Guru Girl's guide to FREE online gaming

King.com is a skill games service with a hint of community. The site offers free skill games, avatar creation, tournaments with prize money or jewels, and a community of skill game enthusiasts. King.com let's their users put up small stakes on tournaments and games with the winner taking all. King.com is not considered gambling in most countries because skill is involved.

The site offers these features:

It only takes a few minutes to register with the site. They don't send you any emails at all (unless you sign up for newsletters etc from the site). The only emails you will recieve may be if you change or forget your password.

I've included a link to the registration form, it takes less than a minute, off you go now!

The cool thing about KING is the ability to earn 'jewels'. When you play a game, you can play in cup tournaments, timed tournaments or smaller 2-10 player tournaments depending on the game you are playing. If you have a competitive nature (like me), you will be instantly hooked and want to beat everyone else!
The more 'Jewels' collected, the more privileges you get on the site. Prizes include:

100 jewels = chat/send messages
250 jewels = change background and profile
500 jewels = challenge others to games
1000 jewels = add a winning quote
5000 jewels = start a guest book
10,000 jewels = add a photo album
100,000 jewels = send animated messages
250,000 jewels = send gifts to other people
1,000,000 jewels = personal blog
3,000,000 jewels = VIP presentation
7,000,000 jewels = Star VIP presentation

It doesn't take long to earn jewels, i've been a member for about 2 months, and already I have 33,000!

KING includes a great community-based feel to it. It is always more exciting to play games when you can interact with people and play others rather than just a computer. There are so many things you can include (or not include) in your profile, as well as add friends or enemies, send messages to others, and read others' blogs etc. The best thing is that if you don't want to be part of all that, it's not in your face at all and you will be left alone!

They offer over 100 games, available to both free and paying members.
Whatever your gaming fingers desires is probably there. Their categories include:

CARD GAMES - e.g Solitaire, Hearts, Pyramid, Freecell

FREE CELL

PUZZLE GAMES - e.g Chuzzle, Bejeweled, Deal or No Deal

BEJEWELED

ACTION GAMES - e.g Bunny Bon Bon, Pinball, Zuma

ZUMA

WORD GAMES - e.g 1 vs 100, Key Word, Word Battle

1 VS 100

SPORTS GAMES - e.g King Pin Bowling, Dart Deul, Pool King

POOL KING

STRATEGY GAMES - e.g Model Studio, Yatzy, Mahjong

MAHJONG

The great thing about KING is the option to upgrade to a paid member (only if you really want to!).

BONUSES:
- No ads showing before games
- Play in cash tournaments - win $$$$$$$
- Collect rewards, diplomas and more
- Lifetime membership
- No wait time when the site is busy

COSTS:
You can deposit differing amounts of money to your account, starting at $5. Remember you can win money, but it still costs a small amount (usually about .25c) to enter a cash competition. Right now they are helping new members by doubling your funds, so if you put in $5, your account will be $10.