High Stakes Pool – Fast and Loose Badge
Sink 168 balls in this week!

If you’d like to meet up with others to earn these badges, please use rooms that start with B or H, or Temporary Members Room 50030. Wear a badge that looks like a “B” to identify yourself and don’t forget to say hi!

Leave your tips, tricks, and hints for earning these badges in a comment below.

Bingo Luau – Umbrella Drink Badge
Get 25 bingos in 20 days!

Cribbage – Double Run Badge
Win 2 121-point games in 2 days!

Dominoes – Domino Delivery Badge
Win a game by 25 or more points 3 times in 2 weeks!

First Class Solitaire – First Class Meal Badge
Win 2,000 tokens in 1 day! (Including Jackpot Spins)

Hearts – Heartbreak Kid Badge
Take EXACTLY ZERO Hearts in a 50-point game 20 times in 20 days!

High Stakes Pool – Too Much Chalk Badge
Win 6 ‘Cutthroat’ games in 6 days!

No Limit Texas Hold’em – Raise the River Badge
Win 2 hands with a Full House or better in 1 week!

Pinochle – Grand Piano Badge
Create 15 Pinochles in 15 days! (Meld the Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades)

SCRABBLE – Rocket for 12 Points Badge
Earn 40 Triple Letter Score Bonuses in 2 weeks!

Stack ‘em – Animal Ark Badge
Remove 20 or more animals with one move once in 10 days! (This is an Expert Level Badge)

Tri-Peaks Solitaire – Temple of the Moon Badge
Win 3 hands IN A ROW in 12 days! (Win the hands before or at the same time you reach the Gold Treasure Chest)

Word Craft – Birds of a Feather Badge
Earn Bonus Tokens 25 times in 8 days! (Solve the puzzle before the timer expires to earn Bonus Tokens)

If you’d like to contribute hints or tips on how to earn any these badges, please post a comment below. (Only on-topic posts will be approved.) Thanks!

Beaker Creatures – Horns Aplenty Badge
Get 5 Jackpot Spins in 3 days!

Bingo Luau – Umbrella Drink Badge
Get 25 bingos in 20 days!

Dominoes – Domino Delivery Badge
Win a game by 25 or more points 3 times in 2 weeks!

First Class Solitaire – First Class Meal Badge
Win 2,000 tokens in 1 day! (Including Jackpot Spins)

Hearts – Heartbreak Kid Badge
Take EXACTLY ZERO Hearts in a 50-point game 20 times in 20 days!

High Stakes Pool – Too Much Chalk Badge
Win 6 ‘Cutthroat’ games in 6 days!

No Limit Texas Hold’em – Raise the River Badge
Win 2 hands with a Full House or better in 1 week!

Pinochle – Grand Piano Badge
Create 15 Pinochles in 15 days! (Meld the Jack of Diamonds and the Queen of Spades)

SCRABBLE – Rocket for 12 Points Badge
Earn 40 Triple Letter Score Bonuses in 2 weeks!

Stack ‘em – Animal Ark Badge
Remove 20 or more animals with one move once in 10 days! (This is an Expert Level Badge)

Tri-Peaks Solitaire – Temple of the Moon Badge
Win 3 hands IN A ROW in 12 days!

Word Craft – Birds of a Feather Badge
Earn Bonus Tokens 25 times in 8 days! (Solve the puzzle before the timer expires to earn Bonus Tokens)

Dominoes – Biscuits ‘n Bones Badge
Win 3 250-points games in 22 hours!

First Class Solitaire – Aromatic Airline Badge
Place 700 cards in the foundation stacks in 22 hours!

High Stakes Pool – Cue Cumber Badge
Win 2 games in 2 hours!

Jigsaw Treasure Hunter – Set It and Forget It Badge
Solve 1 puzzle on Hard Skill Level or higher in 22 minutes!

Jungle Gin – Tiki Combo Badge
Score 600 Gin points (not tokens) in 2 weeks!

Monopoly – Food-opoly Badge
Roll doubles 60 times in 2 weeks!

Monopoly Slots – Drive Thru Badge
Win 5000 tokens in 2 hours! (Including Jackpot Spins)

QWERTY! – Spell Your Supper Badge
Play 25 words of 6 letters or more in 2 days!

Spades – Pizza Partners Badge
Work with your partner to win 300 tricks in 22 days!

Word Whomp – Gopher Gourmet Badge
Win 20 games on Skill Level 2 or higher in 2 days!

Album Completion Badge

If you have any hints or tips on how to earn these badges faster or if you’d like to discuss anything about this album, feel free to post a comment here.

The badges and challenges are as follows:

Dominoes – Biscuits ‘n Bones Badge
Win 3 250-points games in 22 hours!

First Class Solitaire – Aromatic Airline Badge
Place 700 cards in the foundation stacks in 22 hours!

High Stakes Pool – Cue Cumber Badge
Win 2 games in 2 hours!

Jigsaw Treasure Hunter – Set It and Forget It Badge
Solve 1 puzzle on Hard Skill Level or higher in 22 minutes!

Jungle Gin – Tiki Combo Badge
Score 600 Gin points (not tokens) in 2 weeks!

Monopoly – Food-opoly Badge
Roll doubles 60 times in 2 weeks!

Monopoly Slots – Drive Thru Badge
Win 5000 tokens in 2 hours!

QWERTY! – Spell Your Supper Badge
Play 25 words of 6 letters or more in 2 days!

Spades – Pizza Partners Badge
Work with your partner to win 300 tricks in 22 days!

Word Whomp – Gopher Gourmet Badge
Win 20 games on Skill Level 2 or higher in 2 days!

Album Completion Badge

High Stakes Pool – Corner Pocket Badge
Win 2000 tokens this week! (Does not include wagers)

If you have any hints or tips on how to earn either of these badges, please post a comment below!

If you haven’t purchased them, go get ‘em now!

Bingo Luau – Hula Festival Badge
Get a Bingo on a Green Card in 5 days!

Dominoes – Double Pair Badge
Play a “double 2″ domino 22 times in 2 weeks!

High Stakes Pool – Park Bench Badge
Win 3 games IN A ROW in 3 weeks!

Pogo Bowl – Bowling Night Badge
Knock down 500 pins in 5 days! (Your pins are counted after you complete each game.)

Rainy Day Spider Solitaire – Rainbow Swing Badge
Win 2 games on HARD difficulty level in 10 days!

Tri-Peaks Solitaire – Temple of the Sun Badge
Clear 30 “peaks” in 30 minutes or less! (Peaks are the top 3 cards in each hand.)

This one is a little tedious, especially if you’re not terribly fond of Squelchies (like some of us are). Collect King Squelchies (see image at left for an example of a blue one) by matching them with other similarly colored squelchies. Each time you get a King Squelchie, you’ll get a letter towards spelling BONUS. Once you spell bonus, then you get the bonus round. After you finish the bonus round, if you hit New Game, it seems you progress towards this badge faster.

There doesn’t seem to be a trick to getting the game to give you more King Squelchies, they just arrive along with the others. It doesn’t matter what level you play on, just be sure that once you see a King Squelchie that you go directly for it because if the round ends before you match it with another set of Squelchies, you won’t get the credit towards the bonus round.

High Stakes Pool – 9-Ball Badge
Win 9 “9-Ball” games this week!

This game should take no more than an hour or so, whether you are playing against humans or computers. Just make sure you’re on the 9-Ball tab when you choose a room. The object of the game is to hit balls 1 through 9 in that order into the pockets, more or less. The fastest way — although not the easiest way — to win the game is to sink the 9-ball by hitting first the required numbered ball into the 9-ball so it lands into one of the pockets. As we said, not easy, but we managed to line it up right twice today, so it’s at least possible.