special/super badges

There’s apparently a problem with one of the Monopoly secret badges, the Jail Bird Badge. The requirement to earn the badge is supposed to be “Get out of jail, only to re-enter jail on the same turn”, however players are reporting that if they are in jail and choose to roll doubles — but do not roll doubles — they are being awarded the badge.

We even tested it out this morning.

Ooops.

Update (9/11/08, 11am): a few readers have written in to report that this may have been fixed overnight, as they were unable to get the badge simply from rolling for doubles and not getting them.

Starting today, the secret badges are available to be won in Monopoly. Click here to see the requirements and badges in our last post on the subject.

First up today, new profiles for Pogo members — both Club and non-Club members have profiles. The best part — or maybe worst part — about this is that you can link directly to any Pogo profile.

And all speculation aside, Monopoly has been released and you can play it here. Feel free to let us know if you have any unique game hints or tips for Pogo’s version of Monopoly, and definitely let us know if you get one of those secret badges we told you about yesterday. Thanks!

It looks as if there will be three secret badges for Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition, in addition to the five Game Award badges we told you about earlier. At this point, because they are true secret badges, we don’t yet know what the requirements are to earn these; it may be that we’ll all have to wait for the game’s release and play for hours on end to figure it out. As soon as we know, we’ll fill you in!

Do you ever get the feeling that the Letters to the Editor are made up just for marketing purposes, to “leak” some news about upcoming events? We sure do. It seems these days that the Letters to the Editor always contain a few obligatory letters asking (out of the blue to some) for new games, mini items, special badges, or mini pets and — oh shocker! — the Editor always seems to have the right answer, that these items are in fact coming soon.

For example, the badge to the right was just created by Pogo’s artists and obviously will be given out to Club Pogo members to celebrate Club Pogo UK’s 1st birthday (September 25, btw). Shortly thereafter, out comes this week’s UK Letters to the Editor which has a very perceptive and inquisitive Martin asking “Seeing as Pogo UK is going from strength to strength and we now have a Club Pogo UK, will we be able to have a UK birthday badge as well as the USA one?” Coincidence? We think not. At least we know from the Editor’s response that the badge will be given to all Club Pogo members on Club Pogo UK’s 1st birthday, not just our friends across the pond.

With that said, there will probably also be a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and some UK-related mini items coming with the special badge around the end of September.

Thanks to the contributions of a few readers, here are the badge names and rank requirements for Trivial Pursuit:

Game Award Badges:

Einstein Badge
Achieve Rank 10 to earn this badge.

Marco Polo Badge
Achieve Rank 20 to earn this badge.

Shakespeare Badge
Achieve Rank 30 to earn this badge.

Napolean Badge
Achieve Rank 40 to earn this badge.

Spartacus Badge
Achieve Rank 50 to earn this badge.

Special/”Secret” Badges:

Genius Badge
Answer 450 Questions without any revealed misleads to earn this badge.

Leonardo da Vinci Badge
Earn 75 bonus wedges to earn this badge.

If you’re excited about the upcoming team-style bingo offering from Pogo, Everyone Wins Bingo, you’ll be interested to check out the rules.

The game will have 50 ranks. You’ll earn badges at 5, 20, 35, and 50. There will also be two special badges (thanks to Mary and Hoffi for finding the requirements):

Lights Out! Badge
Blackout 25 cards to earn this badge

Wild Mushrooms Badge
Pass 25,000 wild pine cones to your teammates to earn this badge

Backgammon - Double Back Badge
Roll Doubles 40 times this week!

Word Whomp - Word Whomp Welcome Badge
Find 55 5-letter words this week!

and…

Summer 2008 Super Badge
Win 7 Challenge Badges between July 30 and August 26!
(This includes personal and Premium Challenges!)

Today marks the fifth year of Club Pogo — as with every year so far, we’ve all (well Club members have) been awarded this special edition badge. You’ll see it in your Badge Album under Special Edition Badges.

Over the five years, Pogo has created 38 Club-exclusive games, over 1500 badges, and tons of mini items (and pets)! You’re also among over one and a half million Club Pogo members — pretty cool, huh?

Don’t forget that also as part of the celebration Pogo has put some mini items on sale for 20% off and over 50 mix and match badges are on sale too.