Diner Dash Family Style is a new deluxe game coming soon to Pogo. It’ll have six badges and winnable mini items available for Club Pogo members. The mini items will be full outfits in the form of costumes, backgrounds, and goodies. We’ll give you a sneak peek at some of the winnable items this week!
There are many new mini items available in the Mini Mall today that are sure to please even the pickiest customers!
Monopoly mini items include falling Monopoly money, goodies — ‘movers’ (or Monopoly player pieces) — , backgrounds, and exclusively for the guys a Mr. Monopoly outfit.
There are also pet items — many different breeds of dogs, cats, and exotic pets (including a potbelly pig and koi pond). It looks like Pogo is really taking everyone’s suggestions and requests to heart! Also, don’t miss the left- or right-side goodies for dogs, cats, and even rabbits!
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).
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.
Makeover Madness - Color Me Pink Badge
Deliver 120 pink hairdos this week!
Jigsaw Treasure Hunter - Puzzle World Badge
Win 4,500 tokens this week!
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.
Today’s maintenance brings us the September 2008 Mix-n-Match challenges and badges. They are as follows:
Monopoly - MONOPOLY Limited Edition Badge
Pass “GO” 10 times in 2 hours or less!
Pogo Addiction Solitaire - Givin’ Gifts Badge
Give 10 Token Gifts in 10 days!
Everyone Wins Bingo - Greedy Squirrel Badge
Win 5,000 tokens in 5 days!
Jigsaw Treasure Hunter - Hunting for Treasure Badge
Solve 1 puzzle in 5 minutes or less in 1 day!
Jungle Gin - Scary Safari Badge
Underknock your opponent 15 times in 15 days!
Lottso! - Lottsotopia Badge
Place 350 wild star balls on the game cards in 3 weeks!
Poppit! - It’s Raining Balloons Badge
Use a “pin” or “weight” power-up 100 times in 3 weeks!
SCRABBLE - SCRABBLE Winner Badge
Play a Blank Tile 10 times in 1 week!
Tri-Peaks Solitaire - Quick Hands Badge
Play 50 hands in 1 hour or less! (You don’t have to win each hand you play!)
Word Whomp - Snowball Badge
Win 4 games IN A ROW in 10 minutes or less!
Here are the requirements for the not-yet-active secret badges in Monopoly:
Big Roller Badge
Roll double-sixes three times on the same turn
Jail Bird Badge
Get out of jail, only to re-enter jail on the same turn
Getting Crowded Here Badge
Have all four players land on the same space
As we said, they’re not available to be earned…yet. Perhaps these secret badges will be worked into the game at the same time the mini items are.
(Special thanks to RJ and Mary for their super sleuthing!)
Jungle Gin - Oklahoma Tiki Party Badge
Win 28 hands of Oklahoma Gin this week! (Make sure the “Oklahoma Gin” option is selected!)
Tri-Peaks Solitaire - Magical Mysteries Badge
Get to the Gold Treasure Chest 6 times this week!
Also, it’s a personal challenge marathon week, so get crackin’ on those badges!
Hey Club Pogo members, check this out! We don’t know how this slipped past us — perhaps it was a little too much summer vacation and not enough super-sleuthing on our part — but soon you’ll be able to earn exclusive Mini items from Monopoly!
Perceptive Pogo fans will recognize a few of these mini items — the second and fourth examples — from other games (the images are probably just a placeholder for now or just showing the other great things we can earn), but rest assured Pogo is working hard to create all kinds of new backgrounds, outfits, and goodies for us. In addition to the ones on the above-linked page, we’ve seen a bunch of ‘movers’: animated car, kangaroo, and tuk-tuk (which is totally hilarious); and non-animated elephant, mountie, penguin, and sumo wrestler.
It looks as if some of the in-game “earnable” movers will be featured as a “Mystery Mover Mystery” (yeah, we’re pretty sure this mini-site is still in development) in the Community News. They’ll be posting stories which will contain a clue which may reveal how to unlock special Club Pogo-only movers in the game.
