KNOWS ME AS……….PLEASE RESPOND……..THE USER NAME I HAVE NOW IS HUBBY’S TALBERTI
BRENDA ALBERTI
Hi Brenda, unfortunately Big Sea Games claims they do not have the ability to change usernames. See this post:
http://www.bigfishgamer.com/2009/08/20/solutions-big-sea-games-problems/
I lost my preferred username too:
http://www.bigfishgamer.com/2009/08/19/the-great-username-fiasco/
:(
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