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Happy Weekend Everyone!

I can’t believe Pogo gave us so much to do this week! On top of a personal challenge marathon, we’ve got the special weekend challenge. Phew! Aren’t we supposed to be putting the finishing touches on our Halloween costumes and getting ready to go trick-or-treattweeting? How are you doing with getting it all done?

Speaking of putting on costumes, let’s talk about our Minis and earning Mini Awards! Do you have all the Mini Awards available? Do you play a game just to get a Mini Award item? Do you go after the Mini Awards like you do badges? Do you use them in your Mini after you have won them?

I hope you have a great, safe Halloween weekend and I hope we’ll see you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

This has been a ridiculously busy week for Pogo, it seems like every time I blinked they were adding something new to the site! (Battleship, forums, Facebook, oh my!) There were a ton of new posts added this week, so if you haven’t been keeping up with the site, make sure to scroll all the way down the page and check out previous entries for anything you may have missed. As usual there are some lively and fantastic discussions going on down there.

Mike wrote in this morning to ask if I knew of a policy for Pogo adding new ranks and badges to pre-existing games. After all, it’d be a great way to get players back into playing some of the great older games that Pogo built its reputation on (and it seems to have worked for Canasta, Tri-Peaks Solitaire, and that got more ranks and badges before). At this point, I’d assume Pogo is really focused on their Hasbro partnership and producing new games, but there’s always a possibility they’d revisit an older game with new badges and ranks.

What current Pogo games would you like to see have more ranks and badges?

As usual, if you don’t feel like answering the question, or if you just feel like talking about something else — go ahead. The weekend open thread is the place where you can leave comments, questions, or anything that didn’t fit elsewhere this week.

See you in the comments!

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Hi everyone, Happy Weekend!

It was pretty busy around here this week, don’t forget to scroll down the page (and maybe view a page or two of previous posts if needed) to get caught up on the latest news! You may want to check out the following category archives for the latest news on Puck’s Peak and Battleship too.

Also, if you’re on Twitter, I urge you to follow @bagdehungry or if you’re not on Twitter, keep an eye on my feed in the right sidebar — sometimes I often post little bits of information there that don’t necessarily warrant a full blog post.

For this weekend’s open thread, there isn’t a topic. Because of giveaways and wildly popular discussion topics, the threads for the past few weeks have been full of newcomers and regulars chatting away happily. The only drawback is when the threads get over 100-200 comments, sometimes questions and requests start to get lost in the mix. I wanted to make sure that everyone’s questions get answered this weekend, so if you have a burning question (whether you asked it before or not), go ahead and ask! If you need help with a badge, go ahead and ask. We’re here to help! If you don’t have a question, please feel free to just say hi! We’d love to hear from each and every one of you.

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

Last weekend during the open thread, we’d started discussing gems so I wanted to bring them back up for this weekend. It seems like we all can agree that Pogo should increase the frequency of gems in the jackpot spins and gem giveaways in general, but let’s put the “gimme gimme” mentality aside for a bit.

Do you buy gems? If so, what do you spend them on (Mix-n-Match badges? PBAs? Mini Mall items?) and how quickly are you burning through them? I’d also like to hear from people who have actually won gems in a jackpot spin; I’m wondering exactly how rare it is since I’ve only heard of a handful of winners over the span of the time gems have been available.

Okay, now back to “gimme”! I’m also going to do another giveaway this weekend! (Big thanks to StBernard for donating Club Pogo passes this week!) When I close this weekend open thread on Sunday evening I’ll pick ten commenters at random to each win two 3-month passes to Club Pogo. To enter, just leave a thoughtful comment. The only things that’ll disqualify you are spelling my name wrong and trying to stuff the entry box by posting too many useless comments. If you don’t want to be entered for whatever reason, just say so.

See you in the comments, BadgeHungry Pogo fans!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

I can’t believe it’s October already! For a lot of us, summer’s officially over, the leaves are starting to change to their autumn hues, and the weather is cool and crisp — perfect for dog walks and opening windows to air out the house. I love love love it! (I heard the rest of the country isn’t experiencing such loveliness: heat in some parts and ..uhwhat?!?.. snow elsewhere.) I hope whatever Mother Nature throws at you, wherever you are, that you find a way to enjoy this special time of year.

And speaking of special times of the year — Halloween has officially started in Pogoland! What did you think of the creepycrawly release this week? And to mark October, we got the latest batch of Mix-n-Match badges; there’s some nice tip-sharing going on in the October Mix-n-Match thread.

This week’s short and sweet question comes from Linda: How did you find BadgeHungry?

As usual in this thread, you can talk about anything that didn’t quite fit in another thread during the course of the week, so don’t feel obligated to answer the question or be limited by its scope. Feel free to ask for help on a badge, give help or hints or tips, or just chat about whatever you’d like.

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

Did you see the Letters to the Editor this week? Boy, they sure dropped a bomb in this one:

“Editor: Pogo has thought about chat forums for a long time now. And we’re still thinking about them. Why? Well, because we’ll be launching them. When? Soon. Define “soon?” Sometime in the future! ;)”

What do you think of the idea of Pogo adding forums to their site? Do you think it’ll add to the Pogo community or detract? Do you think you’ll participate? (I have some pretty strong opinions on this, I’ll chime in with a comment toward the end of the weekend, so as not to influence anyone.)

It’s been kind of a quiet week around here, so let’s spice things up with another giveaway, shall we? This weekend, I’ll be choosing 10 commenters at random to win two 3-month Club Pogo passes (that’s six months of free Pogo). To earn an entry, just leave a comment below answering the question above.

(The rules: though you may earn multiple entries by making multiple relevant comments, only one prize per person. If you don’t want an entry say so. This thread will be open for comments until approximately 8pm EST on Sunday evening. Please use a valid email address so I can give you your prize. I reserve the right to change or add rules as needed.)

Also, don’t forget: even with all of this contest/sweepstakes/giveaway stuff, this is still the weekend open thread, you can still ask for help, offer help, talk about the latest happenings, ask questions, whatever you’d like.

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

What a great week it’s been! There seemed to be something new to post about every time I blinked! If you missed any, here are this week’s posts:

* Ranks and Badges added to BadgeHungry
* Sneak Peek: Out of this World PBA
* Beaker Creatures Secret Badge
* Block Builder in Development
* Pogo Beta Program Wrap Up
* Halloween Preview

And of course, we had this week’s challenges. There was a lot of talk about whether challenges have become too luck-based and/or too easy as well as some talk about how many tokens people were losing with Monopoly Slots.

Over the course of the week, a lot of people have mailed in and tweeted to me about the beta invitation and rejection letters. I’d like to pose the following questions:

If you were invited: what do you think you did on your application that got you invited? Do you have any wisdom to impart to your fellow fans who weren’t chosen?

If you weren’t invited: do you think you know why you weren’t chosen? What are you going to try differently next time?

See you in the comments!

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After months of hard work, I’ve finally gotten the ranks and badge information for all Pogo games added to the web site. You can find a link to the master list on the top tabs and on the right sidebar under “Most Popular Pages”. There are currently 87 Pogo games which have ranks and badges, and each page took approximately an hour to an hour and a half to complete. I can’t even wrap my head around how much time I’ve invested into getting these pages created over the past few months. Behold:

Pogo Game Ranks and Badges

Next up: I’ll be adding the numerous game tips and hints submitted via email and via different comments around the site (including that giveaway weekend where we received over 200 game tips from our fans). Some pages already have tips added, but in the future if you need help with a particular game, you will be able to visit its ranks page to get information on how to rank faster, earn badges and mini awards faster, et cetera. (I’ll also be making some minor cosmetic tweaks to the ranks pages over the next few days, don’t be surprised if things change a little on the front end.)

Last, but not least… In order to better organize the site, I moved the Crossword Cove Answers and Trivial Pursuit Answers links from the top navigation to the right sidebar as well, under a new header called Game Help. You’ll also find the other posts and pages that will help you play a bunch of other games a little easier as well.

Enjoy!

Happy Weekend Everyone!

And happy 10th again to Pogo! Did you enjoy this week’s festivities? (Earlier this week we put up a roundup of all of the events, if you missed it.)

Also, around Pogo-land this week, we finally got a fix for Crossword Cove and thanks to HomelessDog, BadgeHungry is now sporting an awesome hole-in-one screenshot gallery for Mini Golf Madness courses. Also, because we helped Pogo break the record, go get your 10,000 free tokens to celebrate (we added a link on our free tokens page). Don’t forget there’s a weekend’s challenge in Mahjong Garden, too.

This week’s general topic comes from Kathy, who asks: when did you find Pogo and how long have you been a member? Did you immediately subscribe to Club Pogo or did you wait a while (if ever)?

As always, the weekend thread is for any comments or questions you’ve had all week that didn’t quite fit into other threads. Feel free to talk about anything you’d like.

See you in the comments!

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