yahtzee party

By playing Yahtzee Party daily from today until the 13th, you’ll get 1000 tokens each time you load the game, for up to 7,000 free Pogo tokens in a week.

There’s a new Premium Badge Album in the works (in addition to the Family Classics Premium Badge Album we told you about earlier)! It’s got ten animated badges and one for completion. There will be challenges in Aces Up, Everyone Wins Bingo, Hog Heaven Slots, KenoPop, Lottso, Pogo Addiction Solitaire, Pogo Bowl, Poppit, Sweet Tooth, and possibly Dice City Roller.

Also, this one seems to have a picnic-type theme, and a few of the badges feature squirrels (or chipmunks — we can never tell these cartoon ones apart).

Update: Our friend Kathy wrote in this morning to tell us that this album will be called “Friends Forever”.

From today until December 20th, each time you play Yahtzee Party and earn a jackpot spin, you will be entered to win a prize pack from Pogo.com. The prize package contains a Pictureka board game, a copy of the Operation Deluxe PC game, and a $20 Target gift card.

If you’re unsure of how to earn a jackpot spin in Yahtzee Party, just earn 225 points in Classic mode or 250 points in Wild mode; there are more details are in the sweepstakes rules.

Good luck!

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!

Pogo’s created a new 6-badge premium album that they’ll probably release this holiday season. It’ll cost $3.99 and will have the following challenges:

First Class Solitaire – First Class Gift Badge
Win 14 games in 2 weeks!

Bingo Luau – Bingo Bear Badge
Get 3 bingos on Red Cards in 2 weeks!

MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition – Community Chest Badge
Draw 20 Community Chest or Chance cards in 2 weeks!

Yahtzee Party! – Yahtzee Gift Badge
Win 2,000 tokens in 2 weeks!

Tri-Peaks Solitaire – Treasure Box Badge
Use a “wild card” 12 times in 2 weeks!

Jigsaw Treasure Hunter – A Puzzling Gift Badge
Solve 1 puzzle on medium skill level in 6 minutes or less in 2 weeks!

The next game in Pogo’s lineup of Hasbro games has arrived! Yahtzee Party was released today. You can play it here.

It also looks like Pogo is creating a secret in-game badge for Yahtzee, but it isn’t available in-game yet. Keep your eyes on our blog or the Yahtzee section of our site for more information as it’s available.

Pogo’s created a page to celebrate Yahtzee Party, coming soon. The page doesn’t contain anything we didn’t already know, but it’s got a few screenshots for anyone who hasn’t gotten a glimpse at what the game will look like. Considering how much of a hit Dice City Roller has always been, we suspect this game will be even more popular when it’s out.

Here are the badges and rank requirements for the upcoming Hasbro/Pogo release Party Yahtzee. We assume “rank points” will be replaced with actual rank requirements, and those requirements will probably be similar to those of Dice City Roller.

Wild, Wild, Dice Badge
Earn 100 rank points to achieve Wild, Wild, Dice rank (rank 10) and earn this badge.

Shake, Rattle, and Roll Badge
Earn 300 rank points to achieve Shake, Rattle, and Roll rank (rank 20) and earn this badge.

Disco Dice Badge
Earn 1000 rank points to achieve Disco Dice rank (rank 30) and earn this badge.

High Rollers
Earn 2000 rank points to achieve High Rollers rank (rank 40) and earn this badge.

Cool Dice Badge
Earn 3000 rank points to achieve Cool Dice rank (rank 50) and earn this badge.

According to a press release today, Hasbro and Electronic Arts Casual Gaming have teamed up to provide a bunch of games for EA’s Pogo.com collection. Yahtzee for online play is scheduled to be released in Summer of this year, and Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit are scheduled for Fall. There’s no word yet whether or not these will be available to everyone or just Club Pogo members.

Yahtzee will offer two ways to play: team/collaborative and competitive. The rooms will allow up to 20 people per room.

Monopoly will be the Here and Now: World Edition. You’ll be able to play alone or play against up to three other players online. The Here and Now edition of Monopoly is a modern makeover of the classic Monopoly board game where you can buy and sell destinations from around the world as you play to win it all.

Not much information is included about the version of Trivial Pursuit for Pogo, but we found this sentence interesting: “Answer the trivia questions correctly and earn points towards your wedges in pursuit of completing your pie collection by the end of the week.” This could be a daily quickie like Word Search Daily, perhaps?

Also mentioned in the press release are Operation and Pictureka, which are described in such a way that we believe they will be Deluxe-style games.