Today, Big Fish Games added another opportunity for us to earn a daily Gold Spin in Treasure Quest on Facebook! Now, when you solve the riddle in Riddle O’Day, you’ll earn a gold spin. The reel payouts are kind of low on this, just 3 to 300 gold, but at least it’s another chance to win (somewhat) big! In addition, once you have earned your first gold spin, you can search for a shamrock in your forest and if you find one, you’ll earn another gold spin.

If you need help with riddles, don’t forget our Riddle O’Day answers page, which lists all possible riddles and answers by month. To find out what all of the creatures and effects look like, check out our Riddle O’Day creatures list.

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- How to Solve Logic Line (outdated, but still may help you)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!

Big Sea Games is finally rolling out their help pages!

A week and a half ago, they wrote the How to Play for Riddle O’Day and posted it in their news section. Apparently the framework isn’t in place to link them up to the games yet, but at least we have them. And they’ve promised we’d get a new one each week.

Today, after a little more than a week wait due to a nasty case of flu, Draddog posted How to Play Dive! Deeper. Be sure to check it out and see if there’s anything you didn’t know about the popular word game.

For future reference, we’ll have links to the How to Play for each game as it’s released on our Game Ranks pages (along with other valuable information about awards, links to related topics, and more).

The news around these parts has been slow slow slow lately — I sure hope this means that Big Sea Games is working frantically behind the scenes to bring us lots of new games and features!

Over the past few weeks, I have been getting reports that in Riddle O’Day, the northern lights no longer signify the impending arrival of the unicorn. If in fact Big Sea did change the timing of the unicorn, it might have happened on October 14, when they updated a lot of games. Unfortunately, there was no mention of the unicorn in their list of updates from that maintenance period, so we may never know.

In addition, I’ve heard some rumors that the Fairy Queen shows up during thunderstorms. I haven’t been able to confirm this since she’s so very rare, but it’s worth noting that more than a few people wrote in to let us know about this.

Don’t forget, we’ve got a list of all of the Riddle critters and their token payouts — with pictures! — on our Riddle O’Day creatures page. At the bottom of that page is a few shots of the gorgeous northern lights too.

What do you think of these unicorn and fairy queen rumors? Have you noticed lights but then no unicorn? Have you seen a unicorn with no lights anytime near? What about the Fairy Queen? Let us know in a comment below!

Sure, the most fun parts of Riddle O’Day are answering the riddles, then spending hours waiting for magical creatures to appear. You can, however, have some fun during the slow times by looking to see what other things you may find in the game’s artwork. It’s not an exact science, but you can think of it kind of like finding shapes in clouds.

For example, there’s an image of a person in the tree. To find it easily, press pause. The “D” in “paused” will be right on the body. Here’s Honeybear07′s screenshot:

Other people have reported that there’s a monkey near the pause button, a face in a mushroom, and a ..ahem.. derriere in the tree. What have you noticed?

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. :)

Four new “no answer” game rooms were added to Riddle O’Day today. These rooms were added in response to some complaints on the forums that people were giving out the answers in general chat (and that this was “cheating” according to some of the posters). The new rooms are called:

* Independent Thinkers
* Lone Wolves
* Solitary Solvers
* Solo Seekers

These rooms are clearly marked (No Help) after their name in the game room list but as we stated earlier you can still be put into either type of room using the Play Now button.

What do you think of these new rooms and the room names in particular? Also, please let us know how these new, no help rooms are working out in the comments below.

In response to many comments (and complaints) about asking for help and helping others with their riddles (from both sides of the fence), Big Sea Games is adding more rooms to Riddle O’Day. These “no answer” rooms will be devoid of people asking for help and answers — or at least they should be. Feasibly nothing is stopping you from asking for help or giving it in these rooms, except the room name. To that end, there may be some initial problems (check out the bold, my emphasis not theirs):

Yes, we will be adding rooms that are labled as “No Answer” or something similar. Players should not expect to receive help in these rooms. However, it is important to note that if you simply click “Play Now”, you may be put into one of these rooms without your knowledge. So if you are in one of these rooms intentionally and you see someone ask for help, please politely let them know that they are in a “No Answer” room and may want to try a different room for help.
The new rooms will be added soon.

(This is the same way the halls work in Team Bingo — you may be placed in either a League hall or a regular hall if you use the Play Now button there too. Just be aware!)

Of course, Big Sea’s solution is to tell people to “politely let them know that they are in a ‘No Answer’ room and may want to try a different room for help.” Our solution, for any room: tell people to Google their riddle. :) They’ll end up at our Riddle O’Day riddles page and everyone will be happy!

Here is a list of all of the creatures you can find in the forest of Big Sea Games’ Riddle O’Day and the token amounts you receive for finding each one:

Creature	Image	Tokens	Room Bonus
Wisp		15
Fairy		30
Brownie		50
Gnome		100
Dryad		200
Boggart		500
Troll		1,250
Fairy King		3,750	250
Unicorn		10,000	500
Red Fairy		30,000	750
Fairy Queen		75,000	1,000
Shamrock		JP Spin

All creatures make a noise when they appear, either a rustling noise or a tinkling bell. There is also a northern lights show, where the sky changes to brilliant colors (screenshots here: 1, 2, 3, 4). Sometimes the northern lights may lure the Unicorn out of hiding.

For more information on Riddle O’Day, check out our Riddle O’Day Riddles collection, or a list of all ranks and awards available for Riddle O’Day.

Like L.O.B.E., the updated Riddle O’Day (due out this summer) has been outfitted with 12 awards you can earn by playing the game. They are as follows:

Pot O’Gold
Win more than 50,000 tokens by answering a single riddle

Riddle Master
Solve 25 total riddles

Wisp Wallop
Catch 250 wisps

Fairy Finder
Catch 500 fairies

Gnutty for Gnomes
Catch 50 gnomes

Boggart Buff
Catch 100 boggarts

Queen’s Companion
Catch the Fairy Queen 3 times

Unicorn Uncoverer
Catch the Unicorn

CryptoZoologist
Catch at least 10 different creatures

Glow-in-the-Dark
Catch 500 creatures that glow

Back to Back
Catch the same two creatures back to back 150 times

7 in a Row
Solve the riddle seven days in a row

Look for these awards to be implemented with the new community site in July or August.