Sunday, July 23, 2006

How to play cribbage at rubl.com

Do you know, that Microsoft Zone (MS Zone) has discontinued its online Cribbage this June? But if you like this game you can play cribbage online at rubl.com. For those who are new to Rubl.com multi-player games we publish a help picture - how to start cribbage games.
This help picture can be used also for new Gin-Rummy, Backgammon, Canasta, Dominoes, Chess and Checkers players.

There are two main lists in the lobby of each gaming room - here for example is a Cribbage Main Hall room. The topmost list shows all available cribbage tables. Some of them have already both players and can be only watched (though money games cannot be watched) - select this row and press "Watch Table" or double-click on this row. Tables, that has the only player - Dealer or Pone are open for you to join - select this row and press "Join Table" or double-click on this row. If you want to create your own table just press "Create Table" button, accept default options or select your own and press "ok" in the new Options dialog. This way your table will appear in the list and other players can join it to play.
The left bottom list shows all players in the cribbage room. Money players are shown in the blue color with the "$" sign before their names. This list is also used for personal messages - if you want to send a chat message to a certain player just select his or her name from this list, type your message in the chat field (right-bottom) and press "Send" button
Go to Cribbage page, select "play cribbage online" enter your name and password and then press "Main Hall" link from Cribbage room page.

New look of the game lobby

Rubl.com online games introduced a new look of the game lobby.

The tables icons now appear in the table list. The players icons now appear in all player lists, including invitation list. This new feature is related to all multiplayer games: Gin-Rummy, Backgammon, Cribbage, Dominoes, Canasta, Pool, Chess and Checkers. We hope, that these images would help the newcomers to adjust to the site and understand what's going on and which table is free to join.
Some old timers have described the new tables/people icons as 'cute'. We understand that tastes differ and tried to make the new dynamic icons as tiny and unobtrusive as possible so that they occupy the smallest possible portion of the table listings screen and so that they do not interfere with the overall lobby view.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Tri-Peaks Pyramids solitaire


Tri Peaks or Tri Pyramids Solitaire is a popular solitaire game, combining elements of Pyramid Solitaire and Golf Solitaire. Tri Peaks Solitaire has a great scoring system, which really encourages you to keep playing, trying to get a better score.
The aim of Tri Peaks Solitaire is to move all the cards from the table to the discard, at the same time as maximizing your score. You can drop open cards, that one value above or below the top card on your discard pile ignoring suits, also a King can be moved onto an Ace, and vice-versa. For example, if discard is Ten and you have Jack open you can drop it. To maximize your score in Tri Peaks Solitaire, try to form long sequences of moves. The first removed card in one sequence gives you 10 points, the second one gives 20 points, then 30 points and so on. If you open a card from the stock this sequense starts from 10 again. You have one wild card (Joker) for all deals - it can be used to drop any card on it.

On Rubl.com games you can also play Solitaire, Poker-Rush, BlackJack Rush-21, Freecell solitaires or popular head-to-head games, such as Gin-Rummy, Backgammon, Cribbage, Dominoes, Canasta and other card, borad and arcade games