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  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    majortomz

    5 Stars Like yahoo games, your gonna love being a monkey! 16/09/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Makes playing games on yahoo even more fun

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None that I can think of, apart from becoming addicted to playing!

    Do you enjoy playing card games like crib, gin and euchre, or pool and dominoes on line through the yahoo games web site? Fed up with people booting you from the games tables or refusing to play you because your rating is too low, then there is a solution, become a Monkey! No, it doesn’t mean that you have to grow a tail and develop fur all over your body to scare people into playing games with you, it is the name that members of a games league web site refer to themselves as, because the web site name is Monkey Royale (MR)! I discovered MR about 2 years ago when I saw one of the ... more
  • 22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ILoveJackDaniels

    5 Stars Yahoo have done it again 13/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very user friendly interfaces and some great versions of classic games

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some of the players are very arrogant

    As the internet expands to bursting point, it is becoming harder and harder to find interesting sites, original content, or entertaining sites. Yahoo have, again, excelled themselves. They have created a huge online gaming community based around some of the oldest and simplest games there are. There are too many games to mention each and every one, but suffice it to say that they have all of the old favourites. Card games include Poker, Blackjack, Canasta, Bridge and even Euchre. Scrabble, Crosswords, Wordsearches, Battleships and even Pool are available, and this is just a very small ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    soko

    5 Stars If you like Scrabble ....and vital PC mtce tips 09/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages More user-friendly than most game sites

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Rating system isn't explained anywhere that can be easily found

    If you like Scrabble, you will love Literati - the latest, highly addictive board game on the Yahoo! games site. It's streets ahead of Flipside's Wordox - and I thoroughly recommend Wordox as well! I needn't give a blow by blow description of how the game is played, since the "how to play" and "tips" links are lucid and extremely helpful. Suffice to say that you don't need to purchase any proprietary software, and the free download isn't disk space hungry. Just as with other games playable on the site, if you simply want to enjoy the game and chat at the same time go the social rooms. If you ... more
  • 16 of 16 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    carl_1_uk

    4 Stars Truely Addictive 12/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good fun, chat to other players, loads of games to choose from

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Does crash alot

    Well this is my second article on yahoo, my last was on auctions (thanks for any feedback) and this is on the games, I am as addicted to this as I am to this website, there are so many titles to chose from such as pool (my favourite) reversi, bingo, solitaire, battleships and loads of others. As I said my favourite game is pool, and I really cant fault this game either, it plays all the same rules as pool and you do get to play against real players from all over the world, the last person I played was from las Vegas. You do play in a league, but you are only given a league position and rating ... more
  • 49 of 50 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cjkace

    5 Stars Improve your vocabulary 23/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It's like scrabble, improve your word skills and spelling

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very popular so lags quite a lot

    I'm not really much of a game player, either on or offline but a favourite since childhood has been Scrabble, the word game. Unfortunately I have yet to find a true online version of Scrabble ( at least one thats free to play ) but a friend introduced me to Literati at Yahoo.com and since I first played I have been hooked. Literati plays very similarly to Scrabble, with a board of 15 x 15 squares, of which some are special bonus squares, which either double / treble your letters value or double / treble the whole words score. Common leters ( vowels etc ) are worth 1 point each and rarer ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 pumfster

    Member since 22/02/2003

    Reviews written: 223

    4 Stars Taking the Yahoo out of gaming 03/03/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Fun to play, Good interface

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Introduction of some fees, Some silly fools.

    As you know there are many online gaming sites out there, all of them with different kinds of games, and some of dubious quality. However, a couple of years ago I signed up to Yahoo games. This was initially a good thing but Yahoo have spoiled the thriving gaming community they had by being greedy!!! Sign up itself is relatively easy, you just fill in the onscreen forms and hey presto your a member. It is also worth pointing out that this is free to sign up to, and when I first joined you could access all features. Once you are in, you have the choice of a plethora of different games, ranging ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mariesimone

    5 Stars For people new to Yahoo Games 12/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages better than other gaming zones, lots of games

    Disadvantages Disadvantages server crashes, you freeze and get yahoo'd

    I have been playing games on Yahoo for about three years now (when I'm not here I'm there!) and compared to the other gaming zones I have tried it is excellent. However, I have noticed that just like Hotmail, every time there is an update the service gets worse instead of better. There are two expressions which you'd probably get to use daily, Yahell and yahoo'd. At the moment the service is particularly bad, the games server crahes a lot which is so annoying because it is easy to get addicted to the games and when you can't get on it's a real pain. Also, if you are winning a game with only a ... more
  • 62 of 62 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    L0BSTER_QUADRILLE

    4 Stars WooHoo for Yahoo !!! 19/04/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great easy to navigate gaming site.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can get difficult to play against high 'rated' players.

    Around two years ago, my Granddad taught me a classic card game … cribbage. I loved it; but unfortunately he soon tired of me pestering him to play and there was nobody else I knew that that could play this game. Then there was ‘Yahoo games’ the answer to my problem. Yahoo provides games you can play online, in a lot of cases against real people from all over the world. Hundreds of thousands of people are online practically all the time. (You can see just how many at the top right hand corner of the yahoo games homepage) There are so many games you can play; it would take forever to list …. SO ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    zoelou

    5 Stars wow wow WOW I LURVE IT 28/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages ITS GREAT FREE AND FUNKY

    Disadvantages Disadvantages URM sometimes is slow

    ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW WOW WOW!!!! THANK YOU YAHOO!! I have certainly been yahooed I love yahoo! Yahoo games are very addictive, especially literati. Literati is the Internet version of scrabble and like most people online I find Literati totally addictive! Its fab, funky and for all ages. Simple words, complex words all score points. Letter points range from 0-5, 0 being a wild letter and 5 being Z, J and Q. The more points you have the better. The board is 15 x 15 squares. Some letter spaces have 2W or 3W which means twice or three times what your word is usually worth, there are also squares ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Excelle

    5 Stars Meet people, kick their asses 01/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Thriving community, great interface

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Err....

    You hear so much about gaming on the Net these days - 'the biggest advance in gaming since 3D graphics'. And it is pretty good, if you neglect the effects lag and annoying people on the Net can cause you! But seriously, gaming on the Net is great, but people seem to think the only thing you can play on the Net is Quake and Unreal Tournament. What about the good old games? Chess? Dominoes? Othello? Well, they're there too, you just have to know where to look for them. And guess where they are? Yahoo, of all places! I generally despise Yahoo - their search facilities are overshadowed by so many ... more
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