3,000 Free Tokens for Tri-Peaks 2 UK
As part of celebrating the UK release of Tri-Peaks 2, Pogo is giving away 3,000 free tokens. We’ve added the link to our free Pogo tokens page. Enjoy!
Archive for May 2008
Pets Ahoy!
Okay folks, those of you who are anxiously awaiting Mini Pets, they’ve been created. There are animated pets which will be 16 gems, and non-animated pets which will be 10,000 tokens. So far, the only non-animated pets are a parakeet and three cats; white, grey, and black.
This is subject to change before release, but right now the dog breeds set for the first batch are: Pug, Beagle, Labrador Retriever (black and yellow), Mutt (black and brown), Boxer, German Shepherd, and a Yorkshire Terrier. Here’s a cute little puppy:
The cats aren’t breeds per se, just domestic long-haired cats (”fluffy”) in grey, white, and black; a white kitten; a tri-colored cat which looks like a Maine Coon; and a grey and a brown striped cat. There are also kittens upon kittens!
The parakeet mentioned above also has an animated counterpart, “A Bird” which is a parrot. There’s also a turtle, goldfish in an aquarium, a frog, a hamster (in a ball), a rabbit, and a snake.
Scrabble in Testing
Scrabble is currently being tested in beta and will be available to both Club and non-Club Pogo members when it’s released. It will have 50 ranks and 5 badges. The badges are awarded at ranks 5, 10, 20, 35, and 50. There will also be a few ’special’ badges: 100+ Points, 8 8-Letter, and 500 bingos.
Players will rank up by playing letter tiles. As far as the rules are concerned, the Pogo version of Scrabble will be played just like the traditional board game from Hasbro.
Club Pogo Homepage Redesign
In one of our earlier posts about Pogo Minis, we mentioned an upcoming homepage redesign. Pogo’s posted a little blurb about it in their news section; they’ve listed the improvements and gave us a few screenshots to check out.
Looking at the screenshots, one shows a 4th of July mini background — we expect this is because Pogo plans to make the changes live around that time, barring unforeseen technical problems, of course!
Mini Pet Update: Black Dog
The UK Editor Oli (who is filling in for the vacationing US Editor) has thrown us quite a bone regarding Mini Pets. Publishing a letter on each Letters to the Editor (US and UK) from members who want pets to go with their Minis, he’s not committed to saying that Pogo is working on Mini Pets (although we know they are), but he says if they were to, this is what one might look like. Clever, clever.
More Badges for Scrabble
In addition to the five badges we’ve seen for the upcoming Scrabble, Pogo has also created a few special badges. They are “8 8-Letter”, “100+ Points”, and “NSA Member” which will be a special badge available only to National Scrabble Association members.
Weekly Challenges (May 28-June 3)
Vaults of Atlantis Slots - Secret Stash Badge
Win 4,500 tokens this week!
WordJong - WordJong Bird Song Badge
Spell 25 words of 6 or more letters this week!
Tips for the Flawless Victory Badge
The Flawless Victory special badge in Golf Solitaire is tricky to get, but not impossible. With a little patience and these tips, the coveted badge could be yours.
First of all, the requirements: win all five games on a course.
* Our hints and tips will help with overall game-play, but you’ll want to fine-tune your plan of attack for getting this badge.
* Play in a Regular speed room. This will give you time to plan out long streaks. This will also give you time to play the Bonus Round and possibly get a wild card or a Golden Shot card for the next round.
* If you are playing alone (or can always choose your course), pick Fiddler’s Green or Icicle Cliffs. Some people have reported better luck with getting the special badge on those courses.
* A lot of what this comes down to is a little strategy and a lot of luck, so good luck!
If you have received this badge and can offer some advice to people on how to get it too, let us know!
Happy Memorial Day
Hey US folk: Happy Memorial Day from those of us here at BadgeHungry! Whether you’re BBQing with friends or relaxing at home with a little Pogo, or no matter what you’re doing, we hope you have a great holiday!
Weekly Roundup
Here are a few things of note that we haven’t had time to cover in a single post this week:
The mini pets are on their way! Pogo’s artists have created two new backgrounds — a pet shop and a dog park.
The Flawless Victory badge in Golf Solitaire is now being awarded.
There were a lot of problems with this week’s patch for Word Riot Deluxe (especially for Windows Vista users). Some Vista users have had luck by running it as administrator, but others have not been so lucky. If you are having problems playing Word Riot after the latest update patch this week, we suggest you contact Oberon directly (support at Pogo will just tell you to contact Oberon, anyway).
The badge is now being properly awarded for the 8th Mix-n-Match album completion. It’s called “Jumpin’ for Joy”. It shows up in your Special Edition album and you will be credited 5,000 tokens. WTG Pogo.
Those of you who wanted to know what it was, Poker Pop is now available for online play.
If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet, we added a new token offer for 3,000 tokens to our free Pogo tokens page. Yay for free tokens!
Pogo is starting to work on the upcoming Hasbro releases Operation and Pictureka. Operation Deluxe will be a downloadable game with badges, ranks, and probably mini items. Pictureka may be called Pictureka Museum and if you’ve never played this fun game, you can check out a game demo off this page.
