premium albums

Pogo is putting together a new Premium Badge Album containing challenges in the four Hasbro games: Yahtzee Party!, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, and Scrabble. It will contain 10 challenges and will cost $5.99. This new premium album should be released in a few weeks. Here are the badges and challenges:

Monopoly Here and Now - Big Freebie Badge
Land on “Free Parking” 10 times in 2 weeks!

Monopoly Here and Now - Go-getters Badge
Pass “GO” 12 times in 1 week!

SCRABBLE - “AMAZING” Badge
Win 10 games in 10 days (Play with Pogo’s House Rules only!)

SCRABBLE - SCRABBLE Scrambles Badge
Earn 40 Double Word Score Bonuses in 3 weeks!

Trivial Pursuit - Box of Knowledge Badge
Answer 100 questions correctly in 3 weeks!

Trivial Pursuit - Genus Genius Badge
Successfully make the goal on a Daily or Calendar Quiz 15 times in 8 days!

Trivial Pursuit - Pasta-bilities Badge
Successfully make the goal on a Random Quiz 10 times in 10 days!

Yahtzee Party! - Chance of a Lifetime Badge
Score 20 points or more 5 times in Chance in 15 days!

Yahtzee Party! - Twirling Yahtzee Badge
Get 3 Yahtzees in 3 days!

Yahtzee Party! - Yahtzee Gone Wild Badge
Roll 30 wild dice in 3 days!

Today, Pogo’s released the Gift of Fun premium badge album. It costs $3.99 and has six easy-to-earn badge challenges. They’ve all got a time limit of two weeks, so this album would be great to do while relaxing, away from the holiday rush.

In addition to the Monopoly World and Playful Pets Premium Badge Albums, the November 2008 Mix-n-Match challenges (and a special Thanksgiving Limited Edition Badge) are out! The badges are as follows:

Trivial Pursuit - 2008 Thanksgiving Limited Edition Badge
Make the goal on 20 random quizzes in 2 days!

Dominoes - Bone Chillin’ Badge
Win 10 games in 3 weeks!

Everyone Wins Bingo - Forest Fire Badge
Blackout 3 cards in 1 hour or less!

Lottso! - Seeing Stars Badge
Activate 3 Lottso cards in 1 day! (Excluding Team Lottso or Super Lottso cards.)

Mahjong Garden - Tile Smile Badge
Remove 500 tiles in 1 day!

Payday FreeCell - Golden Mustache Badge
Win 3 games in 30 minutes or less! (This is an Expert Level Badge)

Pogo Bowl - Spare Turkey Badge
Bowl 1 turkey (3 strikes in a row) in 4 weeks!

SCRABBLE - TURKEY for 13 Points Badge
Create 13 6-letter words in 13 days!

Sweet Tooth 2 - Sticky Situation Badge
Collect 5 Chocolate Coins in 10 days!

Thousand Island Solitaire - I <3 PogoMart
Play 150 Distance cards in 5 days!

Tumble Bees - Bee’s Knees Badge
Win 20 games in 2 days!

Turbo 21 - License to Thrill Badge
Get 200 21’s in 2 weeks!

Pogo’s created a new 6-badge premium album that they’ll probably release this holiday season. It’ll cost $3.99 and will have the following challenges:

First Class Solitaire - First Class Gift Badge
Win 14 games in 2 weeks!

Bingo Luau - Bingo Bear Badge
Get 3 bingos on Red Cards in 2 weeks!

MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition - Community Chest Badge
Draw 20 Community Chest or Chance cards in 2 weeks!

Yahtzee Party! - Yahtzee Gift Badge
Win 2,000 tokens in 2 weeks!

Tri-Peaks Solitaire - Treasure Box Badge
Use a “wild card” 12 times in 2 weeks!

Jigsaw Treasure Hunter - A Puzzling Gift Badge
Solve 1 puzzle on medium skill level in 6 minutes or less in 2 weeks!

Here are the details of the upcoming Playful Pets Premium Badge Album badges and challenges. In total, there are twelve badges and you will earn a bonus badge for completing the challenges in Poppit!, Mahjong Safari, Word Whomp, Tumble Bees, Jigsaw Treasure Hunter, Hog Heaven Slots, Sweet Tooth 2, Turbo 21, Phlinx, Stack ‘em, Squelchies, and Mahjong Garden. It will sell for $5.99. At release, this game has gone up in price from $5.99 to $6.99.

Poppit! - Puggles Badge
Win 800 tokens in 1 day!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Mahjong Safari - Bird Safari Badge
Win 1,200 tokens in 2 days!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Word Whomp - Word Dog Badge
Win 1,600 tokens in 3 days!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Tumble Bees - Cat Hive Badge
Win 2,000 tokens in 4 days!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Jigsaw Treasure Hunter - Puzzle it Out Badge
Win 2,400 tokens in 5 days!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Hog Heaven Slots - Tokens from Heaven Badge
Win 2,800 tokens in 6 days!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Sweet Tooth 2 - Cat Tooth Badge
Win 3,200 tokens in 7 days!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Turbo 21 - Turbo Cat Badge
Win 3,600 tokens in 8 days!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Phlinx - Royal Feline Badge
Win 4,000 tokens in 9 days!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Stack ‘em - Stack ‘em Five Badge
Win 4,400 tokens in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Squelchies - Squelchies Revenge Badge
Win 4,800 tokens in 11 days!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Mahjong Garden - Garden Chase Badge
Win 5,200 tokens in 12 days!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

All of the challenges in this upcoming Premium Badge Album require you to play Monopoly. If you complete all 8 challenges you will receive a bonus Monopoly World Super Badge. This album will sell for $5.99. Here are the details of the eight badges and their token rewards:

Doin’ Time Badge
Go to Jail 10 times in 3 days!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Lady Lux Badge
Pass “Go” 20 times in 1 day!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Purchasing Power Badge
Have a player pay you rent 8 times in 20 minutes! (Play with Speedy Rules only!)
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Go Take a Chance Badge
Draw 75 Community Chest or Chance cards in 3 weeks! (Play with Pogo House Rules only!)
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Railroaded Badge
Land on a Transport Space 40 times in 4 weeks!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Aerial Advance Badge
Draw 10 Community Chest or Chance cards in 1 hour! (Play with Official Rules only!)
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!

Board Hop Badge
Roll doubles 100 times in 5 weeks!
Win this badge plus 3000 tokens!

Pocket Money Badge
Land on Free Parking 3 times in 1 day! (Play with Family rules only!)
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

Hopefully they won’t postpone it any longer than this!

The Monopoly Premium Badge Album as well as the Playful Pets Premium Badge Album will be released on November 18th.

Well, we didn’t want to be right, but we were. The Monopoly Premium Badge album that was listed on the Badge Central page to be released today (and previously listed as October 7th) won’t be coming out today. We weren’t optimistic because none of the ‘flavor text’ for the album had been written and the challenge requirements weren’t in place yet either. They’re still not ready, so don’t expect the album today/this week. In fact, we’re not even optimistic about next week (though we do hope to be proved wrong then). Sigh.

Details on the first of the two Premium Badge Albums we mentioned earlier have surfaced. This one will be called “Playful Pets”. It will have 12 animated badges and one badge for completion. Each badge will contain a certain type of animal “playing” a game (we say “animal” loosely because one of the animals is a toucan, and toucans just aren’t pets). The challenges will be in Poppit!, Mahjong Safari, one of the Word Whomps, one of the jigsaw games, Tumble Bees, Hog Heaven Slots, Turbo 21, Phlinx (maybe?), Stack’em, Squelchies, and Mahjong Garden.