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AARP Expert Amy Nofziger Pen pals are a great way to find connection and talk about our favorite hobbies, sports teams, etc. I have even seen some senior centers sponsoring pen pal programs for their members. Sadly, though, as your resident AARP Fraud Expert, I must add a few safety precautions.   As much as we want to assume everyone looking for a pen pal is an honest, upstanding citizen, from my 20 years in the fraud business, I know they are not always. Scammers will try any method and tactic to steal from you. They will create a fictional persona to befriend you to gain trust and then ask for money or personal information. A few things to keep in mind:   Do not give any personal or identifying information they could use to steal from you or create an Identify theft situation. Do not post your mailing address on public websites (if you want to share with someone do so via a private message), specific date of birth or anything too personal.   Here are some other red flags your new pen pal might be a scammer:   They will ask for money to help with an emergency. Do not send money, ever! After building a friendship, they might ask for nude photos. Seems crazy right, but it happens more than you would think. They get you to send these and then try to extort money from you with threats of sending them to your work, church or friends. They will claim to be from the United States but stuck outside the country on a work trip that was interrupted by the travel restrictions or they are on a mission trip. There are many mission trip “doctors” who had their wallets stolen in foreign countries recently and only their new friends can help them. Cough, Cough, of course these are not doctors but scammers trying to steal from you. They ask for prepaid gift cards, wire transfers, cash or for you to open a bank account. Do not ever send money. If they ask for money ignore the request and stop communication with the person.   If you have any gut feelings that something seems off. Listen to that feeling, it’s usually correct. Also, report any suspicious request to the AARP Fraud Watch Helpline at 877-908-3360 we are here to help.   If you'd like to connect and become pen pals with a fellow AARP Online Community member, check out this topic today. 

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Question I would like to listen to something else on my PC while I play the games, so muting the PC sound isn't an option. Can the sound in the online games be controlled?    Answer The sound can be controlled on all the games I’ve played without adjusting your computer speakers. It’s a simple click on the speaker icon to mute the sound. The speaker icon is located either on the home screen before you start the game or under the menu tab for that game. It’s easy to mute the sound before you begin playing a game.  

Question What movies would you recommend for Valentine's Day? What are your favorite movies about love? Answers Moonstruck. Nicholas Cage and Cher....what a great movie. Great stars, great story, and great script. Love Actually. The world needs more Hugh Grant movies..just saying. Something’s Gotta Give. A fantastic movie about relationships.  As Good as it Gets. Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. Great movie!! An Officer and a Gentleman. Richard Gere and Debra Winger. The ending every woman wants to see. Working Girl. Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith  So many great ones: especially classics like Casablanca, The African Queen, Philadelphia Story—either version, but i'm partial to Kate and Cary. One of my lifelong romantic phrases: "We were yar" like their boat "the true love". Subplots w/ Jimmy Stewart and (gal reporter Liz). Jimmy and Kate were great. Titanic (1997). Evergreen movie. Seventeen-year-old Rose hails from an aristocratic family and is set to be married. When she boards the Titanic, she meets Jack Dawson, an artist, and falls in love with him. Titanic is the world's second-highest-grossing film of all time.  

Why AARP Games are Changing   AARP games are being updated. This update is primarily being driven by a shift in the digital world, away from using Flash technology. Flash will be fully discontinued by its manufacturer, Adobe, by the end of 2020, and browsers have already started to phase out supporting it. A number of AARP’s games are created using Flash, and many of you have contacted us or commented in our Community forum about the increasing difficulty you are experiencing using them. These games now need constant re-enabling on your browser in order to play. Moreover, these popular games aren’t available at all on your smart phones and tablets. Support for Flash is on the decline, and so the issue is only going to increase and your playing experience is apt to continue to deteriorate. After careful consideration, we decided that now is the right time to prepare to discontinue all Flash games.   What You Need to Know   The good news is that we will be replacing the games going away with newer games, which use the faster, mobile-friendly technology called WebGL. With the new technology, there will be no need on your end to buy or download anything new. This will make all AARP games available to all players on any browser and device — desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, and tablets. It also will provide a smoother and more secure playing environment without the need to download additional software like Flash.  Unfortunately, personal scores and leaderboard positions in Flash games cannot be carried over. Scores earned on the current WebGL games will not be affected. As this transition is happening, we pledge to be as transparent and accommodating as we can. We are dedicated to providing you a fun and challenging games experience! If you have questions, please post them on this forum. If you need additional assistance, please reach us at member@aarp.org or call customer service at 1-888-687-2277.   What Will Happen   On October 29*, we will add over 30 new games, built in WebGL. (*New date: previously scheduled for October 25.) From October 29 to November 26, we’re giving you an opportunity to continue playing Flash games, while getting acquainted with their replacements. We understand that this will be an adjustment, but many of the new games will be nearly identical or be very similar to the old Flash counterparts. Take a few weeks to try them on for size and maybe even find a few new favorites. On November 27, all Flash games will be removed, but the new WebGL games will remain.    Non-Affected Games Already in WebGL   Jigsaw  Jigsaw - Daily Landing Party Mahjongg Candy Mahjongg Solitaire Mini Crossword Slots - Hollywood Dreams Solitaire - FreeCell Solitaire - Klondike Solitaire - Pyramid Solitaire - Spider Solitaire - Tri Peaks Sudoku Sudoku - Daily Sudoku - Daily Diagonal Trizzle True? Wander Words Eggz Blast* Flip Out* Mahjongg Dimensions* Mahjongg Toy Chest* Space Hunt* Spellbound*   *These games are already in WebGL on your mobile devices. The same games are in Flash on your desktops and laptops, and will be replaced with their WebGL counterparts.   Flash Games to be Discontinued on November 27 A lot of these games are going to be replaced with same or similar WebGL counterparts.   5 Roll 52 Card Pick Up AARP 50th Anniversary Crossword Addiction Solitaire Alu's Revenge Arctic Tri Peaks Solitaire Backgammon Baseball Beach Sudoku Bridge Bryx Bubble Boo Bumper Cards Carniball Circuit Smash Crescent Solitaire Crossword Expert Crossword: Easy Cryptogram Daily Crossword Déjà Vu Solitaire Dice Dice Baby+ Eggz+ Eggz Blast New Eggz Classic+ Find It+ Find-o-Vision Freecell Solitaire Golf Challenge Grid Lock Hollywood Solitaire Ice Cream Blast Jigsaw Puzzle Beginner Jigsaw Puzzle Intermediate Jigsaw: Hard Klondike Solitaire Klondike Solitaire Gold Kritter Krawler Mahjongg Mahjongg Age of Alchemy Mahjongg Dark Mimensions+ Mahjongg Dimensions New Mahjongg Garden Mahjongg: Mom Jongg Match & Merge Metro Match Minesweeper Minesweeper New Mini Golf Mixology Monkey Gems Nit Pix Outdraw Poker PegLand+ Photo Recall Picture Pieces Pool Pyramid Solitaire Pyramid Solitaire Silver Roulette+ Score+ SlingShock Slots: Big Cats Slots: Golden Pharaoh Slots: Under the Sea Sparks+ Spider Solitaire Splitarature+ Sport Fishing Sudoku Suds Sumatra Surf Solitaire Train of Thought Treasure Hunt Tri Peaks Solitaire Tumble Tiles Type Writer Video Poker Word Search 2 Yarnz Eggz Blast* Flip Out* Mahjongg Dimensions* Mahjongg Toy Chest* Space Hunt* Spellbound*   +Members Only *These games are already in WebGL on your mobile devices, and will not be affected there.  The same games are in Flash on your desktops and laptops, and will be replaced with their WebGL counterparts.     New Games   5 Roll Alu's Revenge 2 Backgammon Black Jack+ Bridge Bubble Dragons Mahjongg Dark Dimensions Mahjongg Dimensions Candy Mathdoku+ Outspell Pool - 8 Ball Pool - 9 Ball Solitaire - 40 Thieves Solitaire - Addiction Solitaire - Canfield+ Solitaire - Classic Solitaire - Crescent Solitaire - Golf Sweet Shuffle Word Search - Daily Word Wipe Bubble Dragon Saga+ Jigsaw Blast Eggz Blast* Flip Out* Mahjongg Dimensions* Mahjongg Toy Chest* Space Hunt* Spellbound*   +Members Only *These games are already in WebGL on your mobile devices, and will not be affected there.  The same games are in Flash on your desktops and laptops, and will be replaced with their WebGL counterparts.     What computers/browsers will the new games work on?   All of the new games will be available on all computers and mobile devices, without the need to invest in any new devices or technology on your end. In fact, that's one of the advantages of WebGL: you don't need anything special to play these games. You don't even need to worry about "re-enabling" anything on your browser, like you have to do with Flash sometimes. These new WebGL games will be supported on all computers, so all you have to do is find the game you want to play and enjoy!   Replacements Treasure Hunt is being replaced with the similar Space Hunt. Eggz has the new game, Sweet Shuffle, and the similar Eggz Blast. The destop version of Eggz Blast will be replaced with an identical game on October 25, but the version of the game available on mobile devices today will not be affected.            

 Question  Are all games available on mobile phones and tablets?    Answer Some games you play on your computer are not available on your mobile device. AARP currently offers many games that are built using Flash-based technology. Mobile devices have stopped supporting programs that use this technology, so those games are not accessible on your mobile phone and/or tablet. To play all available mobile games, please visit All Games from your mobile phone or tablet. And, by the way, you can play AARP's complete collection of games on your desktop or laptop computer.