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Weekly Challenges (August 19-25)

MONOPOLY - Towers of Dollars Badge MONOPOLY - Towers of Dollars Chat Icon
MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition – Towers of Dollars Badge
Pass GO 25 times this week!

World Class Solitaire - Private Jet Badge World Class Solitaire - Private Jet Chat Icon
World Class Solitaire – Private Jet Badge
Win a game with 250 tokens or more 15 times this week! (Including Jackpot Spins)

Summer's Twilight 2009 Super Badge
Summer’s Twilight 2009 Super Badge
Win 5 Challenge Badges between 12 AM PT August 19 and 12 AM PT September 2! (This includes Personal and Premium Challenges!)

Please feel free to leave your tips, hints, or opinions about these challenges in the comments below! Good luck with your badges this week.

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  1. How are we suppose to complete the Monopoly badge when it STILL keeps freezing up. I know they said they fixed it, but they didn’t, GRRR!!!!

  2. I’ve been working on one of the Monopoly Premium badges for a little over a week and I haven’t had any freezing problems playing against the bots or during trading. I’ve been using Firefox, if that helps.

    Also, I believe that Pogo changed the World Class Solitaire requirements to 15 instead of 25 at least according to Pogo’s badge pages.

    sirread2much

  3. Yes, it’s fifteen. After my second freeze, I switched to the Solitaire one for the time being.

    Remember you can use your premimum badges for the Summer Ending event badge as well.

    Wolfe

  4. You can easily still get the monopoly badge without playing with comps. Just play a fast turn game with real people.

  5. Solitaire requires some luck. If you don’t use any of the grabs, you should get a point toward the badge.

    However, if you do use grabs, pray for a high jackpot. Score a 100 or less jackpot, and you’ll score too low.

    Wolfe

  6. Monopoly froze up 2x. ARGGGGGGGGGGHH! They can keep their stupid badge. I didn’t want it anyway.

  8. I have been trying to get the “roll doubles 60 times” all summer long to finish up that album. It STILL freezes when trading and sometimes just because. I like the suggestion to try “firfox” browser. I’m going to try that.

  10. Tried the Monopoly badge. Not trying to win but just get around the board fast. I said no to all trades and when it asked me if I wanted to ignore all trade requests from a bot, I said yes and it froze. Played again and ignored all trade requests but said no when it asked if I wanted to ignore requests from a bot. Never froze after that. I use firefox. Good luck everyone and thanks as always Lura.

  11. Is there certain “rules” we are supposed to play in Monopoly? I was playing a custom game and passed GO 4 or 5 times and didn’t get credit for it?

  12. No problems with Monopoly freezing here (using Firefox and an older Sun Java).

    The easiest way to win this badge (and all Monopoly badges) in my opinion is to kick the computers butt as soon as possible by trading with them right away for a monopoly or two (no matter how much it costs you) and then buying hotels right away. You should be able to trade for a monopoly and buy hotels all on your very first move. Once you’ve done that, it’s pretty hard to lose the game, so your opponents will go bankrupt pretty quickly. When you’re down to just one computer opponent left, instead of winning the game you should try and create a stalemate by buying all his properties so that he has nothing left, then mortgage everything you own so that nobody has to pay rent anymore, and the game just goes on indefinitely fairly fast.

    To make it as easy as possible, play in a custom game room and make sure that each play starts with 5 properties; that hotels can be built after 3 houses; when a player goes bankrupt their properties are given to the player they owe; game bankruptcy limit is 3; net worth goal is none; and no time limit.

  14. I’ve had no problems with the game freezing, just played 1 game and went around 8 times, doing trades as well. Had no problems at all.

  15. i’m using firefox . first game no prob second game when i hit 5 turns left game started freezing and stalling geesh . monopoly SUCKS LOL

  16. i am waiting for live chat with pogo right now for the second time, the first time they had me update my java, i did that and i am still freezing up, now let’s see what pogo says, i can’t believe they would have this as a weekly challenge knowing all the issues they claim they fixed, and most everybody in this lounge is having an issue of freezing or not getting the correct pass go count, and a variety is playing with other pogo players, it does seem to help if you are playing with another person to stand up and sit back down, but i will stayi n my room froze until i chat with pogo again, so sorry for the whining but shame on pogo for this challenge

  17. Wish I could experience ‘freeze’ups but NOT online .. OUTSIDE! We in San Antonio, Texas are fast approaching day #50 with temps 100 or above! A record. Sigh. Oh well, back to the pogo thing .. no COMPUTER freeze ups here either .. using Firefox!!!

  18. I finished the monopoly with absolutely no problems. I played against the bots on Speedy, set up my game, don’t do trades and let the game run by itself. I did chores and when the game was over, set up a new game and let it play again. I’d stop by the puter every now and again to see if the game was finished. Never had a freezing problem once and I also did the August mix & match badge at the same time and got that one, too. I have IE8 and the newest Java. Hope this helps. Good Luck!

  19. i have been unable to do the monopoly. My game freezes up every single time. I have tried IE and firefox and it does the same thing every game. How are we supposed to get this badge?

  21. Indy — how did u let the monoply game run by itself ??? You have to click on roll for ur turn.

  22. It keeps freezing on me aswell but its the dice that freeze on me the trading is fine anyone else having this problem

  23. I finished the monopoly badge and never froze up and I’m using IE and did trades with the bots. I have no clue why mine is working and everyone else if having problems. I wish I could tell you why, but have little clue when it comes to computers. I’ve done all windows updates and java updates. Anyone that knows computers I will try and answer a specific question if you think it will help anyone, but you may have to explain it to me….LOL

    And for Phil – we already passed day #50 over 100 here in San Antonio. Maybe you had a cool breeze on your side of the city 🙂 Now if we could just get some rain!!!!

  24. sheila #22
    i ranked out in monopoly but setting the table in custom and no time limit of play.i got one property of each and denied all trades once i had one of each and all trades denied i just let it run all night.when its your turn to roll the clock counts down so like if you step away and time runs out it will roll for you.
    still having problems on monopoly going to try firefox maybe that will help.all i got to say is if i don’t get it by the last day pogo should give it to me.not my fault its freezing on me.

  25. Well, I went back to playing with the bots and didn’t turn down any of their trade offers and lo and behold! no freezing. Took a little over an hour to get the badge. didn’t initiate any trades or put any buildings on my properties. just rolled the dice. if it weren’t for being a jailbird way too many times, I could’ve finished sooner. I’m in firefox if that’s any help, but I don’t think it’s the cure for the problem because I was freezing up repeatedly earlier when I was turning down the trade offers.

    good luck all!

  26. Do you have to finish the monopoly game to get credit for passing go? I passed go 3 or 4 times and then quit the game (playing bots) and never got credit. No freezeups here, tho.

  27. Monopoly – if you dont care if you win lol
    The fastest way is to play with peeps. Set game for no auctions. Find a few friends or ask in room for peeps to play with you. Avoid playing with the bots. Don’t buy anything just roll and roll…. boring but its the quickest way to go around board

  28. I got my monopoly badge, I had no problems with the monopoly, no freezing up, it did when it had the problem but when it got fixed like they said it was for me, played with bots, did trading, everything, no problem. i use aol software, ive had a small problem downloading games, but rarely, then i go to the internet explorer and no problem, i used to have firefox then i heard of the viruses that u can get from it, i uninstalled it, dont know if its true, but i didnt take a chance.

  29. Why would Pogo say it is fixed, when obviously it isnt?! LOL. Thats Pogo for you. I played with bots, did not trade, but said no when it asked if I wanted to ignore requests from a bot. Never froze after that. If I click yes, to ignore the bots- it would freeze. Im using Vista, and havent upgraded yet to the last IE8, heard some people were having problems after installing IE8 with windows vista, so I am scared to lol.

  30. The easiest and fastest way to get badges in monopoly is to play with at least 1 other person and no bots. Set the game to NOT auction unwanted properties and then no one should buy any properties at all.You get around the board much faster without all the buying and trading and also helps with getting ranks faster.

  32. I was assuming they had fixed the Monopoly freezing problem but the thing just froze on me…….

  33. Hi Everyone, well I don’t think Pogo fixed the freezing problem, I have tried everything there is to try and it still freezes!!! Pogo certainly doesn’t have their act together and it is very frustrating that they can’t get anything right. Could thing we have all week to get the Monopoly badge because it will take all week!!! Sorry for venting.

  34. I have tried the monopoly badge twice. I have passed go several times and receive no credit for it. What tab is everyone playing under? I have been using custom.

  35. I only froze up a couple of times in Monopoly today, I just leave the game set and in a few mins it started back up and I finished game.
    i guess if u in a hurry or dont have the time it is hard to let the game set.
    So ssry every one that ur having all the problems.

  36. A tip for getting the WCS badge: choose the shortest flights (1or 2 games if possible). The arrival bonus can put you over the top. Also, if you’re stuck, DO use the grabs; you might get a big spin AND you’re making progress toward that arrival bonus.

  37. I had great luck in WCS, but like most other people, Monopoly froze time and again. I just waited it out. Sometimes it took 30 seconds; sometimes 5 minutes.

    #27 Patti: Yes, you have to finish the game to get credit.

    #32 RV60: There’s a box you can check/uncheck that says “Auction unwanted properties.” It’s on the line under how many houses you need to buy a hotel.

    Good luck, everyone!

  39. I’ve tried loading Monoopoly a million times now..no luck.

    If anyone has a mix and match or album badge for either game keep reactivating them while you do the weekly. It counts towards the summer badge. I saved the new mix and match till this week and got the summer before getting any of my weeklies. 🙂 It counts everytime you reactivate.

  41. screammmmmmmmmmmmmmm -when are you fixing monoply?? everyone in my room is having problems with it freezing! get busy pogo!!

  42. I got through my first game fine! Now it tends to freeze on me… Not during trades like it did before (though ive noticed the computers are a lot slower responding to trade offers now…) but just randomly after a computer player goes! If I wait a few minutes the game will pick up again, but its very frustrating waiting… ughh

  43. also RV60: Make sure your under the CUSTOM game tab… thats the only way you are going to be able to change that option 😉 Thought I would mention it because I didnt notice all the tabs at first myself, heh <.<

  44. A huge THANK-YOU to INDY (see #19 above). Follow her instructions and just walk away for about a half hour and the game will play out, you will get some tokens and credits for passing go. The timer will run down and the game automatically rolls for you. The timer will run down so you cannot buy properties you land on. If you have no properties, the bots don’t offer to trade with you. If they don’t offer, you cannot refuse their trades…hence no freezing of the game! Every half hour or so, go back to your computer and start another game, then find something productive or more useful to do!!
    INDY you are my heroine! Now if only you had magic tips for stellar sweeper or backgammon!! LOL
    Thanks to Lura for a fabulous site!!

  45. My problem isn’t with Monopoly freezing but the fact that I can’t get the bots to accept any of my trades. Just wondering if anyone was having the same issue? The game is freezing on me but it’s very quick.

  46. The Monopoly badge took me about an hour, double-browsing and not allowing auctions of unwanted properties. I’d never played the game before, so maybe there’s a faster way to do it.

    Thanks all for your tips, suggestions, etc.

  47. One more thing about the WCS badge, while I’m thinking about it…

    I’ve ranked out in that game and it IS tedious.

    Here’s a couple of tips:

    The multiplier under each stack at the top tells you what your best score can be. Add these numbers up (it’ll say something like 2X, 2X, 3x, 5X). If the numbers add up to at least 12, you’re guaranteed to get enough points to get to the 250 you need — if you finish the game. 12 X 13 =156 and the minimum jackpot spin in the game is 100. If the numbers don’t add up to 12, you’ll need luck w/ the jackpot spin or an arrival bonus to push you over the 250.

    Always, always move cards from the stack with the most face-down cards. So, if you have two stacks with a red 7 you can move, ALWAYS pick the red 7 with the most cards under it. I don’t know why, but this is the best way to be able to turn more cards face up. I think it’s just Pogo being a pain in the butt.

  48. i finally completed the monopoly challange. All i done was double browse and i had no problems at all i used aol and IE8 and it didnt freeze once. Thanks to the double browser info provided on this site without it i would probly still be trying to complete that challange. This site rocks!!! ty ty ty

  50. If they have fixed the problem on monopoly not freezing, they need to fire those who said it was fixed and get someone in there who knows how to fix it. Now, there are two bots that keep freezing and not just one. C’mon pogo get your act together and quickly before we run out of time.

  51. I don’t have problems with game play issues very often but lately Pogo has been a bit hit and miss.
    I got my Monopoly badge with no problems at all but WCS kept freezing up on me. I chose to re-do a Makeover Madness badge for personal and that game kept freezing up on me too.
    When I try to play Monopoly Slots its hit and miss whether the mover pieces will load, if they don’t I have to refresh the room or choose another room altogether.
    These issues have only started in the last couple of weeks or so so I know it isn’t my PC as that’s the same now as it was when the games were playing ok.

  52. Monopoly freezing during game play…

    I think I figured it out!!!!!!! 😀 and it would explain why it freezes for some people and not others. Pogo -did- fix half of the issue with freezing. The game no longer freezes when YOU try to make a trade with one of the bots, but it seems to freeze randomly in the middle of the game after one of the bots has taken a turn. I also noticed that this does not happen when I start a game, but after some turns into it.

    I finally figured out what I (am almost positive) the problem is. When the computer keeps trying to make those annoying trades that you dont want and then the message pops up if you want to ignore all trades from that computer player? DONT HIT YES!

    I figure when you hit yes, and then that computer player freezes the game… its because they are trying to make a trade with you, but since you ignored it (and cant see it thats what they are trying to do…) theres a problem there and the game freezes up for 3 minutes (the exact amount oftime you have to contimplate making trades 😉 )

    I did a little bit of experimenting on this and if you hit NO when that message pops up, the game wont freeze on you! It -is- annoying to keep hitting “reject offer” but it sure beats the hell out of waiting for the game to “unfreeze”

    I hope this works for everyone else as it has worked wonders for me!

    😀

  53. and well, its 3 minutes for me (I tend to play custom options, slow turn timer) so the “freezing” time might be different for other people.

  54. didn’t have any problems with either of the badge challenges freezing, but I never seem to run into the problems I see posted here over the weeks. I regularly delete temp files both on my internet settings and my java cache. Don’t know if that is the reason or if I am just lucky. I am using IE and have NOT updated to the latest Java release.
    If a badge takes less than an hour to earn, it is too easy. I love the challenge.

  56. Hi everyone,

    I’ve played Monopoly 18 times since Wednesday all but 3 games didn’t freeze. One game was the last round the game froze. Now if that isn’t frusrtating! I didn’t do any trading, it still froze. I’m ready to give up
    How does Pogo expect us to get badges with these glitches.

  57. i know how ya feel,the same happened to me on the last round,i played my last round but the next turn pass me frooze so there went that game ,i even downloaded “firefox’ then frooze on 17 moves left .i give up!! we pay good money for this membership so i think pogo better do something before they have us all not renewing …..a href=”” title=””

  59. Paris: Your issue might be that your -not- trading. If you ignore all trades from bots, then your game freezes for a bit (Its not really freezing, but close enough)

    People should read all of the posts! (Like I should have . other people pointed out how to stop the freezing too! but I think I figured out why)

  60. All this talk of freezine reminded me why I quit playing Boardwalk Sea Ball. Every time I left the game, Pogo froze completely and I would have to completely turn off my computer to get IE to work. Sooo frustrating. Thanks for the tip about Pogo shorting token payout on Crossword Cove. I never checked by token total until I read the info here and then tested it. Sure enough, if I submitted the completed puzzle as soon as I was done, I was shorted almost all of the token winnings. But waiting 14 minutes to submit corrected that problems. Wish I had read your tips sooner – lost thousands of tokens! 🙁 Thanks so much for all the good info.

  61. nephthys– lol and i agree..and i followed those instructions and wala, no freezing 😉

  62. In WCS if you don’t use any power-ups you get 100 extra tokens for a perfect game. You also get bonus tokens for completing a world tour and a arrival bonus when you get to your destination. A big spin helps too! Good Luck all.

  63. Hello again — hope ev1 had a good week –last weekend a couple people suggested I email pogo to get my 2004 golf badge that is my only missing badge. Well I did and they replied in 24 hours and I now have my badge –THANK YOU , THANK YOU — I appreciate all the help, so glad I found this site .
    KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!!
    HAVE A GR6 WEEKEND EV1.
    HAPPY CLICKING IN POGO

  64. Thanks Kevin for your advise. In WCS you almost always have to get the 12X to get your 250 , as most of the jackpots are l00 and without the 12X, you cant get enough points. I usually do pretty good in this game and have always loved it, but it must be set differently for this badge, as it seems much more difficult to get the 250. Is anyone else having this problem.

    In Monopoly, havnt played it on Pogo before, mine kept freezing up also, until I started denying everything and then things went pretty fast. Im in IE and then it was no problem. gl all

  65. I forgot to mention that I played Monopoly in all the different games, the best and fastest for me was the custom game, no auctions, try different settings, you soon see what works for you. Nothing on Free Parking, seems the bots land there alot. I wanted to play with real people but no one ever came in.

  67. Have been trying all week for the Monopoly badge, and it is still freezing. Occasionally it lets me finish a game, then it will freeze five or six times in a row (or more, if I have the patience to keep going!) No apparent pattern to when it freezes, except it usually happens during a bot’s turn. I have never had it freeze during a trade, and I always refuse trades. Strange. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with peak times, or which browser I use, or cache size. I’ve lost at least 50 times around GO at this point! Geez!

  68. ok i need help, i tryed buying gems this morning and it says something went wrong please try later, so i asked s friend if she was having problems and she was able to buy gems, so i went to buy the new pba album for 5.99 and it let me do it that way, anybody ever have this problem, i was on the waiting list for pogo chat but it was going to take 20 min, who has that kind of time, ok well ty for listening, and also pogo told me last week when i was on chat with them that if you can’t get the monopoly badge by the time the challenge ran out they would give it to you.

  69. In all my years of playing Pogo I never knew you could actually have “live”chat with a person at pogo. How do you do that? I also need that OLD golf badge. Shiela, did pogo give you hints on getting the badge? Thanks !!!

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