by Lura on December 14, 2008
Pogo is putting together a new Premium Badge Album containing challenges in the four Hasbro games: Yahtzee Party!, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, and Scrabble. It will contain 10 challenges and will cost $5.99. This new premium album should be released in a few weeks. Here are the badges and challenges:
Monopoly Here and Now – Big Freebie Badge
Land on “Free Parking” 10 times in 2 weeks!
Monopoly Here and Now – Go-getters Badge
Pass “GO” 12 times in 1 week!
SCRABBLE – “AMAZING” Badge
Win 10 games in 10 days (Play with Pogo’s House Rules only!)
SCRABBLE – SCRABBLE Scrambles Badge
Earn 40 Double Word Score Bonuses in 3 weeks!
Trivial Pursuit – Box of Knowledge Badge
Answer 100 questions correctly in 3 weeks!
Trivial Pursuit – Genus Genius Badge
Successfully make the goal on a Daily or Calendar Quiz 15 times in 8 days!
Trivial Pursuit – Pasta-bilities Badge
Successfully make the goal on a Random Quiz 10 times in 10 days!
Yahtzee Party! – Chance of a Lifetime Badge
Score 20 points or more 5 times in Chance in 15 days!
Yahtzee Party! – Twirling Yahtzee Badge
Get 3 Yahtzees in 3 days!
Yahtzee Party! – Yahtzee Gone Wild Badge
Roll 30 wild dice in 3 days!
by Lura on November 18, 2008
In addition to the Monopoly World and Playful Pets Premium Badge Albums, the November 2008 Mix-n-Match challenges (and a special Thanksgiving Limited Edition Badge) are out! The badges are as follows:
Trivial Pursuit – 2008 Thanksgiving Limited Edition Badge
Make the goal on 20 random quizzes in 2 days!
Dominoes – Bone Chillin’ Badge
Win 10 games in 3 weeks!
Everyone Wins Bingo – Forest Fire Badge
Blackout 3 cards in 1 hour or less!
Lottso! – Seeing Stars Badge
Activate 3 Lottso cards in 1 day! (Excluding Team Lottso or Super Lottso cards.)
Mahjong Garden – Tile Smile Badge
Remove 500 tiles in 1 day!
Payday FreeCell – Golden Mustache Badge
Win 3 games in 30 minutes or less! (This is an Expert Level Badge)
Pogo Bowl – Spare Turkey Badge
Bowl 1 turkey (3 strikes in a row) in 4 weeks!
SCRABBLE – TURKEY for 13 Points Badge
Create 13 6-letter words in 13 days!
Sweet Tooth 2 – Sticky Situation Badge
Collect 5 Chocolate Coins in 10 days!
Thousand Island Solitaire – I <3 PogoMart
Play 150 Distance cards in 5 days!
Tumble Bees – Bee’s Knees Badge
Win 20 games in 2 days!
Turbo 21 – License to Thrill Badge
Get 200 21′s in 2 weeks!
by Lura on October 17, 2008
Scrabble – Scrabbled Eggs Badge
Create 2 or more words on a single turn 10 times between 12 AM PST October 17 and 12 AM PST October 21, 2008!
by Lura on September 9, 2008
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!
by Lura on August 13, 2008
This week, we have three challenges because non-US players cannot play Scrabble for the badge.
Scrabble – LOVE for 7 Points Badge
Win 7 games this week! (Play with Pogo’s House Rules only!)
Mahjong Garden – Shadow Puppets Badge
Celebrate 2 birthdays with your dragon this week! (Complete the boar puzzle to check your progress!)
Quick Quack – Duckie Freestyle Badge
Get 12 streaks of 30 or more ducks this week!
by Lura on August 7, 2008
We have to admit, we were kind of fans of Scrabulous (here’s our original post on the whole fiasco, replete with links to more sources), so it’s with a heavy heart (and perhaps fewer words than usual), we tell you about Pogo’s SCRABBLE on Facebook. You can challenge up to three friends to play a game of Scrabble. You can pause your games, track your score, chat with friends while you play, meet new people via public games, and more.
(The link to Pogo’s Scrabble on Facebook only works if you’re already logged into your Facebook account, by the way.)
The Scrabble Secrets Premium Badge Album was released today; it contains six challenges in Scrabble and costs $3.99 or 58 gems.
An interesting note, the badges spell out SCABLE, and Pogo never added the R or the other B.
We’ve gotten some more detail on what the challenges will be for the Scrabble Secrets Premium Badge Album. It will be on sale soon for $3.99 and will contain six challenges in Scrabble:
S is for Symbol Badge
Earn 20 Double Word Score Bonuses in 1 hour or less!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!
C is for Chalkboard Badge
Create 50 5-letter words in 5 days! (Play with Pogo’s House Rules only!)
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!
A is for Ascension Badge
Create 2 or more words on a single turn 20 times in 10 days!
Win this badge plus 1500 tokens!
B is for Bracelet Badge
Create 60 6-letter words in 16 days! (Play with Traditional Rules only!)
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!
L is for Ladle Badge
Earn 50 Triple Word Score Bonuses in 2 weeks!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!
E is for Expectation Badge
Play 5 Bingos in 3 weeks!
Win this badge plus 2000 tokens!
We’re still wondering why it doesn’t completely spell out SCRABBLE, but it may just be because the album and badges are still in development.
If you’re interested in all of the latest Scrabble news, check out Scrabble Central. Pogo’s created this special page to highlight the latest news, events, and National Scrabble Association information. Also, each week they’ll be giving out Scrabble tips to improve your game. Scrabble addicts are going to want to bookmark this page and visit it often!
This week’s Scrabble tips:
Use the Premium Squares. Where you play is often more important than what you play. The 8 triple word scoresquares are often the most important areas of the board. Use them first, or your opponents will! When you have a high-scoring letter such as J, Q, X, or Z, try to place it on a triple letter or double letter score square!
Look for word beginnings and endings! Look in your rack for certain letters that can become beginnings and endings for lots of different words. Common beginnings: pre, tri, con Common endings: ing, ion, er
Length doesn’t matter! A long word is not always a high-scoring word. The point values of the individual letters and the premium squares usually have a bigger impact on your score than the length of the word. The word ZA, for example, often gives you more points than a longer word like ANTLER, since the Z alone is worth 10 points!
Choose Your Skill Level! If you decide to play against a computer opponent, you can choose the skill level that you prefer by selecting one of the 6 “tabs” on the Room Selector web page. If you’d like the computer opponent’s skill level to be at the beginner level, choose the Social or Beginner tabs. On the Intermediate tab, the computer tends to make longer words. On the Advanced and Expert tab, you’ll notice that the computer’s vocabulary is even larger. Try the Master tab for the ultimate challenge — the computer’s vocabulary is immense, and it tends to make very long words!
In the works at Pogo is a new Premium Badge Album called “Scrabble Secrets”. There are 8 animated badges in total and each one depicts a scene that ‘discovers’ a letter in the word SCRABBLE. So far, all are complete — including the completion ‘book’ badge — except the R and one of the B’s. We’re not sure what games you’ll need to play to complete each badge, but it appears they will not be all Scrabble.
