special/super badges

June’s Mix-n-Match challenges and badges are out, including a special 4th of July Limited Edition badge! The 4th badge costs 22 gems and the rest are 16.

Addiction Solitaire - Addicted to Love Badge
Win 500 tokens in 30 minutes or less!

Bingo Luau - 2008 Fourth of July Limited Edition Badge
Get 5 Bingos on red cards in 15 days!

Euchre - Sword King Badge
Win 12 games in 3 weeks!

Golf Solitaire - Par for the Course Badge
Complete 25 holes with a score of Par or under in 10 days!

Mahjong Safari - Jumpin’ Giraffe Badge
Send 10 gifts in 5 days!

Payday Freecell - Fairy Tale Palace Badge
Win 4 games in 150 moves or less in 2 weeks!

Penguin Blocks - Penguin Antics Badge
Earn enough upgrades to help Bob retire once in 6 hours or less!

The Flawless Victory special badge in Golf Solitaire is tricky to get, but not impossible. With a little patience and these tips, the coveted badge could be yours.

First of all, the requirements: win all five games on a course.

* Our hints and tips will help with overall game-play, but you’ll want to fine-tune your plan of attack for getting this badge.

* Play in a Regular speed room. This will give you time to plan out long streaks. This will also give you time to play the Bonus Round and possibly get a wild card or a Golden Shot card for the next round.

* If you are playing alone (or can always choose your course), pick Fiddler’s Green or Icicle Cliffs. Some people have reported better luck with getting the special badge on those courses.

* A lot of what this comes down to is a little strategy and a lot of luck, so good luck!

If you have received this badge and can offer some advice to people on how to get it too, let us know!

Here are a few things of note that we haven’t had time to cover in a single post this week:

The mini pets are on their way! Pogo’s artists have created two new backgrounds — a pet shop and a dog park.

The Flawless Victory badge in Golf Solitaire is now being awarded.

There were a lot of problems with this week’s patch for Word Riot Deluxe (especially for Windows Vista users). Some Vista users have had luck by running it as administrator, but others have not been so lucky. If you are having problems playing Word Riot after the latest update patch this week, we suggest you contact Oberon directly (support at Pogo will just tell you to contact Oberon, anyway).

The badge is now being properly awarded for the 8th Mix-n-Match album completion. It’s called “Jumpin’ for Joy”. It shows up in your Special Edition album and you will be credited 5,000 tokens. WTG Pogo.

Those of you who wanted to know what it was, Poker Pop is now available for online play.

If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet, we added a new token offer for 3,000 tokens to our free Pogo tokens page. Yay for free tokens!

Pogo is starting to work on the upcoming Hasbro releases Operation and Pictureka. Operation Deluxe will be a downloadable game with badges, ranks, and probably mini items. Pictureka may be called Pictureka Museum and if you’ve never played this fun game, you can check out a game demo off this page.

It looks like Pogo got their crap together and finally created (just two days late, eh) the final badge for completion of the 8th Mix-n-Match album. We realize there’s only a small group of people — compared to their general pool of Club members — who have finished all 8 albums and are currently working on their 9th with the latest release of May’s badges, but we hope Pogo will be more on the ball in the future with these type of things.

So far, we haven’t heard any reports of anyone getting the badge YET (which was promised to automatically be added as soon as it is ready), and the badge hasn’t been pushed to the public site yet (probably with the next maintenance on Tuesday), so just sit tight and have some patience. For those of you who are eligible (and/or curious) and want to look out for it: it’s of Spike in a gym doing endless jump-roping. Jump, jump, jump. Lather, rinse, repeat.

There’s a special edition 4th (of July, we assume) badge coming at the end of June or early July. It features characters from Crazy Cakes, so the challenge will probably be for that game. More details as we get them (of course).

Pogo Addiction Solitaire - Must Play Pogo Badge
Correctly place 500 cards this week!

Spades - Spades Superstar Badge
Win 3 1,000-point games this week!

Spring 2008 Super Badge
Win 5 Challenge Badges between May 14 and June 3!
(This includes personal and Premium Challenges!)

Don’t forget to take some time out this weekend to play KenoPop! to get your Special Edition badge!

Get out your American flags (and your 22 gems)! It looks like Pogo will be releasing a Limited Edition mix-n-match badge in honor of Independence Day. More details about the game and challenge for this badge are coming soon.

It’s confirmed: there will be a weekend challenge in KenoPop! in May. Here’s the breakdown!

KenoPop! - Poppin’ Tokens Special Edition Badge
Win 4,000 tokens this weekend!
(Play between Friday, May 2 and Monday, May 5!)