Weekly Challenges (November 18-24)

Any hints on getting the Sweet Tooth badge would be greatly appreciated!

For pogo bowl, play in the fast rooms and don’t worry about technique, just knock those pinnies down.

Am sooooo glad this isn’t another “strike” badge.

Badges are done 52 minutes. gl ev1

only took me a hour to get both weekly badges think pogo making up 4 the hours on end tri-peaks badge lol gl 2uall who still working on badges

For the Sweet Tooth Badge. Remember to be on Level 4 or 5.

I sugguest if you start a game without coins showing click NEW GAME until you atleast have 2 coins from the start. Remember you DO NOT have to Win the game to get credit for matching the coins. It only took me about 15 minuets doing it this way. Goodluck!

any help appreciated not getting sweet tooth. i hit new game and nothing loose everything any help in getting this badge please.

I’m not doing so well getting the coins to line up so this badge is going to take me a lot longer than an hour, but I did learn that if you remove a coin via the… buckshot? maybe? power up it doesn’t count and you lose a coin. (The powerup that removes random pieces from the board, the name is escaping me, sorry.) Anyways, heads up that you might want to be careful with those. I’m guessing then, other power ups don’t count as “collecting” either. I thought I was pretty good at sweet tooth, but I can’t seem to get going this morning.

yes, the badges were very easy this week, kinda balances out, doesn’t it?
a couple weeks ago a lady named robyn posted on here she was unable to finish her albums because of rainy day and freecell. she was just unable to understand those games. i wrote in and offered to do them for her. she responded to me and i have completed some she was unable to do. yesterday i was gifted allie the tiger by her. he is so beautiful, and so is robyn. i wouldn’t advise people to trust others with their passwords, but robyn and i have struck up a very nice friendship through here. she has a busy life and not a lot of time to complete pogo badges. i have over 1800 badges and have ranked out all the games i like. i really enjoy helping her and playing my favorite games again. thank you lura for providing a forum that robyn and i were able to meet. sorry for rambling, but wanted to share this.

carol

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!! I have got to be the DUMBEST player on Pogo…have gotten up to 5 coins and couldn’t match them. Is there some trick to matching them that has not been covered here? Wahwahwah…lol

I had both of my badges within an hour and Sweet Tooth, if you have not played much, the chocolate coins are on level 4 or 5 and that does take time… I hope you all well, and get the chocolate coins!!!!

For sweet tooth, when you get a wild you can match it with two coins for a win. When you play just try to get the coins together, because you don’t have to win the game. Good Luck.

Hi all,

What a relaxing Badge Week!! :) Got my badges done very quickly this morning. Sure liked that, lol

I have a couple tips for Sweet Tooth that helped me and a couple others in the room with me:

1. Clear out the top FIRST, so the coins can drop down.

2. Making matches of four candies seem to bring the chocolate coins…don’t know if it really made a difference technically or not–but it sure worked for us. I got my badge in less than twenty minutes. :)

3. Once the chocolate candies are down–RIGHT AWAY start working them closer together. Making matches that move them closer together is the only way you will get them to a match. But you don’t have to win the game for it to count. :)

Give those a try and BE SURE you are on Skill 4 or 5. THAT is the biggie.

Have a good day and good luck on your Badges. :)

(((Hugs to All)))

Kat F.

Just went to the badge page to vote in the poll and someone said that the sweet tooth badge took more than 6 hours. Coulda been a mistake, but considering the badges have only been active for 4 hours, seems kinda fishy. You don’t think people lie on those polls, do you? (sarcasm)

Happy Wednesday, all!

I for one enjoyed these badges, but wish they could have been longer. I know that last week was rough, but these were way too easy :)

They should have made it 4,000 pins on Bowling :)

Have a great week all!

Both badges done and only used 34 minutes in all….
The pogo crew must have known how long last weeks challenges would take….. and then gave us this “gift” this week. LOL

Two reasonable challenges this week, which is no surprise. Pogo tends to do that whenever they go overboard the previous week, which tells me they knew the whole time the Tri-Pukes badge had trouble written all over it. Maybe they didnt realize it would be AS BAD as it was, but they knew itd be a headache.

I do wish the Sweet Tooth one had been a little more clearly explained by Pogo themselves. I honestly had no idea what a chocolate coin was, or that ST had more than three levels on it, until I came to BH and read this post and its comments this morning. Thank you, everyone.

No surprise we got a bowling challenge (complete with the turkey pins) around this time of year. SOP. But, I know this time I was greatly relieved to see a skill-based bowling challenge, as opposed to the Please Pogo Gods, give me a gold pin! challenge the last time.

Could it have been a bit longer, Mike? Sure. I dont know about 4,000, but 1,000 wouldve been reasonable (10 games or so if you know what youre doing). But, that wasnt going to happen after last week. Pogo has never followed up an infuriating marathon challenge with another the next week, and after all the anger from last week, they werent going to start now.

Pogo, after all, enjoys the kiss-kiss, slap-slap game. Last week, we got slapped (twice, at least, if you include the solution to the Tri-Pukes challenge). So had to know we were about to get kissed this week.

If the turkey bowling pins are, shall we say, visually challenging and changing your game, I believe it is possible to go in through the UK side and bowl with regular pins. Personally, the turkey pins creep me out just a bit, but the badge was fast so I persevered.

In the lovely spirit of Carol’s post, I would be happy to help with anyone having sweet tooth problems. Pogo mail Nashira792.

I have met some lovely people through this site and we have all helped each other out. Today I was pleasantly surprised that someone contacted me about gifting me for something I had helped her with a few months ago. That this person thought of me was gift enough. I was so touched by the thought.

Lura, these type of experiences are what makes this site so special. So, again, thank you for keeping things going and putting up with all of us,

OK, Since I weighed in so much last week on the challenges, going to make a comment on this ones too.

Pogo is obviously a place of extremes. Last weeks some of us unlucky people couldn’t get in 20+ hours. This weeks both combined can take under an hour? Give me a break. I did make a final post to yesterdays which did mention that on the luck vs skill argument to Tri-Peaks, if you were playing over level 5, you probably did have a little more skill to the game. (I am only rank 4 in that, so all my cards were face down, however I did realize, late, that many were playing with cards face up. That would allow for planning and counting cards, thus make the game at least slightly more “skilled.” Still a lot of luck though, and wilds were all luck.)

Sweet Tooth is a game that does require a bit of skill. Gold coins however, do occasionally fall into place by luck. So if your skilled or very lucky, you can probably complete that in about 15 minutes. Took me a bit longer, as I’m not greatly skilled at it, and we’ve already figured out that I’m not lucky. But still less than an hour.

Pogo bowl, again, if your skilled at that kind of thing, you can get that pretty quick. Even if your not overly skilled, shouldn’t take overly long.

For those that said those of us that didn’t like a challenge, yeah, I definitely think this weeks could, and should have been a bit more challenging. I don’t want to play a marathon of solitaire, but yes, I do want to be challenged. I’d probably feel that both badges combined taking about 8 hours in a week would be reasonable for weeklies. For marathon badges, keep those in reserve for mix and match for people who enjoy the game and have the time.

Lol, have to laugh about the comments that pogo gave us an easy week to make up for a bad week. These badges were set a long time ago, if you look at upcoming challenges page. Just like they dont alter the gameplay, they also dont alter badges to cut us a break. Admit they were easy and was appreciative of that. Another tip i have for sweet tooth is if i had a coin in one column, would try to make matches in columns left and right of it vertically, so a coin would drop down. That seems to help as well. And like mentioned, be leery of power ups that can zap your coin and try to move them to another column or row. GL, the coins take awhile to learn, but after doing the MnM one with 51 coins, I think I got the hang of it. Back to work on rank progress badges. Enjoy the easy week all.

P.S. I love the turkey pins, and I didn’t notice any difference in my scores with the turkey pins.

It didn’t take me long to do Sweet Tooth… I ranked out long ago on level 4 or 5 – I forget which. I enjoyed the game. However, BOWLING… uck. Thanks for the tip about the speedy rooms AND the screen shots in the tips section. If it weren’t for the tips and screen shots last week, I wouldn’t have been able to do the Mini Golf. With that bit of help I was able to complete my badge with minimal frustration… LOL GOOD LUCk every one!

Christy: In Tri Peaks one of the items you get in a chest can be a FUD (face-up deal) You can earn it on any rank and it is only for one deal, wether you win it or not.

Back to the challenges at hand though! My mother was having a hard time with Sweet Tooth until I giggled and told her she was playing on the wrong skill level! I found as soon as one coin drops, just keep completing matches over that coin so the next ones fall in the same spot… its easier then having tree coins across the board and trying to move them together.

Hello Friends, its Robyn (of Carol Robyn Co-po-gos) What Carol said is all true, and this is working well for us both. Most importanly, a new friendship is growing. I had a good gut feeling about Carol that fortunately, turned out to be correct and as Carol says, we do not recommend this for everone, but in our case – we are really happy. I was so sick of those straggler games staring me in the face. Carol not only does them…she enjoys doing them! We keep in touch frequently and I always like to hear from her. I am truly lucky to find a COPOGO, and now Pogo makes it easy to give something back with the gifting program. Thanks Pogo…and thank YOU Carol!

Hi all Nice easy challenges this week but I did find level 5 on sweet tooth easier than level 4.

I am not real good at sweet tooth but found by using the power ups the gold coins showed up and in time i was able to get badge in less than one hour

make sure u are on skill level 4 or 5 will take about 4-6 games to get the coins together. Good luck everyone

Here’s another handy tip for sweet tooth: at the start of the game, if there are no coins on the board, then click “new game” until at least one coin appears. This should make it a little quicker. :)

The challenges this week were so easy that I finished mine and my daughter’s in about 4 hours. At least they were easier than last week’s but come on Pogo, more of a challenge. I actually feel cheated that I finished them so quickly, lol

There are three distinct set ups in the bowling pins.
That is why you won’t get strikes every time even though you place the ball and aim the same.
Possibly we can get screen shots like Lura suggested.
When the scoreboard comes up look for “Strike It Rich” at the bottom…line your cursor up under the “t” in strike and below the scoreboard. That would be 2 lines to the left of the center mark when the pins show again.