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MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition – Towers of Dollars Badge
Pass GO 25 times this week!

World Class Solitaire – Private Jet Badge
Win a game with 250 tokens or more 15 times this week! (Including Jackpot Spins)

Summer’s Twilight 2009 Super Badge
Win 5 Challenge Badges between 12 AM PT August 19 and 12 AM PT September 2! (This includes Personal and Premium Challenges!)

Please feel free to leave your tips, hints, or opinions about these challenges in the comments below! Good luck with your badges 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!

The Road to Happiness Premium Badge Album was released last night. (Thanks @doctorx316 for sending in the tip while we were snoozing!) According to Pogo, this album is all about traveling the open road: “Tou love the open road. You love the wind in your hair and the surprises that wait for you around the next bend. Desert or mountains, near or far, these badges celebrate your spirit of adventure!” This one will cost you $5.99 (or 86 gems). Take a look at the badges:

Yahtzee Party! – Ready to Roll Badge
Roll 2 Yahtzees with ‘twos’ in 20 hours!

Yahtzee Party! – Rolls of the Road Badge
Play 10 rounds of Super Yahtzee in 10 days! (Earn at least 1 token in each round)

Trivial Pursuit Daily 20 – Pie for a Pie Badge
Make the goal on 4 random quizzes in 2 hours!

World Class Solitaire – World Class Canyon Badge
Complete 2 World Tours in 30 days! (To complete a World Tour, circle the globe and fly past the city where you started)

Canasta – Melded Mail Badge
Meld out before your opponent 5 times in 1 day!

Payday FreeCell – Solitaire Sanctum Badge
Get 50 or more Bonus Points in a Payday Scratch Bonus Card 20 times in 2 weeks! (Win the game to collect your bonus points)

Phlinx – Egyptian Sky Badge
Win 50 rounds in 8 days!

Ali Baba Slots – Desert Rain Badge
Spin the reels to get 3 Blue Sapphires 10 times in 10 days!

Mahjong Garden – Garden Gates Badge
Complete 20 animals on Medium difficulty level using the ‘Animal’ puzzle set in 20 days!

Tumble Bees – Private Picnic Badge
Spell 100 words in 1 day!

Road to Happiness Premium Badge Album Completion Badge

What do you think of the difficulty level of this album? Did you find yourself using any tricks you can share with others to get these badges faster? Leave a comment below!

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Today, Pogo released another round of Mini Awards in Aces Up!, Lottso!, Hog Heaven Slots, Jungle Gin, QWERTY, Crazy Cakes, and Thousand Island Solitaire.

In addition, on the Mini Award page, there were dropdowns for World Class Solitaire and KenoPop! but the dropdowns were removed later in the day. Those Mini Awards will probably come with the next release. For a full list of the Mini Award items you can earn — including the ones for World Class Solitaire and KenoPop! — check out our Mini Awards page.

Pogo’s got another Premium Badge Album in the works. It’s called “Road to Happiness” and this one’s going to be quite a toughie — it’s got the following ten challenges and will cost $5.99 (or 86 gems).

Ali Baba Slots – Desert Rain Badge
Spin the reels to get 3 Blue Sapphires 10 times in 10 days!

Canasta – Melded Mail Badge
Meld out before your opponent 5 times in 1 day!

Mahjong Garden – Garden Gates Badge
Complete 20 animals on MEDIUM difficulty levels or harder in 20 days!

Payday FreeCell – Solitaire Sanctum Badge
Get 50 or more Bonus Points in a Payday Scratch Bonus Card 20 times in 2 weeks! (Win the game to collect your bonus points)

Phlinx – Egyptian Sky Badge
Win 50 rounds in 8 days!

Trivial Pursuit Daily 20 – Pie for a Pie Badge
Make the goal on 4 random quizzes in 2 hours!

Tumble Bees – Private Picnic Badge
Spell 100 words in 1 day!

World Class Solitaire – World Class Canyon Badge
Complete 2 World Tours in 30 days! (To complete a World Tour, circle the globe and fly past the city where you started)

Yahtzee Party! – Ready to Roll Badge
Roll 2 Yahtzees with ‘twos’ in 20 hours!

Yahtzee Party! – Rolls of the Road Badge
Play 10 rounds of Super Yahtzee in 10 days! (Earn at least 1 token in each round)

Road to Happiness Premium Badge Album Completion Badge

Every time we turn around there are more Mini Award items in the works! Check out these new goodies!

It looks like we’ve got more Mini Award items coming in Word Craft, Dice City Roller, World Class Solitaire, one of the Monopoly Games (the board game Monopoly Here & Now or Monopoly Slots), KenoPop, and …more?

Check out our Mini Awards page for all of the upcoming and current Mini Award items.

Poppit! – Fancy Flower Pot Badge
Pop 5000 balloons this week!

World Class Solitaire – Aisle Seat Badge
Get 12 passport stamps this week!

We’ve got details on the next badge album that Pogo’s creating for us! The Friends Forever Premium Badge Album will cost $5.99 and will contain the following 10 challenges:

Dice City Roller – Love in Dice City Badge
Clear 250 cards (not including the auctions) in 3 weeks!

Everyone Wins Bingo – Squirrel Blackout Badge
Blackout 5 cards in 3 weeks!

Hog Heaven Slots – Pink Power Badge
Smash open 10 pink piggy banks at the top of the screen in 3 weeks!

KenoPop! – Falling into Place Badge
Get 12 Jackpot Spins in 3 weeks

Lottso! – Lottso Gumball Badge
Activate 2 Lottso Cards (not including Team Lottso or Super Lottso cards) in 3 weeks!

Pogo Addiction Solitaire – Bobble Bobble Badge
Correctly place 800 cards in 3 weeks!

Pogo Bowl – Strike While It’s Hot Badge
Bowl 15 Strikes in 3 weeks!

Poppit! – Poppin’ Genius Badge
Release 7 baseball prizes in 3 weeks!

Sweet Tooth 2 – Fool the Eye Badge
Make a “Combo X3″ bonus 300 times in 3 weeks!

World Class Solitaire – Flyin’ Solitaire Badge
Win 8 games with 400 tokens or more (including Jackpot Spins) in 3 weeks!