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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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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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