IN THIS ISSUE:

• Get 2 Free Games
• Cast In Your Votes
• 500 Game Tips
• Answers to Last Month's Contest
• Graduation Trivia
• Meet a DQ All-Star

Get 2 Free Games!

Our coworkers love BigFish games so much, we arranged for all of you to get a special treat this month! For this month only, you can get 2 FREE games on Big Fish Games when you purchase just 1 Championship Pro Game!

And these aren't just any 2 free games; you get to choose 2 games from Big Fish's Top 5 Games! Choose from:

• Magic Vines
• Atlantis
• Top 10 Solitaire
• Fairies
• Slot Words

Play 3 games for only $19.99! We partnered with Big Fish Games to bring you the best casual gaming content on the planet.Treat yourself or your new graduate to a brand new game on your PC or mobile device! Visit http://dqsoft.com/offer/bigfish

Hurry! Offer ends on June 6th.

Question: The custom of fooling friends and relatives on the first of April began in the late 1500's in which country?

Answer:

1. Holland
2. Germany
3. Italy
4. France

• Alphonda Thorn
• Wendell Northcutt
• D. Webber

Congratulations and thanks for playing.

Cast In Your Votes

Attention all players!

We'd like to try something a little more democratic for the appointments of our Senior Guide and Head TD from now on. The way we figure it, the best ones to appoint people to these positions are you! You're the ones who are involved in online games, so here's your chance for your opinions to be heard.

Vote for your favorite Head TD and Senior Guide until this Friday, May 11th. Cast your vote for Head TD at http://dqforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1989 and cast your vote for Senior Guide at http://dqforums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1988.

But what are TDs and Guides?
For those who don't know, TDs organize and direct our online tournaments. Guides welcome new players to the site, show them the ropes, and help both new and old players to resolve issues. For more information about these programs, or if you're interested in becoming a volunteer, please e-mail us at .

This month you can brush up on your Five Hundred game by checking out our top ten Golden Rules!

1. Check you have ten cards.
2. Sort your hand properly into suit groups.
3. Check what the score is, and then make sure you bid correctly.
4. Listen and interpret all bids.
5. If you have picked up kitty, make sure you reject exactly three cards, and...
   • Short suit your hand in one or more suits if possible.
   • Hold cards to lead to partners aces.
   • Hold at least one rag to a king in the suit in which your partner holds the ace.
   • Hold at least two rags to a queen in the suit in which your partner holds the ace.
6. If playing with a suit as trumps.
   • (a) Lead trumps first to run your opposition out of them. Only lead to your partners non trump ace first if you want him to lead a trump back, so you may try a finesse play.
   • Count the number of trumps as they are played.
   • Never lead trumps when only you and your partner hold trump cards.
   • If you know one of your opponents has one or more trumps left, and they are higher value cards than you hold, do not lead trumps. Let you opponents use them as trumps, and keep yours in reserve.
   • If your partner is out of trumps and you suspect your opponents both have one or more, you are better to lead a losing trump, as you may get two opposing trumps to fall, at the cost of only one of yours
7. If your partner leads to your ace, and you hold the king as well, play the king, not the ace. This way he knows you still hold the ace.
8. If you hold the king and queen of the same suit, and the ace has not been played, it is better to lead the king to make the queen, than the queen to make the king. If your partner has the ace, and you lead the queen he may play the ace to take a trick which he need not take. If you lead the king, he is not going to play the ace on that.
9. As a general rule the second player should play low, and the third player play high.
10. In no-trump calls lead all your long strong suit first if you have such a suit. This makes discarding for your opponents difficult.

Legend has it that the longest graduation speech spanned over 6 hours and was delivered in Latin and Greek, in the early 19th century at Harvard University.

Question: Who was credited with this concise commencement address, known as one of the shortest commencement addresses in history?

“As you prepare to leave these hollowed halls of learning, these bastions of knowledge, these citadels of scholarship, I have just two words of advice:
Don’t go!"

1. Ellen DeGeneres
2. Bob Hope
3. Woody Allen
4. Robin Williams

3 correct entries chosen at random will receive a deck of official DreamQuest playing cards!

Submit entries to by June 6th.

Meet a Featured DQ Allstar

Robert is both a Guide and a Tournament Director on DQzone.com. He makes an effort to log on under his Guide name and often plays in the Rec room, where new players often go first. He's a great help to new and old players alike, and always treats everyone respectfully and professionally when he's online. Find him under the name GUIDERobert.

Thanks for all your time and effort, Robert!