Game Community News

Big Fish Game Community Down Time

From 8:00 PM to 1:00AM Pacific Time, tomorrow Wednesday June 17th we will be performing routine maintenance on the Big Fish Game Community website. During that time, some games and the Game Community website may be inaccessible for up to an hour at a time. We appreciate your patience as we complete this work.

5/28/09 - Server issues

We are aware that the servers aren't saving data in some games. This includes progress, tokens and items. We appreciate your patience while we work to correct the issue.

Game Community Update Coming Soon!

Exciting changes are coming to the game community! We continue to fine-tune these updates and currently are on schedule to make them available to the public between July and August. While we understand that this is still several months away, the Game Community development team wants to deliver on the best game play experience possible. Keep checking this news page for more information! We do appreciate your patience and excitement during this time.

Token thief in the Lost Temple of Gold

We have discovered a problem with Diana Fortune in the Lost Temple of Gold. Your tokens may not be saving correctly between levels. We are currently investigating this matter. Until this has been resolved, you can save your tokens by selecting “NEW” when a level is complete. This will update your tokens with your latest winnings. We apologize for this inconvenience.

L.O.B.E. Release!

Have you heard? The Labratory of Brain Enhancement can really give your noggin a workout. L.O.B.E. has strategy, pattern recognition, logic, sequence solving, math, and word puzzles. Test and improve your powers of ingenuity and deduction along with your IQ score!

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New Fairway Solitaire Coursepack #4!

Fairway Solitaire Pack up your golf clubs and check out the exciting game additions. We’ve created 25 NEW courses (that's a total of 90 courses!), starting off with Buzzard’s Roost. Hold on to your golf caps because your skills are sure to be tested with this fantastic array of fun challenges.

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April 18 - Farm 51™ UPDATED!

UPDATED! Farm 51™ - Farm 51™ lets you plant crops, tend animals, create recipes and now you can build a rocket ship and travel into space! New recipes, new equipment, a new animal and more!

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April 8 - Riddle 0' Day™

Riddle O' Day™ - Riddle O' Day is a daily riddle game! Are you smart enough to open the mysterious Chest of Wisdom? It could contain more than 200,000 tokens!

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March 18 - Mush!™

Mush!™ - Compete against a variety of skilled -- and devious -- computer opponents as you race across the frozen arctic in this fast-paced, and often hilarious, card game!

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February 25 - Big Fish Slots™

Big Fish Slots is an exciting new game that features multiplayer action, three exciting mini-games, multiple powerups, trivia questions, team play and more!

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November 28 - New Game: Petchu

Petchu is an innovative pet-keeping game! Raise your pet from infancy to adulthood, play three exciting minigames, and unlock dozens of items!

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October 30 - New Game: Unwell Mel

Unwell Mel is a Medical Match 3 with five hilarious powerups, four nasty Bugs, over 240 gut rumblin' levels, and an Operation style minigame! Cure Mel completely for a cool 100,000 tokens!

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September 18 - New Game: Farm 51™

Farm 51™ We are proud to announce the release of Farm 51™. This amazing new game has a farmyard full of exciting features! You can plant and harvest 17 unique crops, raise a variety of animals, create and sell more than 125 different recipes, interact with strange visitors, improve your farm with out-of-this-world technology and much more! Established, well-run farms can generate LOTS of tokens, but watch out for the Men in Dark Blue at the top secret government base next door - they might sweep in and confiscate your otherworldly tech.

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July 6 - New profile backgrounds

Be sure to check out the new profile backgrounds from the pet photo contest and show your support of the winners. To change your profile background, follow the instructions below:

  1. Click on "My Account" on the top menu.
  2. Then select "Community Profile" from the sub-menu if it isn't already selected.
  3. On this screen you will scroll down and select the type of image you want as your background. We have abstract, animals, black & white, games, and nature images to choose from.
  4. You can find all of the new pet photos underneath the "Animals" category.
  5. Once you select your background by clicking on it, make sure you press "Save Profile" after so that your changes are remembered.

June 19 - Vote for the cutest pets

The votes for the photo contest of the cutest pets have been tallied and we have our winners.


Drum roll please...................


Photo Contest Winners

The winner for the cutest cat is:
Magnus (the black & white kitten) taken by Charky1

Pet Photo Contest


The winner for the cutest dog is:
Billy (the Shetland Sheepdog) taken by connie404

Pet Photo Contest


And the winner for the cutest miscellaneous animal is:
Rue McClanahan (the Sugar Glider) taken by ominosity

Pet Photo Contest


Please give a huge round of applause to all of our contestants. We received so many great photos!

June 19 - New Fairway Solitaire courses

Hold on to your clubs! Twenty-five addicting new courses are now available in Fairway Solitaire! See if you can get to the last course "Barnyard Bunkers" and keep an eye out for that pesky gopher.

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May 25 - Wanted: photos of your pet!

The Online Community is hosting it's first photo contest for profile image backgrounds. Want to see your pet's picture in the profile background selection? Send your photos to photocontest@bigfishgames.com by Wednesday, May 30th. Please take note of the following rules before submitting:

  • Must be 18 years of age or older.
  • The photo must be taken by you.
  • No photos of people will be accepted (even with animals).
  • Winner must be willing to sign a contract allowing us to use their photo. We cannot post any photos without written consent from the photographer.
  • No photos of animal abuse or sexuality will be permitted (any illegal photographs will be reported to the proper authorities).

May 18, 2007 - Big Fish turns 5!

We are pleased to announce the 5th anniversary of Big Fish Games. As a token (no pun intended) of our gratitude we are going to issue 10,000 tokens to everyone who signs in to the Game Community between now and Sunday, May 27th.

Note: Tokens will not be awarded immediately, they will be issued after Sunday, May 27th.

May 8, 2007 - Mahjong Towers Eternity's new look!

Try out the updated Mahjong Towers Eternity game. Enjoy fifteen new unlockable layouts every day and earn Team Bonus tokens for completing them all! This version has 15 new layouts every day, new music and sounds, improved graphics and two additional tile sets! Not to mention the bonus tokens, jackpot spins and team bonuses.

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May 8 - Site Upgrade

We are pleased to announce a site-wide change which allows you to access all of your BFG accounts with one log-in. Please bear with us as we work out any growing pains from this process.

The biggest change is that you now log in with your email address. If you have forgotten your email address or password you can get these from the sign-in page. If you are unsure how to access your account, check out our demo section to see videos of how to log in.

Multiple user names with the same email address have been combined into one account. After signing in you can change between your user name's by selecting "My Account" in the menu and then selecting "My Profiles". Each user name has its own account information and profile. Your profiles now have a new look and allow you to select between a variety of images.

Some of the games have been moved to a different portion of our site in preparation to support building features like badges. You can still play these games for free by clicking "Online Games" in the menu at the top of the page.

May 7 - Scheduled Site Maintenance

We will be bringing the site down for scheduled maintenance. The site will be down from approximately 11pm on May 7th until 8am on May 8th PST. Please be aware that if you are playing a game when the maintenance begins, you will not be able to retrieve your tokens. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.


April 28 - Site changes coming soon

It's finally coming! The updated sign-in procedure we announced awhile back will take effect in the next week. After the change you will notice a few differences with the way you sign in to your account. Don't worry if you encounter any trouble. We will have moderators in the rooms all day on the date of launch and a variety of resources in the help section to help you along. If you still have trouble, we will be having two Community Forums on the day of launch at 9am PST and 4pm PST.

In order for us to begin building features like badges, we have to remove the 3rd party games from the Community. Building badges and token games requires us to change game files, which we are unable to do with games we didn't create. All of these games will remain available if you click on "Online Games" in the menu.

Keep an eye out for the new site updates (we've got new profile backgrounds too!)


April 16 - Scheduled site maintenance

p>We will be bringing the site down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, April 17th from 7am until 8:30am PST. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

April 18 - Meet ION_Mike and the new hosts

Come meet our new moderator and hosts at our next Community Forum on April 18th at 2pm PST--that's 5pm for EST folks. No matter what room you enter, ION_Mike will be available to chat. During the Community Forum you can chat with specific Moderators or Hosts in the specified rooms below:

Room #1: Moderator - ION_Kaye
Room #2: Moderator - ION_Hope
Room #3: Host - Lilangels2228
Room #4: Host - A_Navy_Mom20
Room #5: Host - Bushrat
Room #6: Host - Bantimalou (Dutch)


Can't make it? We will post images and questions from the forum afterwards on our FAQ page.

March 20 - Plunder Contest Winners

Yarr! We have the winners of the Plunder contest! Please give a round of applause to the following players who were the first 10 to get 100 rares in Plunder. Each of these players will receive 300,000 tokens for their dedicated pillaging in this new game.

Contest Winners:
  1. lilangels2228
  2. sbeenee
  3. evillana
  4. kady_29
  5. mysanity
  6. lindsey_24_02_04
  7. bearschick
  8. babyphantom
  9. Thumpie
  10. _Dev_