Weekend Open Thread

Happy Weekend Everyone!

I really don’t play games to specifically earn badges, if we’re talking about Rank Badges….so can’t help out there.

But since I just recently earned all the badges and ranked out in Scrabble I KNOW you can earn the MOST tokens in that game, lol With JP spins anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 as the norm, it’s easily the fastest token earner!!! I LOVE that game and still play it even though there are no more ranks or badges for me to earn. One day I got curious about it and started to play and was hooked big time! :) Wasn’t able to stop until I ranked out…that’s a game that will keep you up all night!

Now if I can just figure out what “Ratings” means I might be able to play “Rated” game, hahaha You’d think that since I’ve ranked out I’d at least be “rated”, huh? Maybe you have to play people? Is that it?

I like beating the bots alot more!! :) Such satisfaction in beating them, ROFL

Have a wonderful weekend. :) Hope you have great weather too.

Lura, hope you, hubby and the baby are all doing well. Wish we could see a pic of that little boy!! I know he’s a darlin’ !!

Take care, be safe everyone.

(((Hugs to ALL)))

Kat F.

P.S. I think it helps if you enjoy the game to be able to do the badges better and faster too. :-)

Love this site, been reading for over a year now, but never made a comment! I have enjoyed learning from others and appreciate all the hard work by Lura.

KenoPop is by far the easiest game to rank out in, I beleive. No challenges, just click and keep on clicking, lol. I ranked out playing one hour a day within 3 weeks!
Good luck everyone!

Happy Weekend All…

I have found that it is easy/quick to rank out in Hog Heaven and Keno Pop…no skill involved, of course! And of course Spooky Slots, with just 10 ranks…LOL!

As for amassing tokies quickly…Qwerty, Scrabble and Addiction Solitaire seem to offer generous payouts.

And Kat, “rated” Scrabble games, like all other rated games on POGO, must be played against another human being, not the bots!

Happy badge marathon weekend from sunny Denver, sorry all you East coasters are buried under the white stuff again.

Kat – You have to play a real person to play any rated game.

I know that nobody wants to hear this, but the tokens are good in Yahtzee.

I’ve also been on a roll in Monpoly Slots. I’ve gone from rank 17 to 39 in less than 2 weeks and am up almost 600,000 tokens from this game in a short amount of time. I’ve been playing this while watching the Olympics since I can watch TV and just hit the space bar :)

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Suz

Jan solidarity here. I agree with AnotherJan that TP and Crossword Cove have some of the best fastest tokens. And, I haven’t even been using the handy answers provided here in BH so I could be doing even better!

As for badges it seems to me that fastest have to be Jigsaw Detective and WordSearch Daily. It doesn’t matter your rank, it takes the same amount of puzzles to get each badge and there is 1 for every rank/month. If you do an easy WS puzzle in around 2 minutes then you have a badge in around 1 hour.

Fastest topic #3 – ranking up. I agree with Hog Heaven and Keno Pop – no skill, just keep clicking and broken piggy banks and balls dropping in to numbers seem to happen quite regularly. For skill I would have to say Beaker Creatures. If your brain can recognize all sames or all differents easily then you can chain perfect scores together so it only takes a handful of games to move up in rank.

Thanks to MomsBassetHound for the suggestion about playing slots during the Olympics. I’ve completed a couple M&M badges watching this past week. I have a laptop with a wireless mouse so I just sit the laptop off to the side, flip my mouse over, and just keep clicking.

Final comment: I just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed chatting with some of you in the BH rooms!

Tokens can be had fairly easy in Trivia, Crossword, Keno Pop, Scrabble and yes, even Word Craft. I just made it to 1 year at Pogo, and have yet to figure out what advantage you get for “ranking out” or getting a high rating in the rated games. Is it bragging rights, or maybe the badges that come as you progress in rank? Hmmmm, may have just answered my own question….afterall we are all “badge hungry”. Have a good weekend all….even those still working on yahtzee.

I’d say Trivial Pursuit, Hog Heaven, and Crossword Cove give me the most tokens.

Ranking changes as you move up in a game — some games that seem to be progressing you quickly in the beginning slow down a lot later (Thousand Island especially).

Greetings all,

For the most part, I would say Keno-Pop and Hog-Heaven Slots are some of the few games on Pogo where you can gain a substantial amount of tokens.

The badges question is really difficult to answer mainly because of one’s playing style and if they prefer the game or not.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and stay safe :)

Austin

Speaking of ranks, Lura, are there any plans to add Puck’s Peak to the “game ranks and badges” page on here?

Don: there are some games that give you extra features for ranking up. For example, more pucks and levels in Puck’s Peak, double wilds in Everyone Wins Bingo, extra powerups in Battleship, etc. These are usually found in the help section on a game.

Wonderland Memories is the easiest game to earn game rank badges. I think I earned three or four of them after several hours of gameplay. Granted, I’m not even halfway done with the game, but it’s still an easy play.

As for tokens, I give it to two games. Fast tokens can come from Trivial Pursuit (7,000 per game for a perfect score, plus the 15,000 weekly bonus). Likewise, Yahtzee! provides good token payouts if you’re in the room long enough to get the room bonus.

Whenever there would be a game involving slots (Monopoly Slots especially!), I’d run to Yahtzee! to regain the tokens lost. Monopoly Slots seems to be a negative token game, as I leave there with less tokens than I arrived.

I have found Trivial Pursuit to be my #1 place for token payoff, also Thousand Island Solitaire, Tri-Peaks and Crossword Cove. Easiest badge has to be for me WordSearch because it’s only a minute or so of my time each day and always one badge every 30 days. I’ve not found any game that I would consider “fast” to rank up in, but maybe it’s because my attention span is so short and I can’t play one game hour after hour, LOL. KenoPop, HogHeaven and Everyone Wins Bingo were pretty easy to rank up in.

Thanks for the tips from everyone, I will try some of these games as I really do covet those game award badges!

Jillian # 20 – For the past 12 days I have been getting the dice an average of 3 times and hour. I think that they have made it easier to get the dice, but not everyone agrees with me :) I’ve been playing from 3 to 7 hours a day. Once the Olympics are over I will go back to playing something else, and will finish when the summer Olympics are in London….LOL

And only 1 day have I lost tokens (30,000), but I’ve had a couple of days where I’ve been ahead 100,000. I tend to stay in 1 room. I’m also trying to play in a room by myself since I’m not watching the chat area.

Suz

#24 Dave. There’s a UK and US version of Crossword Cove probably because of the geocentric aspect of it, akin to Trivial Pursuit. Some of the puzzles in Crossword Cove are more geared to culture in the UK, similar to the puzzles in Trivial Pursuit.

I’ve tried playing some of the UK Trivial Pursuit games without Badge Hungry’s assistance and I can get some of them, but I’m a total blank when it comes to their rugby or soccer questions. I’m sure the UK folk feel the same way when playing the US version.

So, in effect, the same would hold true for many people with Crossword Cove.

Hi all ! Happy weekend !
For me the easiast games to rank out were beaker creatures, keno pop and all the slot games, but I think is easy to rank out in dice city roller and jungle gin.
As for tokens , I think trivial, thanks to Lura and BH, is the game where you can win the most if we consider time spent playing, only few minutes a day. I have to say the other game where you can win big and quick is Texas Holdem, if you play in a super rollers room and if you play a No Fold game you can leave the table with over 1 million just for winning 3 or 4 hands in a row (wich is possible) in about, lets say 15 minutes, but…BUT you can lose that much or even a lot more in no time too.

Re #24 Dave: The US site uses American-style crosswords and the UK site uses British-style crosswords. In American-style crosswords all words are fully interlocked (that is, every white square is part of both an across and down answer) while British crosswords use a “framework” style (i.e. many of the letters are only part of a single answer).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_puzzle#Types_of_grid

The games through which I have earned the most tokens the quickest are World Class Solitaire, Addiction Solitaire, and Yahtzee.

For those lucky souls who are done with this week’s badges, you can make one of next week’s easier by starting on it now… One of the badges is for KenoPop, and requires you to play 25 power ups. You can store 9 (3 of each) in the places to keep them, so you could effectively do over 1/3 of the badge early if you wanted to by filling your power up area now.

It’s weeks like these that make me feel like Pogo has become a total waste of time. Seriously. I am going quit Pogo. Every couple years an internet addiction grows out of control and this has definitely become one of them. Sorry.

William #30: Boy, I wish I knew about that parking deal with Hangman Hijinx (or however it is spelled!). That game ripped me off on tokens. I’m ranked out now, so I don’t intend to play it unless for a weekly challenge badge, but that is one game that after 2 jps doesn’t give the tokens it says it does!

For Serena #32 – I used to be a dealer in Atlantic City and the odds are ALWAYS in the dealer’s favor. The reason for that is b/c the dealer has to follow certain rules. Players can split pairs, double down, hit a hard 17….just a few things that a dealer can not do. I’ve ranked out in both blackjack games and don’t remember there being much of a difference.

Suz

oh, and Lura, just a thought, how about meeting BH players in every game every wk. For example: I want to play TP, i go to a ‘topics’ ‘V’ rm to play, this wk.

Also, everyone pls remember in Trivial Pursuit, you must open the chat window yourself. I ususally say something to room b4 and after i play, and between games if i play more than one.

bye all

hi e1 hope ya all having a great wkend,well after accumalating over 64,000,000 tokies over the past 6 yrs,deduct tokies for minis badges ect, id have to say games like canasta,texas high risk one,monopoly slots,addiction,trival,crossword are the best ones if ur after a good ton of tokies,as for which games u get badges quicker does depend on skill and how many hrs a day ya prepared to work on it.

bill thats wat im gonna do to in keno b4 challenges

jan – it does not cost anything just need to be in the correct room that is all

Beginners NSA Member Room 001
Beginners NSA Member Room 002

those are the ones people are usually in.

Good day all. I have earned the most tokens in Monopoly slots and Trival Persuit. The crossword game and Hog Heaven are great for tkens too. I think it’s easier to rank up in games you really enjoy playing rather than one your plang just for ranks. Tri Peaks is my example, I always enjoyed playing and always came back to. It took awhile, but I did manage to rank out.

A bit off topic but I read in the forum yesterday that there is a bug in Flower Daze and which makes the hard level a bit to easy to win and there will be a fix shortly. The designer did say that they don’t want to make it too hard but it sounds like it will be more difficult once the fix is made. Guess I better play as much as I can before it gets too hard. Have a nice weekend and happy playing!

i have a question how do you get in a room where your friends are and it says it,s fulli thought some1 once said something but now i forget,something about invitation to yourself appreicate any 1 who can help ty

addendum to Trivial Pursuit – play UK site also and double all winnings

Just met BH’er, in Solitaire, Villiage Green, neato!

Also, decided i will play yahtzee, to play yahtzee, enjoying game, and at 3/6 at this time.

Hello again,

THANKS so much for the info on the Rated Scrabble games. I had no idea how that was done…but now I do! :)

Was glad to hear someone give tips on avoiding that DANGED OL’ Token Limiter!! Why are we penalized because we are fast or very good?? THAT IS SIMPLY NOT FAIR!! :( I know it’s because some use those “thingys” we aren’t supposed to mention, but geeeezzz, not all of us do!! Why punish us all?? Plus, what about that Badge in Poppit where you are to pop ALL the balloons, THREE Games in a row?? HUH, HUH?? How can they issue a Badge like that and NOT CREDIT ALL YOUR TOKENS??? Is that fair? NOOOO!! And the Word Games are worse about it!! I’m gonna try those tips for sure! Hope I don’t get a “parking ticket”, lol

Whew!! I feel so much better :) Thanks for letting me rant for a sec, lol

So many of you have listed games that really hand out the tokens..games that I’d forgotten about. Will have to go back and start playing them again, ROFL Can we say Tokie Hound?

One tip for Monopoly Slots that I use: Play in a Room by YOURSELF. The dice come up about every 10-14 mins at least! Sometimes more! It’s really cool to see it happen, lol You can actually befriend them, hahahaha

Take care, be safe. Stay OUT of the yellow snow, :)

(((Hugs to ALL)))

Kat F.

Dice City Roller was easy to rank out in.

I had forgotten about Keno Pop and thought I’d try it for tokens. My luck has not been too good so far. About 6000 tokens in the first hour, which does not seem like a lot for a “high token” game. However, it is one you can play while doing something else, and at some point I’m sure you get a couple of lucky turns. I get skunked (zero matches) or just one match a bit too often!

I’ll keep at it and see how quickly I can rank up, and also stock up some powerups for the badge next week. BTW, is it best to save the powerups and use a bunch them all together?

Generally my favorites for getting lots o’ tokens are TP and CC, Scrabble, and Yahtzee. When I’m feeling lucky, Monopoly Slots! :D

Re #54 & #56: Basically the “token limiter” is what it sounds like, it limits how many tokens you can receive from a particular game during a particular length of time. Whenever it’s mentioned to Pogo they always claim it’s intentional to deter auto/cheating players (even though it really doesn’t do that at all). It can happen in most single-player games that don’t involve wagering tokens (it generally doesn’t happen in multiplayer games or betting games). Usually the ones it causes trouble for legitimate players in are ones where you can earn a lot in a short time (Hangman, all the Word Whomp games, Turbo 21 are ones that I usually run into it in.) Basically when it kicks in it just gives you less tokens than the game says you earned (like the game says you win 450 tokens and it actually awards you 200 or some other number). The stats show how many tokens you actually received and not what you were supposed to get. In fact if you’re doing a challenge to earn so many tokens it will also slow your progress there too.

To see the effects, open a calculator application and Hangman Hinjinks (the game the limit is the worst in). Put your number of tokens in the calculator, and after every game add the number it says you won in the calculator. Especially on medium or hard, it probably won’t take long for the tokens shown in the upper right corner to become less than the number on your calculator.

Most people who are aware of the limiter are against it, for obvious reasons (gyps legit players, those who are going to cheat continue to do so anyway), but Pogo refuses to change it. :(

rabbitandkitty #46.
I just quickly went to play boggle bash to ask about the icons you mention because I too wonder what they are for……no-one in the room had any idea so I am still no wiser….but…I did learn something new in chat. When the round has started and the chat is disabled you can still chat and be seen if you type /e then what you want to say.
I’ll keep trying to find out though when I play and let you know when/if I ever find out….lol

William, thanks for your explanation of token limiters. I play Hangman Hijinks a lot (on medium) and thought I was just missing something. I had no idea about limiters, like most people, I think! Quel Domage!

I gave Keno Pop another 2 1/2 hours, while we watched a movie I wasn’t really interested in. I’ve been betting max right along, and changing rooms when I had really dry streaks (about every hour), but still…. my luck has just gotten worse. About 4000 tokens the second hour, slightly less the third hour. I got one five-match this last half hour, but overall still not many good turns. Lots of one- and two-match turns (which means a net loss), very few multipliers going in, and JP spins of 25, 50 most of the time. I use the auto-select, but is there a strategy for which numbers you place your bets on? I can’t see any pattern to where the balls fall, and I imagine it’s supposed to be random.

The charm has about worn off, but I did collect some powerups for next Wednesday.

That little percentage-won stat you get at the end of a round peaked at 199, then has gone steadily down to about 165%. Anyone ever break 200%, or is this pretty average?

I’m going to try Monopoly Slots in my own room and see if I can get lucky with dice. If not, back to Scrabble!

But that will wait until tomorrow — the Olympics are back on! :-)

ranking out in monoply is easy, play with two people, buy all you can as soon as you can then both player morgage you can play forever Pass go for the ranking up Will get to rank 100 in no time. when you get tired one player unmorgages their propties and one goes bankrupt

Hi, all – hope everyone is having a good weekend. I’m not really sure which badges come easiest for me – probably as someone else said, the games that are easiest for me to play – skill, not luck! lol Actually, I take that back – I can do the Turbo 21 personals pretty fast and have often repeated them just for the tokens, or if I only have 30 minutes late on Tuesday night to get a badge in. lol

I agree with most about TP, CC, Keno, etc. I have gotten big payouts with HH too, but othertimes not so good. For someone who asked, I was over 200 for awhile in Keno, but slowly fell back to 190/191 and there it sits. I do feel I won way more tokens as I was ranking up than I do now. It may be a game that needs you to sit there awhile. One thing I always did in Keno was to pick numbers and stick with them. I never used the auto-pick.

(I found that method worked best in Big Shot Roulette too. I have won 11 million tokens in Big Shot Roulette on a non-club name over the years – no auto, just me and my little fingers clicking away. lol But you always stick to the same numbers……always. lol That is a game I’m still mad that they won’t put ranks on, or even give us one lousy badge. grrrr Pogo!)

Keno was a fast ranker-upper. lol I also found DCR fast – but I love love love that game also. OTOH, I love love love Bowling too and the last ranks in there take forever! lol I do find Beaker fast, but then forget about it – thanks again for reminder. Also, thanks Bill #33 for Keno tip for next week…….if I ever get around to this week’s badges, I will definitely try that too.

Serena #32 – it is not just you, Blackjack Carnival pays out horrible. So did the old blackjack game before it. As Moms said, IRL it always favors the house. But this *is* Pogo, and it burns me that they make it so tilted, IMO. I mean, this is for fun and tokens afterall. For instance, they give you tips to follow, but when you do, most times they make you lose anyway. lol I must be missing something in how to play Panda Pai Gow – have always found that a poor winner for me too.

Rick #64 – I bought the album awhile ago, not on sale. grrrr lol If memory serves me, I still need that poker badge – so not just you. lol

Thanks to all who asked and all who answered about the token limiters – I also had never heard of such a thing, and had never noticed it either. Grrr again Pogo! lol

~Shel

I know this is off topic and for that I am sorry but I was wondering if someone can help me out here. I have been trying to play the new flower daze and my screen resolution is set to where it needs to be…. the game starts to load and it gets to as far as when the java sign thingy spins around like all the other pogo games do and then it stops at the white screen that says “please wait… loading…. “then it reboots itself and starts over……my question is does anyone know why it is doing that and if there is anything i can do to make it work properly….. thanks in advance…..

Steph:

Try to delete your cache. Maybe that will work.
GOOD LUCK!

steph#69,
The guy that produced Flower Daze has a thread on pogo. Perhaps he can help. Bottom of your home pogo page, is 3 sections: games/pogo/ea . Under pogo click on ‘games forum’. This birings u to ‘pogo forums home’ page. In category click on puzzle games, then flower daze. Author-Pogo_Erik.

Deb #63 I keep the same numbers set in KenoPop and group them in a square pattern. This has worked for me and I quickly ranked out with a decent win percentage.

I just ranked out in TP today and don’t think I’ll keep playing just for the tokens. Like to play Canasta and Phlinx for steady token build ups. The first time I hit 5K’s for 100,00 tokens in HogHeaven, my brain was on auto-pilot and I didn’t even see it happen, lol.

Thanks to all for explaining the token limiter. Didn’t know it existed and have started working the WordWhomp games for rank lately. WIll change strategy!

Deb # 63
you asked about % in Keno … my main acct which has played keno since day 1 I have 201 – 202%

my secondary account which is losing its subway free pass in a couple days is 198% and I have made close to 15 million tokens in the past 6 months on this account, almost all in keno

make sure you use the powerups and i group my numbers close together …. and don’t keep changing the numbers. you will win more if you stick with a set of numbers. i use the secondary account to just click while i multitask. good luck!

Just a THANKS to Lura for BH – met a new friend today, helping her get a badge (and finish her 2008 album).

Hope everyone is having a great day – Enjoy the hockey game if you’re gonna watch it!

I do not care if someone uses a cheat program or not, unless it is in a competitive game, such as bowling, where it affects my score and tokens. Then it bothers me, because it has happened to me.

I didn’t realize there were token limiters, but did notice that in Addiction, when you beat the volcano and get 4000 bonus tokens the first time, you never get the total 4000 from that time on beating the volcano. So after beating the volcano I would leave pogo, erase cookies, etc., and go back in and receive the total 4000 bonus again. You have to do it each time.

Oh, yeah, I did forget to add Big Shot Roulette.

Faith, I have also had that problem in Pogo Addiction Solitaire. Generally, I would get all 4000 tokens the first couple times – but, after that, it would start to gyp me. It’s been some time, though, since I played that game for such a long time in one sitting.

I’m really hoping that they never add ranks and badges to any of the EA Sports or EA Games. Also, it would be nice a more Pogo variant of a pinball machine game.

Deb 63 – I am on rank 30 in KenoPop and have a 257% so far – we’ll see if that changes as I rank farther up.

When I was trying to catch up with Jigsaw Detective, I just picked a puzzle that I liked best – and did it over and over. It’s maybe not something that you want to do – but, for me, it made obtaining the badges go a little faster.

Speaking of which, I’m off to see if the new case is yet up. So, yeah, it’s not a game that you ever quite rank out in – but a badge for each case is nice.

hi everyone,
Can some1 tell me how to get to the old, or previous weekly threads, im sure its right in front of me, but 2 weeks and i cant find them!?

steph#82 -pls let me know what happens, im on pogo @6 months now, and have looked at many forums and never saw that, very cool of him.

AnotherJan#80 thank you so much, i laughed & laughed, i have a pogo friend who is obsessed w/ tokies. It’s all good, tho, cause, whats the difference? I probably put @30% of my tokens in the drawings, cause i like to see my token total go up. Same thing. Then theres the ranks and badges (i am not badge hungry, but Badge Hungry is great) ; in life badges and ranks and tokens (money) are frickin important, so now we make it important in games. i care @ my stats in a few games, enjoy playing 4 badges (but,i dont look at them), i like 2 look scroll thru minis in a room often when i enter. so…we play.

And maybe are lucky enuf to have made a friend. i did.

I’m having to push myself to finish this fourth badge, never mind a fifth. I chose the win 75 games Poppit badge from 2003 (finished), and am playing the reach 200 Speed Rounds Word Whomp Whackdown badge from 2003 (150/200 right now). Which badge I select for my fifth will depend on if I finish this one before Tuesday. Right now, my eyes are glazing over.

Whoops, I am ill, meant 2008 badge and the blooop grid is in right side column. Lol, gl on any you choose.