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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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Happy Weekend Everyone!

I hope you all had a great week, especially playing the newly released Mini Golf Madness (I know some of you were waiting a LONG TIME for that one)! If you have any questions or comments about the game, please read through the actual Mini Golf Madness post and associated comments beforehand: there’s tons of great information there.

This weekend, I’m giving away 25 3-month passes to Club Pogo (thanks to donations from Jennifer, Katherine, Carolyn, and Barb)! To earn an entry, post a comment as you usually would in this weekend open thread and include a tip or hint for a Pogo game. A game tip must be included for your comment to count toward the drawing. On Sunday evening when I close out this thread for the week, I’ll use a fancy-shmancy random number generator to choose 25 comments that will win!

The fine print:

* Please don’t spam your tips, the system won’t allow you to post more than one comment in a row anyway. I won’t approve any comment that says something like “I want a sweepstakes entry” or “I want to win”.

* If you don’t want an entry into the drawing, don’t worry: if any comment chosen by the random number generator doesn’t contain a game tip, I’ll skip to the next one for the prize.

* I’ll be using your tips to create a game tips section of this web site to help other players. Please try to use proper punctuation and grammar. Your tip must be your own words, do not copy and paste a tip from another site (that’s plagiarism and incredibly rude).

* You must use a valid email address in the comment form to win (otherwise I will have no way to contact you). It’s okay though, I’m the only one who will see your email address and I promise I’ll only use it if I need to contact you about your entry or if you win.

* You may earn multiple entries, but I will be giving away only one prize per person (unless, of course, less than 25 people enter, in which case I’ll award multiple prizes per person).

If this weekend’s giveaway goes well, I’ve got more Club Pogo passes to hand out and we will have more giveaways in the future. I reserve the right to add more bullet points to the fine print as the weekend goes on. Thanks, and good luck!

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!

I know I said this last week, but this week should bring us Mini Golf Madness and hopefully also some beta invitations for those who applied! At the very least, Pogo is great at keeping us guessing!

What have you been up to this week? Did you check out the new Back to School premium badge album? Did you finish your weekly badges yet?

Regular visitor and commenter sweetlove wrote in this week with a proposed topic: what’s the highest number of badges you’ve earned in one day? Tell us the tales of your Pogo benders and how many badges (and tokens) you’ve earned as a result!

As usual, you can use this thread to talk about anything there wasn’t a topic for over the past week, ask for help or offer it, or you can answer the question sweetlove proposed. Within reason, the weekend open thread is always ‘anything goes’!

See you in the comments!

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If you didn’t apply for beta testing this summer, the beta application is now closed and there’s nothing else you can do but wait until next round (six months or so from now). But! If you applied for beta testing earlier this summer take note of this, from the latest Letters to the Editor:

Yes We Want Beta, But When?!

Dear Editor,
Last month was the sign up for the Pogo Beta and it said we would receive an email in a couple of weeks, well I asked around and nobody has received one, is there a problem?

Editor Bret: While moonlighting as the Pogo Editor I am also your host for the Pogo Beta Program. We took a bunch of applications for the upcoming Pogo Beta, and it looks like hopefully next week we will be sending out Beta Invites. So don’t worry if you didn’t get an email, a Pogo Beta test might be in the cards for you yet! Shortly after we send invites, the applicants that were not chosen will also be informed. Thanks for your patience and good luck!

In the past, Pogo hadn’t sent notice to applicants who weren’t chosen, so we usually asked people to let us know when they received an invitation so we could let everyone know that acceptance letters are in the process of going out. This time, though, we’d still like you to tell us so we can update the community. We don’t need to know any other details than that you received a letter, if you’re worried about violating your beta terms of service. Thanks!

And special thanks to John for pointing this out!

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Happy Weekend!

It’s been another busy week here at BadgeHungry and in Pogoland! We’ve been chatting up a storm in the following threads:

* New Game in Development
* Weekly Challenges (August 19-25)
* Win Club Pogo Passes from Subway

I also added a metric crapton of free tokens (or, well, at least over 65,000) to the Free Tokens Page this week, so go grab those if you haven’t already.

Next Tuesday, we should see the release of both the Mini Golf Madness and the Back to School Premium Badge Album (see the latest UK Letters to the Editor for confirmation). Are you looking forward to these?

As always, the weekend open thread is for any comments, questions, tips, hints, complaints, or whatever you want — but I always give a quick discussion topic for anyone who wants to talk about it.

This week, let’s talk about those precious, precious tokens. How many do you have? Do you think they represent someone’s “overall score” at Pogo or are they worthless? Do you enter the drawings with them? What do your tokens mean to you?

See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

So here it is, we’re finally at Friday and you can ask all of the burning questions you’ve had this week, talk about all of the hot topics, and rant and rave about whatever you’d like!

I appreciate you all coming here each weekend and feeling free to ask for help, give help, or just chat about whatever is on your mind. I had no idea the Weekend Open Thread would become so popular and successful when I created it in January. Three cheers for you guys!

I’m settling into a nice daily groove with Pogo (Crossword Cove x2, Trivial Pursuit x2, Word Search Daily, and then work on a badge album if I have the time). I wouldn’t mind if Mini Golf Madness were released next week (or the one after), it’d be something to break up my routine. Do you have a Pogo routine?

Of course, you don’t have to talk about your routine, just stop in and say hi and let us know whatever’s on your mind. See you in the comments!

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Have you been putting off doing a badge because it requires you to win against another player or work with another player in a game to complete a badge? It’s easier than it seems…with “double browsing”.

Double-browsing requires a small amount technical know-how (and a lot of Pogo knowledge), but with a little patience and practice anyone can do this easily.

Double browsing is manually playing with two accounts at the same time on just one computer. It requires two different web browsers. There are several browsers to choose from: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, etc. In this example we’re using IE and Firefox. The point of having two web browsers is so that you can log in to Pogo with one account on one browser and then log in to Pogo with a different account on the other. That way, you can play with or against yourself in any game.

You will need to have two Pogo accounts to accomplish this. Some games that can be double browsed can be played on free accounts (like Checkers and Chess), so you can easily create a secondary account for double browsing for free at Pogo. If you are playing a game that requires Club Pogo membership, you can easily send a 5-day pass from your Club Pogo account to the new free account (the easiest way to do this is to add the new account to your friends list and send the pass from there).

Before you get started, we recommend you set your screen resolution to 1024×768 or 1152×864 or higher (right click your desktop, properties, and settings) before starting. This is optional, so if you’re not comfortable with changing settings or the size of the screen, it’s okay to skip this. Just beware you may have to move windows around a little more to find other windows underneath. An alternative to moving windows and using your mouse is to use Alt-tab to switch between windows.

In your Internet Explorer browser (IE), visit Pogo and log in with one of your accounts (we’ll call it AccountX):

* Choose the game you’d like to play
* Open the game room and pick a table
* Password protect the table
* Make sure you have the “allow players to replace computers” option checked

Your AccountX will now be sitting at a table with the option to play computers or wait for more players.

Move the IE screen down to the bottom right of your desktop. Remember the room that you chose and the table number. Open the Firefox browser and go to Pogo again, and log in with your second account (AccountY).

* Choose the game AccountX is playing
* Open the same room and pick the same table that AccountX is at
* Click the Play button and enter the password you AccountX chose

The IE browser (AccountX’s window) will ask you if you want to allow this player, say yes. If you have the room, move the Firefox screen to the upper left of your desktop and move IE to middle of your desktop. (This will allow you to see the majority of both game windows at the same time.

Voila, now you can play against yourself or with yourself to earn those badges!

Update: Kiki wrote in to let us know there are two new guest passes that can also be used for double-browsing. They’re for 14 days and will give your starter account 25,000 tokens. You can find them on our Free Tokens page.

Happy Weekend everyone!

Hope you all had a good week! I for one was delighted to see Pogo fix a few of the problems that were happening in some of their games (Monopoly and Crossword Cove especially)I guess Pogo didn’t fix anything afterall… and to be able to bring you sneak peeks of some great upcoming stuff. As our contributor Kathy said, Pogo’s been busy with their 10th anniversary celebration badges and album — keep it up!

Earlier this week, Jan wrote in to suggest a topic for this weekend.. Pogo’s How to Play pages.

I for one read Pogo’s instructions for games and quite often find them as clear as mud. So, I find your site and talk to other people or bump around the game and try to figure it out, at least enough to finish a badge.

I was wondering if other people thought Pogo’s How to play sections left something to be desired?

I search for instructions for some games and if it is a card or board game that existed pre-pogo there is some helpful info. Otherwise it is trial and error with a side of frustration.

Even with instructions for Euchre and Cribbage I’m lost so I am grateful to find people at Badgehungry to help.

Do you think the game instructions are good or do they lack something important? Are there game instructions that could use a rewrite? What has your experience been? Do you even read the help pages?

Feel free to talk about the How to Play pages or anything else you’d like in the comments below. See you in the comments!

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Happy Weekend Everyone!

Did you enjoy your Pogo week? Things sure were crazy around here with the release of Crossword Cove! As you probably know, we got the archive of puzzle solutions up and fully completed for both US and UK daily puzzles in just over 24 hours, thanks to our awesome contributors!

(Yes, we know the game isn’t awarding tokens and progress properly, read other people’s comments here. Yes, we know our watermarked logo makes it hard to see some of the letters — that’s been fixed, read about it here and here. And yes, commenting about either one of these matters on this weekend open thread — or anywhere else, probably — reduces the likelihood that your comment will be approved since we have rehashed them over and over again elsewhere on the site. Thanks for understanding!)

Last weekend we had a highly successful weekend open thread when we talked about the number of badges we have! This weekend, I’d like to turn the topic to albums! Do you buy premium albums or mix-n-match badges? How many albums (premium, m-n-m, and yearly) have you completed compared how many you own? Are you like me and have a difficult or hateful badge or two left to do in nearly every album or do you feel compelled to finish the album off? And last, but not least, if you need some help finishing a badge to finish an album, ask for help here — let’s get some of these albums done, people! :)

See you in the comments!

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