golf solitaire

In addition to the April Mix-n-Match challenges, Golf Solitaire was released today. The pages for Word Riot Deluxe are up and in place, but the game file isn’t there yet — when it shows up, it will be on this page. We’ll update this post when the file arrives and you can play Word Riot Deluxe later today.

Update: the file still isn’t there, but we know WRD was at some point supposed to be out today; there’s a sweepstakes listed on the page that states “from April 22…”

Update 2: You are going to have to wait until next Tuesday. Sigh.

Because the game was released on foreign sites, we are able to give you a sneak peek of the badges for the upcoming Golf Solitaire.

Rank 5: Bogie the Ghost Badge
Clear 520 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 10: Nine-Iron Chef Badge
Clear 1880 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 20: Rikki Six-Iron Badge
Clear 6040 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 30: Betty the Ballerina Badge
Clear 11,320 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 40: Super Caddy! Badge
Clear 17,960 hazards to earn this badge

Special Badge: Flawless Victory! Badge
Score perfectly on all five holes to earn this badge

We were told this game is scheduled for release this Tuesday, April 22nd in conjunction with the next weekly maintenance window.

Okay, you guys can stop emailing us now! We know it’s been three (!) whole (!!) days (!!!) since our last post, but there isn’t anything else to report yet. We thought there was surely to be a new game released this week (like Golf Solitaire), but instead there wasn’t an apparent maintenance at its scheduled time this morning and therefore nothing new on the site…yet.

Regular readers will know that we’ll be the first to update you as soon as there is news to report!

Oddly enough, Pogo Germany and Pogo France got a release before the US/Canada and UK sites did.

If you really must play it, you can follow these steps (you can do this on the French site if you’re more familiar with that language, but we’re going to walk you through German):

First, you’ll want to log out of your usual Pogo account

Then visit the German registration page.

(You can use Google Translate if you need help.)

Once you’ve got your account, check the home page for Golf Solitaire and off you go.

(Having never played the game before, we weren’t sure if the game had frozen or if it just seemed like it. So we decided we’ll just wait for a version in a language we can easily grok.)

Hey, are you about ready to play Golf Solitaire? If so, check out this tutorial. Special thanks to our friends at Badge Hunters Forum for this great find!

Did you notice the golf caddy in the latest Pogo Insider? WeatherDude did! In addition to this character (who is from the upcoming Golf Solitaire game), the latest Pogo Insider is decorated with a lot of puzzle pieces. Perhaps it’s a nod to the also-upcoming Sudoku Puzzle Blast? Anyway, here’s a screenshot of the header:

Pogo hasn’t posted the latest Insider to their web site yet, so if you haven’t seen it for yourself, check back here and we’ll update this post with a link when it arrives.

Golf Solitaire is now officially in beta, and we’ve got a little bit of new information on its three modes. The modes are Regular, Speedy, and Super Speedy. In the Regular mode, you will get 1 minute and 45 seconds per hole and the game takes 20 seconds between holes. In the Speedy mode, you will get 35 seconds per hole (quite a jump, right?) and the game takes 15 seconds between holes. In Super Speedy mode, you’ll get 20 seconds per hole and the game takes 10 seconds between holes.

To start, Regular or Speedy may be a great place to learn the game, but given that you’ll be ranking up based upon how many hazard cards you clear, Super Speedy is going to be where you’ll be ranking up fastest in this one!

Today we learned about the six badges available to players of Golf Solitaire. As you clear more and more hazards, you will achieve higher and higher ranks and earn badges at ranks 5, 10, 20, 30, and 40. In addition, there will be a special in-game award badge, which you can win when you complete 5 perfect holes in a round. The rank badges are as follows:

Rank 5: Bogie the Ghost Badge
Clear 520 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 10: Nine-Iron Chef Badge
Clear 1880 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 20: Rikki Six-Iron Badge
Clear 6040 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 30: Betty the Ballerina Badge
Clear 11,320 hazards to earn this badge

Rank 40: Super Caddy! Badge
Clear 17,960 hazards to earn this badge

Special Badge: Flawless Victory! Badge
Score perfectly on all five holes to earn this badge

Observant readers will note that these badge names do not line up with the badge names in the rules. For example, “The first rank you’ll earn, for instance, is Doug, the Surly Teenager. After that, you’ll get Olaf the Viking, then El Portador, the wrestlin’ caddy, and so on and so forth.” We’re not sure what to make of this quite yet, but we can tell you that the actual badge graphics match up with this list and not the current ‘how to play’ text.

Today, partial rules for Golf Solitaire were leaked onto the internet. We’ve posted them here added them to the sidebar of our site for you to peruse while you anxiously await one of Pogo’s next releases.

As expected, this game will play much like Tri-Peaks Solitaire. However, there is the addition of ‘Hazard cards’ (like in Thousand Island Solitaire and Dice Derby), play against the other people in your room, and ‘par’-based scoring. In addition, the rules tell us that it will be a game available to non-Club members as well.

Update: We found the rest of the rules, so we posted the complete text this evening. And with that, this bit of information (among so much more): “There are 40 ranks in all, and you get badges at ranks 5, 10, 20, 30, and 40.” Knowing that we’d seen 6 badges earlier, we assume there will be a ’special’ badge with this game as well.