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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!

Sweet Tooth 2 - Mellow Out Badge
Clear 1200 caramel spaces this week!

Trivial Pursuit - Piece of the Pie Badge
Correctly answer 100 questions this week!

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!

As part of Pogo’s monthly Game Night, play Sweet Tooth today and gain a chance to win a 3 game prize pack.

Sweet Tooth 2 - 4 Match Badge
Make 100 “4 Match” combos this week!

Chess - Chess Champ Badge
Win 1,000 tokens this week!

This challenge has been decreased from 4,000 tokens to 1,000 tokens; while we are thankful for that, we are still dreading this challenge as folks who are (ahem) less than fanatic about chess in general. We have, however, heard of a great way to reduce the amount of time we’ll be spending playing our least-favorite game. Be warned: we haven’t tested it yet!

By moving the pieces from square to square in the following method while playing against a bot, you’ll win (and earn over 100 tokens):

Play as white (you can resign when you get the “black”/dark brown pieces):
1 Pe2-e4
2 Bf1-b5
3 Pd2-d4
4 g1-f3
5 Bc1-f4
6 Qd1-d2
7 Bf4xh6
8 Qd2xh6
9 f3-g5
10 Qh6-h7
11 Qh7-f7++

(P=Pawn, B=Bishop, Q=Queen — here’s a Chess piece reference)

Here are the 7 Mix-n-Match badges and challenges that were released today:

Addiction Solitaire - Spike the Night Light Badge
Win 15 hands in 2 weeks!

Canasta - Canasta Basket Badge
Win 5 games with a “Frozen Pile” in 5 days! (”Players cannot ever pick up the discard pile” must be selected!)

Chess - Royal Spotlight Badge
Win 3 games IN A ROW in 3 days!

High Stakes Poker - Pairs on Fire Badge
Win 75 hands with a “2 Pair” or better in 10 days!

Jigsaw Detective - Pulp Detective Badge
Solve a puzzle on MEDIUM difficulty level in 20 minutes or less in 2 days!

Spades - Strong Arm Badge
Win 1 500-point RATED game in 1 week!

Sweet Tooth 2 - Gumball Machine Badge
Make a “Combo X2″ bonus or better 222 times in 2 weeks!

For those of you who have completed all of the Mix-n-Matches before this, you’ll be completing your 8th album with the first badge in this list. Pogo hasn’t created the 8th ’secret’ badge that you are supposed to receive for finishing the Mix-n-Match album, so you won’t get it…yet. However, Pogo reps have assured us that you’ll be automatically awarded the badge once it’s been created.

We’re about to switch our home page from Pogo.com to Pogo.co.uk here!

Last month, Pogo UK’s Letters to the Editor covered the lack of Valentine’s mini items, and this month Ed has apologized (or should we spell it ‘apologised’?) the lack of St. Patrick’s Day and Easter mini items.

Regarding the lack of Easter (and, for that matter, St Patrick’s Day) items in the Mini Mall, for this we can only apologise. We did plan to re-release some of last year’s items to allow folks to pick up some Easter goodies for the holiday. Unfortunately, due to, let’s call it an oversight, this plan wasn’t put into action… Our sincere apologies for this - we’ll be more vigilant in future!

So far, from Pogo’s US contingent, all we’ve received is near radio silence regarding mini items and a message that the editor will be on vacation this week. Tsk, tsk.

As far as the Easter version of Sweet Tooth 2 goes, only UK’s editor mentioned it, too, although it is themed on both sites.

Today’s Pogo News brings us news of an Easter version of Sweet Tooth 2:

Cuteness is coming and candy’s where it’s at! Come Tuesday, in celebration of Easter, make sure you hop on over to Sweet Tooth 2, and fill your game playing basket with some of the cutest candy you’ve ever seen– without the calories!

Today Pogo released the Relax & Play Premium Badge Album. It is $5.99 or 86 gems, and contains 10 stress-free challenges for Mahjong Garden, Poppit!, Jigsaw Detective, First Class Solitaire, Jungle Gin, Rainy Day Spider Solitaire, Dominoes, Word Search Daily, Sweet Tooth 2, and Thousand Island Solitaire.