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Update 1pm Eastern: Casino Night has still not been activated on Pogo’s US and UK web sites. Please have patience with them as they remedy their error.

Update 6pm Eastern: Casino Night tokens are now active. Maybe Pogo’s plan was for us to “celebrate” Casino Night at night? :)

It’s Casino Night again! Don’t forget to play 6th Street Omaha Poker, Ali Baba Slots, and Ride The Tide today for your free Pogo tokens!

Don’t forget to also get your tokens from UK Casino Night as well.

Filed under: promotions and events

Stack ‘em – Pasture Eyes Badge
Remove 288 cows in this week!

High Stakes Pool – Fast and Loose Badge
Sink 168 balls in this week!

If you’d like to meet up with others to earn these badges, please use rooms that start with B or H, or Temporary Members Room 50030. Wear a badge that looks like a “B” to identify yourself and don’t forget to say hi!

Leave your tips, tricks, and hints for earning these badges in a comment below.

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Filed under: high stakes pool, stack 'em, weekly challenges

Pogo has just announced that in the coming weeks they will be making some changes to the scoring in Mahjong Safari and Sweet Tooth 2. To “have more consistency” across Pogo games, the changes are as follows:

Mahjong Safari: The in-game score will now be reported as your high score. Your high score will no longer match tokens won, so your score will be higher. There will be no change to the number of tokens you earn.

Sweet Tooth 2: Gold Coins will now be worth 200 points each – double from what they were before! Removing a caramel square will now earn you 5 points. You’ll see a slightly higher token payout.

Changes aside, the most interesting part of their announcement is the hint of “something fun” coming soon:

Why the changes? Well… for now, all we can say is that there’s something fun coming down the pike that we can’t talk about, but we think you’ll really like!

Thanks to Suz for bringing this to our attention!

Filed under: coming soon/rumors, mahjong safari, sweet tooth

It’s Tuesday again and that means it’s Tips Day! Each Tuesday we’ll be showcasing one of Pogo.com’s games and collecting your tips, insights, and hints for playing the games, earning more tokens in them, and earning their badges more easily.

This week, let’s talk about Casino Island Blackjack. There are 50 Casino Island Blackjack ranks and 5 ranks badges you can earn along the way. The types of challenge badges for this game are:

* Win X tokens
* Win X hands
* Get X Jackpot spins
* Get X Blackjacks
* Get a “5 Card Charlie” X times
* Use the “Bust Protector” X times
* Use an “Up Your Sleeve” card X times

Joe’s given us his tips for the game, which include always going for a 5 Card Charlie. What are your tips? Do you have a strategy that you like to play with in Casino Island Blackjack? Do you have any hints or tricks for earning the badges above, getting more tokens, or winning more hands? Share them in a comment below!

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Filed under: casino island blackjack, tuesday tips day

Once again, Dr. Pepper and Pogo are teaming up to give away 2323 tokens in each of ten games every Monday between now and September 27th. The promotion is called Unrivaled Mondays and you’ll get your tokens just by opening the games.

Get your tokens now!

A few people have written in to report they have been able to get these tokens twice, once in the morning and once in the evening after 5pm PST.

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us all know about these freebies! We’ll post again each Monday until the promotion is over to remind you to get your free Pogo tokens. In the meantime, check out our Free Tokens page for more of these great Pogo-sponsored free token offers!

Filed under: promotions and events

Happy Weekend Everyone!

Ask and ye shall receive! This week Pogo re-released four of their previously-retired Premium Badge Albums. It was also a good week for Clue fans, with the release of Liaison in London. And for our Tuesday Tips, we talked about Canasta. Feel free to chime in with your Canasta tricks, hints, and tips for other Pogo players!

While maintaining this site, I’ve been re-noticing a lot of Pogo’s quirks lately through the eyes of the newcomers to the site. These weird quirks and glitches are things I’d come to expect from Pogo as someone who has played there for a number of years. For example, during this week’s challenge in Word Whomp Whackdown, clicking a name in the Who’s Here list will pause the timer. Other things include the quirky way room setup for multiplayer games has to be accessed from the room list as opposed to the Play Now button, and how free token offers aren’t always credited to your account immediately, especially if you’re in a game room at the time you click on them. These things are just normal for me, but newcomers to Pogo — or to BadgeHungry — might not know about them. I am not going to pretend I have the time or energy to put together a FAQ yet, but maybe we can start addressing common problems and concerns in this thread for future reference.

What Pogo quirks would you share with a newcomer to make their Pogo experience a little more smooth? Is there a question that’s always asked that you can answer? Help out a newbie here with your best tip, trick, or hint about Pogo!

See you in the comments!

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Filed under: weekend open threads

Pop Fu – Mind Over Balloon Badge
Solve 68 Puzzles this week (Speed round Puzzles do Not count)!

Word Whomp Whackdown – Gopher Broke Badge
Play 1 perfect game (Find every word in both rounds) this week!

First Class Solitaire – Take Flight Badge
Place 50 cards in the foundation stacks in 21 days to win this badge plus 2000 tokens!

If you’d like to meet up with others to earn these badges, please use rooms that start with B or H, or Temporary Members Room 50030. Wear a badge that looks like a “B” to identify yourself and don’t forget to say hi!

Leave your tips, tricks, and hints for earning these badges in a comment below.

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Filed under: first class solitaire, pop fu, special/super badges, weekly challenges, word whomp whackdown

Pogo has decided to re-release some previously retired Premium Badge albums. These four Premium Badge Albums return for a limited time only!

The albums are:

Badge Bonanza – 10 challenges – $5.99 or 86 gems
Card Masters – 8 challenges – $4.99 or 72 gems
I Heart Badges – 4 challenges – $2.99 or 43 gems
Loyal Friends – 8 challenges – $4.99 or 72 gems

Share your hints on these albums, whether you purchased them before they were retired or with this re-release! See you in the comments!

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Filed under: premium albums

It’s Tuesday again and that means it’s Tips Day! Each Tuesday we’ll be showcasing one of Pogo.com’s games and collecting your tips, insights, and hints for playing the games, earning more tokens in them, and earning their badges more easily.

The game of the week this week is Canasta! There are a whopping 100 Canasta ranks and 10 rank badges you can earn. The premium, weekly, and mix-n-match challenges for this game are usually one of the following:

* Win X tokens
* Meld out before your opponents * times
* Win X Canasta points
* Win X games with a “frozen pile”
* Get X jackpot spins
* Make X Canastas
* Make X Canastas with NO WILDS
* Get X Red 3′s
* Win X Games

We’ve got a few tips for Canasta already, please add your own in a comment below! We’d love to hear your strategies for winning against humans and bots, your hints for earning more tokens, earning more red 3′s, and for earning the badges listed above. Thanks!

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Filed under: canasta, tuesday tips day