Bernice:  Where is that dang Like Button!! LOL

Thad: I dont know about comparisons but I do know there are ONE HELL OF A LOT of players that are no longer playing here for one reason or another :( and some of them are life members as well

Roberto Silva: It's a weird rule and as far as I know only GT uses it. It's optional, games can be set up as timeout=loss of turn or =loss of game. It has several unforeseen consequences.

Does anyone know how the number of Brain King paying members today compares with the numbers from years back? Are there more today? Or fewer?

Aganju: well your opponent can then time out as well, and so on. Not sure if there's a limit or not.

rabbitoid: timeout = loss of turn? So if you get in 'Zugzwang', you simply time out, and it is your opponent's turn? That should blow up many games.

rabbitoid: Madness

ketchuplover: No, still ongoing. http://www.goldtoken.com/games/play?g=115447

The statistics are interesting. It's a 15-day game. For both players it's their only ongoing game. It started on 24 Oct 2001 when Goldtoken was barely 2 years old. , Only 254 moves so far.

Goldtoken shows think time (Fencer! PLEASE!!). The clocks read:
NLStardust : 432 days = about 1 year 2 months.
3334: 2219 days = about 10 years 7 months.
The last piece taken was on move 167, which was played in 2008.

Please note that the game is played under Glodtoken's queer "timeout = loss of turn" rule. 3334 timed out twice so far.

Purple:

3334 "won" that game

coan.net: Or that group game you suggested a while back. I think that would be fun.

Marshmud: That is why I keep mentioning it every once and awhile - I know he is busy with real life, but you never know when he might feel like sitting down for awhile and doing a little programming of a new game. Something like this, or maybe a 6 color logik game variant would be something he can do some-what easily.

Pedro Martínez: ROFL
................Pedro

Marshmud: I'm sure it would… If… :))

coan.net: On August 23 2010 you asked Fencer to implement that game and he said it would be easy.

coan.net: That would be a far more interesting version of Ludo.

coan.net:I like the idea of making a more interesting Game of Ludo although it surely would create a much longer version with more strategy involved.

crosseyed: I would love to see Fencer add Express Ludo to the site - the same game setup, with the following changes:

You can take a piece out of your home area with a 1 or 6

You roll 2 die EVERY TURN, and only 2 die - doesn't matter if you get a 6 and get an extra roll - just 2 roll each turn.

You can also use the 2 rolls like gammon - can use each die for different pieces, or same piece, in any order (but like gammon - have to use both if possible).

For Ludo being one of the most popular games on the site - and people liking games that are quicker - think it would be a very popular variant (and hopefully not very much extra programming.)

Artful Dodger: Think it is never right to have so many passes. And that is what puts me off play Ludo in here.

crosseyed: I got out a couple of times but kept getting sent back in. I had 53 moves, 35 of which were passes. Only 3 times did I roll a 6. Each piece was knocked back in. I think it's likely rare as it's never happened to me before. But it would be interesting to calculate the odds!

Artful Dodger: I kept saying that game had a bug.
So I won't play it now.

Aganju: I should get some sort of achievement recognition for that. Oh Fencer!!!

Aganju: I should have quit when I was behind!

Artful Dodger: sometimes you need to accept superior strategy. You are just not up to that level of play... ;-)

Check out this game. Yeah, I lost. Ludo (Artful Dodger vs. Wilhelmina)

Walter Montego: me too!

Walter Montego: Like you this site is worth lots to me too. I think it's a great site to play in when all is working as it should. Long may this site continue to run.

Walter Montego: agreed Walter...the GLOBS as they aare/were called for short have a lot to answer for don't they....strange how people know that but dont say it....thanks very much for confirming what I (and others) have been saying for years.

This site is worth lots to me. I wish Fencer was more active like he was eight years ago, but it's still a great site. I too am a lot less active on this site than I was back then, but I blame that on the creation of the global moderators and some of the things that happened at the beginning of that period. In fact, it was a link by you Pedro that tricked me into ending my personal embargo of this discussion board.

Heluvagi: I don't think he can be arsed. He has stated several times that BK is no longer one of his priorities. This and the deterioration of this site I (and actually, we all) have been experiencing is also making me believe that BK is not worth much for the time being.

Heluvagi: he is probably laughing himself to death as he holidays in some foreign location LOL

I wonder what fencer's making of all this.

Pedro Martínez: Really? I have no idea what the site is worth (nor do I know why anyone really cares), but it seems pretty apparent that those sites are automatically calculating revenue based on a site's ad revenue potential. I doubt there's any automated website that calculates a site's paid membership revenues. 

Currency of Thailand.
Looks like it take 31 of them to make 1 U.S. dollar.

XE has all the currencies:
http://www.xe.com/currency/thb-thai-baht?r=1

Bernice: what is baht?

Pedro Martínez: I would say this is more like it....very poor dollars if sold.... but as I said BAHT....would make it about the same MAYBE ROFL.....

Pedro Martínez: haha I checked my blog and it's worth 9 dollars. It's owned by blogspot. I do get about 50-100 page visits a day and am nearing the 200,000 page visits marks. As for the 9$ worth of my blog, that's twice as high as I'd rate it.

Artful Dodger:
ranging from 72,000 to over 370,000

I am more inclined to trust these estimates:
http://awcheck.me/en/site/brainking.com
http://brainking.com.w3snoop.com/

Artful Dodger: 72,000 to over 370,000 WHAT? peanuts? lollipops? Baht perhaps LOL.

Artful Dodger: "worth" and what you could actually get for it are usually two different things.I'm not sure what the market is these days

ranging from 72,000 to over 370,000.

Pedro Martínez: Funny. You can Google : "What is Brainking.com worth?" and you find figures that are quite different from each other. Wonder who determines which is "correct".

Pedro Martínez: so would i Pedro. i have been playing at this site for years. i think ketchup needs to take math 101 again.

ketchuplover: How did you arrive at that conclusion?

$14,057.69 (as of June,18,2013)

bert515:  Ya know.. I get that a time or two.. sometimes it winks at me also.. but, I usually am kicked back with a Margarita.. 

bert515: Yes, mine has been doing that off and on for several weeks now.

anyone having problems with thier screen bouncing from side to side for a second or two??

Yes it is. I am glad you are now able to play your games without any problems.

crosseyed: amazing isn't it...**shakes head**