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Word Search Daily – Winter Search Badge
Find 120 words this week!

Battleship – Direct Hit! Badge
Get 300 hits this week!

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Here are the August 2009 Mix-n-Match badges that were released this evening. They each cost 16 gems and the badges and challenges are as follows:

Ali Baba Slots – Carpet Diem Badge
Collect 1 Jewel of Ultimate Luckiness in 12 days! Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

Boardwalk Sea Ball – Squid Swarm Badge
Play a perfect game in Squid Squisher 8 times in 3 weeks! (Protect the pearls from harm until the timer runs out) Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

BOGGLE Bash – Big Bash Badge
Find 500 words in 2 weeks! Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Dice City Roller – Auction House Badge
Win 25 auctions in 25 days! (Play in Auction rooms) Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

MONOPOLY Here & Now – School Fees Badge
Draw 30 Community Chest or Chance cards in 5 days! Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Phlinx – Let Me Sphinx About It Badge
Make 100 matches in 1 day! (Each group of stones counts as one match) Win this badge plus 1,000 tokens.

QWERTY – How Many Ounces In A QWERT? Badge
Score a Connection Bonus 6 times in 12 days! (Make a word that connects your letters to your opponent’s letters) Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Sock Hop Slots – Jukebox Badge
Win 5000 tokens in 2 weeks! (Including Jackpot Spins) Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Stellar Sweeper – Space Race Badge
Win 4 perfect games in 1 hour! (Win the game without exploding any crystals) Win this badge plus 1,000 tokens.

Turbo 21 – 21 Miles Per Gallon Badge
Get 1200 21’s in 21 days! Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.

Word Search Daily – Daily Search Badge
Find 100 words on Easy difficulty level in 2 hours! Win this badge plus 1,000 tokens.

World Class Solitaire – Baggage Claim Badge
Complete 2 cities in 1 day! Win this badge plus 2,000 tokens.

Feel free to add your two cents on these badges in a comment below!

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Here’s a look at the upcoming Mix-n-Match badges for August 2009. As usual, each of these will cost 16 gems and they’ll most likely be released on the evening of July 31st. The challenges themselves are subject to change before release — last month there were many challenges that had their objectives changed between the sneak peek and the actual release.

Ali Baba Slots – Carpet Diem Badge
Collect 1 Jewel of Ultimate Luckiness in 12 days!

Boardwalk Sea Ball – Squid Swarm Badge
Play a perfect game in Squid Squisher 8 times in 3 weeks!

BOGGLE Bash – Big Bash Badge
Find 500 words in 2 weeks!

Dice City Roller – Auction House Badge
Win 25 auctions in 25 days! (Play in Auction rooms)

MONOPOLY Here & Now – School Fees Badge
Draw 30 Community Chest or Chance cards in 5 days!

Phlinx – Let Me Sphinx About It Badge
Make 100 matches in 1 day! (Each group of stones counts as one match)

QWERTY – How Many Ounces In A QWERT? Badge
Score a Connection Bonus 6 times in 12 days! (Make a word that connects your letters to your opponent’s letters)

Sock Hop Slots – Jukebox Badge
Win 5,000 tokens in 2 weeks! (Including Jackpot Spins)

Stellar Sweeper – Space Race Badge
Win 4 perfect games in 1 hour! (Win the game without exploding any crystals)

Turbo 21 – 21 Miles Per Gallon Badge
Get 1,200 21’s in 21 days!

Word Search Daily – Daily Search Badge
Find 100 words on Easy difficulty level in 2 hours!

World Class Solitaire – Baggage Claim Badge
Complete 2 cities in 1 day!

Jigsaw Treasure Hunter – Missing Piece Badge
Win 7500 tokens this week!

Word Search Daily – Hidden Word Piece Badge
Solve 10 Random Puzzles this week!

and

Spring Break 2009 Super Badge
Win 6 Challenge Badges between 12 AM PST April 15 and 12 AM PST May 5!
(This includes personal and Premium Challenges!)

If you’d like to contribute your tips or hints on how to earn any of these badges, or if you’re stuck and need a little help, post a comment below.

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These Mix-n-Match challenges are expiring on August 12th. If you haven’t purchased any of them yet, you’ll need 112 gems; otherwise they are 16 gems each.

Blackjack Carnival – Life is a Carnival Badge
Win 10 “Royal Match” side bets in 2 weeks!

Cribbage – 1 for His Nobs Badge
Score “1 for His Nobs” 10 times in 10 days! (Get a Jack of the same suit as the Starter Card.)

Dice City Roller – On the Auction Block Badge
Earn a “clear bonus” by using all of the cards in a stack 50 times in 3 days!

Lottso! – Wild Lottso Badge
Place 75 wild star balls on the game cards in 5 days!

Pogo Bowl – Bowled Over Badge
Bowl 40 Strikes in 4 weeks!

Poppit! – So THAT’S How They Make the Balloons Badge
Pop EVERY SINGLE BALLOON in 5 puzzles in 5 days!

Word Search Daily – Searching for Words Badge
Complete 20 Daily Puzzles in 30 days!

The easiest way to see these challenges (if you haven’t purchased them already) is to visit the Mix-n-Match page and sort by Expiration Date.

Today Pogo released the Relax & Play Premium Badge Album. It is $5.99 or 86 gems, and contains 10 stress-free challenges for Mahjong Garden, Poppit!, Jigsaw Detective, First Class Solitaire, Jungle Gin, Rainy Day Spider Solitaire, Dominoes, Word Search Daily, Sweet Tooth 2, and Thousand Island Solitaire.

Word Search Daily – Backwards Badge
Find 50 words that are buried backwards this week!

Thousand Island Solitaire – Treasure Island Badge
Reach 20 treasure chests this week!

The February Mix-n-Match badges and challenges have been released (early)!

Harvest Mania – Magic Crystal Badge
Get 5 Jackpot Spins in 5 days!

Lottso! – Juggling Act Badge
Activate a “Super Lottso” Cards in 2 hours or less! (Clear 3 cards in a column to get a Super Lottso card, then completely fill the card!)

Texas Hold’em Poker – Dealer’s Shuffle Badge
Get 12 Jackpot Spins in 2 weeks!

Thousand Island Solitaire – Stormy Seas Badge
Use 10 Lifesaver Power-ups in 3 days!

Turbo 21 – T21 Badge
Win 10,000 tokens in 21 days!

Word Search Daily – Finders Keepers Badge
Find 30 “Gift Words” in 30 days! (Gift words have a missing letter and are shown in blue in the list.)

And don’t forget the 2008 Valentine’s Day Limited Edition Badge in Hearts! It’s only on sale until February 18th!

This week’s Letters to the Editor is chock full of information.

First up, Word Search Daily has been displaying two January calendars and no February calendar. Rest assured, Pogo is aware of the problem and will have it solved shortly. In the meantime, don’t use the calendar to choose your puzzles, but “Play Daily Puzzle”. This will choose the most recent uncompleted puzzle and will allow you to work backwards in order to catch up, if need be.

With regards to Tri-Peaks 2, the Quest for the Ruby Ring, Pogo has received some praise, and some serious reports that players are being unceremoniously booted from the game and/or freezing up. Once again, rest assured, Pogo is collecting further information and hopes to have the problems resolved soon.

The Winter 2008 Super Badge has caused some to write in with questions. One player wanted to know how they could earn it if they’d already finished all of their yearly albums (and therefore had no personal challenges to choose). You can always re-do a challenge — for any reason, but also to earn a Super Badge. We recommend you choose a challenge you enjoyed, one that you completed quickly, or one that rewards a high amount of tokens. It’s up to you! But remember, as the editor had to remind someone this week, game award badges do not count toward a Super Badge, as much as we’d all love that!

And last, but not least, the editor addressed the recent disappearance of the Card Masters premium badge album. If you haven’t purchased it yet, you may notice that it’s disappeared from Badge Central, and it’s not available to give as a gift for those who have it already. Pogo assures us it was removed from the site prematurely, but it’ll return soon, and it’ll be on sale to boot.

There are a few other topics we didn’t cover, so check out this week’s Letters to the Editor if you want to read it all for yourself.