by Lure on October 7, 2011
Big Sea Games may be long gone but you can still experience some of the fun when you play the sequel to the fan-favorite Fairway Solitaire, Fairway Collector’s Edition.
The Fairway Collector’s Edition is
available now from Big Fish and it includes 63 exclusive courses, 81 bonus courses, 100s of handcrafted layouts, long-drive and putting contests, and Golf Bucks you can earn to spend on powerups in the Golf Shop. As with all Big Fish Games, you can try it free for one hour before you buy.
Those of you familiar with Fairway Solitaire on Treasure Quest will notice a few changes! They’ve added a Pro Shop so you can purchase upgrades to your game.
The new shop has two tabs: Upgrades and Clubs. The Clubs section is fairly straightforward: you can purchase irons for 100 gold a piece, or fill your bag for 800 gold. The upgrades section contains five items that will give you a leg up in winning the courses. For 2,500 gold, you can purchase x-ray sunglasses which will show the next card on the draw pile when the mouse is hovered over it. There’s a 7x multiplier for 7,500 gold that changes the multiplier bonus for maxing out the Long Drive indicator to 7x. For 15,000 gold you can purchase an extra mulligan and start every hole with an extra Undo. 25,000 gold will buy you a Power Cart 1.3 that starts each hole with a 1.3x multiplier. Last, but not least is the Deluxe Bag which holds 2 of every club — it’s free when you purchase all of the other upgrades.
Since some of the game mechanics have changed, like the extra undo you can purchase, your game window now has a few extra and different buttons on it. There’s a Shop button on your points sign, an undo x1 (or x2) button under your card pile, and instead of the old mulligan button on the clubs, there’s an Add Club button which takes you straight to the Clubs tab of the Pro Shop.
And, to celebrate these additions, Treasure Quest has temporarily increased the odds of your quest chests to pay out a huge amount of gold. Good luck!
by Lure on April 22, 2010
Hi Facebook Treasure Quest fans!
I’m sure you’re wondering what this site is all about, since you got here via Facebook and/or a web search for one of the games in Treasure Quest on Facebook. Well, this site is a Big Sea Games fan site, full of information on all of the games at BigSeaGames.com, including seven of the games currently available on Treasure Quest at Facebook.
Both Big Sea Games and Treasure Quest are run by an awesome company called Big Fish Games; they also sell great casual download games, check them out if you get a chance. Big Sea Games is a casual game portal in its development/beta phase. It’s not currently open to the general public, and they are not currently accepting applications to their waiting list. Luckily for you, you can at least play seven of the Big Sea Games titles on Treasure Quest at Facebook.
There are eight games available to you on Treasure Quest, seven of which were originally (and still are) found at Big Sea Games. The exception is Daily Detective, which is compiled from scenes originally found in Hidden Object games produced by Big Fish Games. By popular demand, we are keeping an archive of the Daily Detective answers, updated every morning.
We’ve spent a lot of time collecting and providing hints and tips for a lot of the games, some pages on this site that might help you are listed below.
L.O.B.E.
- Ciphrase Answers
- How to Solve Logic Line (outdated, but still may help you)
- L.O.B.E. ranks*
Fairway Solitaire
- Fairway Solitaire ranks*
Unwell Mel
- Unwell Mel ranks*
Riddle O’Day
- Riddles & Answers, by month
- List of Creatures (with pictures)
- Riddle O’Day ranks*
Plunder
- Hints & tips for Beginners (in comments)
- Plunder ranks*
Thunderbolt 21
- Thunderbolt 21 ranks*
Snow Globe
- Snow Globe ranks*
*Ignore the stuff on the ranks pages about ‘awards’, that’s a feature only available on Big Sea Games…for now. The links to “How to Play” aren’t available to the general public yet, so if you have any questions on how to play a particular game, use our search box on the right sidebar or just ask.
In the right sidebar of this site is a Categories dropdown — use that to find historical information about each of the games. There’s also a search box if you are looking for something in particular.
And don’t forget to Like/Follow us on Facebook!
Enjoy, and don’t hesitate to leave a comment to introduce yourself or ask any questions you may have. Welcome aboard!
by Lure on October 8, 2009
Instead of making full new posts to cover certain issues this week, I’ve been stashing updates in the comments of various pre-existing posts. I don’t do this very often, so I figured I’d give you a round-up of sorts that will cover the important points. I call it, “It Came From the Comments!” (Kind of fun for a spooky October, right?)
So here are a few tidbits of information you may want to know about, but may have missed this week:
- There is no Lucky Leprechaun or Midget Grasshopper in Riddle O’Day…but boy, that would sure be fun!
- Unlike other games on Big Sea, SnowGlobe Slots doesn’t have a traditional Jackpot Spin, but you can still earn a ton of tokens if you get the right combo on the reels.
- SnowGlobe Slots starts defaulted with the sound muted. To turn it on, use the speaker icon in the upper right-hand corner. (That’s where you can find a button for the pay tables, too.)
- Big Fish Slots got an update this week that fixed a bunch of problems.
- And last, but not least, I just want to say that the Owl Country Club course in Fairway Solitaire is really, really tough and apparently it’s got a mean streak, too. (Sorry, Charlie! I just had to mention it.)
Stay tuned for an upgraded hints and tips guide to Big Fish Slots (the old one is a little outdated now that Big Sea has tweaked the gameplay with the re-release) and as usual, more news, rumors, and information about Big Sea Games. :)
by Lure on September 24, 2009
On Tuesday afternoon of this week, Big Sea Games updated Fairway Solitaire:
We have just updated Fairway Solitaire to fix some bugs including an issue with scoring. We also updated some backgrounds and added some new music.
Charlie wrote in to let us know that after this update, the Gopher seems to be hiding way deep in his hole — so deep that full rooms are only flushing him at most once every hour or so. For those of you not familiar with the game, more or less at random an event happens where a player is awarded a card that says a gopher has appeared and they “flush” the gopher down his hole, then everyone in the room gets a 10k token bonus.
In the Known Issues forum, they listed the changes they made (nothing new from the above note), but there was not a single mention of token payouts or tokens at all. No other threads (created by players like us, or moderators) address the changes made this week, but it’s obvious that something happened to the gopher-flushing frequency.
I’d also noticed the same drastic reduction that Charlie did. I’ll admit it: even though I’d received all of the awards for the game weeks ago and have no interest in playing anymore, I still park in a full room from time to time. Before the update, I would receive sometimes as much as 800k tokens in an 8-hour stint. Now, not so much.
I did some lurking in a normally-full room and in an overnight session last night (well, it was cut short by the 8-hour timeout) I received just under 90k tokens (that was probably 7 or 8 flushes plus tokens for others’ rank-ups) and then just over 40k tokens today.
What has your experience with Fairway Solitaire been like this week? Did you notice any other changes (like a lack of Jackpot Spins)? Let us know in the comments below!
If you’re a fan of Fairway Solitaire, you’re going to love the redesigned version, which has awards! These are the 12 awards you can earn in-game:
Mulliganless Stew
Finish 25 courses under par without using a mulligan
Smile at the Birdie
Score 100 birdies
Absolutely Perfect
Clear all the cards and get a Perfect Score 10 times
Eau de Toilet
Flush the gopher
Anger Management
Break 15 clubs
Three Removal
Remove 2 threes in a single run (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 3)
Montezuma
Earn the 5x “runs” bonus
Beat The Baron
Finish The Baron with a score of par or better
Eagle Eye
Find 100 wedges
Anemia (No Irons)
Score under par on a course without using any irons
Full 18
Score under par on an 18-hole course
Greedy Gopher
Meet the gopher 25 times
My inner 12-year-old is still having a giggling fit over the Montezuma award. BFG employees have such great senses of humor!
Other games getting awards in the game community redesign in July or August of this year are L.O.B.E., Riddle O’Day, Unwell Mel, and Shape Shifter.
Have you been thinking about purchasing the download version of Fairway Solitaire? How about giving it to Dad as a gift for Father’s Day? With this special promotional code, you can purchase the game for 40% off (that brings it down to just about $12.00)!
Here’s what you need to do:
- Visit the Fairway Solitaire web page
- Click the “Buy Now” button
- Select the $19.99 price option
- Enter this code: FATHERSDAY
This game was rated the #1 Card/Mahjong Game of 2007. Pull out your clubs (and your diamonds, hearts and spades) and enjoy a round of Fairway Solitaire! This exciting new card game includes 70 unique courses in locations ranging from exotic forests to Scottish highlands. Choose your golfer and experience realistic golf commentary, hilarious wild shot cards, and three fun mini-games.
- - Buy clothing powerups!
- - Enjoy great mini-games.
- - Unique hole layouts.
Find out what all of the buzz is about! Check out Fairway Solitaire!
