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Lottso! Express – Refill Badge
Complete 200 bingos this week!

Chess – Pwned! Badge
Capture 50 pieces this week! (Players will not get challenge progress if they resign)

Want to work on your badges this week with some familiar faces? We’ll be playing in the following rooms:

Lottso Express:
- Topics/rooms that start with O
- Topics/Temporary Members Room 50630

Chess:
- Social/Temporary Members Room 50107

Don’t forget to wear a badge/chat icon that resembles a “B” to identify yourself to other BadgeHungry friends — a list is in the first comment below.

A few previous articles that may help with these challenges are Lottso Express Hints & Tips, How to Double Browse, and (while this is not the most effective way to capture pieces it will help you win if you’re doubling-up on badges) Chess Moves/How to Win at Chess.

Please feel free to leave your hints and tips for these badges in a comment below. Thanks!

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Filed under: chess, lottso! express, weekly challenges

This just in from Pogo UK: Cluedo Secrets and Spies is coming soon! (For those of you who don’t know, North America knows the game as “Clue”, but the rest of the world calls it “Cluedo”.) On Pogo, Clue/Cluedo will be a hidden object game. There’s a short news article that explains the game’s mechanics and the episode-purchase system. We discussed this a little in the last weekend open thread, but now Pogo has confirmed it:

“Enjoy the first episode of this fantastic game completely free, then purchase additional episodes from the CLUEDO Secrets & Spies Episode Store using Pogo Gems! Club Pogo members will benefit from additional free episodes AND get a hefty discount on additional episodes purchased.”

Right now it looks like the additional episodes will be 20 gems for Club Pogo members, but 40 gems for everyone else. This may change before release, of course.

Here’s a screenshot (click for full size):

For more information, check out Pogo marketing’s coming soon teaser page: US or UK, and stay tuned to BadgeHungry for the latest news as we receive it.

Thanks to Sal for alerting us to the UK article!

Filed under: clue: secrets and spies, coming soon/rumors

Pogo has released the Mythic Menagerie Premium Badge Album. This album contains ten challenges and an album completion badge. It costs $5.99 (or 86 gems).

Click to view animated badges and challenges

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Filed under: premium albums

Don’t forget to get your free tokens today!

Thanks to Dr. Pepper, Pogo is giving away 2323 tokens in each of ten games every Monday between now and March 29th. The promotion is called Unmatched Mondays and you’ll get your tokens just by opening the game.

Get your tokens now!

A few people have written in to report they have been able to get these tokens twice, once in the morning and once in the evening after 5pm PST.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us all know about these freebies! We’ll post again each Monday until the promotion is over to remind you to get your free Pogo tokens.

Filed under: promotions and events

Happy Weekend Everyone!

Is it really Friday again? Time sure flies when people are bickering in Bingo Luau! Also, there was a lot of news this week so don’t forget to scroll down the homepage (and maybe even click through to older entries) to see if you missed anything. I’ve been a busy (buzy?) little bee.

Jan in Denver writes: “Seeing all the interesting screen names folks come up with, I’m wondering about the stories behind how each came up with their screen name.” Let us know how you picked your Pogo username in a comment below. If you’re not comfortable sharing yours, you can either creatively mention its origins or you can bring up another topic entirely. It’s up to you.

As usual, you should also use this thread to ask questions or talk about topics that didn’t fit in anywhere else this week. You can ask for help on a badge or offer your help to others, anything goes. There’s no such thing as “off-topic” on the weekend open threads! :)

See you in the comments!

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Filed under: general

As part of Pogo’s monthly Game Night, play Mini Golf Madness today and one winner will receive one Hasbro™ Family Game Night 2 game with an approximate retail value of $36.99.

Filed under: promotions and events

Pogo has put some old favorites into the mini mall once again! Check out this re-release, which includes lots of favorite backgrounds, goodies, and outfits as well as a couple things for St. Patrick’s Day.

Say Hello Again to Some Old Favorites!
March 4, 2010
You’ll be delighted to discover, or rediscover as the case may be, Mini items from our archives! You’ll find some favorite backgrounds, some lovely goodies, and of course some of our favorite St. Patty’s Day items!

Plus, you’ll get to meet Avastracia, the Protector! The Pet of the Month for March. In a word? He’s fierce!

Filed under: pogo minis

Here are the twelve Mix-n-Match badges for April 2010. Each one will cost 16 gems and they will probably be released on the first day of April.

Aces Up! – Up and At Them Badge
Complete 10 squadrons in 2 weeks! (Collect all 4 Flying Aces in a single game to complete a squadron)
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

BATTLESHIP – Swab the Deck Badge
Win the game with at least 2 ships afloat 12 times in 2 weeks!
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

Beaker Creatures – Horns Aplenty Badge
Create 30 perfect groups in 10 days! (Each feature of a perfect group is ‘all the same’ or ‘all different’)
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Canasta – Red Beret Badge
Win 20000 Canasta Points in 10 days! (Canasta Points are not tokens. Finish the game to collect your points)
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Crazy Cakes – Crazy Cupcakes Badge
Meet the Goal for 5 rounds without wasting any desserts in 10 days! (Meet the goal with no desserts left over or put in the trash)
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Crossword Cove – Cozy Cove Badge
Win a puzzle on Hard difficulty in 3 weeks!
Win this badge plus 4,000 tokens.

Everyone Wins Bingo – Hug a Tree Badge
Call 50 diagonal bingos in 2 weeks!
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

Lottso! – Fireball Badge
Place 50 wild star balls in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition – Railroad Tycoon Badge
Land on a Transport Space 10 times in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Mini Golf Madness – New Putter Badge
Finish a 9-hole course under par or better 5 times in 2 weeks! (Score -1 or less at the end of a 9-hole course)
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

Poppit! – Balloon Animals Badge
Release 60 Panda prizes in 2 weeks!
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

Tri-Peaks Solitaire – Trap Door Badge
Win 3 games IN A ROW in 2 weeks!
Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

Filed under: coming soon/rumors, mix-n-match

Pogo is expanding their virtual gifting services (currently badges, albums, and mini items) into the Pogo Gift Store and they’re adding new items you can gift to your friends called Expressions. Expressions are like virtual greeting cards, some animated and some not, that will cost small amounts of gems and tokens. The one to the right is a “#1 Mini” that you can send to a friend to let them know “Your mini is numero uno”! Like greeting cards, you can send them to express your thanks, celebrate birthdays and occasions and holidays, and more. There will be some that are Club Pogo exclusives as well.

Click on the screenshot below to see the new Gift Store at full-size.

Thank you Kiki for this great find!

Filed under: coming soon/rumors