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The response to the Trivial Pursuit answers has been overwhelmingly positive! Thank you to everyone who has written in to thank us and Brandy for our hard work on these daily postings. However, we have also received a little bit of negative email in response and despite that fact, we’re listening to your requests!

A couple of you had asked if we’d suppress the Daily 20 answers from being shown with regular blog posts on our front page and in our date-based archives. It’s hard to avert your eyes if you don’t want the spoiler of the answers, we know! So, with a little bit of code wrangling, that’s been done.

The Trivial Pursuit Daily 20 Answers will still be posted daily, but you’re going to have to visit the Daily 20 Answers category archive to find them. That link will always be available on our sidebar under “BadgeHungry’s Popular Pages” as well.

Here’s where you will find the answers:

Daily 20 Answers category archive
the Trivial Pursuit news archive
search results

Here’s where you won’t find the answers:

our front page
RSS feeds of posts (from this date forward)
date-based archives (like September 2008)

Have you ever wondered what the new (and old) TV commercials from Pogo look like? Now’s your chance. Pogo is featuring their six television commercials on this page. The first three are brand new, for Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and Bingo Luau. The next two have been aired in the past on different networks, like Lifetime and GSN. There’s also one that’s never been aired before, for First Class Solitaire.

Soon, Pogo will unveil a new design for Badge Central. They’ve separated out the badges into categories: Badge Central, My Collection, Mix-n-Match Badges, and Premium Badge Albums.

The Badge Central page is laid out to show you the badges you can earn for free (weekly badges) and the badges (Mix-n-Match) and albums (Premium) that you can purchase.

The My Collection page gives you an overview and specific breakdown of the badges you’ve earned of each type: Weekly, Mix-n-Match, Premium, and Special (which contains Game Award and Special Edition badges).

There’s still nowhere else to see at-a-glance what ranks you’ve earned in each game, so our BadgeHungry rank tracker is still as relevant as it was a year (and over four thousand active, registered users) ago! Check out a sample user’s very own rank tracker page!

Update 9/27: These changes will roll out on October 7th, according to a homepage banner on Pogo.com. You can read a little more about these changes in this news article.

A few of our readers have written in to ask if the Pogo beta tester letters have gone out yet. A quick scan of the Pogo fan forums shows that yes, a round of invitations has gone out already over the weekend. However, in the past Pogo has sent out the acceptance emails in small batches so they may deal with users who have problems logging into their beta accounts. If you applied and didn’t receive an acceptance email yet, don’t fret — there’s still a chance you may be invited at a later date.

Every year, Pogo puts out (via Ms. Netiquette) a guide to commonly-used chat abbreviations, aka the “Player’s Guide to Netspeak”. This year, as with every year, it lists not only the common but the obscure, the downright useless and the game-specific. It’s a pretty comprehensive list for Pogo’s chatrooms — including a lot we’ve never seen before in our many multitudes of hours on Pogo — even if it is totally sanitized. (Who the heck ever uses LFMBO? Ms. Net apparently. She’s such a pain in the appendix.)

We’d always hoped the year would come where STFU would be added on to the list, but apparently nobody could come up with a saccharine-sweet word for F. *snicker*

Our friend Steph wrote in to let us know that for her, Pogo has been on the blitz this morning. Every time she’s changed pages on the site her token amount, gem amount, favorite badge, and messages are displaying improper amounts. She’s written in to tech support with screen shots and hopefully they’ll get it resolved, but she wanted to make sure that if anyone else was out there experiencing problems with the site: you aren’t alone! Thanks Steph!

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!

Our BadgeFairy went on her honeymoon and all you got were these blurry cameraphone shots of Poppit! Slots! LOL!

 
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The Poppit Slots were a LOT of fun. At the Borgata in Atlantic City they were penny slots and for a max bet it was 250 credits (or $2.50) per spin. (You could change the credit denomination to 2 or 5 cents as well!) The first time I played, Spike gobbled up $80 or so, but the second time I slid in a cool $100 bill and walked away with nearly double that. The real winnings on this machine are the prizes, both in the regular spins (across the multiple lines) and in the bonus round. The bonus round is just like Poppit!, and the prizes you release are worth credits.

As I pointed out to the nice lady next to me (who plays Pogo all the time at home, she said), if you rub Spike on the touchscreen, he giggles and wiggles around on the screen. It’s Poppit cuteness overload.

I’ll get you back to regular postings soon — thanks for your patience while my husband and I enjoyed our new lives together over the past few weeks!

Love, BadgeFairy

Posts will be sporadic until next weekend as BadgeFairy is off on her honeymoon! Have a great week and good luck with your ranks and badges!