The Road to Happiness Premium Badge Album was released last night. (Thanks @doctorx316 for sending in the tip while we were snoozing!) According to Pogo, this album is all about traveling the open road: “Tou love the open road. You love the wind in your hair and the surprises that wait for you around the next bend. Desert or mountains, near or far, these badges celebrate your spirit of adventure!” This one will cost you $5.99 (or 86 gems). Take a look at the badges:
Yahtzee Party! – Ready to Roll Badge
Roll 2 Yahtzees with ‘twos’ in 20 hours!
Yahtzee Party! – Rolls of the Road Badge
Play 10 rounds of Super Yahtzee in 10 days! (Earn at least 1 token in each round)
Trivial Pursuit Daily 20 – Pie for a Pie Badge
Make the goal on 4 random quizzes in 2 hours!
World Class Solitaire – World Class Canyon Badge
Complete 2 World Tours in 30 days! (To complete a World Tour, circle the globe and fly past the city where you started)
Canasta – Melded Mail Badge
Meld out before your opponent 5 times in 1 day!
Payday FreeCell – Solitaire Sanctum Badge
Get 50 or more Bonus Points in a Payday Scratch Bonus Card 20 times in 2 weeks! (Win the game to collect your bonus points)
Phlinx – Egyptian Sky Badge
Win 50 rounds in 8 days!
Ali Baba Slots – Desert Rain Badge
Spin the reels to get 3 Blue Sapphires 10 times in 10 days!
Mahjong Garden – Garden Gates Badge
Complete 20 animals on Medium difficulty level using the ‘Animal’ puzzle set in 20 days!
Tumble Bees – Private Picnic Badge
Spell 100 words in 1 day!
Road to Happiness Premium Badge Album Completion Badge
What do you think of the difficulty level of this album? Did you find yourself using any tricks you can share with others to get these badges faster? Leave a comment below!
bob says
July 8, 2009 at 9:47 amhey it bob here that album looks pretty hard only tips i could share is before u start the world class be almost done one world tour then the last one should be easy
Pogogirl says
July 8, 2009 at 11:02 amI plan to purchase the album. I know I will struggle with the FreeCell badge. The others all look pretty reasonable to me.
Enjoy, all!
Pogogirl says
July 8, 2009 at 11:03 amOh… and I think you inverted the images for the Tumble Bees and Ali Baba Slots badges. 😉
Lura says
July 8, 2009 at 11:09 amPogogirl: nice catch. *yawn* I’m nothing without my morning coffee!
Candi says
July 8, 2009 at 1:21 pmHi All
I know Pogo says they don’t, but I think badges are easier when they first come out. I bought this album thinking the yahtzee with 2’s was going to be soooo difficult and I got it within a half hour. As far as the other yahtzee badge in the book I would just play in rooms where the super yahtzee thingie is almost to the top but I am sure you all figured that out already. Welcome back from your vacation Lura I hope you had a GREAT time.
Pogogirl says
July 8, 2009 at 4:44 pmNo problem, Lura! I start my day with an iced chai and I’m very fuzzy-headed until I’ve had it.
I do have a few suggestions about these badges. For the Super Yahtzee badge (Rolls of the Road Badge), I would assume that playing in a room that is more full would be better than playing in an emptier room (more people to get Yahtzees to fill the meter).
For Phlinx and Tumble Bees, this is probably an obvious suggestion, but if you are struggling you could lower your difficulty level. Hope those ideas might help someone!
A few of the badges (Ready to Roll and Desert Rain) are essentially just luck-based.
Have fun with the new album, everyone! I think some of the badges are really pretty.
Kevin says
July 9, 2009 at 2:22 amFor that Ready To Roll Badge, if you play in Wild Rooms you may have much better luck than a Classic Room. I got 1 within the half hour and stopped getting them in Classic, moved onto Wild and during a ongoing game I was able to get it. That may be the hardest one to get like the badge where you get to rolle Yahtzees of 4s like 4 times, was it? That was tough!
sunz says
July 9, 2009 at 9:03 amTumble bees goes quick on easy spelling 2 letter words.
Amy says
July 9, 2009 at 10:32 amHelp! LOL. The trivia pursuit is the toughest I think. Im not dumb by no means, but having to play the random quiz 4 times in 2 hours is just heartbreaking lol. Any suggestions on this one?? Help!
Pogogirl says
July 9, 2009 at 1:50 pmAmy,
The only suggestion I have is that the questions seem to repeat fairly frequently. If you get a question wrong, make a note of the correct answer. The same question may just pop up in another random quiz.
Hope that helps!
Genevieve says
July 9, 2009 at 3:08 pmHi Everyone, the new album is not as bad as I thought. The only one that I know will give me some trouble is the Trivial Pursuit, I am with Amy, I am not dumb, but I don’t like the random quizzes. Any tips, if there are any would be greatly appreciated. The only ones I have left to do is Canasta, the two Yahtzee and Ali Baba. So good luck and enjoy.
John says
July 9, 2009 at 3:19 pmali baba slots is the only one i have left to do and i do not think i will get that on.3 blue sapphires?? played for 4 hr and not even one.:>(
bob says
July 9, 2009 at 4:52 pmhey it bob again the ali baba takes forever i ahve been playing 6 hours straight and only have two anyone have any tips
Eric says
July 9, 2009 at 7:08 pmAs Trivial Pursuit goes-
Now that I’ve cheated so much with all the daily games, I’ve learned so much I can always win the random games!
Thanks BadgeHungry! 😛
LOL
HomelessDog says
July 9, 2009 at 7:50 pmFor the Yahtzee 2’s badge, this sounds obvious, but keep every 2 that you get and discard everything else. Don’t try and win the game–just try and get yahtzee’s with twos and you’ll be done a lot faster.
For the Yahtzee Super Yahtzee badge, make sure you play in a full room… feel free to jump around from room to room until you find one that has an almost full meter.
In Canasta, this is actually really easy when playing against a computer. Just freeze the pile pretty early on and wait for it to build up to 20+ cards before picking it up and you’ll probably have enough tricks to meld out. A few things to know, the computer will rarely ever pick up a pile with less than 8 cards in it, and the computer will never try and fool you into throwing down a card that it doesn’t want. So if the computer discards a 9 onto a frozen pile, you can probably safely discard a 9 right on top of it without the computer picking up that pile. I don’t remember losing against the computer because it’s so predictable.
Lyne says
July 10, 2009 at 4:19 amFor the World Class Solitaire badge…it took me about 90 mins to do 2 round trips…seems to be taking others longer.
What I did was…when I had to select a new city…I would pick the one furthest away…and that way cover more terrain to go around the world faster. Hope it helps.
Good Luck All !!!
Amy says
July 10, 2009 at 11:06 amThanks for the tips! I finally got the trivia pursuit badge! ( it helps not to activate the badge until you are sure you are going to win the 1st one, just activate it right before all your answers are finished) This was you actually have 3 to do in 2 hrs.
As for the Ali baba, i dont see me winning this badge at all. I dont care if we do have 10 days to finish it, I cant even get one down, and have been trying for 2 days! I just dont have the patience to sit and click for hours on end hoping for 3 blue diamonds. Ughh! I think they need to change the requirements for this badge, this is very cruel punishment lol.
Louise Kovacs says
July 19, 2009 at 4:17 pmI emailed pogo about the Desert Rain Badge and they said that some badges have to be challengin or people will get bored. I think Ali Bab Slots is boring, have only got i/10 in 2 days. I will try emailing them again. It would be different if it were just a single challenge, but I can’t finish the album unless I get this one
Linda says
July 19, 2009 at 8:53 pmI just need to finish WC solitaire and I’m done. The Ali Baba Slots was a real challenge. The first evening I played in 1 room for 2 hours and never got the 3 blue sapphires. The next day I played on and off for a total of 6 hours changing rooms often, I got up to 5. On the third day it took about 4 hours but I finally got all 10 of the stupid sapphires. The only trick that I learned was to change rooms every half hour or so. So keep changing rooms and you’ll get it and find some fun people along the way.
Sharilyn says
July 21, 2009 at 12:31 pmFor the Ali Baba badge… I worked on it for 3 days (without changing rooms) and couldn’t get one. I then started changing rooms after 10 spins… had the badge within 2 days.
Tumble Bees and Phlinx….. set difficulty to lowest level and you’ll get it pretty quickly.
Canasta… like “HomelessDog” said…. play against computer… keep track of what cards AI is throwing away and don’t throw them until you freeze the pile after 9th card… keep pile frozen using the black 3s, wilds, and the cards the AI threw away… then pick up discard pile yourself (hope that makes sense).
For Yahtzee “rolls of the road” badge…. stick to fuller rooms and it goes quickly….
I still have the others to get myself… but thanks for the pointers/hints for those, everyone!