promotions and events

If you’ve tried Pictureka and are ready to buy it, you can save 40% by using the coupon code “thanks2008″ at checkout. This code works for all downloadable games at Pogo and brings the price from $19.99 to $11.97.

Also, if you’re looking for some new scenery on your computer’s desktop, check out these cute Pictureka wallpapers available for download.

Updated 11/27/08: This coupon is no longer valid for Pictureka, but still applies to other downloadable games.

Pogo and Scoop Away cat litter are giving away a million tokens in a new sweepstakes. To enter, you must have a Pogo account and you can enter one time per day. Here are the prizes:

1 grand prize: 1,000,000 Pogo Tokens and a $300 Visa gift card
10 instant win first prizes: $25 Visa gift card
5 instant win second prizes: Operation Mania for PC
100 instant win third prizes: Pogo t-shirt
100 instant win fourth prizes: 30 day Club Pogo gift subscription
250 instant win fifth prizes: Pogo branded litter box scoop

Good luck, and if you win either the Pogo t-shirt or the Pogo litter box scoop, we’d love to see a picture of it in action — drop us a line!

Hey UK players: don’t forget that tonight is Bingo Night. Join in the social and earn 6,000 free tokens when you play Bingo Luau. Meet in either “Eyes Down (UK)” or “Legs Eleven (UK)” to socialize from 6 to 7 pm (although playing in any room at any time during the day will get you your tokens).

We’re back! On the very first day of our vacation, our darling Badge Fairy Lura came down with an awful sore throat and fever that’s making her cranky and sleepy and generally difficult. Please bear with us as she convalesces.

In other news, while we were gone:

Casual President resigns, EA cuts their Casual Division
President of the EA Casual Division Kathy Vrabeck resigned and shortly thereafter EA announced a reorganization that basically merges the Casual division with the Sims division, as well as merges in their Hasbro partnership. The most interesting thing (for us) about this is that EA is seemingly saying that “casual gamers” don’t exist, that the term “casual gamer” in fact applies to a much more diverse set of gamers, hardcore and non-hardcore alike.

New mini items in the Mini Mall
Pogo has given us another great release of mini items in the Mini Mall, including exotic pets (isn’t that peacock gorgeous?) and Yahtzee items. In addition to some other Autumnal items, there are a few new pieces of clothing to keep your Mini warm as the weather begins to turn to downright chilly in most of the nation.

Pictureka can be added to favorites
You can add Pictureka to your favorites, but you can’t yet download and/or play it. You know where to look for the latest news, of course…right here at BadgeHungry. We wouldn’t keep any secrets from you.

We only posted US answers
You’d think the world was coming to a nuclear end with the amount of email we received about the answers we had (or hadn’t) pre-posted for Trivial Pursuit Daily 20. For the three days we were gone, we got the US answers in advance, but not the UK answers. We decided to post the US answers and list that the UK answers would be posted soon — better half than none at all, right? Well, we received so much email protesting the missing answers we probably can’t respond to all of you, but the UK answers have been back-posted now. You may now remove your foil-lined helmets and come out from your bomb shelters — everything is right with the world (except maybe Badge Fairy’s darned sore throat)!

Dream Vacation Sweepstakes
Play Monopoly from November 7-13 for a chance to win some great prizes. One winner will win the “Dream Vacation”, consisting of two $500 Hyatt gift cards and one $1500 American Airlines Gift Card. Three winners will receive $300 and the Monopoly Here & Now board game. Each time you load the game you’ll be entered to win, so get playing (or, um, loading).

Pogo Bowl is now Turkey Bowl!
Every year, Pogo replaces the pins in Pogo Bowl with gobbling turkeys. It’s quite a sight to see, so go check it out!

Right now, Pogo is running a promotion to introduce new people to their newest games, like Trivial Pursuit Daily 20, Monopoly, and Operation Mania. If you tell a friend about Pogo (and that friend registers), you’ll get 2500 tokens!

Something interesting about this promotion is the difference between the US and UK versions of the page. We find the slight difference in semantics entirely fascinating (and probably unnecessary).

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Hey UK players: don’t forget that tonight is Bingo Night. Join in the social and earn 6,000 free tokens when you play Bingo Luau. Meet in either “Eyes Down (UK)” or “Legs Eleven (UK)” to socialize from 7 to 8 pm (although playing in any room at any time during the day will get you your tokens).

Today kicks off the beginning of Pogo’s Halloween Bash. Play Trivial Pursuit Daily 20 October 16-30th; if you earn a jackpot spin you’ll be entered for chances to win a Blu-Ray DVD player and three movies. Jackpot spins in Trivial Pursuit are won by earning 1100 points and getting a wedge.

You can enter once per day according to the official rules, so head over to Trivial Pursuit and get started. (If trivia isn’t your thing, we’ve got all the answers you’ll ever need!)

It’s Casino Night again! Don’t forget to play Panda Pai Gow Poker, Ali Baba Slots 2, and Black Jack Carnival

Some people have reported being able to get their 6,000 tokens twice during the day, once in the morning and once later in the evening. Try it out today!

Hey UK players: don’t forget that tonight is Bingo Night. Join in the social and earn 6,000 free tokens when you play Bingo Luau. Meet in either “Eyes Down (UK)” or “Legs Eleven (UK)” to socialize from 6 to 7 pm (although playing in any room at any time during the day will get you your tokens).