Weekend Open Thread

I found Pogo way back in 1999 but went through a couple of name changes due to (saying this politely) someone using a cheat on my name and disqualifying me for a prize that I had won.

I found Pogo through Excite and it wasn’t much then but it sure did help me deal with a lot of free time. I joined up automatically, back then if you had an e-mail account with Excite then they used that as your Pogo screen name.

I’d like to thank everyone on this site for contributing all of their hard work, time and effort for giving us a little help with some of these games such as Trivial Pursuit, Crossword Cove and an old game that is now helping me as well Hangman Hijinks.

This site is extremely informative and I have become addicted to it.

I already have my Mahjong Garden badge for today and I’m off to do my Trivial Pursuit and Crossword Cove.

Thanks to everyone who has helped!

Have a great weekend!

Found regular pogo in 1999, don’t remember how, someone told me about it, lol. Then of course when Club pogo started, I said “no way am I paying for that”, but low and behold I did in 2003 and have been an addicted fan FOREVER. Got many friends to join also, so now all we do is play pogo and try and outdo each other in bages, lol. It is so addicting and sure does help in cold winter times with nothing else to do. I suffered thru poppitt and got the mahjong badge already, so now I too am off to do trivial pursuit and crossword cove. This site has been a blessing in helpful hints and I love it. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and has not suffered too much POPPITT dreams, lol. Great job Lura!!!!

I found pogo early on (2001 maybe) when they first paired AOL with pogo. I played all the club pogo games from the inseption but didn’t join until Christmas 2003 when, extremely addicted to World Class Solitaire, I was visiting my parents and got sick of logging into AOL to advance my rank. Instead, I bought in to Club Pogo and haven’t looked back. I have played and hosted in leagues and have made some amazing friends. I only wish I had joined Club Pogo from the very beginning so I could have used a different screen name. My email at the time was Frenchteacher14 and I’m no longer a French teacher (I get asked allllllllll the time). lol

Originally, I was a regular club member on one account in 1999. I found it from a friend in an AOL chat. We’re still very close friends and she still uses her original name on here.

Then I made another regular account in 2001. That second account, became my first Club account in August 2003. I had well over 1300 badges, but I decided to “retire” that name and cash in all of my tokens for drawings. I did recruit many friends and family members during this time to join Pogo. Many are still very active ;)

The name I currently use (MariaLoon) is the name I had always *wanted* to have for Pogo, but they kept telling me it was taken…until January 2009! I made MariaLoon then, had a 30-day guest pass, and activated Club Pogo on it, right as it was going to end. I will never get rid of this name and be a complete badge hungry addict foreverrrr LOL

I will keep getting more friends and family to join me there. It’s the best site for unwinding and having a good time. Even with the occasional drama which lurks about on Pogo lol

I am an original member of Club Pogo. It was great to see my name on the list of original Club Pogo members. I learned of Pogo due to playing games at yahoo. A friend and I used to play games at Yahoo all the time and we heard about Pogo in chat (I think). I started playing Pogo exclusively. My favorite game was the original “Word Riot”. I made several friends playing that game. It was wild to play Word Riot when it first came out. There were so many rooms that people tried to make their room only, other room members would come into other rooms and just cause big time trouble causing lots and lots of fights amongst players. The best thing was there was a boot button where you could boot troublemakers out of the room. Boy, that was wild. I was not surprised to see Pogo end the game due to the trouble it was causing. Anywho…..I joined Club Pogo right away when it became available. I have been a member of Pogo since August 1998. I can not believe it has been over 10 years. I love Pogo and am addicted. You will find me mostly playing Lottso these days. I sure wish they would increase the ranks in Lottso.

Have a great weekend!

Charm

I was referred to Pogo by a friend and was a freebie for almost a year until they “broke” the access from Mac’s Safari and Firefox ran soooooo slow. (I still don’t think they fixed it as it seemed to be a good scheme to get all Mac users to go club – it was the ad loader that crashed the games.) My mom was hooked by that time and had no patience for the broken system so she bought everyone in the family club pogo for the holiday. Now we all talk to each other more on (and about) Pogo than on the phone! So I played the free games for about a year and now am just short of a year being a club member.

I found Pogo when my friend Dave had been playing it all the time. He had sent me a guest pass and I used it once and forgot all about the site for a couple of years. Then some other friends were playing it too one day so they sent me another guest pass and I was hooked. I’ve been a member since 2006 and I love playing. Its hard to play during the summer since I’m so busy but once winter hits I’m on it all the time. Hope you all have a great weekend

hello everyone happy weekend!
I found pogo in 2007,I was playing on yahoo games and I seen a ad for pogo and thought to see how it was.I became club pogo member after pass someone gave me and have been hooked ever since.
I do have a question.I know we can double browse but is it possible to quad browse? I have been wanting to get those darn rated pinochle badges.those are the harded badges on pogo.I know we can make the screen smaller but I dont want it to be too small its hard to play.I know it would be way easier with 2 computers but I only have one.
thank you lura and everyone who helps,I love this site very friendl and helpful wonderful people love you all! *hugs*

I found Pogo in 2003 and then found a dear friend was a Club Pogo member. We played together and chatted several times a week. When she had to go out of town for about 10 days, she asked me to get her badges for her. That was in 2006. In exchange, she said she would buy me a Club Pogo membership. Well, after 2 days of Club Pogo, I bought my own membership! I was that hooked and havent looked back. I now have well over 1,300 badges, all the PBAs and Im working on my 17th MM album. We still get badges for each other from time to time and give each other hints and tips. And of course we pair up for a lot of the challenges.

And, thanks for a great site Lura!

Happy weekend all! I remember playing Jungle Gin way back in the AOL days. I passed up three passes before going in for the plunge in 2006. Wish I joined sooner as I reallllly want that Sorceress mini-costume to come back lol, so jealous when I see it around from time to time. I’m so addicted, but currently my question is, “What am I MORE Addicted to? Pogo or Badge Hungry?” Now that’s a tough one ;)
Woo & Yay to the Crossword Cove fix! I’ll finally get caught up this weekend. A special thanks to Mbpmorris for the Poppit tip!..who woudda thunk? lol

Happy weekend everyone! Apparently I missed a lot since Ive been gone for more than a month, but whatever, Ill catch up.

Anyways, I knew of Pogo since 2003, and found about it from my mother (who passed away last month, so Im keeping her Pogo legacy going). I joined Club Pogo in 2005. I waited a while to join because I was kinda skeptical about Club Pogo back then. But I still joined, nonetheless, and I still enjoy it.

I just wish I joined Club Pogo sooner, I missed out on so many cool super badges that we cant get anymore. But at least I know I wont miss any more badges =).

~DJ91994

I found POGO on AOL in 2001 and finally became a member in 2005.
I dont remember how I found it, but now cant live without. Of course that means I have no life! LOL

I agree with Dallie, POGO or Badge Hungry. B.H. first, so I dont miss anything, then on to POGO. Then back to B.H. to browse all the comments.

Happy Weekend!!!!!!
I have been member sense Jan.06,2001
I have 1787 badges as of today I just finshed the last album. I have to get all the albums and MM the day they come out.I have friends that wait till they go on sale .My profile I have POGOis my job.I enjoy paying most of all the games but love canastra ,jungle gin,spades to name a few.I was visting a friend and she was playing poker on pogo well I tryed it loved it and been member ever sense.

Connie, you can clear your stats but you wont lose your badges for the game or tokens. You will not get more badges, just more tokens. (But do you really wants to clear your stats? Some who have done it have said they regretted doing it.) gl

I have been a member since July of 2006 (wow has it really been that long!!!!) I had been looking for a free tri peaks game and my mom told me about pogo. I swore i would NEVER pay for it (that didnt last long)
The funny thing is I didnt even realize there were badges !!! Then one day I heard her talking about badges and I said what are those She told me and I have been hooked ever since. Then one day I was bored and tried out a small album (the 4 game sampler album) and I have been a badge ho ever since LOL
I am also glad to hear the CC problem finally got fixed!!! LOL
Have a great weekend EV1!!!!

First to HomelessDog – Thanks so much for the mini golf screenshots. I have a couple of the badges but can concentrate now on getting the Astro course, thanks to you. What a wonderful thing to share with us and I appreciate it. Ive been with Pogo since 2000 having found the net ten site first in 1999 and playing on Pogo now for 9 years. The changes have been remarkable during that time. I have been on Club Pogo for several years, have completed every premium album except the last one and Im starting that one now, have completed 16 mix and match albums, and Im truly addicted. Sure Pogo has its flaws and its glitches from time to time, but dont we all? lol I have met some the best people on Pogo and on this site also. Happy Birthday Pogo and hoping everyone in BadgeHungry-land has a super weekend.

Been a Club Pogonian since June of 2001 but played about a year free of charge before I took the plunge. Much like many others, I couldnt justify in my own mind paying for playing games on-line. But then I got so very tired of those ad interruptions that once I played as a club member, there was no going back. I dont have a clear recollection of the course of events, but according to records, the first badge I earned was in Poppit in January of 2006, so that must have been when they first started offering badges (?)

I vaguely recall playing on some other site and somebody mentioned Pogo and I checked it out. Dont even recall what that other site was, but I think its long gone now. My profile reads Occupation: Im working on it. That says it all…

June, 2004 – I was devastated by the end of a long term relationship was just reading emails on aol a squelchies ad came up. So figured ok, lets do this for awhile not have to think about anything else…met some really nice people playing the game in August noticed the badges so asked about it…joined Sept 2004 currently have 5 family members playing now including Mom who is 83 (thats a whole story in itself). Just want to say that Pogo was my therapy (cheaper than by the hour therapist LOL) and Squelchies was first game I ranked out on. Anyway, thanks again Lura for a great site.

Candi #33. I believe they first started offering badges in 2003….at least that’s the furthest back I have been able to go when catching up on previous weekly badges.
My first badge I earnt was in Sept 2004.

I used to play in yahoo games and I met a friend there and he told me about Pogo and sent me a pass, that was 2007, and told me about badges and all the games, I just used my pass to make him happy but I wasn’t interested at all and kept asking my friend what was badges for. At the time I was hooked in a yahoo pool league so I just logged in pogo once in a while as a free member, in Feb. 2008 there was this offer of a 20 day pass and 40K tokens, I wanted the tokens so i clicked “redeem ur pass” and then I don’t know why I got hooked and became a Club Pogo member one year after I first learned about it, yes one year lol. Since then I’m totally addicted to Pogo, games and badges.

it was 1996 and we got our first computer,a HP……we had dial up(UGGGH) and AOL.I was surfing for games and came acrross pogo and there was Spike with his balloons!I became a member as soon as the club came out.Poppit was also the 1st game my son Lucas,who’s Autistic learned to play by watching me!I was so happy,he was just 2 yrs old at the time!Been in love with Pogo ever since!

I started playing way back when Excite was the main gateway to Ten I had been playing for a couple months when I met my now wife in Sept 1999 back when Bingo was like the wild wild west there where wars and cat fights and all and all out fights sometimes the fights were better then that darn bingo who didnt have a voice but we cursed nether the less I was under a diffrent screen name iqtru18 course I was in the middle of most of them fights, but Cindy quikly settled me down and I tell you it had nothing to do with her becoming a Pogo Guide non what so ever lol anyways I had club pogo from the very first day it came out then I talked -Heartless- my pogo girlfriend and her mother in getting Club pogo lucky she kept her name and all the darn cool Badges I retired Iq mainly cause I wanted to turn over a new leaf and be rid of the drama that followed me and became Fier6666 Cindy came out to see me in Seattle wash from Texas on Christmas of 1999 10 years and 2 kids later I maganged to put her thru nursing school luckly before I myself got seriously injuryed on the job and now shes going to school for her RN and im the stay at home play pogo all day daddy lol I had to stop playing for a bit but now im making up for lost time so if you see me around add me to your friends list and well play a few games anyhow thats my story

Hi all long time reader first time poster……Anyhow i found pogo around 2002/03 became a member in November 04…didnt get into the badges then as much as now ..Tho i have over 900 badges so far catcinhg up on the years i missed.

I found Pogo back in July 2000 after a google search for some games and didnt become a club pogo member until October 2007, after I had used a couple of the free plays that they would give me. I didnt use Pogo for a number of years from about 2002 or 2003 until about 2007, when I started playing on the site again.

It was in December of 1996.I asked my husband what he was doing on computer and he said playing a game,so I checked it out and proceeded to hedge his butt out of chair and took over.Then he told me I could make my own account on POGO,so I did.Then over a month later he told me there was a 2 week free club POGO pass,I checked it out and when it ran out I HAD to join. And have been hooked since! It really saved me from the depression pit I was in,the distraction was the best medicine ever!

Hi all, Best site..go to it everday! Thank you Lura and to all of your elves! :-) Have a great weekend all and good luck.

Well, I will add my two cents worth since no one else has mentioned this as a reason to join…I decided $30 (at that time through AOL) was a bargain for my sanity compared to sitting through those awful intermissions on the free side! I just could not stand that…so paid I went just as soon as practical. I have just started a screenname for my mom on her new computer. She swears she will never, ever pay. We will see just how long she can put up with the lack of full access and the intermissions!
I found POGO right after starting a new job that involved baby-sitting a bunch of computers waiting for someone to need help (few and far between) and needed something, anything to do. POGO is my relaxation, my thinking time (let the analytical part of the brain do its thing while I am off in Mahjong or Lottso or one of the Jigsaw), and my “the RA/fibro/etc. pain is too much, I might as well just play” survivor mode time!
And augmenting all of those is Lura and BadgeHungry! Thank you!

Happy Weekend Lura All! I found Pogo through some friends on a game site formerly called At The Crossroads now known as Garfield Games. Before switching over to Garfield Games I won at least $500 from them, I loved that place (but I digress…lol) They were talking about this word scramble game they found called Word Whomp. Sounded like my kind of game…little did I know – hehehehe. Joined Pogo 3/17/2001 (didnt leave WW until 20 mil tokies later….lol) finally couldnt stand the intermissions anymore so joined club Pogo 7/25/2003. The rest they say, is history!

Good afternoon everyone, hope you’re all having a great day playing Pogo. My son told me about Pogo back in 2000 and I’d heard so many bad things it could do to your PC that I was always trying to talk him into getting off Pogo. Then in 2007 a friend gave me a years subscription and it’s history now, I’m a total addict. I’ve only paid for one year myself after my friend gave me the first one, got a year free through the league I used to belong to. I have a friend that wasn’t on Club till I gave her a guest pass and when that ran out the Subway Scrabble had just started and I won 3-3 month subscriptions and gave them to her, so now I have her hooked. I look at it like paying it forward when I give someone a Club subscription, who knows who it’ll be next LOL.

Thanks Lura for the great site and a big TY to all that give tips on all the diff games, been a big help to me.

Have a great weekend everyone.

I heard about pogo from my sister , back in March of 2002 and Joined in Oct 2002 love pogo first game I played was Ali Baba Slots was glad when pogo added ranks, I love finishing ranks thats what I really enjoy and the friends I have made. I just have one thing thats driving me crazy all the times I have played poppit never wondered what games the prizes are from only two i can’t figure out is there any where to find this out? Thank you for this great site.

Hello Lura and all my NEW FRIENDS at BH…since this is the weekend I hope it’s okay to ask this question…….does anyone have any tips on tri-peaks? I am sooooooo tired of losing – lol. I tired weed killer and shooting that dang bird, but still nothing gets me to the gold chest.

Now for Lura’s question – my first sign on name was in 2005 when a friend at work suggested the sight. I ran into trouble with one person in Pogo, and didn’t renew my subscription. It took me several years to subscribe again and now I am trying to play catch-up on badges – lol.

I’ve said it before and I will repeat myself – LOVE THIS SITE LURA and God Bless you and everyone for all your loving support.

oh Thank you Lura the pretzel and what looks like horn of plenty was thinking that might be harvest mania 6th one from end .

yes they sure are small well thanks for all your help Lura and you could be right on tugboat

I was searching for free games back in 1999 and found and joined pogo then. Have been playing most days ever since. I was pretty disappointed in Pogo for leaving me off the everybody that has been playing since 1999 list. My profiles shows nov 1999.

My children found pogo for me in 1999 and I have been playing ever since .
I joined club pogo in 2000 and have n=much enjoyment from it especially after a hard day at work. I am retired now and can play more hours than I care to admit . I just recently discovered badge hungry and I love this site. I want to thank Lura for all she does and also for the 3 months subscription I won last week. Happy weekend!!

how do we get more helpful hints for mini gold madness to cut strokes off par?

Anybody remember Primetime Pitch? Thats what drew me to Pogo. Well, that and any other games site with games I liked. When it went away (as well as the other game sites), I went away until 2006 when I got a free pass to Club Pogo. Doesnt look like Im going away from Pogo anytime soon. I wished they brought PP back, though maybe with some elements of Magic: the Gathering or Yu-gi-oh.

Happy weekend all!
Id like to add to #74 for the secret Bloop badge. Follow those tips and if you know how to double browse, then this badge is a done deal. Lura has a link for double browsing on the side.
Good luck and have fun.

i first started playing pogo in 2001 with a diff name after i used to get bored playing lucky penny piggy poker in popcap. I got bored with pogo after a while and went to yahoo canasta but in 2008 i found my way to club pogo. Both my hubby and I play under my new name and have a special connection to the computer as we met online and i moved from england to america to be with him. (we met in piggy poker on popcap)

well i played doublecross on sierra.com before pogo was pogo. my friend and i also played literati on yahoo. we were always looking for more word games. well we had a falling out and we lost touch. i ended up on pogo when we lost touch but not as a member i had another name also, i loved word whomp. i then turned away from the computer and games for many years. well after a family problem my mom thought pogo would help. she sent a pass and i was hooked that was 2007. i credit pogo for my sanity. i was in counseling and got my counseler and her hubby to play pogo. well i also have my fiance who i met on pogo a year ago living in new york with me, we met in jungle gin lol. then the friend who i had the falling out with i found her on pogo a month ago and we rekindled our friendship. thank goodness for pogo i am a badge ho. and ty for the bloop tip. i got the badge for me and my fiance. this place is great ty ty ty ty

For RV60 #78 – you can play on any level, you just have to remove 20 animals at 1 time….all you need to do is set off a bomb….that counts.

My husband used to play online games quite a lot as a long haul truck driver, when he was waiting for loads (which can take days sometimes). He introduced me to Pogo a few years ago, but I never played much. Then about two years ago, he was injured and had several months of sitting home most of the time during the recovery. I started joining him in Pogo rooms to see for myself the games he told me about. I finally got my own membership last year, and now I’m as addicted as he is!

Lura,

I think a mini contest added to the site would be great! You could have BH readers submit there mini’s, you pick the top 20 and then open up the judging to the public (you could use the weekend thread for the votes). The top 5 winners would be posted promiently on the web site until the next contest.

This is just a suggestion for the format, but I think the idea of a mini contest on BH is definately worth a try.

I started playing in about 2002, referred by a friend who asked me to play cards with her online. I didnt become a member until october of 2004, when a long time friend taught me how to click on her name and look at all her pretty badges…I decided I wanted some too, now I have almost 1600 of them. The same day I joined a friend kasha also joined. Five years later, we still talk every week, thru sick and sin, and mostly about both our new grandbabies…I have a wonderful friends list and enjoy catching up on the events of their lives.

I wanted to add a little story. I went to see the court clerk in PA at one time regarding obtaining a copy of a document. I was waiting a lengthy time. About that time, a clerk said, “someone will be with you shortly”. I glanced up, saw her screen, remembered it was Wednesday, and replied “If you stop playing your pogo challenges, i will be seen even more quickly”. Talk about a sheepish look as she turned off her screen and immediatly helped me. Yes, pogo fans are everywhere.

Again, thank you, Lura, and all your helpers. I learn something new each day in here. Now, I am anxious to see the new mini golf screen shots as soon as i send this. So nice to have them included.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions for Stack-Em. Will let you know if I ever get it. I started playing Keno on Pogo back in 2001 and then got busy and never went back. About a year and a half ago I ran into Hog Heaven, not even sure how. We had since moved and lots of changes in our lives and I signed up for Club Pogo and have been going strong. Was even surprised my RV60 was still in place. I love it and having this site just adds so much to the experience. Thanks Lura.

This is my second post on this thread. HomelessDog is a GODSEND!!! Thanks to the MGM screenshots I finally got 2 badges….and I havent set foot on a real golf course!!! Thanks HEAPS Homie…couldnt have done it without you!!! As a thank you…and if youre REALLY homeless, Ill let you move in with me…..temporarily….or until the next tip!!! lol

Like HomelessDog would it be possible for some of the more seasoned Pogo TIGERS to post screenshots of some of the other Courses for the novices among us? This is just a request, but one that will be appreciated by many Im sure.

Finally Thanks Bunches to the Hostess with the Mostest LURA for bringing it all to our attention! Youre the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend =) I think my first earned badge was for Tri-Peaks back in ’06

TY to HomelessDog for the screenshots, they really helped. And thanks also to the guy who submitted that awesome Boggle Solver link, sorry I can’t remember your sn. I finally checked out the Hangman Hijinks word list this weekend, and that must’ve been some task, great job

Heavenly, that’s a cool idea with the mini’s ..and I just reached my 100th mini creation! lol let’s have a party

Lura, will the new profile pages have an option to add one? I remember you mentioning you had a surprise in the works a short while ago.. (but that could’ve been for the code giveaway)

I found Pogo originally in 2001 through AOL. Played off and on, played a lot when I was home for 7 weeks after having my daughter. Was on a message board with someone that sent me a guest pass, and I got “hooked”…bought my first membership in January of this year and haven’t missed a weekly badge yet :) I’ve even turned in coke points for another free year and am saving up for another…don’t know what I’d do without it!!!

I started playing Pogo many many moons aggo. I had just got a Compaq computer and was using the new 14.4 modem with it. LOL! I remember using Compuserve and then tried AOL. I fianlly settled on a screen name in August of 1999 and have kept it since, but it’s not listed on the Pogo anniversary page. DH still uses the original name I joined with.

I remember Pogo shutting down at night to do upgrades and maintenence. You used to be able to search the member list for people by name, location or interests. Pogo techs would jump into room with us sometimes and chat or see if we had any questions. We had very little drama in the chat rooms and had a lot of fun. I mostly played Poppit and Double Duece Poker and solitaire.

I finally joined Club Pogo 2 years ago mostly to play Addiction Solitaire. I still play that a lot, but have found some other fun favorites. I haven’t learned any of the card games since I never learned them in my non-Pogo life. My family just wasn’t into card games – except poker.

It’s been fun to see Pogo evolve and grow.

First and foremost… THANK YOU… love your site. You and your helpers are dears for all the work you do to give us info.

I was just wondering if anyone had turned any tips in for the Mini Golf
Madness – Fun and Games Game (Hard) for the last hole and for the
hole that looks like a roulette wheel (the headache wheel).

Thanks again

I became a member in 2004 after playing on a year or 2 on free accounts thru AOL. On AOL home page their drop-down box for games went directly to Pogo. I got tired of waiting for ads a subscription didnt seem so expensive back then, so I joined.
But I played for another 1 1/2 yrs. before I caught on to the badge addiction. Im kicking myself for all the Special Edition badges I missed getting!

Pat #87, too funny.
Dallie #19 TL #88 Whats the poppit tip?

Speaking of minis, I made a mini for my dad went into an amazing mini game room for the 1st time w/ his he got chosen for Hot Shots, I was so excited. None of my personal minis ever made it, lol.

paint, regarding the poppit tip- play until u win a game, hit new game(above skill level), by the spinner is a mysterious undo button, click that..then redo ur last move, then hit new game again(above skill level), then repeat all 3 steps

I became a member in March 2002 but never joined officially until Oct 2006 and I love every minute of being a full paid member of pogo. I have set goals for myself and I wanted to have 500 badges by yr 1 and 1000 by yr 2 and 1400 by end of yr 3 – Oct 2009. I reached all of those goals and I am just 16 badges form my goal this yr. I also set a goal of a badge a day minimum for the yr 2008 and I have done a badge a day since Jan 1st 2008 til present. I have made lots of friends and help many out with badges either by doing or helping esp with the rated games. Have a great wk all. dreamykoolkat is my nick.