WordJong™ – WordJong Spring Badge
Spell 15 7-letter words this week! (Win the game to check your progress)
Ali Baba Slots™ – Forty Thieves Badge
Win 100 tokens from the Spin to Win Bonus this week!
Poppit! – Feelin’ Balloony Badge
Release 1500 prizes between 12 AM PT April 21 and 12 AM PT May 12! Win this badge plus 3,000 tokens.
If you want to meet up with others to work on these badges, play in rooms that start with B or H or Temporary Members Room 50630. Don’t forget to wear a badge that looks like a B to identify yourself (there’s a list in the first comment below)!
Leave your hints and tips on these badges for your fellow Pogo fans in a comment below. Thanks!
Lura says
If you’d like to play with other BHers, meet up in rooms under the topics tab that start with B or H or Temporary Members Room 50630. 🙂 Don’t forget to wear one of these “B” badges to identify yourself:
Ba-da Bingo! Badge – Fortune Bingo
January 2004
Bird Song Badge – Word Jong
May 2008
Bingo Bonanza Badge – Lottso! Express
In-game award badge: Complete 50000 bingos to earn this badge.
B is for Bracelet Badge – SCRABBLE
SCRABBLE Secrets PBA
Wordsmith Badge – Crossword Cove
Rank 30
Richard K. says
Both challenges only took me 7 minutes. I was done by 10:07. GL to all.
Ardenwolfe says
This week’s challenges are unbelievably easy if you get lucky. I got three rubies on a Spin to Win in less than a minute.
For Word Jong, just focus on a layout for a spread out game. In other words, forgo any of the ‘pyramid’ games.
Finished these challenges in less than ten minutes.
Good luck all.
beth says
richard #2 LOL and LMAO it took me 7 mins almost to read the requirements (NOT) that was too cute… maybe you should have savored the moment and tried not to make 7 letter words in word jong and enjoyed the badge…lol im teasing, but i did figure they would go quick…
word jong will take a lil longer for me as not one my favorites and word games are not my best other than word whomp one they are pretty easy for mebut jong really jong’s me up lol….
hagd every one and gl with your badges, dont really know of any tips or special ways to get them….beth
psalm233 says
word jong was super easy try & save the wilds till the end, they do roll over. I got it in one full game (4 rounds) it saound scary but it wasn’t.
GL E1 GB psalm
gjb1443 says
Just a tip for word jong to peek at tiles underneath to see what is coming up just use random tiles then you can click undo. You can do this multiple times with no penalty.
Good luck everyone and God Bless.
ksetch says
I’m finished, too! It took less than 30 minutes for both badges… not much of a challenge this week.
Krista says
Can someone please help me with the WordJong challenge?! I suck at word games. So far my longest word has been 5 letters! 🙁 Can someone provide me with a list of words? Maybe that will help me!
George B says
Hey guys, I agree totally. No challenge this week at all. I have never played either game for this week’s challenge and I had to read the directions and play games and it still only took me about 45 minutes to do both. It would have probably taken less time to do so had I read the tips above. GL to everyone else
Melissa says
really annoyed that pogo would put up a badge like Word Jong; I hate the game and especially when they post something like getting 7-letter words. Can somebody do it for me?
pastorpapabear says
Man, I must be the suckiest spinner alive. Been at Ali Baba for an hour and a half-have 1 spin to win for a rockin’ total of 15 tokens. not going to Vegas for vacation, I’ll tell you that.
rabbitandkitty says
way to easy this wk,lets hope we get decent proper challenges next wk some thing to get ya teeth into that u can actually call challenges.
Frank says
Ugh! This is what I have to look forward to when I get home? I did two mix-or-match or PBA challenges a month ago that had requirements involved with spin-to-win. One took me several days (accrue 2,000 tokens) of me enduring repetitive motion disorder.
Here’s to good luck when I get home! And good luck to everybody else!
mspatmac says
Good morning. Melissa, #10, if you need help with 7 letter words you can go to this site, type in your letters and it will give you words that work with your letters. http://www.wineverygame.com. It’s a scrabble help site.
Good luck
vanessa says
I suck at word games too. I might pass on this one
vanessa says
mspatmac
Thank you so much for the site 🙂
pastorpapabear says
For Word Jong, don’t forget to use prefixes and suffixes. If you have an -ING, that makes your root word only 4 letters (as long as you don’t have to change the word at all), or -EST, -ER, PRE-, etc.
fish says
this week was easy next weeks just as easy , something up pogo’s sleeve LOL
Laurie says
I just wanted to say thanks to mspatmac i went to that web site and i found words i did not finish yet but if it was not for this site i dont think i could have gotten any words Thanks again laurie
mspatmac says
Good morning again. May I respectfully remind everyone, myself included, what may seem like an easy challenge for one of use may be very difficult for others whatever the challenge may be. I personally find timed word games like word whomp and wackdown very difficult and work hard to complete challenges. It takes me awhile, but I do it. However, when I hear so many folks saying how easy they are, or they get all the words all the time on skill level 3, it makes me feel a bit inadequate if just for a moment 🙂
We all have different educational levels, different skill sets and different preferences etc, and I try to be mindful of that.
Good hint papabear about prefixes and suffixes. Got my badges this morning so now I can go clean the carpets!
Thank you
Pat
badlokii says
I also use http://www.allwords.com for word games. It is an online dictionary that you can browse.
Paige says
This week’s challenages were a breeze. Ali Baba took my 17 minutes. Got on my first spin to win spin (got 3 red jewels). Remember to play max on the slots. This way your token pay will be bigger when you do get a spin-to-win. Will help to speed it up for players that are unlucky enough to have to wait a long time for the spin.
I’m not good at word games either. But I got Word Jong in less then half hour. I used scrabble solver to help. Remember that once you get the wild tiles you can use them to lengthen your words.
I might be going crazy but I’ve been seeing ads on the top of my pogo pages lately. Not every time but often enough. I am a paying club pogo member and paid to avoid these advertisements. Is this something new? I haven’t been on much in the past week. I sent a email off to pogo but I’m not holding my breath on a response with an answer anything relevent to what I told them.
Michelle says
Hey everyone!! I’m pretty good at WordJong and am happy to assist anyone that hates or can’t tolerate that game.
PS, this site is the BEST! Ty Lura!
DebbieSLP says
it took me 45 boring minutes to get lucky on AliBaba, glad that’s over. On Word jong it did not take long, but on two games it did not give me credit for my 7 letter words even though I finished the game. That was a bit annoying.
On to pick my personal for the week! Nice to have a light week after last week, I only finished all the badges yesterday!
Pat says
I personally hate to see some discouraged by the word jong badge. Yes, we all have different skills, etc. But with all the fine hints on BH and the addition of crossword helpers, you should all be fine. This game is NOT timed, it has a great UNDO feature, and is absolutely doable. So, take a deep breathe and TRY. If ya only get 3 words a day, the badge will still be finished in time. So, let’s see some self-help and determination. you will be surprised what you can accomplish.
kodi says
I agree with Pat. How fortunate some of you have been. Others, like myself, took just over an hour for Word Jong and am currently working on Ali Baba which looks like it will take the rest of the day. Congrats on those of you who finished in less than an hour, but like Pat said, when you comment on how easy it was for you, remember, it isn’t for everyone.
badlokii says
OMG! Ali Baba Slots is soooooooooooooooooooo boring
Bomber says
Fixing that glitch is the worst thing Pogo has ever done!
Dottie says
I’ve been at Ali Baba for one hour–so far 4 spin to wins for a total of 60 tokens. I think if you get spin to win–you should get more tokens than 15.
Pat says
Well, guess we shoulda stayed in ali baba slots longer–the maximum jp total was announced as “just won”…
vibirdlady says
Took me an hour 15 mins. in Ali Baba to get my badge, like pastorpoppabear #11 seemed I just wasn’t lucky this am. Finally did get mine, played my dgt’s for her this afternoon and got it after only 4 tries! Go figure, just luck I guess. Thanks for help in Word Jong to you’ll!! ^v^
vera
NLinda says
Hi all, in case you want another program to help with word games I use Anagram Artist, here is the site to download it if you want:
http://www.brothersoft.com/anagram-artist-159905.html
This week was sure a lot easier than last week,lol!! Took me about 15 minutes on Ali Baba, sure was glad as that is not a game I enjoy. Took a bit longer on Word Jong, learned a few new words in the process.
Good luck to e1 still working on badges and GG to all that have completed them.
Hels says
Badges are easy this week because it’s exam time for most students out there… WordJong was nice and easy, helped me go up a rank too. Saving Ali Baba for when I will be watching TV later this evening. That’s the only way to play any slots other than Hog Heaven – watching TV and blind-clicking…
ellen520 says
Well, the folks at POGO sure had an interesting interpretation of “challenges” this week!
ksetch says
I don’t think any of us that posted how easy the badges are this week are trying to make anyone feel bad. One person’s easy is another person’s hard. I come here to brag a little, and I come here to complain a little… but, my comments are never meant to make any BHers feel bad about their playing ability (the good and the bad)! 😉
Shel says
Debbie #24 – I only finished my Flower Daze yesterday too – and my personal in Word Search – they sure are stingy with those gift words when you need them. lol
Dottie #29 – I agree – Spin To Win I always thought of as a bonus type thing. 15 tokens is a joke! Just started in Ali Baba about 10 mins ago – nada so far. Am I too impatient???? lol lol I notice that there aren’t very many B rooms and no H rooms under Topics — and I think our 50630 # is in the 20s Tab……..only 4 peeps were there.
Pastor #11 — Great tips for Word Jong. I’m thinking I’m going down the same road as you with this Ali Baba tho – still nothing for me, going on 30 minutes. Reading BH while clicking. lol
Word Jong is fairly easy for me, so I got it quickly. Then I ran into someone in Ali Baba who didn’t realize that the tiles on the right were wild cards! So, I will mention it in case anyone else doesn’t realize that. It is better to save them for near the end if you have to, but they are there to use. Once you use one of the wild cards, you have a chance to earn a replacement again. Also, you can “undo” all the way back to the beginning if need be. Lastly, you can send back letters just by reclicking them – you don’t even have to “undo” it.
Hope that helps — ran into a few BHers in Word Jong — Mamabear, ellen, Imacrab – great playing with you all!
I hope I get the Ali Baba soon – would love an easy week! Feel like I haven’t had any “just for fun” Pogo time in a while now.
~Shel
Bill says
Odd experience as I was getting the Ali Baba badge … I got up to 95, and then was randomly clicking to get the last one. The “you won the badge” screen pops up as I start a spin … but then the Spin to Win bonus wasn’t on the reels. I played a little more, and then noticed my tokens in the game were frozen. Checked my badge book and the home screen, both say completed, so I’m not going to argue :).
Off to Word Jong, I should have that one finished quickly.
Frank says
Ali Ba-Boring Slots took me 27 minutes to get the badge with a total of three “Spin to Win” lamps. It wasn’t too long, but certainly didn’t make the game any more enjoyable.
Word Jong was a no-brainer for me. For those with difficulty on word games, don’t forget to use plurals and the wild tiles. Even if you are having difficulty getting seven letters, try using a combination of one, two, or three wild tiles? Why? Well, you can essentially make up words and sometimes they’ll be valid with the wild. Here’s an example:
e???ers
Pretend the question marks are wild tiles. Well, with that combination above, you could spell exilers, echoers, erasers, eveners, etchers, and several others. You don’t have to use all three wild tiles at once. Just play around with a few of the tiles if you’re one or two letters short of a seven-letter word. Good luck!
Trish says
(((((((((((((((((((LURA)))))))))))) good to see u again hon….and the rest of my fellow BHers. Missed ya all!!!!
Have the weekly badges done…but got a Q on Personal. I’m doing the PIN PALS in Pogo Bowl….get 5 gold pins in 7 days. I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY suck at that game but am determined to get the badge. The Q is: Are the gold pins completely random or do they appear with any frequency like if you’ve got a great score or some such? ANY info would be a great help.
Hope you guys are having a GR8 badge day. BTW….wholeheartedly agree with mspat #20……we’re all coming from different backgrounds…sometimes PLANETS even…LOL….and we DO get a week to finish them. Would be nice if pogo awarded badges for SPEEDY COMPLETION…..but until that day arrives it’s jst bragging. So let’s cool it!!!! That being said….IF I can help anyone with any badge (Word Games especially) I’d be more than happy to oblige.
Enough with the sermonizing….have a GR8 week all!!!!!!!!!!
Ardenwolfe says
What Ksetch said. Don’t look for insults or bad feelings where none exist.
We’re all here to have fun and help each other. 🙂
Mamabear says
Hello all, was nice meeting u with Shel and Ima in WJ tonight. Took me half hour for that badge and half hour for chatting 🙂 cuz it’s what I do best LOL.
On my first spin 2 win I got a grand total of 15 tokkies and then a couple more, but on my last spin I got 500 go figure, was lucky enough to get a 500 jps too~took me 15 mins~was glad too b/c not one of my fave games at all. I’m working on my personal now in WCS~the last of them for me unless I redo one. Hope e1 has lots of luck with all your badges. I’ll be glad to help anybody that needs it.
Lots of great tips today for everyone~as always a great bunch of BH’ers. See ya on Pogo.
~Linda
Jamie says
Finished with my weekly badges in about an hour. Now, I’m just trying to finish a premium badge I’ve been putting off. It’s from the Road of Happiness album and it’s Ali Baba Slots – spin the reels to get 3 Blue Sapphires 10 times in 10 days. I have tried this numerous tiimes before since buying the book and have yet to get even 5! I’m glad it’s a mind numbing game where I can watch tv while clicking!!
Faith says
Here is a help if you have more than 1 acct. Play 2 accts. at the same time on 2 browsers. It is easy to go back and forth between accts. when you are just clicking the spinner.
alchurch8 says
Ty for the great websites both of them helped me cause i hate word jong not that good of a speller but i learned some new words tonight. Ty for all the tips this is normaly the 1st thing i go to on Wednsday nite to read the tips how to get the badges and they are great.
Grandma says
Hello everyone. Can’t believe the difference in the badges from one week to another. Don’t really have any complaints on any of them. If I like them, I play them, if I don’t like them, I don’t play them. Simple as that.
Would like to thank NLinda comment #32 for the helpful site for Work Jong. If you are having difficulty doing that badge, I would also reccommend using it.
MsTish5720 says
GM ALL N GL w/ all badges!
For Trish, #39, I believe those gold pins are totally random. I bowl every morning with a group of about 10 of us that are close. I’ve gotten all the Gold Pin badges, which one badge took me about 3 months, I had to keep re-activating it, due to running out of days to get it. I consider myself an average bowler and make my (at least) 150, for the jps. Sometimes, I’ll bowl over a 200 and those goldies are totally random and have nothing to do with your bowling ability nor your score. Some players advise changing rooms every so often, but I, personally, just stay in my regular room until I get the desired badge. If this helps at all, try to aim between the head pin and either the left or right pin beside it, you can use your mouse to left or right click to aim the ball where you want it to go. Also, I look at the floor, the wood between the 2 desired pins and aim for that, or head for the head pin and left or right click at the very last moment, when the screen shot changes and shows your throw much closer. Also, pls try to remember that accuracy is more important than speed. Best of luck to you and hope this helps. GB, Carol C.
heart says
I thought badges were nice again this week. I enjoy some easy ones for me so I can work on ranks.
#3 9 I believe they are random. bowling tip I found
HOW I BOWL
1. THROW THE BALL SLOW
2. START IN THE CENTER OF THE ALLEY
3. AIM INBETWEEN THE 1 AND 2 PIN
4. AT THE END CLICK RIGHT AND HOLD IT.
GOOD LUCK
Does anyone have any tips on dice derby. I have a couple to do and find them not wanting to be gotten, stubborn little things:).
Lura says
heart: if you need tips on Dice Derby, try using the search box to the right. I’m pretty sure there are a ton of tips in the archives. If you don’t find help there, feel free to ask about it on the weekend open thread. 🙂
cnaten says
It was nice to have a couple easy and fast badges this week because we have a couple of long long badges next week. I really hate when we are asked for 100 of anything for a badge. Next week both badges require 100. I can see I’m not going to be able to complete next week badges without a miracle happening. This means playing 200 games to try to win the 100 needed. I’m also very sad that they fix poppit I just heard about it and now it’s gone.
Does anyone know what happened to the 10000 tokens that Yahoo was giving out weekly? That too is gone. Oh well enjoy the badges this week.
cnaten says
P.S. I couldn’t find any helpful hints for Dice Derby I too need help on getting a couple of the badges I have tried many many times and have been unable to get the badge before time ran out. Any help is greatly appreciated
mspatmac says
Trish, #39 we should play together on the gold pins. I have been trying forever to get the 4 gold pins in 2 hours so if you think 5 in 7 days is tough, try this one LOL! I need it to close an old m&m album, but I am determined. I know I am preaching to the choir, but another badge that depend on the “pogo god” ugh. I’ll sure do the happy dance once I get it done.
And MsTish, #46, I have been changing rooms, especially if I get a silver pin early because I know I won’t get a gold, but am going to try your way and stay in the same room. Hopefully it will work for me too. Thanks for the tip.
Happy day all
MomsBassetHound says
The Yahoo promotion ended April 30th.
Suz
jaredph says
Hi everyone!
Wordjong: Good tip Linda! (#32) There are also many anagrams solvers online that help. I use this one:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/anagramsolver.htm
It doesn’t support wild tiles, but it does help. If you find a six-letter word and you have a wild tile, using a wild tile as the “s” at the end of the word almost always works. Also, look for words that end in -s, -ed, -er, -ers, -ing, etc.
Poppit: I know many of you are sad that the glitch is gone (it only took pogo years to figure it out hehe), but the badge doesn’t take as long as it would seem, especially since the two challenges for this week are short. Each game you get up to 15 prizes, so if you click fast enough, it can be done in about 2-3 hours.
Good luck everyone!
jaredph
Trish says
TYSM MsTish #46 and Heart #47 for the BOWLING adivce. Gonna try it. Wish me luck….lol. As always….Thank YOU Lura for the best site around!!!!
Cindy4764 says
Well, the challenges may not have been much of a challenge this week but that darned Ali Baba badge was pretty frustrating. Four different rooms and five Spin to Win spins just to get a measly 100 tokies – 15, 50, 15, 15, 50. LOL!
I like word games and though Word Jong isn’t my favorite, it really didn’t take too long. Save the wild tiles towards the end, use your Ss wisely and don’t forget the INGs and EDs etc. I’ll be working the rest of the week on finishing up some MnMs and PBAs.
BTW, Lura, while I’m here I’ll just say I’m very much enjoying looking at that Robin Hood ad in the upper R corner, lol. I’m a huge Russell Crowe fan and will be seeing that movie next week. 🙂
Frank says
Cindy4764 #55. I got 50 tokens within four minutes and thought, “WOW! This will be easy.” Then for over 20 minutes, I ended up getting the spin-to-win two more times. I also got the 15 token and *finally* at the end I got 500 tokens. Too bad there wasn’t a reserve to put all that extra token accumulation into.
Amanda says
How is everyone getting the spin to win? I have played over an hour and never got a spin to win yet
NLinda says
I’m glad some of you found Anagram Artist to be of help in Word Jong, I’ve been using it for a few years now and don’t know what I’d do without it on some word games!
Thank you to all that have posted tips and helpful sites!
MomsBassetHound says
Amanda #57 – It’s just luck. I find it easier to just click away while watching TV. Good Luck!!
Suz
sog says
Amanda #57 – slots, so I didnt read ‘how to’ , but I saw that if you get a “lamp” as in alladin’s lamp, you get the ‘spin to win’. And all thet really is, is that Genie pulls the lever for you so you don’t have to. It continues to play until any hit is made. Then you take over again, and have to pull ever yourself or click on one of the two ‘bet’ buttons.
I havent seen any reason to think a person would hit big tho, bc it’s still just regular spins. A friend got it on her first spin!, got a lamp, then it spun to 500.
As far as genies go, Barbara Eden still works for me, lol
Cyrabi says
Hi all. Both my weeklies are done. For Ali Baba just keep spinning until the magic lamp stops on the line then hope you get something good. When I did the challenge I got 15 most of the time. For Wordjong save your wilds and hit the New Tiles button if you get stuck near the end.
Jennifer says
Hello ev1! Both of the badges are done. It took me about 5 minutes to get the Ali Baba Slots badge, guess it was just luck. Word Jong was not a hard as I thought it would be. Not that good in that game, but did pretty good. Amanda #57:Sog #60 is right. You have to spin until you get a lamp on the last reel. I got my badge with 3 red rubies,which is 500.I am ranked out in that game, and even the genies were hard to come by. Trying to the do the same for Monopoly Slots. Good luck on the badges and have a great evening ev1 and take care.
penguin says
if any1 needs help with wordjong think of words like REHEATS anything that has RE at the start and S at the end is really easy to do!
the only think that chitted me was that word jong took 1hour to load.
gl with the badges
mersea says
trish #39 & mspatmac #51 – hints on the Bowling Gold Pins Badges,
(1) bowl in a room by yourself in a fast room so you don’t have to wait on others;
(2) don’t start the badge until you get a gold pin showing, if a Siver Pin shows, change rooms;
(3) activate the badge before u bowl toward the Gold Pin (be sure the the activations show in your chat area);
(4) don’t worry about strikes, go for the Gold Pin;
(5) change rooms once that frame ends & only stay in a room if the 1st or 2nd frame or 8th or 9th … if not in those frames, change rooms again …you don’t want to bowl unnecessary frames … good luck