squelchies

Squelchies - Sea Creature Badge
Make a Combo of 3 or more groups of Squelchies 60 times this week! (Each combo must be a 4X Bonus or better)!

Here are some hints and tips directly from Pogo for a similar challenge!

Pinochle - Royal Marriages Badge
Create 12 Royal Marriages (King and Queen in the trump suit) this week!

The badges and challenges for July 2008 Mix-n-Match have been released.

Jungle Gin - Rainbow Beak Badge
Win 60 hands in 10 days

Pinochle - Makin’ Music Badge
Create 25 Runs in Trump in 4 weeks
(A Run in Trump includes Ace, 10, King, Queen and Jack in the trump suit in your hand.)

Pop Fu - Rising Sun Badge
Reach the Speed Round 4 times IN A ROW in 1 day!

Squelchies - Magic Pearl Badge
Remove 888 Squelchies in 18 minutes or less!

Texas Hold’em Poker - Friendly Cowboy Badge
Win 8 hands with Two Pair or better in 2 weeks!

Word Whomp - Whomp is a 5-letter Word Badge
Find 55 5-letter words in 5 days!

World Class Solitaire - Heart of Class Badge
Win 12,000 tokens in 18 days!(including Jackpot Spins!)

The following Mix-n-Match badges are expiring on July 15th — if you haven’t purchased them with your gems yet, you might want to, as they will be retired and will never return again.

Euchre - Euchre Champ Badge
Win 3 games IN A ROW in 2 weeks!

Jungle Gin - Owl Butterfly Badge
Underknock your opponent 5 times in 10 days!

Lottso! - Charity Badge
Activate the Charity Card 30 times in 3 weeks!

Rainy Day Spider Solitaire - Dancing in the Rain Badge
Win 1,000 tokens in 1 hour!

Squelchies - Blowin’ Bubbles Badge
Activate the Blow Fish 100 times in 3 weeks!

Stack ‘em - Stack-o-meter Badge
Earn 3,000 tokens in 3 hours!

Word Whomp Whackdown - Short Leash Badge
Find 1,500 words in 15 days!

Pogo’s created some great exercise-themed, animated badges for a new Premium Album coming soon. Each badge features a Pogo character doing some type of workout. There’s Tex Carter from Tri-Peaks on an exercise bike, Payday Freecell’s King on a mini-trampoline, a Squelchie jumping out of his fishbowl to hit a punching bag, the Word Whomp gopher on a treadmill, and Boogie Bear from Tumble Bees lifting weights. That’s five badges and challenges for this upcoming album so far. We’ll keep you posted as we hear of a name and what these games’ challenges will entail.

We’ve just been shown some nice badges that have been created for a future Mix-n-Match release. There are fifteen large, non-animated badges (so these may be spread across two months’ worth of M-n-M’s) for Word Whomp (or maybe WW Whackdown), Thousand Island Solitaire, Texas Hold ‘em Poker, Team Bingo, Squelchies, Pogo Bowl, Pinochle, Payday Freecell (possibly), Mahjong Safari, Lottso, KenoPop!, Jungle Gin, Hog Heaven Slots, Hearts, and Checkers.

Squelchies - Squishy Squelchies Badge
Reach the Jellyfish Bonus Round 12 times this week!
(Collect King Squelchies to unlock the Bonus Round!)

This one is a little tedious, especially if you’re not terribly fond of Squelchies (like some of us are). Collect King Squelchies (see image at left for an example of a blue one) by matching them with other similarly colored squelchies. Each time you get a King Squelchie, you’ll get a letter towards spelling BONUS. Once you spell bonus, then you get the bonus round. After you finish the bonus round, if you hit New Game, it seems you progress towards this badge faster.

There doesn’t seem to be a trick to getting the game to give you more King Squelchies, they just arrive along with the others. It doesn’t matter what level you play on, just be sure that once you see a King Squelchie that you go directly for it because if the round ends before you match it with another set of Squelchies, you won’t get the credit towards the bonus round.

High Stakes Pool - 9-Ball Badge
Win 9 “9-Ball” games this week!

This game should take no more than an hour or so, whether you are playing against humans or computers. Just make sure you’re on the 9-Ball tab when you choose a room. The object of the game is to hit balls 1 through 9 in that order into the pockets, more or less. The fastest way — although not the easiest way — to win the game is to sink the 9-ball by hitting first the required numbered ball into the 9-ball so it lands into one of the pockets. As we said, not easy, but we managed to line it up right twice today, so it’s at least possible.

Pogo has released the On the Go Premium Badge Album today. It includes extremely fast, time-based challenges for Turbo 21, Tri-Peaks Solitaire, Mahjong Garden, Word Search Daily, Rainy Day Spider Solitaire, Lottso!, Phlinx, World Class Solitaire, Squelchies, Dice City Roller, Pogo Bowl, and Payday FreeCell.

In addition, Pogo released the Winter’s Gift Premium Badge Album today, which has four new challenges for First Class Solitaire, Hog Heaven Slots, Jungle Gin, and Bingo Luau.