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Released: Daily Hot Shots

Daily Hot ShotsPogo has released Daily Hot Shots. You can get to it by adding it to your favorites, or using this link.

Today starts the first round, you will dress a mini up and enter him or her in a photo shoot. Tomorrow, the voting begins! If your fellow Pogo members give your mini enough votes, you’ll win a mini item. If you don’t, you’ll win tokens. You’ll earn tokens for voting too (the more votes you place the more tokens you’ll earn), so it’s a good daily diversion for token hounds.

Feel free to discuss this new feature in the comments.

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  1. Well, this is what we get. A silly little game that takes maybe 5 minutes to complete. Personally I want more than this. How long has it been since we really had a new game, yet pogo on facebook keeps getting more and more as do non club members. Pogo is going to start losing members if we dont get something soon and it doesnt look like anything is in the works. Am I the only one that feels this way? Is any one else unhappy about the way things are going? I hate to start the morning like this, but we need something better, pogo.

    Thanks for letting me rant .

    jum

    • I am happy to provide an outlet for your opinions on Daily Hot Shots, but please let’s not let the comments here devolve into an all-out gripe-fest about Facebook and iPhones and non-Club members stealing our benefits. Save that for your letter to the editor: editor@ea.com. 🙂

      With that said… jummmy I know you’re not alone in your feelings, which is why I feel it necessary to post the request above. Your sentiments are echoed across many, many threads on this site and trust me, your voices are being heard, but not by the right people. Consider writing a letter (or more than one!) to the editor and let Pogo know how you feel. Griping here is only going to incite more anger and frustration and fall on ears of those who can’t do a thing about it at this point.

  2. hi e1
    Well, this is not a game in the sense of what I think of a game, this is dress up a mini, there is no chat, your friends do not know you are even in there creating something, and speaking of creating something, it is sooooo limited on options to choose from (I wanted to run to my mini closet!) it is a strange little game if you can call it that. I think there could be alot of redundancy on what is chosen but time will tell on that. I will have to see how this goes regarding the voting, awards if you win, and even on voting everyday on a fav, it could be very time consuming if we have to wait on loading these minis to vote for however many tokens and is there only one popular winner daily? There are no goodies either and right now there is a “coming soon”on the caption area.
    right now thumbs down from me and disappointed (I think if I could just chat in there it would raise it a bit but now you are stuck in a very limited closet by yourself).
    pogo could have done alot better on a supposed “new game”.
    Also, just a thought is this just a way to get people aware of items that oooooo I need that! so they will purchase it for their mini? I say this bc there are some gem items in there to dress the model. So, instead of a game, it is in fact just a marketing scheme, idk. I know pogo is a business but new game, come on, bring it! 🙂

    hagd e1
    gracie 🙂

  3. I’ve been testing this on the beta site, and I actually look forward to it every day. I think it’s a fun game where you can see how others have dressed their minis, and get some tokens while you’re at it; glad they finally released it 🙂

  4. I did not enjoy doing this one bit…..my own mini NEVER gets changed and now they want me to do another mini and every single day….prob will not be happening. I think it is going to be the people that do the mini contests that are going to enjoy this. I did my first and prob last mini contest yesterday. I did not enjoy it and a lot of the people in the contest kinda reminded me of vultures that were pecking away at the judge to be noticed. I knew it would be like that but in all honesty it was way worse than I even imagined. There were other BH names I recognized and they were NOT behaving in that manner. I think this “game” is going to appeal to very few people IMHO.

  5. Gracie #3 you are soooooo right. Only in the minds of pogo’s marketing department does it make sense to spend hard earned gems on mini items in order to win tokens and/or mini items. LOL

    People will fall for it and participate and pogo will declare it a great success. Boycotting this silliness would send a message but it won’t happen.

  6. Okay, I tried it, and the results are……disappointing. As mentioned above, the options are so limited and for now you cannot add a caption, which would greatly contribute! But what I find even stranger is that Pogo has so many options for skin tone, eye color, hair color for your personal mini, yet this game has has none. Poor Pogo has been too influenced by the high fashion modeling world. Your model is limited to being white and blonde or African-American and dark-headed —- that’s it. Kinda hard to be inventive or creative here.

  7. I think it’s a neat little side game. It will probably be more enticing once it is all off the ground and running. I can’t believe Pogo’s Coming Soon was so soon this time, what a surprise:) Maybe they should have waited a few more days so to add the caption options and all the bells and whistles. But on the other hand it’s like they didn’t want to keep us waiting and went ahead with it. It seems more like a new feature than a new game really, but it looks like it will be something fun and different. Have fun everyone and Good Luck to all that enter!:)

  9. This game isn’t interesting to me. I’ve been disappointed a lot lately but still like many of the things that remain untouched on Pogo.

  10. I gave it a try and submitted a picture for the photoshoot. I have no creativity so I don’t expect to win.

    #7 PlatoPluto3-Hmm…that is strange about the models. I had alot of different options of models with all different skin tones, hair color and expressions. Did you have the option to scroll over? Sometimes my scroll over function on pogo doesn’t work in my premium albums and that is why I was asking.

    While I do think pogo needs to develop some additional games, this game does make sense for the site. It will fit nicely in with the niche group of people that like mini contests. I can see a day where mini contests as we know them now are either gone or held only a couple of times year. This way would be alot less work for the pogo people and will eliminate some of the criticisms of judges not getting to a room and the same players always winning because they are the judges favorites. Plus, theoretically more people will be able to play because they can enter whenever they have time rather than having to be at a set room at a certain time. However, once the newness wears off, if there are only a few people playing, you can see this developing into a popularity contest which could get ugly again. I guess it all depends on how pogo manages it.

    Will the voting be a blind voting – meaning will our screen names appear next to the picture we submitted?

  11. Plato #7 – When you chose your person did you use the arrows at the bottom? It gave me a bunch of choices and my hair color depended on what I had on my “real” mini.

    And using the gem items for free could cut down on their sales. You could use all the gem items available and still not get enough votes to win a mini item. If that happened there wouldn’t be much incentive for buying those gem items.

    Suz

  12. i went through and made a mini. i also found it really limited and my creativeness was put on a leash. as much as im a token hound.. this will not be a place i go searching for them. its flash based and takes forever to put anything on them for clothes,… but i gave it a “shot”… LOL… and found it to be as much a “groaner” as that pun i just fired out. have a great day all. 🙂

  13. i agree with what we spend on club membership we should get more ranks on old games and new games for members come on pogo if you want our money and want us to buy gems then give us games to be happy to play or we will go elsewhere

  14. I really enjoy dressing up my mini (probably that whole stuck at home looking for work thing) so I was pretty excited about this. I never seem to get into any of the Mini contest rooms, so I figured this is my chance. I am disappointed that you can’t use your own closet, but maybe that is to level the playing field – though it seems it would just limit and make a lot of copied Minis. I hope the caption option does come live soon, I feel like I need that to express what I’m trying to do. I will give it a week and see how it goes.

  16. Thanks Moms,
    I didn’t see a scroll over option so will look more closely. I just tried to re-check, but once you complete it will not let you go back into the dressing options. I’ll look more closely tomorrow! I thought I was stuick with just 3 options – 2 of whom were blondes! Hah!

  17. i dressed a mini even though the choice was so limited. will try the voting tomorrow and see what happens. i doubt this will be something i remember to do every day as it doesn’t seem very interesting. i would certainly rather have had a new game rather than this. time will tell if this is entertaining enough to keep me coming back.

  18. I just entered and was not happy that I could not see the complete screen. I refuse to change my resolution or will not be able to see to play other games. I found it pretty basic and not much fun at all..lol. I see there is a place to put a caption but could not reach it with my mouse. Anyone else have this problem. My resolution is set at 1152X864 on a 17″ square flat panel monitor. Only time I change it is to keep me from going blind during the Poppit challenges then it goes to 1024×768

  19. Big disappointment..I enter my mini in the mini contest 3 days a week and still do not win.Its usually the same ppl to win over and over so this wont be any diff..What is the purpose? All the judges that judge the weekly mini contests have their favorites chosen before they even enter the room..Why try this one? Waste of time and gems!

  20. Well, I can only echo many thoughts & feelings already expressed here, so if more options, choices & comment box are not there soon, it’s not interesting enough to bother with.
    I’m also extremely curious if screennames will be shown for judgung, If so, it’s just another ‘how many friends do YOU have’ popularity contest.
    I’ll see how the judging phase goes tomorrow.
    Bottom line is without several improvements, not worth my time.

    P.S…I don’t even know if the mini I made was submitted because a box came up when I clicked submit…don’t remember what it said, but from the wording, I was doubtful…?

    • Brenda: your screenname isn’t shown until after the voting has happened. You’re given a choice of two random minis and you choose one. After that, you will see the name of the player that created the mini. It’s possible you could ‘recognize’ a mini if you vote enough times and they start repeating, but with the number of players on Pogo it’s fairly unlikely. If you’re unsure if your mini was submitted, load the game again. It’ll tell you.

      One of the biggest problems with this game is the fact it doesn’t use our minis closets, but items that are currently available in the mall. There are only so many combinations of ‘yoga wear’ that one could choose and so originality is out the window. Even in testing with the small pool of testers, there were always one or two ‘typical’ looks you’d see repeated over and over and over.

      I have a couple theories on how to win this thing (you’ve got to get a score of over 7.0, which in testing was fairly difficult) but I’ll wait until after a few rounds of entries and judging before I share my ideas. I may be completely off about how it’ll work on the live site. 🙂

  21. It does NOT make you purchase a mini item with gems to use it in this game. So it costs you NOTHING to enter, no matter what you choose to use on the mini.

    Your regular mini will not change when you dress it for the game. Any gem items you use in the game will NOT show up in your closet since they don’t make you buy them to use them in the game.

    Suz

  22. My take on this is that it is not something I am interested in, so I will exercise my right to choose, and choose not to participate. I never feel that I have to participate in every option Pogo offers, ie: Facebook, I have not yet linked my account, but may at some future date. The thing is, Pogo cannot please everyone, and they are trying to include as wide a range of people that it can, and sometimes it seems that they’re damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.
    Good luck and have fun to everyone who has chosen to participate.

    Sharon

  23. I tried this, I was was not happy with what I had created so I just closed the window and re-opened it and it let me start over. Choices are limited and without a caption it’s lackluster. side note: I got an invitation from pogo spotlight to fill out their survey. They said they look for creative answers, so you mean like “lie” ha ha. I filled it out and sent it back w/pic, but I was honest and sincere with my answers!

  24. * #22 Lura * Thanks for the info. Glad to know name won’t be shown making it completely a ‘which mini you like better’ contest.
    Thanks also for info on my “was it submitted” curiosity. I’ll go check.
    Thanks so much to you, all your helpers & everyone, (well, almost everyone..lol), for the work you do to provide this site with all the necessary info ‘I’ can’t locate on my own. I always know I can count on Lura & her team 🙂 I THANK YOU ALL

  25. I went in too and made “my shot” not many choices added it to my favorites, and now it’s gone. Has it disappeared for anyone else as well??

  26. This is not my cup of tea..that being said, I went into a mini judging room once, and only once. It was like going into David’s Bridal for a $99.00 sale…So, I can see there is a want for others to participate. This, to me, is a niche game, and that is okay too. I love payday free cell, and know I am in a select group there. So, if this IS your cup of tea, enjoy it, and put your best imagination forward.

  27. Daily Hot Shots is down right now, so still don’t know if mini was submitted. I’ll have to try again later.
    Strange too though, it disappeared from my favorites, it’s not listed in all games & doesn’t show when I searched.
    The only way I could get there is through BH’s link! So, what’s new…lol

  28. Re: #11

    I was a beta tester on this game and when voting comes around you will see 2 mini’s and then you will choose the better one for that days background and after you vote then the names show up with the score they have at that time.

  31. I guess I was one of the unlucky one who played Hot Shots. It’s stupid. You’re all alone….no one to chat with. You have to dress a mini. Maybe I just don’t understand how it suppose to be played.

    Krista*

  32. I wasn’t one of the lucky ones to play the game, but in reading the comments, it seems like there are some mixed emotions about the newest addition.

    I think I can venture a guess as to why Pogo may have added a simple “game” like this one…If there is something I read a lot of in letters to the editor as well as in chat, is people not only LOVE Amazing Mini events, but there’s definitely Pogo users who want their Mini’s featured as Hot Shots in the Mini-Mall. Maybe this is a way to give those people the chance to really feature their minis, as limited as the options may be?

    It may not be what every user wants, but it seems that this type of “game” may appeal to a certain group of Pogo users…even if it may not be members of BadgeHungry.

    I think ultimately, not every game is going to be played by everyone. For example, I usually only play “Stack’Em” or “Harvest Mania” if its for a badge…and I usually do so begrudgingly. However, it is my choice to play them…and Pogo can only do so much to tailor things to my experience, because they have millions of other users they need to satisfy as well.

    I guess it helps me keep things in perspective, especially when they release a new game that I’m not necessarily fond of…

    …and maybe the Daily Hot Shots can just be something fun to do for a few minutes before I get into the nitty gritty of some of the other games that require more of my time…ya know?

  33. I tried this on Beta and I’m not surprised at all that it’s down. Most older machines regardless if you have the correct version of flash, java will overclock as it is very memory intensive and will halt a lot of systems. I logged this and submitted to Pogo so they could see the results in black and white but they pulled the game and released it anyway (well it’s not a game it’s playing with dolls basically, better yet anyone remember COLORFORMS lol) I have already fired off my letter to the editor who is the same as the person I fired off to on beta and it was still released so take that for what it’s worth.

  34. I was in the game this morning and added it to my favorites and when I came back in this eveing it was GONE!!! Personal I did not care for it at all when I did it this morning. And did one for my friend.. I am a club member and in my upper 60’s .. I wish pogo would give us more Adult games and give attention to some of the games that do not have ranks to them , like pool for example. But to each there own on this game.
    Thanks letting us talk about the new game…

  35. Hi all Still feel new here been on for a few weeks. ( im the one wanting the Air Force Dress Uniform ) I had a chance to look at the daily hot shots this morning. I wasnt impressed at all. I was hurt at work in september being home all the time I decided to enter pogos mini contest. I have won 1 each in sept, oct and nov.( Ty Batzz for pushing me after the 1st win) I find it kinda relaxing strees free working on a mini lol. Btw im was a Hardcore enlisted Military ( thats why I want the AiForce mini ) State and federal Corrections officer. So I like the 3 times a week contest they have. It takes time and creativity. This new hot shots seems like a kids doll dress up. At least what I got to see today.

  37. To be honest this is NOT fun.
    From the 5minutes I played it (when it was up) it felt like an old school 2000 browser game that I wanted to shut down after 30 seconds.

    This is not really a “game” in the Pogo world. It’s merely an “easy route” to release something new.

    PS. we haven’t gotten a Club Pogo game (that was actually worth more than a weeks worth of playing) in a long time… so IMO Jummy is 100% correct. And the letter to the editor just makes up excuses as to why there hasn’t been a new game…excuses= no success for Pogo= they shut down. Think that’s the path they want to head now.

  38. @E
    You bring up false points. Most of the 1 million players are either facebook or Freebies now, because the benefits have DRAMATICALLY decreased overtime!
    (Notice how the Did you know never says they have millions of subscribed users anymore.. because it’s not true)
    A game like this shouldn’t have been made.. this won’t help anyone get in the hotshots.. this is merely for the mini dress up addicts and trust me there may be a lot but not enough to actually make a game over.
    Let alone this game don’t even have badges to work towards making it seem like a lazier project.

  40. well im gonna be totally honest here, i havent had the chance to even see the game or try the game, wasnt in a hurry to try it and as all of you here know im a mini queen and hotshot fanatic, but when i read the way and how it works parts and alot of the comments posted here I THINK now this is just my opinion, this is just a way or route for POGO to GIVE their PETS and BUDDIES, FREE POGO PERKS without them being accessable TO US ALL, because like some 1 said in post above, this could get UGLY if every one isnt given a mini item for winning and as it said only 1 will WIN and the winner will get an “EXCLUSIVE” mini item added to their closet, well yanno some people have TONS more friends to vote for them than others and then you just gonna run into the lil “CLICKS” or “GROUPES” that stick together and vote for each other, ETC, ETC, so best pogo can do is if one is given an item make it winnable for all the same item..better yet like some one said looks like pogo is not only going but about GONE and i think thats why they are MOVING ALL games to “SHIT FACE POGO BOOK” and i wonder if we are actually gonna have a pogo is a YEAR FROM NOW…SORRY BUT THAT JUST MY 2 CENTS AND WONDERS AND DOUBTS…like every one has said its been over a year i think or getting close to it since we have had a NICE GOOD game, so if they cant do better than what they have done, just add ranks and update the games you have to the MEMBERS (LOYAL MEMBERS) liking, and yes i know that cant plz every one but they could try and PLZ 1/2…oh well just my 2 cents im off the soap box, i was one those that didnt believe pogo would go “ALL” facebook but looks like they DONE went…..BIG HUGS to all boop

  41. Thanks for your opinions everyone. I’m closing this one because there’s no point in asking you to share your thoughts on something you can’t try yet. I might open this back up when Pogo puts the feature back online.

  42. Okay, it’s back up and this thread is open. A link to Daily Hot Shots is in the original post.

    Please review my comment #2 for posting guidelines. And please, do us all a favor and actually check out the “game” or “feature” or whatever you’d like to call it before you form an opinion. Take a few days if you need to. We’ll be here when you’re ready.

    Thanks to Brenda who wrote in with the news, saying “It still said ‘coming soon’ on Pogo’s homepage, but you can type it into search box & then add to favorites.” Yay!

  43. Picked up 3500 tokens for voting, and only took a couple of minutes.

    You do not see the Pogo ID before you vote, but it does show both names after you have voted. I voted for quite a few from BH 🙂

    Suz

  44. Well, I did my voting tonight. But I noticed that it stopped giving me the +so many tokens icon after awhile. Is there a limit?

    I created another mini for tomorrow by clicking on the mag button. Then I got the option to go back to voting. So, I did…but again, I didn’t get the +token icon. I don’t think it was registering my tokens, so I quit. (I didn’t take note of my starting and how much I was earning; I’ll do that tomorrow.)

    Where will the winner be posted or how will be know how many votes we got? I submitted one y’day for today’s voting, but I’m not sure if it took, since the game went down before I could go back and double-check.

    Thanks & GL,
    Plum~

  45. Plum #46 – I think the limit is 3500 tokens, and they don’t get added in until you leave the game.

    I saw a lot of names from BH when I was voting, but not yours. I saw Holly’s when I was voting on my acct, but never saw mine when I was voting for Holly. So maybe some of them got lost when the game was pulled, no way of knowing for sure.

    I didn’t see anything about how people would be notified, but can always check our closets and see if anything was added 🙂

    Suz

  47. #47 Moms:
    Mini must have gotten lost, oh well…better luck next time. GL with Holly’s & yours.

    I just went to it again, 11:30 pm ET. It’s gone from my Favorites, and it’s not listed for me to add it again.

    The Zen BG was one that was offered in the Mall. What happens if we already have it? (Too bad for us? LOL)

  48. Is it up and running yet? some people tried it today, but when I click on the above link it takes me to a page that say it is down still from yesterday. is there a better link since post 47 and 48 played it this afternoon.

    Thanks

  52. well, i tried it…there were 0 players listed after added to my favorites. ha! think i earned a whole 20 tokens w/ my votes. saw several that still had the robe on in the tattoo shop. did create a student mini, if create is the right word. no goodie catagory? so the front looks bare to me. won’t win, the catagory being “serious student”, something like that (this was a couple hrs ago now…). just seems futile and boring to me w/o the extras.

  53. Been waiting to post until I could try it, despite having a few preliminary feelings about this “game.” So, when I saw Lura’s note that it was back on, I rushed in to get a look before it closes down again (I suppose I should say “if” it closes down again… ;>)

    I know many people don’t have Pogo’s sound on, but I always do. The music for this game is very annoying and I ended up having to shut it off.

    After just a few votes, it seemed to get slower as it brought up the two competitors… Sadly, I used to think it was my machine, now I think it is what Pogo is doing to my machine.

    I did a bunch of votes… Unlike Moms #47, I did NOT see alot of names from BH, but I did end up voting for one name I knew: Sweet Holly Noelle !!! (Of course, only found out after the voting, as others have noted the names aren’t there when the pics first come up.) That was pretty exciting. I didn’t see you, Suz, or Plum (#50). But I got the distinct impression that I could have kept voting for hours…

    Does anyone have any idea how many entries you will be voting on? Does the game ever tell you that you have gone through them all? Has anyone gotten to the end of ALL the entrants? Because I got bored and stopped, especially once it stopped flashing the token amounts. (I start small, worked up to +350 I think, then it stopped showing + anything.)

    I ended up “winning” 3,545 tokens for voting. I have no idea if I could have earned more or if it had stopped adding them in.

    I made an entry for tomorrow’s voting. I was disappointed that you couldn’t change the face or hair color. I guess the hair color and face is based on the model you first choose? It will be interesting to see if the models change day-to-day.

    First impression: This is not a “game.” It might be a cute diversion, but I don’t think they even put in enough effort in the development to make it successful as that. It is so simplistic and unless people really want to sit there clicking through a ton of entries, how will people ever get enough votes? I ended up feeling guilty that I had left people unvoted for, but – really – how long was I supposed to sit there, not knowing when it would be over or if I were even still “winning” tokens? lol

    The options, I think, are too limited for the people who are really into the Hot Shots contests anyway. This hardly seems worth whatever time and effort Pogo put into it. Or it was rushed out too fast – which I think is a possibililty because I think they wanted to shut down the “there’s no new games” complaint. Don’t think they succeeded. lol

    JMO.

    ~Shel

  54. I’m gonna be the first to say I like the idea of Daily Hot Shots. Good job Pogo. 🙂

    I’ll be submitting a mini every day, once the kinks are worked out.

  55. This is so odd, you don’t know when to play or what. Today when I opened it from the BH link, ( because it wasn’t in my favorites anymore) the game went straight to voting. I did’t realize till I clicked on view magazine or whatever it was that I could enter again. Guess I missed the second day of entering. But not to worry, as long as I could take it 😉 I voted for everyone still. Yes you get tokens for voting as “Suz” stated, but you can vote after that also (just no more tokens). I just wish there was more explanation as to “When” you can enter. Not just this but it seems a lot is unsaid or undone and the game was released on a push out the door just to get it out to everyone. Nice easy tokens and idea with the game but it just leaves so many gaming questions hanging. Pogo needs to put the ? up so we can see the ins and outs and questions of “How to play”.

  56. Hi. My Name is Luckysupermom. I tried the Daily Shots and entered yesterday. Game would be much better if we could dress the mini like our own with goodies and so on. But, when I went to sign onto to play, I found out I got over 7.0 points and won the background and tokens.
    Is that good? I don’t know. Anyhow, I entered today again. One question though. After you do the voting, how do you know how many tokens you won? I hope Pogo tweaks this game and makes it better.

  57. Hey, they now have different minis to choose from by clicking arrow at right side. So, looks like some kinks are being worked out. Hopefully, we’ll get goodies & add caption option soon too.
    Voting tokens stopped at 3600, though it doesn’t tell you, just stops adding them, but voting can continue.
    It kept recycling several of the same minis, though I think more people probably entered than the ones shown to me…??? Curious.
    OH, and Pogo_Bret was there! That was one I had voted for 😉
    Friday’s bg is Stonehenge.

  58. You get tokens for your first 40 votes…only a few for the first couple, but the last ones are 200, 400, and 500 (that’s from memory, so could be a 300 in there too). You get a total of 3500 tokens for voting, but they do not add into your token count until you leave the game. The same for the tokens you win from the previous days shoot, you get them when you leave the game. Just look at your token count before you leave and you will see it change when you go to the next page on Pogo.

    You can continue to vote after earning tokens if you wish. The minis are very random. I saw some 12 times last night and some only a few times.

    The reason you don’t see anyone in the game is b/c there are no game rooms. You go in by yourself and have no communication with anyone while you are voting or making your mini for the photo shoot for the next day.

    For about 15 minutes I got 3500 tokens plus what I made from the previous day, and made my mini for today. I’ll take those tokens for very little work 🙂

    Suz

  59. I wish a winner would post here so we know which bg will be won. Hope it’s not the bg of the day. Nice if we get to choose one we don’t already have. There have been no animated bg’s at this point. The only animation I have seen is in hair choice.
    *Suz #61 > I must have counted toks incorrectly, thought I got 3600, but 3500 seems to make more sense…LOL…not that that’s what Pogo is famous for 😉

    • I won yesterday. Or, well, from the day before. So far it’s been backgrounds only, and the one that was behind your hot shot in the scene. If I recall correctly, everything was a previous release that had been “retired”, but I’m not 100% sure because I don’t stay all that on top of the mini retirements.

  60. Hey, BIG CONGRATS on win, Lura 🙂
    So, I should stop buying all the bg’s since I probably have most they will use. I’m a mini idiot who continually says, “don’t do that any more”, and then I do! Oh well, I do worse things 😉 shhhh

    • Thanks Brenda! I would not change my background buying habits based on this feature. It’s easier to buy with tokens than to try to win each day.

  61. I really don’t consider this a game but rather rather an activity that I can choose to participate in or not. It is fun to see the creativity of people who are given the same items and see what they come up with. It’s like putting a bunch of Lego’s in front of a group of people. Some create something fantastic while others just a basic item.

    Using our own items would put some at a big disadvantage as many do not have the funds to purchase gems and therefore do not have some of the more spectacular items in the mall. While voting I was struck by the lack of effort in relationship to the theme by some while others hit it dead on.

    I too was a bit confused by the voting as it went on and on with no end in sight, so I stopped voting after about 15 minutes and that’s not fair to all the entries so I think Pogo needs to tweak the voting. I did like the tokens though. I did not see Holly or anyone else I recognized, including my entry. I also don’t understand how one is awarded a score for voting to get the extra items. Does it include your entry?

    I entered the regular mini contest and the room was a buzz with excitement from those that enter these contests on a regular basis, which I do not. Many in the room were friends and were trying to figure out how they could vote for each other, and were really on board with the whole idea.

    Like many new things, I’m sure it will be improved, especially with all the feedback Pogo will receive. Should Pogo have waited until it was perfect, probably, especially allowing captions, and better explanations.

    So enjoy if it’s your thing, and if not, just ignore it. I’m kind of taking a wait and see attitude until the bugs are worked out. I will vote because I enjoy looking at people’s creativity and will enter now and then if the theme appeals to me. Just more choices for us Pogo players, do went want to participate or not? It’s up to us as always.

  62. Update: Went back and spent some more time voting and I saw so many friends this time around. You all did a great job and I actually voted for you without knowing who you were. I voted for mine and didn’t realize it was mine until I had voted.

    Didn’t get any more tokens of course, but it became fun looking for people I knew.

    Congrats on your win Lura

  63. Did anyone notice the nude topped avatars in the “Daily Hot Shots” for judging today? As I was voting today, ever so often there would be a nude topped avatar! How wild is that!!

  65. Well, if you think of this not as a game but as a harmless diversion, it can be kinda cute. Great for when you only have a few minutes and can’t really get involved in one of Pogo’s games. And you get a few thousand tokens for just a few minutes’ time. To me, it’s just like doing the daily TP and CC when you have ranked out (which I have)…it’s meaningless, but ya get a boatload of (useless) tokens!! Today I saw a TON of BH peeps, plus my own mini hotshot popped up three times while I was voting! So have fun if it makes you smile and just ignore it if it doesn’t 🙂

  66. I have been monitoring and using this site for past month thanx to a fellowess pogonian. I love it. Okay, in regards to “Hot Shots” I have participated in 3 challanges and have voted as well even past the point of receiving tokens. I have not seen my mini entry appear. Are we not allowed to vote for ourselves? Thank You for any comments received. Monica aka norweginrose

  67. Popping in with a daily report here. lol

    First a tip: When you are first creating your model, please note that there are 6 tabs along the top that you can and should be clicking on to get other options for your minis.

    I would think that by now, especially with having to vote before creating, people would have figured that out. But I am still seeing a TON of models still stuck in the plain white robe.

    Which leads me to my next suggestion for Pogo – We need a “no vote” category. Nothing burns me more than to see two pictures of “models” in just the white robe. Duh. lol And obviously some people are just going for “prettiest model” which is fine of course. But I prefer not to vote for those either, but rather ones that look a bit like the theme for the day.

    Anyone play enough to figure out how the voting actually works? Creating ends at the same time for everyone. Voting starts at the same time for everyone. So, why are scores sooooo different? I have run across some that are nearly tied at high amounts (5 or 6s), then others who have nearly no points (2s or 3s). Shouldn’t the law of averages say they have an equal chance of being seen? Or maybe it is that they are always shuffled, and don’t appear against the same competitor on anyone’s screen? Maybe I’m starting to answer my own question. lol

    I again saw only a few Pogoites today and I have been clicking until I started to doze off. lolllll I saw (& coincidentally voted for) psalm, sassyb & jummmy. I again never saw myself. I didn’t seem to get as many duplicates at the other 2 days, but once they started, it then really seems silly to keep sitting there clicking.

    Except…..each time I was about to call it a day, there were some really good ones showing up! I hate to think I would have never seen those at all. And how many good ones did I miss seeing by stopping now?

    I think Pogo needs to think about how to tweak the game/voting, etc. I’m thinking the random thing might have more to do with someone getting alot of votes than anything else. What happens if randomly your mini just never shows up? lol

    ~Shel

  68. Monica #72 – If your mini happens to come up during the random voting you can vote for it. I have seen mine 2 of the 3 days that I have voted, but only once each time. I have seen other mini 6 or more times.

    Like Shel I would like a no vote button. I actually tried leaving the game and when I went back in I had the same 2 in the white robes. If you can’t be bothered dressing the mini why enter at all????

    I also go for the mini that follow the theme. I had 2 yesterday chopping veggies in front of the university, a few in bathing suits, and some dressed as a turkey. What did that have to do with the theme?
    And if they come up together you have to vote for 1 of them.

    Shel #73 – I also noticed that I had pairs of “low vote numbers” and “high vote numbers”. Maybe the “random” pairing has something to do with the score at the time. There is an article on the game on the Pogo News but didn’t get much more info that I had from playing the game.

    I don’t care if I ever win b/c if I had liked the background I would have purchased it. But lots of tokies for a small amount of time 🙂

    Suz

  69. I didn’t realize it, of course until after I clicked, but I just voted for HollyNoellelBHnd today! woohooo And at that time she had a score of 7.1, I believe. She was playing dress-up in her Mom’s clothes. lol

    In these first two days of my participating, I have only seen a couple from BH and never my own mini. I have had lots of repeat names pop up and I have been clicking way past the point when I receive tokens.

    Have fun everyone.

  70. It is an unfair game because some minis never show up at all. I used 6 accounts voting and never saw my daughters mini at all and i also had a lot of repeat minis in each game

  71. I agree with sheljin on many points re: “Hot Shots”….What I have noticed are individuals @ the beginning of voting that they sow a score of “10” and this is @ midnight when I can’t sleep. So does that mean score are cumulative? but does not make sence. I have yet to see my “mini” and I have played most of today. While this is a very simple game so to speak..POGO needs to put up a “how to play”, with rules, ect. Every on have a great weekend……Monica

  72. Here is how much I’m addicted to Pogo: Even a game that I believe is NOT a game and that I really don’t even like that much, is limited and is really pretty boring, has kinda grabbed my attention and I keep wanting to investigate further!! lolllll

    So I am in voting on the San Francisco minis now. Suz or anyone: Do you remember what the category called for when we created them yesterday? I thought it was something about movement or cars, but really am drawing a blank. (I hate that the game doesn’t allow us to go back to see our own entries.) Anyway, now it is simply saying, “Who looks the most like a local San Franciscan?” I absolutely don’t remember that being the theme for today.

    What’s everyone think?

    I need to correct something from my post #73 – I meant I really don’t see many BHers, not Pogoites. They are all Pogoites. lol

    I also want to say with the voting problem, it is not just on the negative side (wanting to vote “no” to both). I also wish there was some way to vote FOR both sometimes. I hate choosing between two really good ones – hardly seems fair that way either. lol

    I doubt they will change from the head-to-head way of voting. But I’m thinking a better way might be to be able to see a page at a time, and vote for, say, your top 10 or 20, to earn your allotment of votes for the day. Or something like that. Just typing off the top of my fingers here. lol

    ~Shel ;>

  73. Sunday report:

    1) No BHers seen despite voting way past my token receipts and stopping & starting 3 separate times.

    2) No duplicates that I noticed. Sometimes I see what looks to be the exact same mini, but the screen name IS different.

    3) Another wish: Wish they had a brown-haired model who ISN’T winking.

    4) For 2nd day in a row, my total tokens earned were 3,540. What a strange number. lol This did not include my “vote winnings” which were 500 tokens yesterday and 1000 today.

    5) Saw 2 people with a score of 8.0 for the first time today. May have happened before, but this is the first day I noticed it.

    ~Shel ;>

  74. Shel – When they give us the background to make our mini they really don’t say exactly what they are looking for. It’s only after we start to vote that it says what they are really looking for. It’s kinda like the “real” mini contest……you have to guess at what the judges are looking for.

    I was hoping that if you won you would get something special, but all you get is the background used for that photo shoot. Holly managed to win yesterday (thank you everyone) and got the background as her prize.

    The first few days I saw lots of names from BH, but haven’t seen anyone I know the last 2 days. I think that more people are entering now that they aren’t taking the game down every few hours 🙂

    Suz

  75. my question and it may have been answered, but when you win the background,, where do you find it.. i looked and didnt see it in awarded items or backgrounds.. thanks for all your help

  76. I actually got over the required 7.0 on one of my photoshoots …the san francisco one…butdidnt receive the badge Pogo said you would get for it…has nayone been rewarded when receiving over 7.0 on the photoshots??/thanks

  77. Beyechonjr #81 – You find it under “All my item”….that link is on the main mini mall page under quick links.

    maxit1331 #82 – You do NOT get a badge, you win the background from that day’s photo shoot.

    Suz

  78. I would also like to be able to not vote for either mini. I’ve quite often been given the choice between two basic models in a bathrobe. This strikes me as little or no effort and I would prefer not to give either a vote in this case.

    Does anyone know what happens if you score a 7.0 or better and you already have the background? I already have most of the backgrounds that have been featured. It’s not a problem yet as I have not scored that high. I have seen my mini while voting and is has been above 7.0 but it is always below 7.0 by the end of voting.

  79. badlokii — I wonder about the voting, period. I was voting early (for me) last night and I could not believe how many of the two-person contests were votes of 10 vs 0. 10??? First time I have seen anything NEAR that amount and so early on? I am thinking when someone doesn’t vote for you, it subtracts something?

    Anyway, I’m going back in a few minutes. Will let you know if I see anything different again. I didn’t do all my voting last night so going to head in there now.

    Suz #80 – I agree that the game being up consistently *might* have something to do with there being more people playing. lol

    ~Shel ;>

  82. You can’t vote for your own mini unless it happens to come up in the random rotation. I haven’t seen mine since the first few days, but someone is voting on them b/c I won the background. Holly has won the background 2 days in a row now.

    You just have to vote on the minis that are shown.

    Suz

  83. Hi Suz,

    I didnt get the background either…has anyone gotten a background for scoring over 7.0??

    It would be nice if Pogo had new backgrounds to give us…like Suz and many of us..I have already bought a lot of backgrounds for my Mini…but I didnt buy the San Fran one and still dont have it..

  84. Thank you Shel and whoever voted for my mini…lol.

    I have seen a lot of BH’ers and pogo ppl I know. If after voting, I see a name I know, I keep going and hopefully it’ll show up again and hopefully i’ll remember what it was wearing…voted for HollyNoelle couple times and moms and pastorpapabear and forget who else.

    I tend to wake up in the middle of the night and i’ll go vote and that’s when I see minis with a 10 ALREADY…wow, how does that happen?

    Only saw mine once…
    I agree on the white robe, but if there are two white robes, i’ll vote for something that they put on, glasses, etc.

    I got 1 background, 2000, 1000, 500 tokens, but in the voting, mine never goes past 500..stops right there.

    I think it’s a cute diversion if you don’t want to get all involved in a game way past midnight…lol.
    luvs,V

  85. Yes, the backgrounds that Holly & I have won are showing in my closets, under backgrounds, and also under the “All my Items” tab.

    Suz

  86. hi every1 in mini-shots! good luck! i make it a habit 2 go & vote 2x’s 4 an hour each i c a lotta ppl who read the shot, but there r a lot w just
    robes on. r u all reading the shot correctly? dont know what the mini prize is i never scored above an 8, but i’ve gotten tokens A LOT ty every1 who voted 4 me !!!!!!!! stay cool & have a gr8 holiday !!!!!!
    luv ya all…………………………………………………b

  88. hi lura:
    i read some of the messages & i think ppl have this wrong.
    as i c it, it is not a game. just a chance 2 win tokens or a mini item.
    ( if u get enough votes ) & i’m happy 2 say i received loads-o-tokens
    & i make it a point 2 vote 2x daily 4 about an hour each x. so good
    luck 2 all who get mini items ( i hope i get 1 ) & by the way its not
    boring i find it fun 2 vote 4 pogoplayers…………………………………….
    happy holidays 2 every1 in pogoland ……………………………………….
    bj

  89. sassy: The 10 point grading scale is basically the percent of the time the mini has been voted for when it has been shown, divided by 10.

    I started voting one day just after midnight, and I saw nothing but 10’s and 0’s to start, and then toward the end I saw a few 5’s (1 vote out of 2) and 6.6’s (2 votes out of 3).

    The tokens seem to stop once I hit about 6000 aggregate tokens.

  90. have won too. Like bj said it’s just a way to get tokens. Also it is fun , though limited, to make a mini for others to see. My only down side is that there is not enough choices to make many different minis for us to vote on. I see the same mini quite a few times. In closing, it’s a OK thing to get tokens for.

  91. Shel (#85) – Maybe they have a 10 simply because it is early on in the voting? If the mini is in theme, and it has only been up against one or two other minis, then it would be a 10. I am guessing everyone starts out with a 10 or a 0 (after the first match up.)

    Just a thought.

  92. GM BHERS! and GL with all your badges!
    Wow! All the complaining here about players not wanting to play this, yet, I can’t imagine how many have entered, I know, it’s just a personal choice. Spent over 2 hours Sunday voting, haven’t seen me yet, but, that’s ok. The only player I saw and voted for is adelbriges, LOL, ss, but can’t remember her correct spelling. I’m lovin’ it! I just wish players would stick to the subject. Really fries my butt when i see that God-awful robe, over and over!! Hopefully, I’ll be up against one to vote for! LOL! Don’t players get it?? All the bikinis and gowns at a football game?? Aye, aye……I don’t mean to hurt any1’s feelings at all, just my opinion. Well, back to voting. Glad I came here and saw the 40k free tokens, too! Hagd all and God bless, Carol C.

  93. Bill #95 and Jenni #97 – I believe you are both quite correct. In voting daily, I am definitely seeing higher scores, i.e. 8s and 9s, etc. early in the voting, decreasing as the voting progresses. I have also been paying close attention to the screen names and, for me at least, I am seeing a lot of repeated minis in the voting cycles I’m in. IMHO It’s really luck as to whether you’ve dressed your mini to fulfill the requirements of the final caption and background, since you only find out after submitting it whether you made a good guess or not.

    I personally look at this as a quick and fun way to boost my token count every day. And that’s good enough for me.

  94. I really thought they (pogo) could never top a stupid game if you can call it that than Greenback Bayou. But NOW THEY DID with Daily hot shots.

  95. I agree with Cindy #99, it’s just a fast way to get 3500+ tokens each day. It takes less than 5 minutes to do the 40 votes needed to get the max tokens for voting and about another minute to dress the mini. I’ll spend 5 minutes a day for 25,000+ tokens a week 🙂

    And like I said before, don’t care if I win since I would have bought the background if I had really liked it.

    MsPatMac – I voted for your mini a few times the other day. Not sure what day it was, but you had the pink boots on.

    Suz

  96. I am still motivated by the tokkies to vote. I’m feeling a little demotivated about actually entering a mini unless it’s a background that I don’t already have. It would be nice to either have the choice of another background or the token value of the background if I already have it.

    I could also just stop buying backgrounds and try to win them in Hot Shots if Pogo doesn’t make any changes.

  97. I think this “game” is quick and easy for tokens and will be getting better too because we will eventually be able to add a caption to explain our outfits. I just read the interview in Pogo News about the lady, Sarah H. who designed the game. Pretty neat. I cant wait to see what other “features” they will add in the future, this could turn into a lot bigger thing than just click and go. Looks like they have a lot to build on. Hurry Pogo we wanna see it all! LOL

  98. Just something I’ve noticed but I don’t think they care if they are in theme. I see a bunch that aren’t even close to it or anything. People just enter it and don’t even bother changing the mini’s outfit or doing a thing to them. They leave them in the robe and hair they had. I think the odds of seeing yourself in the game would be low no matter what just because there are so many that probably do enter their mini each day. I haven’t seen my own yet at all any day since its gone live. While when I tested it in beta I did more often but there is less people there. And I would have the same issue in beta as well of seeing a few over and over again and not much other option. Sometimes they would be the ones in robes too. LOL But no matter I noticed right away in beta that it would be a great way for some tokens if you want them or need them.

  99. Look at it this way, though – for those who don’t like the new game. You can accumulate a lot of tokens in so little time by doing barely anything. It’s easier than playing Trivial Pursuit, even if the answers are right here.

  100. I got 5540 tokens today when I did the Hot Shots……and since I am a token maniac I will gladly do it everyday for that reason alone. I do try to stay on their theme topic when I enter I think thats the best way to get more votes, or at least that is the way I vote. Anyway its not that bad and as I said I do like the tokens. My puter doesnt exactly like the game as my cursor jumps all around but I do get through it maybe its the flash thats not doing right. Have a great day all and God BLess!

  101. Hello Everyone!

    I really like this game, I guess more for the FREE tokens…Its EASY!!

    Have a great day everyone!
    XOXO
    :0)

  102. Pogo shouldn’t give the user an outfit to select from. Instead, they should make the user provide clothing in their own mini mall closet. At least that way, people will whine a bunch more and — financially speaking — Pogo would get money from people buying premium gem items so *their* mini could be featured.

    But, yeah, I agree with Evil Queen above — a lot of it was just people selecting the first wardrobe item. There’s some travel theme going int effect (for tomorrow?) and I did my own commentary by dressing up a mini in a scantily-clad piece of animal skin. Too bad they didn’t have the frown facial feature. Take that, TSA!

  103. OK, you guys have piqued my interest … just went into Hot Shots and did a lot of voting, dressed a mini and kept clicking … but I seem to be missing something? I’m probably just blind, but am not seeing any names on any minis (have seen references to people “seeing” BHers & other friends … how?) and saying how many tokens they receive. Where do you see your total token count? Thanks in advance for any insight!

  104. Hi BHers,

    I don’t mind this at all. It is easy way for us tokenaholics to get tokens, and I think as the “game” (or whatever you call it) progresses with more mini options and the ability to add captions, it will get more interesting. I think it is good to not reveal the creator until after voting – just to keep us from stacking the deck. My evaluation is that this is a “poor man’s mini contest.” And how clever that the “Fashion Forward” badge album and this game become available at the same time… cross promotion anyone?

  105. Love the tokens and looking for friends, but will be happy when they have the caption option available. Today, all cheerleaders were 7+ and most football players the same, no brainer but I think some people are trying to be subtle and without a caption, it gets lost.

    I saw one mini dressed as a Viking and another as an Indian, creative for the theme but both scored very low.

  106. Agree with mspatmac #111 about the caption. I do think some things may get lost because not everyone could get it (such as the viking and indian for football) when there is no caption. I am sure once that is there to use it will be fun to see some of those very creative people and what they come up with.

  107. I have problems with the game loading slow and then it only gave me the oppsition to use only 6 items at the top such as eye wear,hair,top,coat,outfits such as costumes.Then it wouldn’t let me type anything in the box.Does anyone no how you can type in the box and any suggestion? Thank You very Much.

  108. The option for adding a caption has not been added to the game yet.
    It says “coming soon”

  109. bj #92-94 i agree with you. i hate to see those robes. and its not a game like some people seen to think. just a chance to win something.
    good luck to all having fun doing this. (i do)
    happy holidays to everyone with much love~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  110. Yes, I just went to to Daily Hots Shots, and I won the “kitchen” themed photoshoot with a 7.0 score. I was really excited to win (just the little things in Pogo make me happy…lol…)

    I also have seen many other BH’ers and it is nice to see them.
    I also agree that this game is fun when you don’t want to play a game.
    When DHS was first released I hated it, but now I really enjoy the fun and simplicity of it.

    GL to all who participate.

  111. Ok, I gave this game (or whatever it is) a try for a few days now, before giving my opinion, just as Lura asked us to do.
    All I can say…..Boring and meaningless!!!
    Ok, I’m getting a few tokens every day, but I don’t really need tokens. Ok I can win a background (I haven’t so far, just tokens) but nothing new, either I have it already or I can just go to the minimall and buy it.
    Minis are all the same, after voting for a while it gets boring to vote for “same mini” over and over again.
    Hope it gets better when they add the “say something” option.
    As someone said, it would be better if we could chose not to vote and skip to the next pair, all those minis in white robes…what’s the point? Even the nonesense minis (e.g. mini chopping veggies with a football background) are better because at least that person took a minute to pick an outfit for the mini.
    Pogo has the whole minimall for them to use, why can’t they use it all so we have more options of clothes to chose from? why aren’t they giving us goodies to chose for our screenshots or even pets?, goodies help a lot and could give us a bigger variety of minis.

  112. garcia17824 #116 congrats on that! It is fun to do I think.

    Nancy #113 It only has those options. It can be slow to load at times. Once you click on whichever option you should have a list of items under that section to pick from. The caption part isn’t ready to be used yet which is why you can’t use it.

  113. Hi everyone. I have play for the last 3 days but have only saw my mini 1 time, but I have won the backgrounds twice. Now, I have a question. What happens if you already have the background? Does Pogo give you the tokens the background originally costed? This game would be much better if we could dress the mini with things from our own closet…lol.

  114. hello there BH’s

    Yes I did play it, first time today [baby sitting doll]. It was very funny to do it. I have noticed something though, the right mini had higher points than the left one most of the times. I saw only 4 or 5 minis at the left having more points. I vote [mostly guessing which mini had the more points] the pretiest one or funnier.

    Dont remember any minis of fellow BH”s, it was my first time. So if did vote good luck to you, if i didnt i am sorry. Next time.

    michael

  115. hi evey1 in pogoland!
    1st i want 2 say, nice job! i got tokens again thanks 2 all who voted 4 me. next is confused, my friend said she won a background, but she didnt have it on her mini page so, bad-bad-bad pogo…………………..
    & a note on the 40,000 tokens DAILY —– RATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    POGO MADE BOO-BOO ON THAT 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    hugs & kisses 2 every1 good luck…………………………………bj…………

  116. luckysupermom 119
    hi, glad u won a background, but did u really get it?
    my friend won the airport background, but its not on her list of mini items. is pogo really giving these out?
    lol…………………………………………….bj

  117. Holly has won twice and has received both background. So yes, they are giving them out if you won.

    Suz

  118. I got the San Francisco background too. I clicked All My Items from the Mini Home page and it was right there.

    Michael #120 Glad you joined in and like it! Please don’t you (or anyone) feel badly if you don’t vote for fellow BHers – it is all anonymous anyway! I actually haven’t seen another BHer in days now. That part of the game is still very frustrating to me……not getting to see all (or more) of the minis in an easier/quicker fashion.

    ~Shel ;>

  119. bj #122 – Your friend could not have won the airport background b/c that is the one we are voting on today.

    Suz

  120. Well, I finally saw my own mini…1 time 🙂
    I won football bg & it was in closet immediately So glad it’s one, (of very few), I didn’t already have 🙂

    SCREAM…I can’t believe howwwww many are still in that *bleeeeep* robe, ridiculous!!! No matter what is opposite them, I vote for the other. Unfortunately, they sometimes have 2 robes against each other, so they get votes even if we don’t want to. That really needs to change. Hope Pogo adds a ‘skip’ or ‘no vote’ option…sooooon!
    Some still make no change at all, just standing there in blah white robe or just add glasses or flaming hair…really??? After all, not as of this takes the mind of a rocket scientist to figure out! Seeing that robe come up continually is a frustrating waste of time to me.
    So there, had my say… LOL 😉

    Hey, is ‘Baby Sit, Please’ the first time it actually gave a clue about the theme or just my first time to notice it?

    Curious if some are putting their heads together to increase chance of winning, such as, (ahem), “let’s all wear red hat”, no matter what theme may be.

    Have a beautiful rest of the week everyone, gope you enjoy family, friends, food, football, Pogo or whatever makes you smile 🙂
    Brenda♥

  122. Bj #122 We will see our winnings for the”airport” background tomorrow. If your friend has seen she has a 7.0 score or higher it doesn’t just add it to your closet, we have to wait till the voting day ends. Hope this helps;)

  123. Nessa-117..I couldn’t have said it better myself….Boring & Meaningless. I don’t need tokens bad enough to go through that boredom everyday.

  124. momsbassethound 125
    thanks 4 clearing that up i wz confused it wz the football background
    she won & yes later on she did get it in her minis SO kudos 2 pogo
    i’m SO SORRY I MADE THAT MISTAKE looking 4ward 2 another gr8 time on hot shots & voting 4 all players WTG 2 all who won ( i hope hope hope i win ) hehehe…………………………………………………………………..
    till 2morrow HAVE FUN & TC~~~~~~~~~~~ HUGS & SMOOCHES ~~
    BJ

  125. brenda 126
    I AM SITTING HERE LMAO u r soooooooooooo funnnnnnnny
    i cant express it better myself about the ROBE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    tc & good luck 2 u
    u made my day w ur comment WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!
    U ROCK GAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    bj~

  126. My (occasional) daily report: I think I missed one day of creating a mini, not even sure I remember which one it is at this point. Which brings me to the wish for the day: I wish they had waited to bring this out until the “album” feature was included. I would like to be able to flip thru and see what mini’s I have created so far.

    At this time, we’re into the final hours of voting on the airport background minis. I just created a babysitter mini. I again received the weird amount of 3540 tokens for the day’s voting. Seriously 3540? Anyone else documenting their exact amount received (not counting vote win tokens)?

    Brenda #126 – thanks for taking care of my daily gripe for me. Now I can just say “ditto!” lollll Also, very interesting idea you have about people perhaps getting together and saying “wear red hats” so we all know each other.

    I have to say, though, that red hats tend to be ones I vote against, so they won’t get votes by me that way. lol AND….does anyone really sit there voting for hours just to be sure to find their friends? Because, once again during my voting today, no BHers sighted. But I do wish everyone gl!

    ~Shel

  127. Just did my Daily Hot Shot – missed doing it yesterday. I think I saw one possible BHer name today and the other day I was able to vote for Plum & Badlokii – finally saw some BHers again!

    Today’s “shopping” background BEGS for the ability to put a caption in. Really wish Pogo had just waited to release the game with all the bells and whistles. I also get why they don’t want people to have an unfair advantage by using their own closets, but I think that items from the mini mall available to everyone – like different expressions – should be made available in the game too. Tired (already) of the limitations of the models they give us.

    ~Shel ;>

  128. I have been ‘playing’ the Hot Shots every day. Unfortunately, I have not won a background yet. I must say I have had it with the bathrobes, c’mon people, get creative! I found it particularly creepy with guys in bathrobes for the babysitting scenario. I think the caption option will add some interest and allow people to be more creative. It occurs often enough that the pair of minis are dressed exactly the same and a caption would certainly differentiate them.

    I do have a question, I have seen minis dressed in a wedding gown (totally inappropriate for the scenarios they appeared in, imho) , but I have not noticed it in the clothing options for daily hot shots. What am I missing?

  129. im just getting to enjoy this ist time didnt get much only a 2.5 but today got a 5.7 so im improving,even got 4,000 tokies.but i do agree travir with the bath robes.i just look at the bk ground and think how would i dress for that occasion.

  130. rabbit #135 — Are you saying you got 4000 tokens for your score?? Or total, after your voting?

    My voting token total always equals 3,540. Weird number, but there you are. I have gotten 2000 tokens as an award for my mini scoring in the 6.0 range.

    Travlr #134 – Totally fed up with the bathrobe people, especially when they get pitted against each other! Will have to check out the wedding dress question the next time I get to dress my model

    ~Shel

  131. #136 sheljin.that tokies for mini plus all the voting,but ive noticed you dont gain any more tokies after u get too + 400 on the voting bit

  132. I started off reading some of these posts first – then off I went to find the “Hot Shots” that this thread was dedicated to.
    Well – my observation… I can’t call it a “game” but it was a nice diversion to a rather boring badge that I need in an album (it’s taking forever and I hate slots!).
    I couldn’t get to do my own Hot Shot without voting for some first… which I did – some people had NO creativity. If it’s themed, you’d think that in order to get votes – they’d keep it THEMED! My first day was something to do with sports – I did see cheerleaders and football players… and then a lot of the dreaded bathrobes to which I was thinking…. “seriously????” and then bathing suits, turkeys to which I’m now saying out loud “You’ve GOT to be joking?!?!”
    When they come up together – I think Shel’s right… I want a “skip” button or a “neither”. If someone can’t follow a theme, I don’t want to vote for either of them!
    Today’s was more Thanksgiving oriented (barn oriented? LOL) still a lot of bathrobes…. it’s old already!
    I never saw the + everyone is talking about… but I was thinking about helping people out trying to get some people up that had good mini’s that weren’t “quite” up to a 6 that I thought should be! LOL

    I too, recognized some names that I’ve seen in here! WTG! (no bathrobes! LOL) I’ve also seen quite a few repeatedly. Don’t grasp that…

    I got 2000 tokens for voting and entering and was notified that I had a 5.6 on my entry. 🙁 (At least she wasn’t in the dreaded bathrobe! LOL) Hope to do better tomorrow.
    I’ll give it a “shot” when I remember and see what happens… you all are creative, if you pop up, I’m sure I’ll be voting for yours 😉

    I like the ‘break’ that this takes, tokens are nice (although relatively useless) and I enjoy seeing what people can do with the limited amount of variety that Pogo provides. (I found myself wishing for my closet too!)
    AzFreebird2007

  133. Got second bg win that I didn’t have, the harvest one 🙂
    Hope I get today’s Pepto kitchen. These must be older ones I didn’t get, (before I started getting mini crazy, thanks to my nutty♥sis-in-law).

    * Travir @ 134 *
    For wedding dress: Click at top, tab for costumes, 6th tab, all the way on the right. Scroll all way down to last row from bottom.
    I noticed mine sometimes skips a row, so I have to go slower. Maybe that’s why you missed it.

    Smiles to all…have a beautiful day 🙂

  134. Debi #138 – Keep trying, you may get that background win yet! I have only won once (with the background) and I thought I had some good minis, but I really am thinking this is soooo random, that you have no idea how often your mini even comes up and if it is then paired with the best mini out there, well, sayonara! lol

    Brenda #139 – WTG on your background win! That’s great. I too have noticed that when scrolling thru the outfits and other choices, it may skip lines. Just another pain that it would be nice if Pogo fixed. lol Thanks for confirming about the wedding dress!

    I thought I had a cute idea with the shopping background to go in my PJs. Well, lots of peeps had the same idea! lol So, I voted for all the PJs I saw, but never did see my own. Ahh well.

    Continued GL to all!

    ~Shel ;>

  135. Shel
    Didn’t want to clutter the weekend thread with this, but the math solution seems to be an answer but only if you continue to be randomly matched. It sort of seemed to me that your mini was stuck with that one partner for the duration of the day….does it say anywhere if minis are continually mixed up or not?
    Ro

  136. Finally saw the wedding dress today, as suggested, I must have been going to fast. I slid the bar ever so slowly and there it was.

    I have to imagine that minis are randomly paired each time. I think this must be how the bathrobe people get any votes, they are paired with other bathrobe people and you have to vote for one of them lol. Pogo, please add a ‘neither’ button!

  137. Ro #141 – They don’t say anything anywhere, that’s one of the problems! lolllll I had assumed that we got paired for the duration, but I’m starting to think that can’t be the case. How do you get two people with high scores together then? OTOH, I never see anyone with a 10 at the end of the 24 hour voting period, so I’m thinking a non-vote has to do something to our scores along the line.

    Also, I have had two people with bathrobe minis with both having very low numbers. So that leads me to think we must get randomly re-paired all the time….because one of those lousy robes would have to have a high score if they were together all the time. One of them would have to get a vote.

    ~Shel

  138. I thought I’d finally post some of my observations about this “game”

    First, I find it interesting that they include this among the Puzzle games, but I guess choosing a mini to match the background is kinda a “puzzle” so it’s better than any other category I guess.
    Second, I can confirm Sheljin’s (and other’s) posts that the tokens gained are 3540 for completing voting plus whatever you win from the previous day’s photo shoot. The 3540 is kinda a weird number, still, it ain’t chopped liver . Plus, even if you don’t win a bg, after 3 days of voting you can just buy one.
    Third, I’ll 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, & 6th all the comments about the mini’s still in bathrobes. I also see some minis that seem categorically wrong (like you’re going to a 6AM shopping spree in a swimsuit?!) but at least those took a LITTLE effort (and I do mean little).
    Fourth, I’ve been trying this with both of my accounts and have won a few bg’s for both and I noticed that while my secondary (non-club) account still can’t buy club items from the mall (or get them gifted) even though it’s on the 2-week pass currently, but some of the bg’s I’ve won are Club ones which is a nice plus.
    Fifth, and maybe this is just me, but there seems to be a big gender bias in all of the entries. I think in one of my account’s voting today there were more women minis in bathrobes (10) then there were male minis in total! I don’t think this bias necessarily carries over to voting as well but it’s just something I observed. I may have to resort to cross-dressing, though, if the voting turns out biased as well, LOL.

    Overall, I think this is a good diversion and the 3500+ tokens are pretty good for only a little time invested.

    Anyway these are just some of my thoughts,

    Tom

  139. Tom #144 – Thanks for sharing your thoughts! And confirming my weird 3540 number. lol

    I hadn’t realized that some of the items being gifted might be Club-only items to non-Club accounts. So, for me, there is yet another lil bit of lessening of the ‘exclusivity’ our money is supposed to be buying. (Bet no one would guess that’s how I would feel! lol)

    I have noticed how few male minis I see. FWIW, I actually tend to vote the male mini automatically, just hoping to encourage men to keep joining in and “playing.” However, I have started to notice that many of the “men” I vote for have distinctly female-sounding screen names. So I am wondering if there isn’t already some cross-dressing going on. lolllll

    ~Shel ;>

  140. Here’s something that bothers me almost as much as the robes and bathing suits……wearing jackets for an inside background. Do people even bother to look at what they are submitting???

    Holly is still doing well and has won quite a few times now. The only background that I have seen that I really wanted was the stable with the animals, and neither of us won it….came close on both accounts, but no cigar 🙂

    But it still is an easy way to pick up tokies and is fun trying to figure out what people will vote for. And I do try and follow the theme!!!

    Suz

  141. Don’t know if this is true, but just saw it in the Pogo forums.

    If you go into Hot Shots to vote (just for the tokens) and don’t bother to dress your mini Pogo automatically enters it wearing the robe.

    That could be why we see so many still wearing the robes.

    Suz

  142. Moms #147 – Suz, thanks for posting this tidbit! I, for one, am hoping it is true because frankly it was making me very depressed at this point that SO many people didn’t seem to ‘get’ that they should be changing their Mini’s outfits before entering them into the contest. lol lol

    Now, I can also add that feature onto the list of things Pogo really should change. Stop entering people who don’t even care enough to change their minis!

    Moms #146 – I’m happy to hear Holly has won a bunch of times – wtg! I have only won one background. I have to admit that I don’t really care TOO much, though I would have liked that barn background too – very sweet. But I mostly would love to know how and why people are voting also.

    For me, in addition to the general complaints many of us have been having, I tend to vote AGAINST things many times. Like, I tried to vote against anyone wearing sunglasses in the kitchen with the Pepto today. lol I tend to vote against bathing suits unless I can see some kind of joke possibility they may have been going for (which really hasn’t happened at all lol). I vote against the winking models when they are wearing glasses that make the eye not fully winked – THAT creeps me out. lol I can understand liking a specific pair of glasses — but, again, don’t peeps check out how the model ends up looking before they submit it?

    Rufus (Ruth) (from weekend thread) – I did have my token totals go past 30 as usual. Hopefully, yours has started to show the correct amounts again too.

    I think I hit two BHers in today’s voting: alpgarden, I voted for yours – I liked it! And I think playerteresa (with numbers after their name) is either a BHer or someone I have seen elsewhere – I voted for yours too. I believe yours was one that made me laugh. lol

    I am starting to be a little worried that Pogo’s “program” for running this “activity” might be skewing things. Several times, I got head-to-head battles that seemed too coincidental. I got flaming heads matched up several times…….and, really, there weren’t that many overall. I also got sunglass-wearing people matched up against each other. And I got alot of minis whose scores were extremely similar…. in my experience, that has been happening more and more.

    I still don’t really see repeats. But I have been spending less time voting. Once the tokens are accumulated, I just can’t get that excited about it…… I do know I would vote more if I had a chance to skip pairings, or vote “none.” Today, after creating my own model for tomorrow’s voting, I went to vote again even though I had all my tokens. Both minis came up with sunglasses and I just exited out and gave up for the day.

    Okay, that’s today’s report – GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  143. Just had to come and say that I won the football photoshoot with an 8.3!!!!!!!!, and won the background (*does Pogo back-flip..lol) I didn’t actually think I could score that high 8).
    I really enjoy DHS now and I look forward to playing it every day and seeing how I do.

  144. Congrats to all the Daily Hot Shot winners. I got my first win (whispers that it was the barn scene. I didn’t have that one and was so excited I won it). Does anyone know what happens if you ‘win’ a background you already own? Going to the DHS is now the first thing I check out every morning as part of my daily Pogo routine, following checking in here at BH for the latest info. I can’t complain about the tokens DHS awards for voting and most days, including the total I win for my personal hot shot, I’m well over 5000 tokens. For me, that’s not a bad day’s “take”. lol

    Have fun everyone.

  145. Cindy #150 – Congrats on your win!!! AND you better start guarding your closet, we all want that background 🙂

    Suz

  146. LOL @ Moms #151 – My Harley is guarding the background but I’m sure he’d hand it over in a heartbeat to HollyNoelle lol.

    Had to share a couple things that made me laugh today – I was voting on the minis in the shopping background and one gal was dressed as a baked potato (duh pahhhleeeze) ……and one mini had a swimming pool background…..

    strange this game is….. HAHAHA

  147. I’ve noticed a couple of things that had me scratching my head…
    One I now have an answer too – thanks to a post (that I can’t find now to give credit to geeez) stating that you have to dress your mini every day or it gives you bathrobes or worse… it seems to “loop” from prior days.

    Now, another question… I’ve seen a halo… and a couple of other items that are NOT in my closet. WHERE are these coming from??? Looking through every possible combination thinking if I dress the mini in something it’ll pop up (whether I want in in the daily or not, I want to know where it is for future reference) it’s flat out NOT there. I’m crying foul here!!!

    And my biggest gripe now that I know about the bathrobe thing for people who are just voting and not dressing up… I’m getting irritated with the so far off theme mini’s when they come up on both sets that I have to get out and start over – because I refuse to vote for either of them!!! LOL I want that “neither” button!!!!
    BTW Indy… your’s seems to “pop up” quite often – you get a lot of votes from me! LOL

  148. WTG garcia and cindy for your recent wins. Interesting that Harley will do anything for Sweet Holly Noelle!!!! I wonder if Murphy knows about this!!! lol

    I was totally laughing at some of the choices lately too, baked potato being one of them. And I also know there will ALWAYS be at least one of the sexy bathing suit variety no matter the background too. “Dress for winter weather”??? Yeppers, bikini, that’s the ticket. lol

    ~Shel ;>

  149. Strange thing is, I’ve seen mini’s with exactly the same outfit I dressed mine in, and their score is 8, or 9 and when I collect my prize the following day I’ve never gotten above 6.. curious why that is. Also I vote with both accounts and my granddaughter’s too and have never come across any of our minis, but have seen many from here, don’t know it till after I vote. Wish they would get the “say something” working, would add a whole new twist. Some of the odd ones are done intentionally I’m sure but loses it in the translation with no caption to explain. Like the PJ’s waiting for the after Thanksgiving sales to start.
    happy pogo-ing all

  150. Murphy know now but sure Cindy love him too! He hasn’t been entering but since I finally got my first win, the barn yard background, he is complaining. I told him to get off the couch and enter so he can get something for nothing too!

    I voted a lot today and found some times the mini’s were identical in every way but 1 would have a hi score and the other much lower. How do you choose between them for voting? I want a neither button too!

    Is anyone else seeing a pattern to the higher scores, there seems to be a “uniform” of the day that always does well. The barnyard one was jeans, boots and a cowboy hat. Today it is the brown coat with boots and the blue wool hat. The white puffy jacket is running second. Always long hair wins out and if it’s blowing in the breeze, it’s tends to score high.

    I find it a fun diversion but don’t enter everyday, only when the theme tickles my fancy. It’s going to be better when captions come into play and you can understand what the mini is trying to say.

  151. Sheljin #145

    I actually look at the background and pick whatever mini I think will fit best with the outfits offered… be it male, female, dark skinned, blonde… whatever! Which is why I often forget HOW I dressed my mini until I collect my rewards the next day, lol.

  152. Just finished voting/making my new hot shot. With about 2 hours left in the voting, I was finding more and more that the pictures were coming up pretty evenly matched. Two high scorers, then two low scorers. I had done my token voting earlier in the day, so I broke off on voting more tonight when I realized I didn’t want to be taking votes away from a high-scorer by accident (if that’s how it works).

    Something else I didn’t realize when making my mini yesterday – those Christmas lights must be VERY bright considering the number of sunglasses I saw in what I took to be a night shopping scene. lol

    I also didn’t realize that setting up my whole kitchen in the middle of the mall there might be the best way to dress for unexpected winter weather! ;>

    Justagramma – I saw and voted for you! You are doing quite well, so hope you ended up winning the background.

    Otherwise, once again, no BHers for me. Debi, I looked specifically for the halo you mentioned and couldn’t find it either. So that is weird.

    While I am hoping most of the bathrobes I was still seeing were the result of people just not entering, I am still seeing ones who added glasses or sunglasses or changed hair……so, sheeesh, change the rest of the outfit, peeps!! lol

    ~Shel ;>

  153. some of the minis are pretty silly,but also dang funny(yes,i said dang..and im from NY LOL).cograts to all the winners,especially from here.

    im finding usually that when i vote,im getting roughly 3500 tokens or so total..and like it was mentioned in an above post,it gets a little boring after a while.seems that many minis look the EXACT same..kinda thinking people are using all their pogo names to enter,WHICHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH is fine.but some diversity on them would be much appreciated 🙂

  154. I have found that I have a tendency to vote for smiling minis (pageant background..yikes..lol) and if they are at least trying to be a bit realistic.

    I wondered why there were still bathrobes, but thanks for the explanation…you don’t get dressed, you stay in your robe.

    I just can’t hang with cutting veggies in the mall or library or gowns where it isn’t apropos… maybe a caption would help.

    This dressing pretty much the same just emphasizes the point that in the mini shows, some duplication of ideas is bound to happen.

    I never get more than 500 in the voting, don’t know what i’m doing wrong…
    have a good day…

  155. I’m doing an experiment: I went in today, did some voting on the ‘free wifi’ minis, and then clicked on “Go to Magazine”. I did not click through to “Enter Photoshoot”.

    If any of you see my mini in a bathrobe tomorrow, please report back here. Bonus points if you can nab a screenshot.

  156. there is a halo that is a game award in Hog Heaven Slots. You get it at Rank 11 and it is shown your eyewear and is called a ham-lo. I knew I had it but was hard to find. I thought it might be under hats but eyewear suprised me.

  157. Hi everyone, I haven’t been around much…been trying to get my account straightened out since the 20th! I’m now on a 5 day pass til later this week, (HOPEFULLY, P-O-G-O!!!!!), because auto renew > DIDN’T!!! 🙁 Couldn’t get anywhere on P-O-G-O, kept getting blue ERROR pages. Had to Google to get get in touch with anyone. I have TOLL FREE contact info for EA that I will send directly to Lura & leave it to her discretion to share here or not.
    So, anyway, thanks to anyone who has left comments for me. Sorry, but it’s been a huge, frustrating PITb 😉

    There are new items to choose as of today.
    Never came across a halo, looked everywhere.

    Hoping for a muuuuuch better week…smiles, Brenda

  158. Lura #161 – You may not be in a bathrobe, you may still be in the outfit that you wore yesterday. When you go in tomorrow it SHOULD show you what you had on today.

    I saw a lot of BH people the first few days that the game was out, but haven’t seen a name I recognize in almost a week.

    Suz

    • Moms: that’s why I said asked for folks to let me know if they see it in a robe tomorrow! 🙂 Either way, my mini has never dressed up for a shoot so she should be in a robe if the rumor is true.

  159. My mini finally got a score of 8.0 so I won the tokens and the background…woohooo! Would have been upset if not as most of the high scorers had exactly what I was wearing on too.

  160. #153 Debi,
    The halo is a game award for Hog Heaven Slots. That is where
    I got mine.
    #165, Lura, I did the same but hit the Magazine so would like
    to know if I am there tomorrow in a robe. If anyone sees me
    please let me know.

    Shel, Mspatmac, and Anwanpani?sp I voted for all of you today.
    Now I will go vote with my 2nd acct.
    Gl e1.
    Tink

  161. Genie #162 & Tink #167 – Thanks for the halo tip, but I think Debi was saying she has seen it in the Hot Shots competition but can’t find it in the Hot Shots game closets we all can choose from? Or maybe I have it wrong. lol

    nephthys #157 – None of the models really reflect the face I use on my own mini, so I am always alternating models (haven’t done the cross-dressing thang yet tho lol). So, like you, I never remember what I put on! lol

    Justagramma – wtg on your win!

    Tink – thanks for voting for me! lol I can’t wait to see the results of yours and Lura’s experiments. If Suz is right, even if no one sees Lura’s Hot Shot, maybe it will show up in Lura’s own Album tomorrow. And I’m assuming you HAVE entered before, right, Tink? So we will be able to see if it defaulted to robe for you, too, or kept your previous day’s outfit.

    I love experiments!!!!! lol

    I agree with everyone who posted about how minis with the same outfits show up with different scores. I think that is a result of the luck of the draw. For instance, I agree that I think people just love voting for the flowing hair. So, if I’m unlucky enough to have my mini show up against alot of people dressed like me, but with long, flowing hair, I probably don’t get the votes. At least that’s my working theory now.

    I will tell you now, I will not be voting for any flowing hair IN THE LIBRARY. lol Hopefully. Unless Pogo makes me.

    I saw alot of minis dressed exactly like me the last two days, trying to follow the “theme” I’m sure. Sometimes it is hard to follow the theme and really have that many outfits to choose from. I know that I am definitely only doing one name……I barely can keep from nodding off during voting as it is, can’t imagine doing more than one. (Noooo offense to anyone who does.)

    ~Shel ;>

    PS – Welcome back, Brenda! (#163) GL with your Pogo account. And ruffbucks (#159) – I’m a Jersey girl and I just love using “dang” all the dang time! lol

  162. Maybe if Pogo can’t give us a “neither” button they can give us a “skip” button to take us to a different pair. It would have the same effect, but wouldn’t give us tokens for skipping a pair. I’m sure that if there was a “neither” button and you still got tokens that some people would just keep hitting that instead of taking a few seconds and looking at the the minis.

    Like Shel, I have a list of things I won’t vote for unless I’m forced……
    robes, bathing suits, coats with an indoor theme, blowing hair with an inside theme, and those darn evening gowns…..unless that was part of the theme for the day.

    Suz

  163. In case you’re wondering, pogo has added a “how to play” page for Daily Hot Shots. It is on the right side above the game. It tells you how many tokens you get for voting and for your photos, as well as how the ratings are calculated (number of votes you get divided by number of times you appear in a pair).

    Hope that helps! 🙂
    jaredph

  164. Hi all,

    I guess with today’s maintenance, Pogo has now added a “How To Play” link! Yeah…(I think?) LOL

    Now if we can only get a ‘skip’ or ‘neither’ button.

    Ya know, maybe it’s just me…but I always dressed my mini to go with the theme BG statement (ie – Last Minute Shopper, Free Wi-Fi, etc.). I never took notice to the “Goal” listed on the side; that explains a lot! It only appears on the page where you have to choose your mini gal or guy (on the right side).

    GL with your entries.

    Plum~

  165. I finally broke an 8.0 won 6000 tokens and a background!

    As far as the halo goes – it was IN the daily shots – and I’m telling you, it’s NOT in my daily shots and I’ve only seen it once. It was nice to see that Pogo decided to add some new clothes today.
    I wish they would get rid of the wink! I don’t know why but that face just freaks me out! (it’s just me, right?)
    I agree with Shel & Suz – the blowing hair gets higher votes even when it doesn’t make any sense. WHY would your hair be blowing inside a library???
    I have a question to Pogo that just begs for an answer… who was the genius that thought up the outfit of putting fairy wings on a bathrobe??? Seriously!!!! I want some of their meds!!! ROFL
    I just had to stick that in there. I’m past the bathrobes and teeny bathing suits that don’t make any sense. I’ve figured out that if you get out, go check your mail and come back in, you can pick up with another set of voting sets and not lose tokens, so, I’m good with it! 😉
    All in all, it’s a fun way to spend a few minutes – especially now that I have another background (that in all honesty, I will probably never use)

    I have seen more and more BH names that I recognize though… after I hit vote – I get a smile because I realize… BH’ers ROCK… we’re smart! 🙂

  166. My very first pairing to vote on tonight were both men: One had sunglasses AND flowing hair. The other was the cup of noodles.

    Seriously, Pogo? Seriously??

    So I had to vote for sunglasses, flowy hair guy when he would otherwise never have gotten my vote. lol

    I won the background yesterday, so that was kewl. Thanks for the head’s up on the “How To Play.” That was funny to read – so much was repeated, I guess to try to make it look like it was a real game. lol

    And how much complaining must people have done about the music for “how to find & use the sound mute button” to make it into the How To Play?? lol

    ~Shel ;>

  167. I just saw someone in a robe with wings and another with that awful dancing mini. How do either of those fit with last minute shopping??

    Lura…..What was on your mini this morning???? I never saw it when I was voting yesterday.

    Suz

    • On that particular account I had not ever loaded the game until yesterday, and I have never entered her in a photoshoot, so it should not show up at all. With that said, if the rumor about voting but not entering is true she will show up today in voting in a robe. I’m fairly sure that’s not how it works though. The robe, being the default outfit, is probably a result of laziness and user error, but I’m willing to eat my words if I’m wrong.

  168. I have been playing and am amazed (as all of you are) by everyone with sunglasses, bathrobes, swimsuits, indoor flowing hair, ballgowns, etc. What especially bothers me is sleeveless clothing during this season, but then…I thought about all those in SoCal, FLA, southerly regions where folks may be holiday shopping in their shorts! I have not won a background yet, but usually get 2000 tokies, scoring somewhere between 6 and 7. Rather than a game, this seems to be just a little fun, competitive thing with good tokies.

    Today, for the aquarium shot I purposely did not follow directions. The goal read “dress in aquamarine, seashell colors, ocean colors, etc.” Even though I was tempted to put on the scuba diving costume, I used the blue hair and the tropical shirt/shorts outfit. I refuse to wear a swimsuit unless I’m on a beach or in a pool! And I just didn’t like any of the other clothing. We’ll see how it worked.

    I haven’t seen the halo yet, but I am tired of fairy wings on everything!

    Also interested in hearing how Lura’s experiment worked out, as I cannot believe so many people just wear the robe every darn day.

  169. Color me frustrated with Daily Hot Shots lol. Talk about comparing apples to more apples!! I have been purposefully voting for people who are a bit outside of the box. Particularly the day of the “Unpredictable Weather” whatever… geez person in coat vs ummm person in coat. I only got 250 tokens that day because I wore a sun hat, shorts, boots, and a parka – thought I was covering all the bases of possible weather conditions. So for the library shoot, I dressed in the regulation librarian outfit that everyone else had on, and got the tokens and background. We will see what happens on the “Last Minute Shopper” – I chose jammies and my hair in curlers… not so out of the box, because that is almost how it is for me on Christmas eve (DARN I FORGOT ABOUT UNCLE ARTHUR!! ugh… and there I am looking like the ghost of Christmas presents at some store).

    I am nothing without a caption…. 😉

  170. LOL – just read Shel’s post – ahhh the inevitable Cup O Noodles… perfect for ANY situation – ?? And yes, these places must be quite bright and drafty.

  171. Debi #170 – You are NOT alone with finding the wink at the very least annoying. And when you add at least one pair of the eyeglasses, maybe more, the winking eye doesn’t even fully close! THAT definitely creeps me out.

    I could be wrong, because I haven’t tried it lately, but I think there is a way to put on the robe with the fairy wings, then go and change into other clothes and the wings stay put. Hope that isn’t as clear as mud.

    kristin #178 – I will say that I do vote outside the box on occasion. So, I like to think I would have “gotten” the point of your mini and voted for it, but alas I did not see you. lol You are right, we need the captions. But if something makes me LOL or chuckle, they will get my vote even if their mini makes no literal sense.

    My library mini got 6.7. Nice tokies, but *I* thought she was pretty cute, cute enough for the background. lol (ohmigoshes, I’m going to start getting defensive about my make-believe paper dolls. lollllllll) I hope whenever they get the album feature working that our old minis will magically appear there!

    ~Shel ;>

  172. Re: Bathrobes, I find a couple of things interesting.

    1) If you select an outfit or costume and then try to accessorize it with a hat/hair then the mini will usually reset to the bathrobe (but with the hat/hair).
    2) The bathrobe isn’t even available on the men’s wardrobe either in the game or the real Mini Mall! There is a “Cozy Robe” in the women’s wardrobe that’s pretty similar but no equivalent on the men’s side.
    I have an idea for a mini to enter in the Amazing Mini’s room about this but I guess I’ll have to cross-dress for that, LOL.

    -Tom

  173. Now, with the “Last minute shopping” I thought the ballgowns, dress up type outfits made a little more sense. How many times have you been out the door to a party and suddenly realized “ohhhh crap! No gift!” and had to run to the store, fight the crowd to find something for either one of the stupid gift exchanges or a hostess gifts. I was more inclined to vote for those – thinking that MAYBE others had my thought and were being creative (since there is no caption box yet) or… it just beat the monotony of seeing the onslaught of coats and bathrobes! LOL
    (and yes, cup O’Noodles, Turkey’s and even the occasional behind the counter cooks)

    I haven’t found the little “hint” that everyone is talking about… where is this button…??? I’m still going off the theme. Not doing that bad going off it. I’m doing my mom’s now too – we’re both winning tokens – but I’m sick of looking like a lot of others – and I refuse to do flowing hair for indoor activities! No matter if it scores higher because “it’s soooo purdy!” 😉

  174. MomsBassetHound
    Thank you very much for letting me know about the premium ticket. I really feel stupid for askin that question,cause i’ve been with pogo for about 2 1/2 years, but still learning new things everyday. I am sooooooooooooo happy that i found this site! There are so many nice people here,and i find alot more info here,than on pogo news,fonts,etc. I always come to this site first thing everyday,because Lura has everything thats going on that day,previous days and whats coming in near future. I now know there are really nice people here. Depending on what game i’m playing,sometimes i would ask someone a question or just to say “hello” & alot of times no one would respond back to me?? I hope its not my user name? But anyway since i started BHers,everyone is kind,thoughtful and very knowledgeable!!! Now, i’m really excited to get my badges,because of this site! Thanks again Moms, and have a good evening & a nice day tomorrow!
    Cindy

  175. When I logged in today it didn’t show me that I’d created a Mini for yesterday’s shoot (which I didn’t). I think we might have solved the mystery, though — the bathrobes show up when someone’s game crashes and they don’t return to enter. Maybe.

    To that end I chose a mini, and closed the game after it displayed her on the background for the photoshoot. I did not enter her though. We’ll see.

  176. Takes me to noon to get all my daily stuff not these days. I love it that Pogo keeps adding this stuff, but what do people do that work?

    I love the Hot Shots, doesn’t matter if I win or not, just love seeing how different people look at different things.

    Hope we figure this out soon so Lura can go back to entering…LOL

    Suz

  177. Debi #181 – I *think* the little hint you are referring to is not on a button or tab. It is just a further explanation of the day’s theme. So, for instance, when I entered the Magazine, it said “Today’s Photo Shoot is Hanukkah Candle.” Then you click on Enter Photoshoot. Before you choose your model, look to the right. There is the background AND above it is a further description of your “Goal” for the day. Hope that helps.

    Well, my last minute shopper got a 6.9 and I have to be honest and say, I didn’t think she was anything special. lol So, TY Pogo gods for apparently pairing me with a bunch of Noodles or Bathrobe peeps. lol

    ~Shel

  178. Hello Lura and anyone that wants to read this message,
    I just got done voting for yesterdays”DailyHotShots” & i was kinda upset when i started voting. Yesterday’s photo shoot was titled Aqua Wear Em,& the goal above the model before you go to photo Shoot said”PHoto op at the aquarium today. Dress your model in aqua marine,seashell, or any other colors inspired by the deep blue sea. As i started voting, there were alot of mini’s with the costume of the deep sea diving suit & gear. they are getting the most votes & I don’t think that is right. I mean i know everyone has their own opinions, but this time i just do not agree. Does anyone else have any opinions on this subject?? I hope so. Thanks for listening!

  179. #186 – Cindy I so agree, today was pretty boring.
    I was getting choices of deep sea diving suit and *gasp* deep sea diving suit. Bathing suit vs bathing suit. Wait… here it comes – bathrobe vs coat.
    Where was the ingenuity in today’s photo shoot? I’m sure mine will score very low. All the diving suit’s and flowing hair were once again – way up there. I get the diving suit’s I guess… but it didn’t match what the “Aqua wear” said. Either I got it wrong or no one was reading.
    It wasn’t an “under the water” scene. Goes to show… oh… nevermind! LOL

  180. I agree with Cindy that today’s Daily Hot Shot was supposed to be about dressing in the colors of the sea. There are countless models dressed as scuba divers and also tons of models dressed in swimwear. They are getting the most votes even though it’s ridiculous to vote for a scuba diver or someone in a bikini or speedos visiting an indoor aquarium! Not to mention the food choppers and the cooks! I guess very few peole actually read the instructions. I’m really tired of all the people with blowing hair and sunglasses indoors too! Anyway, it’s a fun game so for now I’ll keep on playing and not worry about winning anything.

  181. Thank you so much Jillie_Ann for agreeing with me!! i was beginning to think that no one else agreed with me!!! I feel the exact same way that you do,blowing hair inside,food choppers,cooks etc.! i know this is just a silly, funny game & another way to get tokens, but when i started voting the seadiver suits were gettin 8.0,7.5 and i feel that when this happens pogo should at least put the seadiver suits together when we vote & put then put the minis that actually dressed in the colors that they asked for together to vote for!! Again Jillie, thank you so much for your input & have a nice evening!

  182. #187 Debi,hi i just read your message.i’m sorry, i didn’t see yours before Jillie’s. Thanks so much for agreeing with me, & i know its just a pogo game to play for fun,etc.Todays shoot for voting just got to be a little much for me & i had to voice my opinion. thanks again,Debi

  183. I sometimes dress my indoor mini with the blue tinted glasses to cover that winking eye. They should have two minis for each choice, one winking and one not winking.

    Plus, I thought today while voting…would it be too brazen to PogoMail a person wearing a robe and ask them if they *really* submitted it as a robe or something like that? It won’t fix it, but at least we’ll have our answer. And then, we’ll just have to learn to accept it…we’re young (at heart), we’ll adjust. 😉

    Plum~

  184. Cindy #186 – I agree with you, it was pretty ridiculous all the underwater scuba gear minis. But I did end up voting for alot of them if the other option was flowing hair or duh – a snowman! I guess at this point, the game is what it is. I very very rarely vote past my point where I’m getting tokens though.

    Debi #187 – I wish that Pogo would get cracking and get our Photo Albums in place so we have a record of our Minis. AND I wish we could play in a room, where you could see others’ photo albums. Would love to see what you and Cindy and others did for some of these themes.

    Mine scored a 4.7, one of my lowest scores. I wasn’t in love with it, but I did try to follow the theme with what I thought are really limited choices to begin with.

    ~Shel ;>

  185. I haven’t been doing it long. but i think I will not do it anymore right way at time change. I swear I seen people wearing things that weren’t there when I did my model at 2. I was just voting on the Festival of Lights. It leaves me speechless to see people there in swimsuits, santa suits, chopping vegetables. I know it is a game but I guess I found it rather offensive to see people in such garb for what is a religious ceremony for the Jewish people. Well that is my two cents. And oh ya. I think the little blurb they tell when you get your model and what they tell you to vote on are 2 different scenerios. Anybody else find that out. But I will look for the hint tomorrow when i do my model. Highest score I have gotten is 6.9 so I have something to shoot for . It is 4 morning, so I better get to bed. Sharon

  186. Cindy #186, I second your frustration! I dressed my mini in all aqua and got my lowest score yet. Even more irritating: sometimes I cannot sleep and play the game early in the morning (around 3AM, Eastern). At that time of morning Pogo (I have come to learn) has not populated the “mini mall” (not sure what it is in-game) with new items. As a result, the scuba options were not even available to me when I dressed my mini. This has happened several other times as well, like with the Christmas themed background; I dressed my mini as best as I could and tried not to fume the next day when people were wearing actual Christmas outfits.

    A point about the high voting numbers on the scuba outfits (and I apologize if someone has already said this — I just skimmed the posts): There were no identifying features on the outfit (no hair, glasses, etc.) so I think many people voted for them over and over again because it could have been their own mini.

    Also, I am glad to see I am not the only one who cannot stand the sight of blowing hair in an indoor scene! I don’t know why, but that bothers me more than the bathrobes. I guess I figure with the robes some newbie could be confused, or the internet connection could be lost, or you get distracted and Pogo times you out…but the hair in the breeze look? Unless there is an industrial fan in the background, I don’t want to see it indoors.

    So far, I have only won two backgrounds, and one of them I already had. It was the football scene; Pogo just moved it from its normal location to my first background, as if I had just bought it.

    Jenni

  187. Shar #193 – I agree with you, was not enjoyable to see people making fun of a religious ceremony. I saw minis (men) wearing the Star of David sweater with boxer shorts and flaming hair. I think Ms. Nettie is going to get some serious letters over this one.

    Shel #192 – I got my highest scores ever, 7.8 and 8.0, and dressed both alike in the scuba outfits. I never saw the goal on the right hand side. I was just “guessing” what Pogo wanted from the background.
    Knowing they always have a twist I figured they were going to make me swim…LOL

    Suz

  188. THANK YOU Shar (193) and Suz (195)…as someone who celebrates Hanukkah, c’mon people…elf costumes? The bathrobes were less offensive!

  189. Plum #191 – I hadn’t really thought of the blue glasses as a way to hide the winking eye….very interesting! I will try to keep that in mind while I’m looking. I really hate that they don’t have a brown hair model who isn’t winking available to choose from. I hate the wink! There I said it. lol You made me giggle when I thought of you writing some robed stranger asking for an explanation. Bring them here, let us question them!!!! lol I think it is funny – let us know if you do it!

    Shar #193 & Suz #195 – Totally agree about the lack of respect shown to a religious holiday.

    Jenni #194 – TY for posting about some items being unavailable! I, too, sometimes do my mini right at the change-over. I didn’t realize they add things each day. Does anyone have the time when it happens? Because I had been thinking – wait, I didn’t see scuba outfits, did I? But of course, when I went back to do the next day, there they were.

    Always great to have another “no-flowing-hair-indoors” member for our club! lol And I don’t remember seeing your point before and I think it is a very good one. There were probably a lot of people voting for the scuba minis in case it was themselves. I know if someone has on the same thing I have on, I vote for them just out of solidarity. lol

    Suz – congrats on your high scores AND being ready to swim if need be. lolllll

    I thought it would be good to post today’s Photoshoot, so we can compare how different the voting instructions turn out to be. lol

    Today’s Contest: Old Skool Music
    Goal: Unplugged is much less unnatural. Dress your model as the family member with the large acoustic guitar collection.

    ~Shel ;>

  190. Vote: Of the pair, who would have the larger acoustic guitar collection?

    I don’t know how close this is to the Goal because I have to wait for my other post to post. lol

    Plum, thanks again for the sunglass tip to hide the wink – I borrowed that for the guitar mini.

    ~Shel

  191. Sheljin #132 – I can confirm 3,540 is the maximum number of tokens you receive for voting

    MomsBassetHound – You actually get tokens for 50 votes per day (see “vote number… tokens” chart below):

    _1…….5______11…..15______21…..25______31…..35______41…..85
    _2…….6______12…..16______22…..30______32…..40______42…..90
    _3…….7______13…..17______23…..30______33…..45______43…..95
    _4…….8______14…..18______24…..30______34…..50______44…100
    _5…….9______15…..19______25…..30______35…..55______45…200
    _6…..10______16…..20______26…..30______36…..60______46…250
    _7…..11______17…..25______27…..30______37…..65______47…300
    _8…..12______18…..25______28…..30______38…..70______48…350
    _9…..13______19…..25______29…..30______39…..75______49…400
    10…..14______20…..25______30…..30______40…..80______50…500

    While I have yet to earn a background, I do try my best to fulfill the theme. I’ll admit, I wore the viking outfit during the football game, I THOUGHT people would ‘get’ that I was dressed as a mascot… but it was one of my lowest scoring shoots to date. *sigh*

    Count me as one wishing for a ‘neither’ button… I hate having to vote for bathrobes, indoor blowing hair, or flaming hair (I’ve never understood or liked that one!). I’ve also come across some very strange match-ups as of late. I once had a male and female, both in bathrobes wearing flaming hair and no other changes. I also came across two females, one wearing a chef’s outfit with her hair in curlers while the other was wearing a chef’s hat and pajamas!!! Unbelieveable!!! Just makes one wonder just how Pogo randomizes these match-ups.

  192. I am SOOOOOOO happy to see people voting low for the bathrobes and flaming hair. As well though, i was confused at first as to what pogo was looking for. I had gone with funny things hoping voters would `get it`but have been way off the next day when I saw the question you had to pick one to answer. I too believe there should be a neither button! – One Question though – and maybe I missed it because there alot of posts – sorry if I`m being redundant….. does everyone vote on the same two mini`s? By that I mean, if you pick the wrong outfit but happen to land beside someone in a bathrobe, you should get a good score by default – or are they randomly put up for each vote for each player?
    Now with today`s I had some issue – there are no cowboy outfits (male of female or sherriff outfits etc etc) but there are cowboy hats – though for female there are boots but they come with cut off jean shorts – anyone remember seeing women dressed like that in westerns?

  193. It’s been 2 days since I found the other “instructions” while making my mini, but going back to the way I did it before since they change the wording when it comes to voting.

    Suz

  194. Hangiber (#200) – it seems to me that the match ups are constantly changing. The math does not add up otherwise. Sometimes I have to pick between two people with scores under 10 (combined) and sometimes over 10 (combined). I think the two scores would always equal 10 if the match ups stayed the same.

  195. Well, color me confused…lol.
    I thought the question or statement for the indoor designer was…a designer to be on TV, meaning the person doing the designing, NOT the person needing the new renovation.

    Lo and behold, the vast majority are poor little homeowners dressed ready to paint…why did I not get that?

    oh well, at least i did get the background for the guitar and cd store…lol.

    sorry, hate is strong word, but, hate the flaming hair…refuse to vote no matter what they have on.
    gl all…

  196. Jenni #202 and Hang #200 – I agree with Jenni. I think the match-ups are randomly generated every time. I always feel badly when I have two good ones to choose from and the one I DIDN’T pick is right at 7.0 because then I know my vote just put them below getting the background. 🙁

    Jillian #199 – Thx for token confirmation and another vote for a “neither” or “no vote” button. I, too, have wondered about the randomness of some of these match-ups, like getting almost the exact same mini matched up against each other. Might be more of a chance of that with the “good” minis, but seriously, 2 potatoes opposite each other? Hmmm. Sorry your viking got scored low. I think (hope) captioning will help that. I also think many people are probably going thru them as fast as they can too, and vote on a split-second reaction (as I found out myself, see Random Notes below).

    Moms #201 – I actually think the guitar voting instruction was VERY close to the original goal (both posted above). (One out of how many that HAVEN’T matched isn’t a good percentage tho. lol) I have no idea about the renovation one because I forgot to look. lolllll I am going to post the GOAL for today at the bottom of this post so we have it to refer to tomorrow.

    Random notes:

    Pastorpapabear! Your renovation mini is doing awesomely. As of 3:00 p.m. est you were over an 8.0. wtg!

    I just voted for a robed person. I refused to vote for the snowman renovator. lol

    Apologies to one of the people (no way of knowing if there was more than one) who had the outfit with the snow falling on it. I voted against it, which I have been doing on principle (no snow indoors). However, right as I clicked my vote, I thought, hey – this is actually kind of funny – no roof! O_o SOOOO sorry.

    Another wish: Wish we could use a costume from the last tab but still change the hairdo if we wanted to.

    Today’s Shoot: Spaghetti Western
    Goal: A fist full of dollars can buy some great cowboy boots! Dress your model for a Spaghetti Western revival.

    Good luck everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  197. Yes, I know the word is in the dictionary, but I had to laugh when I saw “Who is readier….” All I can say is, “Mr DeMille, I’m readier for my close up.”

  198. Have to say, a bit disappointed with the choice of clothes for a western!
    Think we’re going to see a whole lot of the same things – IF people dress for the shoot and I don’t see Cup O’Noodles and Snowmen, etc again… Santa on the set… LOL

  199. I think “Cup O Noodles” is going to be rampant given the “Spaghetti” reference. This will be the only time that those who continually wear the noodles will at least have a bit of justification lol.

  200. Okay, here are the voting instructions for today: Of the pair, who looks like a character in a Spaghetti Western?

    Seems pretty accurate to me this time.

    ~Shel

  201. Just finished voting and I’m amazed!!! I only saw one cup-o-noodles, one Mrs. Claus, one evening gown, one flaming hair, two bathrobes, three blowing hair and a few Christmas outfits… all of whom I didn’t vote for because I truly preferred the other option. 😉

    Now to decide what I want to wear for today’s Avant-Garb photoshoot… “Modern art inspires fashion today. Dress your model in some inspirational avant-garde garb!”. Think I’ll sleep on it and try to come up with something when I wake up and get moving again, otherwise I may get lazy and pick the pogo-inspired costume like I’m sure a LOT of people will be selecting. *yawn*

  203. Voting: First time I ever had the EXACT same mini competing against itself and it happened twice! I have had the same outfits competing against each other, but there has always been at least a little difference – model, hair, etc. I felt so badly because both times there were two “good” minis so that meant someone got a negative vote even though they had the same exact mini. Strange.

  204. I have been doing these the last couple of days and I am quite sure they are changing the wording on them from the day of the photo shoot to the next day I go in. The next day that I enter the game “I” read it quite different from the day before and then wonder why I dressed her the way I did because it clearly makes no sense.

    However, with that being said, the people voting are making no sense either because the last two days I have scored 2000 tokens each day. Not a perfect score but good enough for me. I hope to see some BH names, I have not seen anyone I know yet.

  205. Won 5 backgrounds already !! This is the first game I play in the morning. It gets the day started nicely.

  206. WTG Jeep! That’s a great job so far. WTG 2 u 2 Travlr – my first win was very exciting too. lol

    Wheat #212 – We have been talking for awhile now about how the wording is not the same between the GOAL and the Voting Instructions the next day. However, I believe they are getting a little closer, and certainly the guitar one and today’s spaghetti western seem like a match to me. (See posts # 204 & 208, 197 & 198). Jillian #209 has recorded the goal for today so we can compare the wording tomorrow again. (Thanks, Jillian!)

    ~Shel ;>

  207. I think it was just me that was more than a little peeved at the “remodel” theme. It wasn’t a “remodel” it was the whole “show”. Since I watch DIY and other network (dang, CRS kicking in) with the show “Design Star” I went for that look. Lowest I’ve ever scored!!! 🙁
    Live and learn! Can’t wait for captions to get added. At least if I lose big – it will be more because of lack of wording as well as choice of wardrobe.

    I had to go look up “Avant Garde” (ok, may have actually spelled that wrong too… bad day here) to see just what people were dressing like.
    WOW! Silly looking! So, went for the most outrageous hairstyle I could find but… nothing in the closet to match without losing the hair.
    I figured the hair was really the most important element – from what I was seeing in the pics online… so went with that. Taking bets that it scores low too! LOL
    Oh well, having fun with it… 🙂

  208. Voting instructions: “Of the pair, whose avant-garde garb is more inspirational?”

    Looks to me again like they are trying to stay closer to their original GOAL wording.

    Wow, people really didn’t like my red old-fashioned dress with the bonnet for the spaghetti western theme. That looked to me to be the closest to what women would have worn in the old west……but I guess she didn’t compete with the short-shorts and boots of the other models. lol

    (Off-topic, kristinerosern – I’ve seen your plans to “taunt” me. Oh yes, I have, missy! lolllll)

    ~Shel ;>

  209. Shel (216): I almost went with that costume because I thought it was the closest to the goal, but then I decided on a pink cowgirl look. High score, 6.something, but no background. I did, however, vote for everyone I saw with that outfit.

    I played it safe today as well. I orginally had outrageous “clothes” on, then the blue gown with the multi-colored hair, finally, the blue gown with a plain ol’ updo. Judging from the early voting it was the right decision (presupposing I want the score/tokens/possible background); the truly avant garde minis are low scoring, while the dressed up minis are usually 7+ (well, the super low cut gold dress is getting lower scores…I wonder if we do not like hypersexuality in other peoples’ minis? As we say in academia, there is probably a paper in that.)

    Tomorrow’s hot shot is about ice skating. I wonder if the clothing options will be populated with adorable ice skating outfits now that I have already used what was available? I need to start playing this game later in the day.

  210. Jenni #218 I also went for the pink cowgirl look, with short-shorts and boots as Shel mentioned and not only that, I dressed my minis on both my accounts exactly the same just to see what happened (when I play this game, not always, I usually make two diff. minis). Well I won on my main account and lose on my secondary accout, with the same model and outfit… lmbo.

  211. typical i finerly get a 7.0 on the bk ground with the fire place but already have this item.shame pogo cant give u some thing extra,if u dont have the bk ground u get that plus tokies for winning but if u already have the bk ground u just get tokies.wats e1 elses view when u win but have the bk ground already.

  212. Hi all,
    How is everyone? Today was the first time i actually voted for someone’s photo shoot that i know, or maybe i should say I know her by her user name & that was MomsBassetHound! i’ve tried to vote & then look for anyones name that i know & until today, i finally did. I don’t know about how long anybody else votes,but i’ve voted for almost an hour to try to see if my mini shows up & i’ve only seen it once.I also found out today when i was entering the photo shoot, that at the beginning when we pick out which model we want,i clicked on arrow & “What do you know”, there were alot more selections for our minis. I’ve always entered,clicked on 1 of the 3 but never clicked on the arrow! I felt like such an idiot & i still do. I voted everyday & after i clicked on mini’s name, it showed up in the picture so i always clicked on enter photo shoot & i went from there. But anyway i also wanted to thank everyone that answered my questions in BadgeHungry Answers.I am so amazed about this site! I can finally ask questions & get answers right back! It’s so nice to not have to wait for an e-mail or go to pogo’s FAQ’s & picking out an answer that was totally different,etc. I hope i haven’t bored everyone in here?!Have a nice evening & a great day tomorrow!!!

  213. Jenni #217 – I do wonder if there is a backlash against the hyper-sexualized minis….or if it really is just a case of, hey! that doesn’t match the theme. lol So far, voting for me with the avant garde is about as boring as most other days – so much for my high hopes!

    Cindy #220 – Welcome! Glad you found your other models and glad you found BH too!

    Nessa #218 – Guess that’s another piece of evidence that the randomness of the pairings helps some and hurts others.

    Today’s Theme: Winter Twirl

    Today’s Goal: There are few people more fashion forward than ice skaters! Dress your model for a winter twirl on the ice rink!

    Today’s Voting Instructions: Of the pair, who is best dressed for a winter twirl on the rink?

    Hmmm. GL everyone.

    ~Shel

  214. Shel (221) — Yes, the Avant garde looks were snooze fest; in related news, I went with the obvious evening gown choice and won my 3rd background (well, second, as I already owned one of my “winners”).

    Nessa (218) – My pink cowgirl had the jeans with pink boots, so maybe your shorts pushed you into winning territory? Hehehe. Actually, I think it is all about who you are paired against (as your situation pretty much proves). I did not see my mini this AM (haven’t in weeks) but I tried to pay attention to the scores of like costumes….rages from 5 – 8 for almost identical looks. I don’t think there is a science here.

    Did anyone notice that the men had a ice skate option while the women did not? Men minis with ice skates were dominating around 8 AM Eastern. Interesting that they would have an appropriate choice while the women did not.

    I don’t expect much out of tomorrow’s mini — the best I could do for a disco/70’s theme is find a look that included a peace sign.

    Can I just add that I am not sure how I got so into this game?

  215. Here’s one that has me scratching my head… I guess it just shows the pure randomness of the voting process.
    For the avant garde – I dressed my mom’s and mine in EXACTLY the same clothing, hairstyle, etc. I scored my all time low – 200 tokens. I think I got a 2.7… HER’S won!!! She got the background and a lot of tokens.
    Now… hours later, I’m still sitting here wondering how I could score so low and she could win.

    Tried something new with hers just for grins… Made hers a guy! LOL
    Disco today. Interesting – nothing in there that I remembered wearing and I had just hit drinking age and entered disco dance contests! *hides head to cover red face* (okay, I loved dancing… if there was a contest, I wanted in it! LOL)

    I loved some of the “winter ice skating” but was baffled WHY there were so many with snow falling on them… wait, no I’m not… I forget, people don’t read! LOL I crack myself up!

    I’ve run across a few BH’s – seems I’m still voting for them (us!) even though I don’t realize it until after the vote is entered.
    I have yet to see my mom’s, my nieces, good friends or mine. Even voting well over an hour.
    BTW – getting tired of having to choose between 2 identical mini’s. That started happening on a semi-regular basis. Pogo needs to come up with something to mix things up. If people don’t dress their mini, keep them out (plain bathrobes) and giving us two identical mini’s to vote for!!! That’s just not fair to either person. They can both be good or both be lousy and someone’s going to get short changed a (or get an undeserved) vote!!!

  216. Hi all! Personally, I love playing with these digital mini paper dolls. Reminds me when I was a child making my own paper dolls and coloring them. What fun I had..it passed many hours away. : ))

    Be playing about a week now and my lowest score was the avant-garde design…maybe if I had the infamous ‘Lady GAGA Meat Dress’ I would have score higher?! lol I did win the BG and 2500 tokens for my western design (I used the man w/the long coat). I have yet seen my “paper doll’ , but I have sure seen many bathrobes, dancing ladies, blowing hair, and have also seen some great designs.

    Keep having fun….

  217. Jenni #222 – Congrats on your mini background win! I think I got a 6.0 for mine and I still liked it when I saw it again. Not sure it was truly avant garde, but I thought it came close given the choices we had (I wore the 2 piece sorta orange-y two piece outfit and had the hair in the exaggerated high up-do and the model with no smile (going for haughty). lolllll Ah well.

    Here’s my observation/gripe/whatever for the day: I’m tired of Pogo telling me to “try” to get a 7.0. I’m trying, I’m trying! lol

    I too have NO clue how I got so into this game. lol I’m still only voting long enough for the tokens though. If I choose to go a little longer, Pogo usually shows me the error of my ways pretty quickly by giving me two outfits I hate voting for together so I just X out.

    I haven’t ventured into cross-dressing….yet! lol I am not happy the guys had a skating option though. Since it was obviously an indoor rink, I voted against sunglasses and flowing hair as a rule. Oh, and inside snow. lol I even picked the santas and elves over flowing hair because, heck, it is the season.

    Today’s Theme: Disco Darling

    Goal: Disco isn’t back, it never went away! Dress your model so to spark a 70’s Disco revival.

    GL all.

    ~Shel ;>

  218. This “game” is definitely a good one to have two (or more) accounts to play since that way you can experiment. I have been doing that with cross-dressing with my non-club account but my results have been underwhelming.
    Which leads me to one of 2 possible conclusions:
    1) Even though Men’s Minis are rarer they do seem to get more votes
    and/or
    2) I just have no sense of what “works” to make a good Women’s Mini.

    I personally think #2 is responsible for my low scores, LOL, but I think #1 is also responsible in the case of some backgrounds, like the Ice Rink, where there’s an appropriate Mini for one gender but not the other.

    FWIW, my scorecard so far:
    Club Account – 6 wins (all Male)
    Non-Club – 4 wins (1 Female)

    RE: Today’s Photo shoot, “Disco Darling”, It looks like I can actually vote in good conscience tomorrow with entries that include that @#!ing dancing mini that seems to show up in EVERY shoot so far.

  219. I think most people really didnt know what avant garde meant. I didnt til I seem someone explain it so I dressed mine as if I were going to a party at the muesum and won my first one. Finally, I on a roll of one now. I do know what disco is so just maybe will get #2. lol

  220. I went online and looked for avant garde… so much for doing homework! LOL
    This has become fun for me now! LOL If I can get past 2 of the same or the obvious disregard for theme (or the blowing hair indoors) it’s fun to vote and look for names I recognize… I’ve ceased to worry about what my score is. I have to admit I’m looking forward to captions though.
    I dressed my indoor skater as a fairy… was going towards the competition skater theme – which I’m sure no one understood given the fact that all the high scores I saw were dressed in warm clothes. Oh well, I’m having fun – and that’s all I care about! I have so many backgrounds – it would be nice to have one I don’t have that isn’t available to get at the mini mall… but I’ll live without it! 😉

  221. Well guys be prepared to see a lot of hip wiggling. Both the male and female ones. Think before we get done voting(if you can stand it that long), your eyes will be goofy. I did the worse on the ice rink. Would be nce if there was someplace we could see what the winning ones looked like. I only had 3.something for 300 tokens. Had at least 1000 before for my low. Had my mini dressed in a purple short skirt that had tights and boot and a long sleeved sweater. Maybe a lost out to a elf. LOL

    Hope the rest of you do better than I did. Good luck, Well it gives me something to shoot for again.

    Also wish if people don’t want to bother dressing their mini, they would just vote and get the points and not bother entering. Sharon

  222. I wonder how they determine which models to put up first. Maybe u guys have already discussed this and I didnt see it. Anyways, if u are like me, you only vote til the tokens stop. So needless to say, if u are not in the first 50 or so, u dont even get a vote…..hmmmmmm, very interesting. I could give this a lot of thought but not going to….too many other things to think about.

    jum

  223. GM BHers and GL with all your goings-on!

    For Debi #223 ~ See? Just goes to show ya that no matter how percise you are to the theme, please try and remember…..it’s whom you’re up against. One of you might me next to the ever clever “just robed” (maybe wearing glasses….Oooooo),one, LOL, or one who really fit the theme to a tee, and so many different tastes and other factors, too.
    Nevertheless, I love the game and have from the start and I wish ev1 good luck. GBU all too. Carol C.

  224. Sharbear565 #229 – I agree, I’d like for the top 3 daily winners (or 5, or 10) to be spotlighted, would also be nice of Pogo to award these top winners a special mini trophy or star goodie.

    I feel old today (for those who understand) with my knowledge of the disco era, after seeing many of today’s hot shot entries. :-O

    And once, had to choose between Mrs. Claus and a bathrobe. 😛

    Have a wonderful day everyone! 🙂 Flower

  225. oh, we have some younguns here….lol….it is disco. not hiphop….lol…IMHO…disco dressed a little classier….

    jum

  226. I’ve got two accounts, been doing hotshots on both. The last few days I did identical outfits. One one with a score of 7, got the background, the other got 5.8, tokens but no background. Here’s the zinger…. when I was voting identical outfits got scores of 8 and 9!! How can that be???

  227. justagramma#234 – I have dressed my 2 in indentical outfits and have had them both win, but I have also had 1 win and the other only get tokens. It just depends on who it is matched up with during the voting.

    While voting I have noticed minis dressed the same with scores drastically different.

    Suz

  228. Think I know why I scored so low on the skating rink hot shot. I almost forgot to enter the contest, so my mini wasn’t up for view for long. Looking at the disco one while voting, The outfit I chose has been getting the mid 5’s, so I should go up from my lowly 3 from day before. LOL.
    I also think the men have a wider variety of clothes to choose from than women. I have been thinking of “crossing” too. Can we do that? Anything that says we can’t? Sharon

  229. You can dress as a male or a female, nothing in the rules that says that you can not.

    Suz

  230. Since I’m doing both my mom’s and mine – and was doing them identical for the most part for a while… I was wondering why there was a difference in scores. So now, I’m experimenting. Yesterday, I experienced my all time low (100 tokens) while she scored 2000 tokens.
    I cross dressed for today’s – the “space shot” I’m going on the assumption that no one is going to read the “who’s going to represent earth best” theme. My mom is enjoying the tokens, so as long as her token count stays up there… I don’t think she cares.
    I’m watching how people vote…
    Those wiggly hips male and female were driving me insane! LOL
    If Pogo wants themes, the least they could do is enlarge our wardrobe choices a tad. Some real creativity would be nice! Can I get a big “heck ya!!!” (I’m being nice on here!)
    I found myself wishing for a “goodie” option once or twice now. I REALLY wish that caption option would become available. While I may not always be that creative – at least it would help occasionally!

    Win, lose or draw… other than what I’ve already stated before, it’s still fun seeing what some people who have obviously put some thought into it – have come up with… and it’s rather fun seeing sublime photo’s that I can “see” (hopefully) what they were going for without captions.
    THOSE will get my vote every time – regardless of how low they score overall!

  231. I never thought about the length of time available to vote! I usually submit mine late too. But to me if you have identical outfits as the winner then all who dressed that way should win! Just my thinking, but makes sense to me. Some of the categories are pretty dumb!

  232. Hi, all! Late to the posts today. Just checked out my skating score – one of my lowest – 3.6! I stayed female, so had no skates. Went for a short skirt number, thinking the professional female skating outfits. Picked the black Santa top because it had “fringe” and the snow on it could be seen as sparkly. lollll Guess people didn’t like that much. lol Sounds like you were thinking along the same lines as me Debi (#228).

    I also don’t really worry about my scores – I just find them interesting to think/talk about with you all, wondering how they end up coming about. lol And sometimes, if I’m tired, I don’t really feel like thinking about my mini that day. For example, I really just threw on something for the Disco theme…nothing we all have been complaining about!!! (Shel won’t go cup o’ noodles! lol) But will be interesting to see how she scored.

    jummmy #230 – I really think we are all in some big random pool and our minis get thrown up for different votes against different competitors all thru the day. So, for instance, I only place 50 votes too – but I doubt I see the same 50 match-ups that you see.

    I think that may affect some of our votes, too. If we don’t get shown enough, how can people vote us up? If it is anything like the Hot Shots in the Mini Mall, some I see only once as I cycle thru them, others pop up constantly.

    shar #236 & justa #239 – I don’t think it matters when you submit your model because voting starts for all of us at the same time – midnight west coast time. So, all models have the same 24 hour voting period.

    Totally agree that it would be nice to see a selection of the winning minis each day – I think there would be more than 3 to choose from though. Also, agree that we really really really need those captions and some goodies would be luverly too!

    But what I’m *really* interesting in seeing??? Tom #226 on his personal journey to find out what works on a woman’s mini. lolllll

    ~Shel ;>

  233. Theme: Disco Darling
    Goal: Disco isn’t back, it never went away! Dress your model so to spark a 70′s Disco revival.
    Voting Instructions: Of the pair, whose outfit would better spark a 70’s Disco revival.

    Well, the Instructions certainly matched the Goal THAT time! Let’s see what we get with today’s….

    (Disco voting thoughts: (1) I think Tom is right – Men get more votes. They were ahead in every match-up in my voting with the exception of one robed guy. lol (2) People seemed to tolerate the Men’s dancing mini more than the Women’s. Not a surprise – the black dress is boring and the dancing guy makes me laugh every time. (3) I loved the Afros! lol And no fair the men getting platform shoes. lol)

    Thursday’s Theme: Intergalactic Summit
    Thursday’s Goal: Your model is Earth’s representative to an Intergalactic Summit. Dress them so they represent us well!

    Hmmm, represent Earth “well.” Sounds like kind of conservative dress instructions when I think people will want to go wacky. lol Should be interesting.

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  234. Hmmm, represent Earth “well.” Sounds like kind of conservative dress instructions when I think people will want to go wacky. lol Should be interesting.

    Interesting? LOL…from what I looked at this am it sure is boring : ) same outfits over and over and some get a 10 while the same outfits together get 7.5 & 6.0…go figure! wish I could figure out Pogo’s scoring system. lol It’s fun anyway!!

  235. Voting Instructions: Who would better represent Earth at the Intergalactic Summit?

    Again, the voting instructions seem to match the Goal pretty well. But, oh lordy! You are so right, scaller: Turning out pretty dang boring so far. Either I have match-ups of the “astronaut” suit or I have completely off-the-wall minis, fairies, flowing hair, robes, or lots of the Puck’s Peak costume…..??? lolll A lot of meditators too.

    I am amusing myself thinking about what the aliens might think if some of these minis actually did show up as our BEST REPRESENTATIVE of Earth! lol lol

    Seriously, fire hair in space? Flowing hair? Sunglasses? I bet you would fall right off that planet if you had sunglasses on. lol

    Okay, on to the next day’s challenge:

    Theme: Back to School for you
    Goal: This may not come as a surprise to you, but your model never finished 3rd grade. Dress them for their first day back at school!

    GL everyone.

    ~Shel ;>

  236. Well Shel, here’s one day we disagreed… I thought the flowing hair made sense in space. It was showing out in space and there is no gravity out there, so it made sense to me that the hair would be flowing. Guess what??? I barely saw ANY in my voting options this time!!! Go figure!! ROFL
    Now… the school… I missed the 3rd grade part completely. I think I’m ceasing to read the goals now! LOL I’m sinnnnnnnking!!!! I did dress both for “school” but dressed them both very differently just to see how they scored.
    Like I said, I’m just having fun with it.
    I almost hope I win the space background, which I doubt… but it would be kind of fun to have, since it’s not available on backgrounds. Not that I NEED anymore backgrounds…. but…. LOL
    I did forget to check the men’s side for school this time. I was tired, hurting and dressing “girls” has always been more fun for me anyway! :p~

  237. i like your comments about the “BEST REPRESENTATIVE of Earth’. lol

    i hope we get some fun, cute THIRD GRADERS.

    have fun! :))

    ABCDEFG
    2×2=5

  238. Oooooh, came so close on my Disco Mini – 6.9.

    I was kind of bored with the Space background. I had a hard time deciding on a look; nothing really met the critera, to me. Somehow I missed the astronaut look for myself, then that look was in almost every match up (sometimes against each other.) Zzzzzzz.

    Third graders are cute — tons of ponytails, so I think people are starting to note the clue.

    I tried my hand a crossdressing for tomorrow’s trucker theme; we’ll see how that goes. I had to try on tons of things — I’ve never dressed a man-mini before. Although, I have to admit that I really would not care to own this background.

    I wonder if people play based on their desire to acquire the background or if it just automatic response?

    Shel (243) and Debi (244) — I avoided flowing hair in space based on my belief that zero gravity means no movement. Now, if they were in the space shuttle, then you would get that bouncing around with hair everywhere look, but I think outside it would just “puff” and stay that way. Yeah, I have given this wayyyyyy too much thought.

    In good news, only three bathrobes today! Woo hoo!

  239. Debi #244 & Jenni #246 – Flowing hair in space: I have to say I come down closer to Jenni’s way of thinking. Just figured it would do nothing in space basically. lol And, yeppers, I am thinking way too much about this!! lol

    Jenni – what did you end up going with for your space outfit? I was destroyed by the voters with my sensible “I could be in charge of the whole planet” outfit. lollllll

    Just going in now to vote on the 3rd graders – glad to hear that people are going for the cuteness. lol Not looking forward to the trucker theme….yet…. toying about whether this is the day to take the cross-dressing plunge!

    Third Grade Voting Instructions: Of the pair, who is really ready for their first day of third grade? (Original goal is listed in post #243).

    Okay, done voting…….wow, there were ALOT of graduation robes! I am assuming I’m missing the point, but since I didn’t “get it,” they didn’t get my votes. I loved the Brownie uniforms – didn’t realize they were there, because I didn’t check out the costume/outfit tabs with this challenge. I basically voted for whichever model looked the most kid-like. I only had 2 robes show up…..but of course, one made me vote for flowing hair AND sunglasses to avoid picking the robe. DANG YOU, POGO!!!! lol lol lol

    ~Shel ;>

  240. Today’s Theme: Truck Stop Couture

    Today’s Goal: Get your model ready to roll. Dress your model as the upper crust of trucking transport!

    Interesting fact I just noticed (maybe I’m just slow lol): Models Shazzy Nanoo and River Firefly have EXACTLY the same face. Only their hair is different, which we get to change anyway. So there is no point to having both of them.

    Likewise, Ida Claire & Bella Reganza have the same face too – *maybe* their skin color is slightly different. With all the different face possibilities out there, why did we have to 2 sets with the same features? (And 1 set has to both wink – ugh.)

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  241. Hmmm I swear I absolutely did not see this comment on the school hotshot. I saw only dress for back to school. I did minis for three accounts and all were identical. I think not everyone is getting the same messages. I was shocked to see

    Theme: Back to School for you
    Goal: This may not come as a surprise to you, but your model never finished 3rd grade. Dress them for their first day back at school! When I went to vote today. Last night we did my granddaughter’s mini together and still said nothing about 3rd grade. Anyone else miss this boat??
    As for the astronaut , I saw the mini was a pilot, I did not see how it related to a space them at all when dressing my minis so passed it by.

  242. i noticed that on the third grader photos the females out numbered the males this time and i will confess that the last three times i have ‘crosses dressed’. hehe : ))

    btw: i did see one of the dancing ladies and bikini outfits while voting today! *shaking head*

    cya

  243. Shel#243-i wanted to find out if anyone else has seen the little flying saucer in the outfits for both genders!! I know this sounds stupid,but as i was trying to choose an outfit for the”Intergalatic Summit” theme, i found it.As i was voting there were probably only 9 or 10 entries & i usually vote for about an hour. It almost looked like a wheelchair but as i looked at it closer it didn’t have any wheels on it. Both female and male were dressed pretty much the same(brown pants with a light aqua top). When i saw it the next day with the backround, it was floating! Please, if anyone else could look in outfits section, it’s in there!So i would like to hear some feedback from anyone else that agrees with me about this! Thanx & have a nice weekend every one!

  244. the first pair i had to choose from had a completely nude model as the choice on the left – it was funny – the game froze and wouldn’t let me vote. it didn’t appear again while i voted. did anybody else have this happen.

  245. Haven’t opinionated on Hot Shots for awhile, but….

    “The Disco” somehow turned into “Da Club” hmmm – generation gap I guess.

    “Avant Garde” now means a little black dress (who knew??), the fashion houses of Gucci and Armani are wasting so much time!

    At the space summit – if I were an alien at that meeting, I would just blast the planet Earth with a tractor beam since it is over populated with pink “Puck” people.

    As for the 3rd graders, it has been quite awhile, but I am sure I don’t recall any kids wearing business suits, formal evening gowns, or any that had attained their doctoral degree yet. The topper on that one has to be the bikini-clad ladies… I KNOW I never saw that,… we didn’t even have breasts!! Yes, I am being way over-analytical, but I can’t stop myself LOL!!

    **off topic – Shel I forgot to mention in “THE PLACE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED” they feed us grapes and champagne AND everytime you win a game you are showered with fairy dust and GEMS!! It is magical, but… I know you stand on principle (but I am saving a seat for you on the DARK SIDE MWAHHAHAHAH). Walk toward the light…. ;-D **

  246. i looked didnt see it in the womens but saw the hoverround in the mens the third row down first one on left.. didnt notice it before.. went back to womans and found it, on same row as the save the green.. the white jumb suit,, the female one has brown pants with an across stripe shirt never noticed it before lol

  247. You don’t get gems playing on FB unless it comes from a JP spin….you do get tokens; special trophies when you attain a level, but never are you showered with gems….fairy dust, I have no clue what that is.
    As to the Hot Shots, they give you one clue the day before & then change their requirement on the day of the mini so how is anyone to know what (& am stating it nicely) the Pogo gods are thinking. I do agree that it is strange how some people interpret what they should dress the mini as LOL.
    Have fun all.
    Ro
    PS: Just made Level 48 & have never received any gems there.

  248. i noticed that in todays voting the women minis out numbered the men. and i must confess…i am guilty of cross dressing…hehehe

    have fun!

  249. Ro – The FB stuff was a joke!! (aka sarcasm) … meant for a certain person… who knows who she is 😉

  250. Re: Hair flowing in space, I was OK with that because if it was in a vacuum the hair wouldn’t be flowing but the mini also wouldn’t have anything to breathe so I’d figure there’d be an atmosphere on the asteroid (or whatever) and therefore possible wind.

    Re: Third graders, I was amazed at how many 3rd Graders managed to graduate on their first day! They must be quite precocius, LOL.
    I didn’t see any cap & gowns with too many votes, though, so voters did catch that as well.

  251. justa #249 – The third grade “goal” (and all the other goals) is found all the way to the right of the screen, above the background, on the same page where we choose our models. Are you looking there? If yes, and you didn’t see 3rd grader instructions, then maybe they are giving people different instructions?? Can’t imagine that though.

    scaller #250 – I also thought the 3rd grader contest was one of the few where the men minis did not look better than the female minis. lol I scored a 6.8, which is kewl, but I really thought I had a 7.0 with that one. lol

    Cindy #251 – I did see the hovercraft AFTER the fact. lol I think sometimes I have an idea in my head of what I’m looking for and may just skim most of the choices too quickly and miss something good. lol

    kristine #253 – Silly, silly girl. I have a a group of volunteer men on Pogo who feed me grapes any time I want. ;> And I keep a supply of fairy dust with me everywhere I go. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Lastly, there *is* no light on the Dark Side to follow. Sheeesh! lol

    Ro #255 – Ignore that silly girl behind post #253. She is making things up under the mistaken impression she is going to taunt me into trying the Dark Side. lollll WTG on level #48!!

    Totally agree about the instructions being different from the goal at the beginning, but I’ve been tracking the goals/instructions for several days now (yeppers, I have no life lol) and Pogo is doing a much better job at remembering to match them up. lol Which leads to today’s voting instructions:

    Trucking voting instructions: Of the pair, whose upper crust trucking outfit looks readier to roll?

    Flipped the wording around a little bit, but IMO still saying basically the same thing. GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  252. I’m over analyzing this too if it makes any of you happy… LOL
    I’m playing both my mom’s and mine. So, my mom’s is winning backgrounds and tokens – and mind you, these are backgrounds that she’ll NEVER use… and mine are either REALLY not or coming up just shy.
    Frustrating to say the least… but interesting to see voting techniques. Granted, I don’t always dress them identical and I’ve toyed with doing male/female once. (It didn’t work, my female scored way low, the male scored way high)

    New dressing: Gifts of Christmas past – dress in what your Grandma gave you last year… and something about sweaters.
    I toyed with the males but ultimately went with female. Just way more fun to dress the women! Now if I had had the option to put in a caption… I could have worked with the male and made it work.
    Can’t wait to see how many things OTHER than sweaters show up!

    BTW – on truck stop voting – I had the wonderful choice of a bathing suit and a wedding dress… now there’s a real choice for you!!! Where’s that NEITHER button Pogo???

  253. Shel (247) — I think I went with the meditating lady. I tried on several looks for that one; I think my underlying message was peace to the planets. They need to get the captions working; I am sure the message was missed. That was one day I really wish I had my own closet. I have a mini called “Annabell Justice” (or something along those lines) that really could rule the planet.

    My little girl did not do so well. Like Shel said (259), I sometimes get fixated and miss things. In that one, I was wholly focused on the kid needing a bag. I am not sure why, but school children need bags, right? So I went with the messenger bag look and it was in no way as cute as it could have been. It was my second mini that scored under 5.

    I finally saw a BH’er – Suz’s own Holly Noelle. She was doing well at 8 AM. 😉

  254. With my apologies to Lura for bringing this into the Hot Shot thread
    #257 & #259
    I picked up on that the FB reference was between the two of you & that’s okay, but, in an effort to lay the darkside references to rest & knowing that there are new people reading here everyday, I think it is important not to put out information that isn’t true. Just as we intepret the clues on Hot Shots differently, there may be people who take what they read in the comments as true and factual. Fun is fun & laughter is laughter, but many times, things are taken out of context & then a whole new issue arises (just my opinion).
    Regarding Hot Shots, I think the reason that it’s listed as a puzzle game is because you have to figure out exactly what the Pogo gods are trying to say LOL. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
    Ro

  255. #257 – I have to admit that I thought you had won gems also. Yes, almost everyone knew you were kidding Shel, but not all. I even went looking on Pogo’s wall…..and I never venture there 🙂

    And there’s plenty of light there Shel, you just have to want to see it 🙂

    Suz

  256. i never knew there was a hint or clue for the daily shot as i couldnt see the right side or the bottom of the screen.. and thanks to adeliegerbers, who messaged me and told me to try holding down the ctrl key and moving the wheel in center of mouse and wowser the who screen came into view.. and i could see what the message was for the background for the day.. i had tried to change the resolution but that hadnt helped..so many thanks for the answer ty ty ty

  257. oops whole screen not who screen.. need pogo to know what i mean not what i type.. thought check like spell check

  258. Ro & Moms #262 & #263 – No worries, never see any problem with clarifying what is a joke or not a joke. lol Ro, I did think the way you responded seemed like you were correcting a factual post, not clarifying a joke post, so that’s why I responded the way I did. And I know “gems” are touchy subjects, so that’s why I didn’t even attempt to include them in my response to kristine (I was kinda tired to be thinking at that point too lol).

    On a serious note from me, however, I will say I’m sorry if the use of the “dark side” upsets people but I still have valid reasons for the way I think and feel on the topic and, so, I won’t be laying “the dark side” to rest anytime soon. New people to the site might actually agree with me, too. (Hey, it could happen! lol) And it never hurts for new people to realize that not everyone here thinks the same way on every Pogo topic.

    I answered this here, since this is where it got brought up. I suggest we can move future discussion back to the weekend thread, or to one of the FB threads (if there is a place for dissenting opinions there).

    ~Shel ;>

  259. Tom #258 – I declare you the winner of the “let’s analyze flowy hair in space” discussion. Being able to breathe certainly trumps all the rest. lollll

    beyechonjr #264 – Glad you were able to get some help to see the Goals!

    Voting on the trucking – wow, some of the men minis are still hovering the 8.0 range! Hope that’s not because people assume women can’t be truckers. I stuck with my girl, we’ll see how she does. I was much more lenient about flowy hair and sunglasses today, in fact, I definitely have sunglasses on – can’t remember about the flowy hair. lollll

    Jenni #261 – I like the messenger bag mini, one of my faves. In fact, I think I chose it for the trucking one. I think I voted for one of the meditating minis in space….I do think captions would help so much with so many of these, but there was something mystical about it anyway. lol

    One thing I think we may all be able to agree on with the trucking voting: Flaming hair does NOT belong by gas pumps!!!!! lol lol

    Today’s Theme: Gifts of Holiday Pasts
    Goal: What to do with all those knitted sweaters? Dress your model in last year’s gift from Grandma.

    Debi #260 – I agree, should be interesting to see how many go in a different non-sweater direction after this seems clearly to point towards sweaters, sweaters, sweaters. loll

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  260. My best pair voting on the trucking topic…..a bride on 1 side and a bathrobe wearing the chef’s hat on the other side. Where is that “no vote” button??

    Suz

  263. ooops post # 269 was ur mini licking her eyebrows or something to be dressed as a lot lizzared or did ya have the rex- a- saucaurus dinosaur outfit on?? lol just curious lmao boop

  264. Well, my first attempt at cross dressing netted me a big score and a background I will never use. =)

    I was expecting a boring litany of sweaters today, so I was rather shocked when I opened my game and saw a bikini vs. the low cut gold evening gown. It was rare to get a matchup of two sweaters…I think I got more matchups of non-sweater looks than two Christmas sweaters (what I was totally expecting.)

    Not one bathrobe in all of my voting today. That was a nice change.

  265. 8.5 votes for my ‘crossed dressed’ trucker! my best yet : )

    it seemed like most minis actually kept to the theme this time. i did see a few ball gowns, bathrobes, race car drivers(?) but my fav was the women in curlers w/a barrel dress. made me lol…

    now it seems like my hubby is entering his mini (he asked what game i was playing) can’t wait see what he dreams up (he has no fashion sense..hahaha.

  266. hi all u hotshotters
    i have a very strange question
    when u enter the photoshoot it says to dress ur mini in such a way
    then the next day u c the caption & it has absolutely nothing to do
    with the way u dressed ur mini. does everyone c this problem????
    dont u think pogo should put up the caption they r going 2 use???
    or am i just being a nut???????????????????????????????????????
    oh well, guess we should just have a crystal ball or esp ~~~~~~~
    good luck & have fun ~ b ~

  267. Ok…? Today 12/13/10 Photoshoot: Roller Shopping Goal: As if shopping wasn’t already terrifying, they had to install a rollercoaster in here? Your Model’s motivation is sheer terror.
    Huh? Sheer like a ghost, nah that doesn’t fit. Uh…white as a ghost, that may work… LOL! I am unsure how in the world to convey “sheer terror” without the facial expressions. What do ya’ll think about the “Roller Shopping” photoshoot?

  268. I agree that you can’t show pure terror without changing the facial expressions. It’s just going to be who is dressed to go shopping.

  269. I used the animated mohawk hair to try to do terror? That’s a tough one. I hope it works, it’s an animated background.

  270. I put on the karate suit and said the hell with it….I first checked out every model and no scared faces there…cmon pogo, give us something to work with

    jum

  271. I have to agree with the above. How to show terror. I started dressing my daughters and seeing I was in her account, I was going to start. But after looking at everything available, I left. Will have to think about it or jsut dress her in a top and bottom and let her go.Or is sheer our key word. But then a need a sexy nightie!! LOL. Will be interesting to see which one gets higher scores in todays voting. One is dressed in bunny jammies and the other in a sweater and slacks and I think I put reindeer antlers on it. Trying to cover both bases.

    Good luck on todays “sheer Terror” Will be interesting. All shovelled out of snow, now just freezing body parts off!! Sharon

  272. ‘sheer terror’ was really hard…i just dressed as going shopping w/a purse over my shoulder. interested in seeing what everyone came up with…

    dang it is cold outside! -7 w/wind chill…brrrrrrrr
    calling for another round of snow wed & thurs here.
    best day for shopping is tomorrow , so the weather people say~~~

    gl all : )

  273. Starting my voting and I got me a nekkid mini!!!!!! O_o From the hair, I would guess it looks like the new elf outfit has gone missing. lol

    Lots of sunglasses for an outdoors, nighttime scene. I thought that was strange. I’m also surprised the outfit with snow falling on it seems to be getting such poor votes….seems appropriate use this time.! Eeek! Another nekkid elf. Really kinda disturbing. lollll

    I was wrong – getting TWO nekkid elf ladies competing against each other is REALLY disturbing. lol

    Voting Instructions: Of the pair, who is better sporting last year’s gift from Grandma?

    I again think that is pretty dang close to the original Goal we used to create our minis.

    bj #274 – Actually, we have been making note in this thread of all Themes, Goals and Voting Instructions. While Pogo may have had some doozies at the beginning, it seems to me that lately the Voting Instructions match the Goal almost exactly. Are you sure you are seeing the Goal before you make your mini? It is to the right of the game screen, on top of the background itself, on the page where you first choose your model.

    Carol #269 – I have to admit I don’t know what a lot lizard is! lol

    Congrats to all who did well with the truckers, cross-dressing or not. I did really poorly…….I think I’m on a losing streak! lol

    Open #275 – Thanks for posting the Theme and Goal today – as everyone else has said, how ridiculous to have an “emotion” challenge when they don’t let us change anything on our faces.

    badlokii #277 – clever idea!

    scaller #273 – Getting the hubby hooked!! lol Let us know how he does.

    GL again everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  274. I’ll most likely do really well on the “grandma gift” one since i already have that background. I seen to win the ones I have and not the ones that I don’t. That’s Shel’s law, right.

    I would really like a consolation prize if you already own the background.

  275. sheljin281
    bj-post#274 yes i am reading what pogo puts on top dress ur mini 4 1st day of school but it never said “third grade ” anywhere……..same with others
    sooooooooooooo where do u find out what the caption is going 2 b the next day? if i knew what the caption was i would have dressed like a kid………..
    & a note on the robes with glasses or hats … well 2day while i wz dressing my mini the screen froze i waited & waited, but i had 2 shut down & log back in so maybe thats whats happening just a wild guess on this 1………………………..
    good luck 2 all
    happy holidays
    have fun
    ~bj~

  276. Voting instructions: Whose terror of “roller-coaster-shopping is greater?”

    Best guess: Neither, since I don’t think anyone is going to look terrorized. lol

    Happy to report that the elf lady is fully clothed again! WHEW!

    New Theme: Aurora Bore-A-List
    Goal: Those Northern Lights sure are inspiring. Dress your model in some aurora bore-A-list fashions.

    Very punny! I sense Editor Tahd’s hand in these write-ups!

    I really like this background, though, so need to put some thought into my model. Be back later & GL everyone.

    ~Shel

  277. The terror on the thought of a roller coaster really irritated me. At first I thought “maybe” Pogo had added something to our closets – checked women and men’s closets – no such luck. I checked to see if ANY of the clothes had arms that were both up (since facial expressions can’t change). Nope. Okay, so I dressed one as a “grandma” and one as a pregnant woman. When I voted tonight – I didn’t see one.
    What I did see was a whole lot of people who looked like they were looking forward to those roller coaster rides… punk kids, etc.

    Today’s challenge kind of threw me too. Either I’m getting more dense or just overly tired. “bore -ing” aurora lights???? It’s cold there… so I dressed mine as boring as I could. No flowing hair – no sun glasses since it’s night. LOL
    I’m so sick of flowing hair and sunglasses and flaming hair I could spit! LOL

    My “grandma’s” sweater gift netted me a 7.9. grrrrrr. I realized it’s not about the tokens or even the background (necessarily) – I just want the win!!! :p~
    I haven’t checked my mom’s yet. Hers have been getting 8’s or better almost every time. Maybe I should do hers first and then do mine! LOL
    She doesn’t even USE the backgrounds!!!

    Good luck all! 🙂

  278. I was having a lot of trouble with today’s challenge. I was trying to compare “bore” with “A-list” …. kind of a contradiction to me. I wound up going with a simple (but sheek) hair style and a plain (but timeless) outfit. We’ll see how it goes!

    I haven’t won one since the art gallery. Probably because I didn’t know you guys were putting up the goal!! That helps alot; THANK YOU!

    For today’s voting; I can see where where people are putting on the floating ghost, I kinda like that… But I really like the grandma’s, wheelchairs, and high-heeled boots! I think those people woule really be scared to get on a roller coaster!

    GL ev1!!

  279. i am getting very frustrated
    where is everyone getting the dress ur mini 4 the 1st day of school” 4 THE 3RD GRADE”??????????????
    where is everyone getting dress ur mini 4 rollercoaster shopping “TERROR”????????????????
    & AS 4 2DAYS WHO KNOWS WHAT THE CAPTION WILL B 2MORROW??
    GEEEEEZZZZZZZZ if i only knew what the real caption is supposed 2 b i wd dress my mini appropriately ………………………………………………..
    frustrated in pogoland bj

  280. I keep missing the mark on these things. I love playing it, but the most I have scored is 6.9. Maybe my aunt should be doing mine too (ahem Aunt Debi!!!!). Where exactly is the clue? I didn’t have time to read all of these (plus, I already forget half of what I did read lol)… A.D.D. is kicking in… I completely have a love/hate thing with this game. The selection is so frustrating.

  281. When you go to pick your mini there are instructions on the right hand side…..I didn’t see them for the first week, but did better when I didn’t.

  283. I don’t know if it will yield any results – probably not lol. I cross-dressed again for today’s terror shopping shoot and in voting, saw no one dressed even close to how I was. For some reason, I always win when I cross dress. I tried to think of expressions of being scared… i.e “scared sick” “scared silly” “scared the pants off me”… so blending all three of these my mini today is a man with a stained shirt (scared sick), with his hair standing on end (? – just a thought), with boxers on (scared the pants off of him). With that combo the “scared silly” is definitely covered as well.

    As for the A-list – it sort of seems like they are already running out of ideas, so I dressed a female mini in a tastful outfit and classic hairdo ***yawn*** that will probably totally tank in the scoring.

    And one thing that is missing…. SHOES!! Like many women, I am a bit shoe obsessed and a great pair of boots or strappy heels can transform ANY outfit lol. In the words of Rachel Zoe… “I need more options.”

  284. Well I have to say my daughters mini got a 7.2 and 2600 tokens. Not bad for her first time out. Mine however dressed in jammieas got only a 6 something. So I did better with hers. THat was the dress in grandma present to you last year.
    On today to vote for the terror roller coaster one, I have to say I think none of them should get a vote. Everybody is dressed in regular clothes. I did my daughters in the meditating gal with her hair standing up on head. Mine I cross-dressed for the first time and made it a cave man. I thought he would be afraid of a roller coaster. Have a feeling nobody is going to do good on that one.Without being able to change facial expressions, it is kind of useless. Geez some are even winking. Sharon

    Now to figure out what can be boring and A-list at same time for Northrn lights. Good luck everyone.

  285. bj #287 & Sami #288 –

    Each day when you enter the game, you first see how your previous day’s model/mini scored (left page) and click on the right page to claim your prizes.

    Then you go vote. After voting 5 times, you get the option of “Go To Magazine.”

    When you click that, your left page has the background for the new contest and a caption – which we have been calling the “Theme” and which Pogo calls, “Today’s Photoshoot.” It is usually just a word or two description of the day’s theme. Today’s is:

    AURORA BORE-A-LIST

    The right page tells you how much time you have to submit your Hot Shot and an “Enter Photoshoot” button. Click on that and you are taken to the models.

    There are three models on each screen. Directly to the right of the first three models is a second copy of the background we are going to be using for the day’s “Photoshoot.” DIRECTLY ABOVE THE BACKGROUND is the word, “GOAL:” along with a more detailed explanation of the day’s challenge. Today’s reads:

    “GOAL: Those Northern Lights sure are inspiring. Dress your model in some aurora bore-A-list fashions.”

    If you choose your model and forget to read the day’s Goal, you can just click the button, “Start Over” on the bottom left of the game screen and you will be taken back to the model selection.

    Hopefully, you can now see what the rest of us have been talking about. GL and have fun!

    (Remember to continue voting until you have earned all your possible tokens for the day.)

    ~Shel

  286. Well, this thread is way too long to read.

    I just wanted to drop by and say for the last 3 days, I’ve cross-dressed as a man… and I’ve won all 3 days. Maybe I just picked out good clothes/costumes/outfits…. but seems like men get higher votes than women? I dunno.

    I feel so dirty now. I have to go shower at least twice.

  287. Debi #285 – Why are you grrrr’ing at your 7.9 score? That’s a GREAT score, isn’t it? lolll What am I missing? I haven’t been near a 7.9 in days & days.

    Katie, Debi, kristine, shar – You all had GREAT ideas for the “terror” theme. I just picked the model with no smile or wink, chose the kinda spiky hair-do and picked a sweater where she’s folding her arms. She still doesn’t look terrified to me, but oh well. lol Katie, welcome – glad our thread helped you.

    bad #290 – Your guy may look boring, but I bet he also looks mahhhvelous! lol

    I still haven’t decided what to do with today’s theme, going to go check it out now. I have a feeling Pogo didn’t mean for us to take the “bore” part literally, but that doesn’t really matter because people will vote as they will vote.

    Okay, I’m back. I bit the bullet and cross-dressed for the first time. lol I think my guy looks A-list, fashion-wise, but I’m sure he may look boring to some people too. Between the two, hopefully I can win me a new background! lol I do think people seem to vote for males more often in general, so hoping that works for me too.

    GL again everyone!

    ~Shel

    PS – Anyone notice they put a horrible holiday sweater into our closets the day AFTER the mini challenge? Sheeeesh! lol

  288. I think we might all be disappointed on the roller-coaster… I haven’t seen very many with a vote over 6!! The highest I saw was 7.7 and that model was nothing special.

    I’m confused over how many pogo-stick hoppers I see today?!? I even saw a few BATHROBES (eek!!) winning!!

    Anyway, I’ve been bored today and thought way too much about this, lol… can’t wait to see what they have tomorrow!

  289. Welcome to the board Sami!!! (she’s my niece!)

    Shel – I was grrr’ing at the 7.9 because 8 would have been a win with the background! LOL
    I’ve cross dressed – and won every time I’ve done it!!! The trucker theme scored the highest – My mom’s scored a 9 and mine was high 8’s.

    I think they did the roller coaster hard so everyone would score low… why you ask???? Simple – it’s an animated background!!!! Can’t give those away now can they?!?! ROFL Just a thought. I went back in just to check, I haven’t seen any scoring high either.

  290. Well I for one…love the Daily Hot shots.I look forward to getting up in the morning and see how i did and see whats in store for dressing the next mini.I enjoyed looking at the different ways ppl dress their minis.There are really alot of creative ppl on Pogo.Some of the time not quite sure what you are looking for but I just do it my way…lol.It is different from the games on Pogo but I am LOVING it.I also look forward to the Daily challenges.Pogo you have given me a wonderful reason for getting up in the mornings to see what the Daily Hot Shots and Daily specials are.I also enjoyed getting the free tokens!!!!Great job keep up the GREAT work…..suzy

  292. Once again Shyanne and I dressed out mini’s identical for the grandma’s gifts photo shoot. Dressed as a male, ugly green Christmas sweater, sweat pants with snowmobile boots and that funky man’s hat with the Sherpa ear-flaps. I won the background and she did not. I had a score of 8, she had 7.2… I don’t get how that can be. They were both submitted within minutes of each other, so had same time to be voted on. I’m glad one of us won, the Bore-A-list should be interesting.. the rollercoster one was a joke!! No clue how we were supposed to look terrified with just clothes.. just voted for the most creative

    Connie

  293. Shel 209- I noticed the ugly sweater and the 4 T-shirts too that all looked the same to me. , I never looked in mens. Went to reg mini mall and I looked and looked at the t-shirts and still didn’t see any difference in them. THen I went to mini store homepage and read it. They are Boys and Girls Club t-shirts costing from I think 80-360 gems each. The money will go to the Clubs. So I guess one better read first.

    I too have been voting and see the totals are very low. One of their lowest scoring one. Now really wish we could see winning ones!! Shar

  294. Oops – my bad – scored a 6.9 then. (thanks PurplePlum)
    I too, enjoy seeing the creativity Suzy – although I do it before I go to bed. LOL

  295. Ugh, a 4.8 on my “terrorized” mini. lol

    Today’s voting instructions: Of the pair, whose fashion seems more aurora bore-A-list?

    (Well, that’s clear as mud.)

    New Theme: Cozy Corner
    Goal: Style and comfort in the home is paramount. Dress your model for a cozy night by the fire.

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel

  296. good morning hot shots! was a very busy day for me yesterday and i was totally worn out and didn’t post. well…i sored 6 on the terror shopping and hubby scored 4.8 (in my opinion that challenge was awful).

    i have noticed when i cross dress…i do score higher! lol…go figure. :))

    enjoy your day and have fun!

  297. No, I haven’t decided to play dress-up, but do come in for the tokens. I vote for the ugliest minis I can, so bathrobes, elves, hip-shaking, sunglasses, santas, are all fine by me. After all, ugly minis need votes too. Gotten pretty good at picking out the lowest score, can hit about 40/50 votes for the low ones. I don’t see many men minis–perhaps that’s why they get more votes? Also REAL men wouldn’t play dress-up. I haven’t seen many BH ers in the voting..good for you, because I’d probably vote against you as you are all trying, & I reward ugliness.

  298. gbpack ~ You made me LoL this morning!! You make us all sound like desperate background getters!

    Truth is, we do it for fun (just like you do) AND truth is, men get bored too…. what is the differance between dressing up in DHS and dressing up your mini?

    I think today’s Bore-A-List voting is off to a good start, seen lots of 7’s and 8’s!

    GL all!

    Katie

  299. #300 justagramma – i believe the reason one got higher votes then the other is because they randomize it when people are voting, so not everyone is gonna see the same order of minis to vote on. It also depends on what the competition looked like next to each mini. if you have a lot of voters who play the opposite role like #305 gbpack they may have picked the competitor and that could be why she only got 7.2 when you got an 8. Theres lots of possibilities tho

  300. Mornin’ Hot Shots! 😀 and gl all…..
    bj, try not to feel too badly, but, I too, have never noticed the theme on the right til a few days ago when I came here, and thanks to Shel keeping us all informed, very well, I might add, it just never caught my eye. Big ole DUH on my part! LOL! TYVM for the most helpful posts, Shel, Moms and all.
    I also was wondering if any1 could ball park a guess as to how many entries there are daily, and is the UK included? I spend hours voting and rarely see even a BHer, let alone any1 I know in PogoLand.
    Well, I’m all warmly dressed in my pink jammies and bunny slippers to sit by the fire, no evening gown, no flowing hair, nor afire hair, decided not to get too close to that fire! LOL!
    The highest score I’ve gotten yet, is the gas station background, crossed-dressed and got a 7.6. Like I said, I loved this game from the beginning and like many others, do so wish we had more of a wardrobe to choose from. And it does remind me of Miss Betsy McCall, from my mom’s magazines wayyyy back when. Loved to cut her and her outfits out and dress her. This brings the child out in me and I love that, having had an awesome childhood.
    GL all on all your badges today, too…..tc and as always God bless you all and Happy Holidays, especially Lura, is this Baby’s First Christmas? I’ve forgotten already whe he was born, svs. Carol C.

  301. Whoa! Terror in the shopping mall was a real bust.Between the two mini I did, the TOTAL acore was only a 5.9, Sucked big time. I wonder if part of low scores it seemed for everybody, was because not many voted at all or there jsut wasn’t any clear thing to vote for. Hope to do better on the “bore A-list” one. Looked like a lot of high scores in there. If female dressed in what I called the Eskimo look, you will do fine. THey were getting 10’s when I started voting little after 2 AM. Good luck everybody. Off to buy my Christmas ham. Good luck on weekly challenges too. Sharon

  302. gbpack #305 – “After all, ugly minis need votes too.” I nominate this as one of the all-time great BH lines EVER. lolllllllll Your whole post had me cracking up!

    I’m glad you have found your very own way of making the “activity” fun for yourself. lol

    MsTish #308 – Don’t feel badly, I know many of us (myself included) didn’t notice those “goals” until days after we first started playing. lol I am not surprised to hear the cross-dressers do so well – I am often partial to the men’s minis. I think its because there are fewer of them, and also because I want to support those guys who DO like to dress up. lol But now I realize it is just mostly women cross-dressing. lollll

    Lura’s Chubby Cheeks had his 1st birthday party last weekend! How time has flown by.

    Nice to see all of you, Hot Shots! Some random thoughts I have about voting:

    Every one’s mini gets the same amount of voting time. Voting time starts at midnight pacific time (3 a.m. eastern) and runs for 24 hours.

    I believe everyone’s mini is paired up with a DIFFERENT mini every time it randomly appears. IOW, I don’t believe you go through the whole 24 hrs competing against just one mini.

    I think the scores are higher right when voting first opens because there are viewer votes and they therefore mean more. Numbers start moving lower as the day’s voting goes on.

    I agree with shar #309 about the terror votes – I don’t think there was one GREAT mini people supported, so everyone’s votes were more evenly split every time. I do wonder if Pogo planned it that way, so as not to have too many people winning an animated background? (As someone else mentioned yesterday, too.)

    Off to do my voting and my cozy model….I wish *I* could transplant myself into that background right now. Very cold here in Jersey. lol

    ~Shel ;>

  303. I did ok with the terror minis, but only got 6.7 and 5.3 for my entries which were fairly equivalent (no cross-dressing). Still the scores weren’t too bad considering I had no idea how to meet the goal and still wasn’t too sure when voting for it, either.

    I’m not sure how one of my “bore-A-list” will do since I hadn’t seen any similar ones in voting. I chose the maple leaf hoodie with snow pants and boots which was kind of bland (and boring) but appropriate for the bg but I hadn’t seen more than one of those in voting, so I’ll see.

    For tomorrow’s I’ll probably win it because they are for the first time using a background that I’ve already bought. In fact, this background was re-released in the mini-mall this month and is still available which I believe is another first for this contest. Haven’t all of the other bg’s been retired ones?

    Anyway, good luck, everyone!

    -Tom

  304. #305 – GB – you had me laughing! Interesting and different perspective – I like it!

    As for the “dress up” today – for the people who don’t dress – we’re going to see a whole lot of robes! LOL And even the fire hair won’t be totally inappropriate! Now sunglasses I’m really going to take exception to!
    I’m looking forward to voting!

    Tom – I’m not sure if ALL the backgrounds have been available in the mini mall. If they have, if might have been before I was a member on Pogo because I sure don’t remember seeing some of them. I know the cozy fire is available now. I WAS going to get it but just hadn’t gotten around to do my shopping yet. Now, I’m hoping I can win it (so I’m sure I won’t! LOL). Whether I do or not, I’ll own it! Love the dog by the fireplace… even if it’s ~barely~ an animated background. (a tail wagging and some blinking lights… not my idea of an “animated” background – but it’s “homey” and I like it)
    Oh… and Tom, I saw your mini… voted for it – you were pitted against a bathing suit! LOL

    For the first time, I actually saw my own mini up there. I of course, had totally forgot WHAT I had dressed as – so imagine my surprise when I voted for my own! I think the reason I did – since the two were identical… except the other one was wearing SUNGLASSES! Pet peeve – sunglasses at night. Contrary to the song… they just don’t work for me! :p~

    I’ve seen a few BH’ers come up – and almost without fail – they’ll get my vote. Don’t realize it until afterward. Moms has come up several times!

    Have fun all and good luck!

  305. hello all!

    something happened this am that i think is worth telling….i was dressing my mini for tomorrows photo shot and my laptop wetn into its auto update mode and shut me down! from what i have already read on here…i thought, ‘oh no’…i will be dressed in the dreaded bathrobe!
    when the laptop was finished updating and rebooted i went back to pogo and was thinking oh well…bathrobe it is. guess what? no bathrobe, i started all over again and had the fun of dressing my mini again.

    when i dress female, i get less votes. lol…guess i am just a ‘sharp dressed man. lol…love me some zz top : )

    hubby decided he didn’t like dressing up, so now he is just voting for tokens. can’t take him out anywhere…hehehe.

    great day for all, stay warm, safe on the ice and have fun!

    ps…pogo name is friscoowls

  306. Scaller #313 – that is interesting! I would have thought the dreaded bathrobe too! Good to know though.

    I have something to share…. I had the wonderful experience of voting for the same mini’s over and over last night. (not so wonderful BTW) I DID vote for Moms 3 times though – you were doing quite well! LOL
    I stayed on and voted a long time after I didn’t have to. There were of course a lot of PJ’s.
    I started thinking about “cozy” when I saw some of the outfits… some people were really creative! Now, to me, in NO world are curlers cozy. Nor are high heels or boots. No votes there unless it was pitted against snowmen or someone with their hair on fire (ouch!)
    I was really impressed for a change that people for the most part seemed to have given this more thought than a lot of the other themes… or maybe this theme was just a bit more broad than some of the others.

    Maybe more people will have a fighting shot at tokens and a background this time. Think I’ll go in later tonight and do some more voting just to check! I did see a few more BH’s in there too! I still am amazed at the creativity. 🙂 I maintain…. WE ROCK!!!!

    BTW – another win from the previous night Bore-A-List. Surprised me!
    But Yay! Love the background and it was one I didn’t have!

    Good luck and stay warm everyone! 🙂

  307. Hi, Hot Shots! Busy day today, busier tomorrow, but I’m finally here!

    Congrats to all who won the Bore-A-list contest – what did you wear? I’d love to know. I tanked again, my first try at cross-dressing. *sigh* Out of the recent backgrounds, that’s the one I would have liked to win. Ahhh well, I think I’ll stay female for awhile. lol

    Nice to hear about people running into BHers while voting, or even themselves! I haven’t had a BHer in at least a week, and haven’t seen myself since the first week.

    Voting for today’s contest: Of the pair, who is better dressed for a cozy night by the fire?

    So far, the voting seems very partial to the pajamas, which I also chose for my mini. So, hopefully, that may mean I have a good shot tonight. Lots of 7s and even 8s, which I hardly ever see if I’m voting late in the 24 hour period. Men seem even more rare and not doing as well in the voting……is there a little backlash going on? lol

    I also don’t think of curlers as “cozy.” lol Some of the nice outfits, while nice, seem the opposite of cozy to me, too.

    Today’s Theme: Winter Clothing Catalogue
    Goal: Dress your model in the finest winter catalogue fashions for this photoshoot out in the snowy woods.

    I may not be around until later again tomorrow…..so if someone wants to post the voting instructions and/or the new theme/goal for Friday, feel free. In the meantime, GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  308. Shel,
    Thank you for all your comments on daily Hot Shots, I’ve had the same experience. On the catalog clothes I tried cross dressing, hope it works.
    I really wanted the Aurora Borealis too.

    What do you mean by backlash: for cross dressing? or millions of years of male domination! lol
    Kidding guys!
    I’m nuts anyway!
    vcissy

  309. P.S.

    Someones probably said this but I dress ugly when I already own the back ground. I think I have a duplicate now. just what I need duh!

  310. Here’s what we’re working with today:

    Slope Style Photoshoot
    Goal: Whether skiing with grace and style or with reckless abandon, dress your model for a fashonable day on the slopes!

    I don’t kow about you guys but there are only a few “winter” style outfits to choose from and i’m tired of them all. I’m sure I won’t do so good as I’ve bombed on just about all of them, but I’m going to try!
    So, GL and have fun skiing ev1!

  311. I just saw 2 people from BH, the first time since the first week. The downside of doing your mini early is that they add items later in the day. I saw a lot of minis wearing items that were not available when I did mine at 9am.

    Suz

  313. vcissy #316 – Hiya! I was just joking about a possible backlash against the male minis. Over the weeks, several people have mentioned that they do much better when cross-dressing as a guy. lol I know I tended to vote “male” at the beginning alot, thinking it would encourage more men to keep playing. Then I realized alot of the men were just women crossing over. lol

    Interesting dressing ugly. hmmm. lol I might do that in the future if I ever feel like I’ve got a handle on the real deal. (ha!) I was tempted for the roller coaster terror one because it was so random.

    ~Shel ;>

  314. Wowzer! I got a 8.2 and 3500 tokens for the “cozy” contest. woohoo! Highest yet. Still wish I were really next to that fire. lol

    Friday Voting Instructions: Of the pair, whose winter catalogue fashions are finer?

    Seems like Pogo is keeping the instructions and goals matched up pretty well!

    For Friday’s contest see Katie #318 – thanks for posting it, Katie! I don’t think there are alot of choices, either. Also, I think a caption would have been helpful with this one – I would have said something about preferring to be in the lodge. lol

    Suz, what items were added after you dressed yours? I don’t understand why they can’t have them ready to go at the start of dressing for everyone.

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  315. Shel #322 – WTG!!!

    Holly won and was wearing jammies. I was wearing my favorite outfit and got all of 500 tokens…..LMAO A fashion maven I am not 🙂

    There were some items from the new mini mall release that were added, not that I would have dressed up like a wrapped gift, but they were added after many of us were done. Will try and remember not to do DHS until later on Thursdays when there are new items scheduled to be released.

    Suz

  316. Well today HS whose “winter catalogue fashions are finer” My daughters that I did will not win. I took fashion to be dressy not in the ‘eskimo coat” that we just wore in the last shot in “bore- A-list”. I dressed her in the red dress, not the swivel hip one. I just had her mini show up and only a 2.4. I have been voting for the dressier ones and not the ones in mittens and coats if can help it. Maybe I am voting like Dave and voting for the losers!!LOL. Can’t remember how I dressed other than is a dressier pair of slacks and top. Did better when we first started. Maybe I will have to lay off for a while. I had won 3 background in a roof and now all is down hill fast. LOL.

    I think they could make their male models more attractive. I wouldn’t pay to see any of them. LMAO. Sharon

  317. woe is me…lol

    the last 3 sets i have not scored above a 6 no matter if i cross dressed or not. i wore sweat pants and a t shirt for by the fire as a women (heck! that is the way i dress at home). lol~~ will admit the jammies were cute : )) for the ski slope i put on ladies winter outfit with snow on my shoulders.

    i am off to see the wizard….

    keep safe and have fun!

  318. Suz (323) – the late additions have been irking me also. Although, I think it happens less frequently than it used to (or maybe I am just playing later.)

    I was glad that we broke with the winter theme today. I know we should expect some overlap in the challenge, but with all the winter backgrounds I was seeing the same looks day after day.

    Tried my hand at cross dressing again for tomorrow…

  319. Saturday’s Photoshoot:
    Hill of Majesty
    Goal: Your model has just been inherited this castle on a hill. Dress your model as its majestic ruler.

    Cartoon background. Wondering if I should go cartoonish with my model? Humm. At least we shouldn’t see any MODELS FLIPPING SNOW OFF THEIR SHOULDERS! lol… no I’m not tried seeing that at all!

    🙂 GL

  320. Thanks Suz for the congrats! I’m back down in my usual range now – 3.5 lol I wonder what people were voting for in the Winter Clothing Catalogue. I thought I picked a cute wintery outfit, the blank-staring model, and a more modern hairdo. lollll

    Today’s voting instructions: Of the pair, whose day on the slopes will be more fashionable?

    Wow – I had a TON of bathrobes again. 🙁 Made me realize how much better it has been, but definitely not today. I think I probably had near 10 robes.

    Thanks for today’s contest write-up, Katie #327. I’m very glad to be moving away from snow for the moment too. lol

    ~Shel

  322. This one has me laughing… My mom’s one the animated background and tokens for the ski slope (winter fashion catalog) and mine didn’t. Her’s scored a 7.3 (I think) – mine a 6.8 – the difference in our mini? the hat!

    Today’s is an African safari theme. I went for a cross dress on mine.
    Heck with it. The men’s at least had a safari outfit! LOL
    Forgot about looking when I did my mom’s. I WANT the background! Haven’t seen it before at the mall… which means I won’t win…

    For today’s voting… wow… some very strange idea’s of who looks like they belong in a castle! dancing women with fairy wings… men in bikini’s (seriously???) LOTS of fairy’s and things along that line, which I sort of expected. I wasn’t sure which way to go – fantasy or realistic.
    I chose realistic. Didn’t see many – so I’m not holding out much hope… not a big deal, didn’t care for the background anyway! LOL

    Still having fun with it though! I think I’m having more fun trying to figure out what some people are thinking when I can tell they DID put some thought into it. Of course, I’m still looking for names I know.
    MomsBassetHound seems to come up A LOT for me.
    I really can’t wait until captions are functional! 🙂

  323. I like today’s background; the safari! And IMO, my model looks fabulouso.

    For the castle voting, I’ve seen my fairy come up a few times and I *think* I might have a chance of winning a back ground!!! Woo-Hoo!

    I agree with you Debi. I think the captions would completly change the game and the way people vote! They need to hurry up with that!

  324. Debi #330 there is a safari outfit in the woman’s section, i have used, actually there are 2 you could use, i do think pogo could introduce a something that when the peeps who go to publish in magazine, with the bathrobe, there is a pop-up that says, WHY NOT TRY PUTTING ON AN OUTFIT, or something like that

    loz

    ps wtg shel on your win

  325. mumson #332 – I love your idea about the pop up, so tired of seeing people in robes with sunglasses and flaming hair 🙂

  326. sweetlove #329 – I wish we could pair things up too. I also don’t like that if you choose a costume, you are stuck with the hair on it too.

    Got a 6.4 for my Slope Style – 2000 tokens. I’m happy with that, though I thought she was good enough to “win.” I can honestly say I would have never used that background. lol

    TODAY’S VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: OF THE PAIR, WHO IS THE MORE MAJESTIC RULER OF THIS CASTLE ON THE HILL?

    Well, I just voted for someone who dressed JUST like me and we’re not doing so good so far. lol lol I think the men had a little edge here again in that they had an actual kingly-looking guy with a crown. I don’t think the women had anything comparable. A lot of the fairy women (blue haired one) are still in the 8.0 range, so it is a favorite.

    Just voted for BHer Tom – looking quite majestic, Tom! Good votes so far too.

    Here’s a first for me – two people with screennames of my favorite drink: DrPepper! Each had different numbers after the name, but what are the odds of getting two in the same voting session?? lol

    ~Shel ;>

  327. SUNDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Safari Getaway

    GOAL: Time to leave the cat walk and head to where the big cats walk! Prepare your model for a safari holiday getaway.

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel

  328. Hello everyone! I wanted to share this info about the Mini Mall, in which i know everyone knows about this, but i just wanted to add this thought! In the ladies costumes closet,everything has a title to them. In the ladies there is an Egyptian Queen,Toga Party,Underwater Woman,Tri-Peaks Rugged Wear,etc. In the mens costumes there is The Royal Prince,Antique Diving Gear,Fireman,etc. Everything in the Mini Mall has these captions underneath them and yesterday when i was trying to find the Hill of Majesty Photoshoot i picked out a costume but after i did this, i remembered everything in Mini Mall has a title,caption or however to describe them, & it really helped me figure out todays photoshoot. After voting today, still seeing the robes,bikini tops,blaring hairs, i don’t know, maybe alot of people just want to be funny! After all this is just a game, and i do like it. Anyway, i just wanted to add my 2 cents worth??!! If anyone agrees with me,please tell me so i won’t feel like a “tard”. Have a nice evening!!
    !

  329. Cindy, I don’t think you are alone in your thinking.
    I think some people DO try to be creative. I hope so anyway. I’ve noticed in voting that “creative” doesn’t seem to get many votes though.
    I’m hoping captions will change that. ~crossing fingers, toes, arms, legs and eyes!~

    I really wanted NOTHING to do with this whole thing until I started reading Shel’s posts… so I blame her completely on my fascination and observations on this ‘game’ that I’m totally addicted to now. (hard to call it a game though!)
    I’ve really enjoyed some of the ideas that have come through… dress poorly if you don’t want the background. (like the castle on today’s)
    Still maintain there were two ways to go on this… and fantasy is way in the lead from what I saw at last check. Men seem to have the advantage in some themes, while women have only had the advantage once or twice (as far as closets go).

    I’m sick to death of seeing sunglasses, flowing hair & the fire hairdo indoors. I am looking forward to seeing ANY theme where the fire hairdo is going to make sense. Unless they tell us to dress like we’ve been planted on the sun or have a volcano exploding behind us – I’m NOT putting fire on my head!!!

    So, in answer to your question, yes… my knowledge of what’s in my closet as well as what’s available (by title) at the mini mall comes in handy. Although, I would LOVE to be more creative… if we had a bit more to be creative with.

    Pogo… are you listening??? CAPTIONS!!!! NOW!!! 😉 LOL

  330. 327 Katie I have seen some people standing in front of castle with the snow on shoulder!!! I think both my daughters and mine will get the background. Hope hers is not good enough for clothes. She is dressed as a man. As for tomorrow’s safari, I think you will see a lot of the same outfits for women. I see 2 different outfits that are appropriate, but you know you will see robes and suits. I have even lately seen the chopping vegetables back. What the heck is that?. I woud like the safari background, but unless I can vote a lot for me, it probably won’t happen. I have voted 3 times for 3bishonsfor amanda. Have seen a few other BH’er along with myself. Good luck tomorrow. Sharon

  331. Cindy I went and looked at the mini mall. The girl I dressed up as for the castle HS is called Amitae Luminor. I know that I have voted for that outfit but they have different facial features. In mall she is smiling and I have seen closed lipped ones and winking ones. So we are able to change facial expressions. Think someone else had said that we have to accept what face they have. So that is not true.
    I am glad I also looked at the theme after 2 in morning and then did not dress my model til I checked the mini mall. Have been doing it for a bit. Like you said it is helpful to know what the different “attire” is called. One that looks reagal is a Kwanza outfit. So I knew not to chose that.
    So other may want to check what the theme is, check out closet that HS gives us and then check out mini mall closet and then go dress your model. A thought. Sharon

  332. Thanks, Shel, for voting for me!
    I’ve been in a drought lately but that’s mostly because I’m with you and other posters here in getting frustrated with all of the winter themes lately. As such, I’ve tried to vary my outfits instead of using the same ones over & over again and, therefore, I’ve been getting worse and worse results lately.
    This may just be another observation of mine but it seems like uniqueness may be a drawback to getting votes. I’d still been using winter-type outfits but it seems like the exact same outfits were getting the votes each time and, since mine have been different, that meant worse votes for me.

  333. OMG, hope somebody is in between me or else t will be three in a row. Flash: If we do’t like either of the two models to pick from because neither is appropriate, jsut click out!!!!. WHy can’t we do it? That is only way to get out anyway. I just did.

    THink we will finally get to do some thinking aobut HS for Monday. Sure Shel will explain it better later, but how to dress to get that corner office. That opens up a lot of opportunities to see lots of different outfits. I am sure there will be the bathrobes and low cut ball gowns. Who knows that might be what the boss likes. LMAO.

    Both daughter and I got the castle background. I really want the safari one. I just love the earth tones. My favorite colors. Sharon

  334. I am having so much fun in Hot Shots. It is like playing paper dolls. I like the tokens that I am winning. I have gotten about 6000 everyday. I also won a background for having over 7. on the voting.
    Thanks.
    MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

  335. Shel (334) – I think you are right about the men’s advantage in yesterday’s contest; it was my second attempt at “cross dressing” and I won the background.

    Today’s voting had one Safari mini after another. While I am glad I did not have to choose between a bathrobe with flaming hair and a person with random snow falling on them, it was fairly boring — and pretty unfair — some safari minis were in the 4’s, other’s in the 9’s.

    mumson (332) – Love the popup idea, at least for the bathrobes; maybe a pop up tutorial? I think some people don’t realize how they can dress their mini’s. Or maybe people just really, really like lounging on the slopes, by a castle, and on safari in their bathrobe?

  336. Cindy #336 I do not mean this to be cruel but to be informative. The use of the word “tard” is offensive to me and many others. Please think about this when you use it again.

  337. “Time to leave the cat walk and head to where the big cats walk! Prepare your model for a safari holiday getaway.” has changed to “Of the pair, who looks prepared for a warm holiday getaway?” Are they purposely trying to trip us us by drastically changing the theme? I’m still voting for minis dressed for safari!

  338. MONDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Corner Office

    GOAL: Career Progression demands good style. Dress your model to impress their way to that corner office.

  339. I’m getting really tired of seeing the cliche costumes winning the backgrounds. I try really hard to be creative and make a mini that really fits the background and I can’t seem to get over a 5. or 6. something. I can’t wait for captions because I’ve missed a lot of these when I DO do what everyone else will do, people vote for the different ones, and when I DON’T do cliche, I don’t win it 🙁

  340. Sharbear-341.. Don’t leave when 2 models aren’t appropriate. Vote for the ugliest one, as they need votes too. LOL Bathrobes & bikinis work for me.

  341. Well, I’m finally ready to admit that I am hopelessly addicted to Daily Hot Shots (should I blame Shel and all of her interesting thoughts & perspectives? lol) I’ve also been pretty successful in winning the backgrounds. I’ve learned the hard way that when I try to be “creative” I get very low scores, and when I go “cliche” I win. My boy paper-dolls 🙂 almost always win, although I only dress them up when the background has a masculine “feel” to it (and I have no idea what that really means). I’m still perplexed as to why I love this so much, but the mention of Betsy McCall and those paper-dolls that we used to cut out of that magazine, certainly resonated with me. Happy holidays everyone!

  342. Hi, Hot Shots! I haven’t even been to the game yet today, figured I would take a peek at what you all are talking about first. lol

    Welcome to all new posters – nice to see you join in on our little paper doll club. lol Totally agree with the consensus for the day: We need our captions!!!

    mumson #332 – Thanks for the congrats, loz!

    To all who find looking at the regular Mini Mall for the outfit names, etc., helpful for the “game,” good for you. I really get bored enough going thru the choices in the game. Maybe if I had a super-fast computer I wouldn’t mind. But the idea of going thru the real mall too, well, just shoot me now. lol

    Debi #337 – No way am I taking the blame for your obsession. Nu uh. lol

    shar #339 – Once you pick the model you want for that day’s shoot, you are stuck with the face they have. I have not seen, for instance, how to change the brown-haired model from a winking face. If anyone else has figured out a way to change faces, please let me know!! I’m desperate. lol

    Tom #340 – I have noticed some weirdness creeping into the votes too – either the randomness is just messing with numbers, or people aren’t consistent. Your majestic outfit was in the 8’s when I saw it, but I did see a few with lower scores. Not BAD scores…..but less than background scores. Were those really so unlucky that all their competitors had great costumes on too? Kinda interesting…..

    I was thinking (I know, dangerous lol) that that might be why Pogo might never put up a “winner’s” page — someone might see the exact same mini they had on as winning the background when theirs didn’t. Pogo doesn’t want THOSE emails. lol

    Shar #341 – Wtg on the castle wins! I’m cracking up here with your comments about the corner office. What MY boss might want to see for professional development certainly might differ from someone else’s boss. lol lolllll Were you really able to avoid to bad minis just by exiting the game? I have found if I just click out and go back in, I have the same pair waiting for me. I have found, however, if I completely close down Pogo and then come back, I have a different twosome. But I’m usually not motivated to do that. lol

    GL to everyone with the safari voting. I love that background, too, with the browns. That’s why I already own it, so I’m going for the tokies! lolll

    bmrm #342 – Wtg on your good showings in the game and your background win! And tyvm – happy holidays to you and everyone also.

    Jenni #343 – Welcome & wtg on background win! I know many people who win with the men models. I just still can’t get myself to cross over (only did it once lol), but I’ll get there, I suppose. lol

    Danni #344 – Well said, and I agree with you completely.

    bad #345 & 346 – Interesting! This is the first time Pogo has really changed the voting instructions from the goal in at least about a week. Thanks for posting those, and the new contest write-up too.

    Jennzors #347 – It can be frustrating, I know. But keep trying. And hopefully Pogo will meet us halfway soon with those captions.

    Off to check out today’s “game.” GL everyone!

    ~Shel

  343. i loved doing the castle one. won bk ground on on this name and other name i have woooo hooooooo.nice to win a bk ground i actually dont have lmao.

  344. Jennzors #349, I understand and agree with your comment about the cliched costumes. FWIW, when voting if I have a choice between a mini that uses a mix & match outfit that’s appropriate vs a costumed one that’s also appropriate I’ll usually tend toward the one who took the time for the outfit.
    I think others may also vote likewise because the mini with the snow falling on it kept popping up again & again & again lately with all of the winter backgrounds but their scores tended to be only in the 5’s which I found appropriate because while they were appropriate to the background they weren’t really original enough to rate higher.

    For the voting today I think the Safari outfits may become victims of overuse because I often had to decide between two of them which sometimes literally came down to a coin flip. I think the overall result will be that some will win the background while others won’t which will probably just be a result of luck of the draw.

  345. Voting Instructions: Of the pair, who would earn that corner office faster?

    Seems to match the Goal pretty well, I think!

    Tuesday’s Photoshoot: Polar Party
    (Snow-covered holiday lights night-time scene with a sign post for the North Pole)

    Goal: Your model is head to the North Pole for a Polar Party. Dress them up in their party best.

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  346. Hmmm. My daughter got the safari room background. THink she would notice if I took it out of her closet?? I Want it. I got 2300 tokens but not background. Boo hoo
    In the voting for who will get the corner office, you shouldn’t be bored voting. There are robes, ball gowns, bare footed women, flaming hair, suits, swiveling hips, anything you want. Even a bride. Sharon

  347. I have renamed our beloved Daily Hot Shots the “Be Blatantly Obvious Game” !! I got the safari background (yea!!) by dressing in, of all things, a Safari outfit. I totally got the people dressed in the Kwaanza outfits and the Tarzan or Jane ones, but that was too subtle.

    I really wanted the castle background, but went against my “fairy princess” instincts and did the Egyptian Queen instead, oh well… lesson learned 😉

    As for the corner office – Seems the conservative look is going to be the winner. Again, I totally got those who dressed in bikinis or shimmied in sexy red dresses – hey, if you have a lecherous old coot for a boss, that will get you promoted!! (but those are not the ones who will get the votes)

    North Pole Party – given the background, I am thinking this is when the elf costumes and reindeer hats are actually appropriate (for once lol) since I figure Santa and co. are hosting.

    Good luck Hot Shots!!

  348. the safari,, i dressed in the safari outfit.. others received over 7 and mine didnt lol.. but i wont complain,, much anyway..its fun.. and thats what pogo is all about,, enjoying yourself and having fun.. merry christmas everyone

  349. I agree it’s fun, but not very fair! I saw safari outfits with scores of 9.0, identical to mine and Shyanne’s costumes. We both got scores of 6.0, won tokens but not the background…go figure! For the Polar Party, I feel it will be difficult and we’ll see that new red party dress and the guy’s tuxedo over and over. I’m just playing for the tokens. Seems I can’t win no how and the ones I did win were no brainers.

  350. …I wish I could give one of you my Safari Background — I won with one of the stock costumes and a pair of sunglasses — because I know I will never use it.

  351. re the polar party.. wondering.. are we to dress up in a fancy dress or tux.. or are we to come as one of santas helpers.. like the elf.. i wondered also.. as far as the safari .. how can one person dressed the same score low.. and yet that is the outfit that scored high on others.. another mystery of pogo..

  352. Not a mystery, it just depends on what 2 are paired up for voting.

    If you had to vote for a safari outfit vs a robe, the safari outfit would have received the vote, most times.

    If you have 2 identical safari outfits only 1 can get the vote, so the numbers on the other safari outfit gets reduced.

    Suz

  353. Thanks Jenni,
    I’ve notice the black models get lower scores for identical outfits too, so I tend to vote for the beautiful black models which I think are prettier in this game than the Caucasian ones.

  354. Oh and I did both, one is dressed in party finery, the other as a male elf.. covered all bases I guess. Will see who wins if anyone!

  355. I guess I’ll play more when they update it. I thought I did a brilliant job with the castle background but boy was I mistaken. I enjoy the voting but am sick of losing for no good discernible reason.

  356. Dannie#334
    I did not mean to use that word to describe anyone else but myself! The only reason i did use it was because i’ve seen it in some of the chatrooms.When they used it, i think they said the word jokeingly! I would never use a word or anything else to offend anyone! I am not that type of person. I just read your statement today because for the last 3 days my big brother has been in the VA Hospital in Indianapolis on life support and the Drs. are telling us he doesn’t have that much longer to live. If i did offend anyone i am very sorry! That certainly was not my intention.

  357. For the Safari one I dressed both of my accounts minis in the Safari get-ups and only got 5.8 & 5.6 for those (*sigh*) so I guess mine weren’t going up against enough bathrobes.

    For the corner office voting it looks like the Just Business suit for the women is doing the best. Both of mine were men in business attire and those seem to be around the 7.0 threshold for now, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

  358. ~coming in stomping my feet~ I didn’t win the safari background – and neither did my mom. I went for the obvious (since I WANTED the background – loved it, didn’t own it – never saw it) of the safari outfits… no sunglasses, no blowing hair. My mom’s scored higher – 2000 tokens. Mine scored a 2.6 or something ridiculously low – 500 tokens. Seriously? I saw others that were in the high 8’s when I went in to check!!!

    I also don’t own the corner office background – since I’m no longer working.. so, guess it doesn’t matter if I own it or not but dang it… I on a dry spell for a win!!!!! LOL 1am just doesn’t come soon enough for me. Yes, I jump on here as soon as they post the new daily’s! LOL
    Addicted I am… and I STILL BLAME YOU SHEL!!! :p~

    With today’s the “Polar party” I already have the background. Don’t care if I win but just can’t help myself from playing “dress up” LOL
    I bet we see a bunch of Santa, Mrs Santa and elves but I stayed away from it… after all, it’s a North Pole party… aren’t there enough elves already and would YOU dress as your hosts??? I think that would be rude! LOL I’m going against the grain – guaranteed no win, right?
    At least I didn’t do a dancing mini in the snow!!! 😉 (or a robe… flaming hair, I’m not doing the kitchen theme with chopping veggies… etc)

  359. Cindy #364, having shared bh rooms with you a couple of times, generous gifts you send to me and pretty much all bh’ers, my heart and prayers go out to you. You so innocently used a word, and yes ive seen is used also, unfortunately not in a nice way, Im sure most ppl here have come to know you, a sweet, kind, NEVER a mean word to say about anyone!! please dont take it personally, you are loved here, (hugs) Mocha

  360. Dannie#334: I just wanted to add that i now do remember who said that word & as i recall,she was talking about the “newbie tards” in her chatroom! And others were adding LOL, like they were agreeing with her. I didn’t say anything back to her at that time,because she did say that it was her chatroomand that she owned it.That was before i ever got introduced to BadgeHungry. i want to add more, but i’m leaving to go back to Indianapolis & also Shel, since you agreed with Dannie, i guess i won’t post anymore here in DHS because i surely don’t or i didn’t want to upset anyones feelings! So have a very nice X-mas & a Happy New Year!

  361. Dawn#367, thank you so very much! I’m getting ready to leave to go back to the VA hospital to be with my big brother and your kind words mean so very much to me. I don’t have a laptop so i wouldn’t have been able to read your message before i leave again,so thank you again so very much andhave a Merry X-mas & a Happy New Year!!!!

  362. Wanted to clarify, since I understand there may be some confusion, that I am the screen name cindy1016_ that has long posted in BH under the heading name of Indy Cindy.

    Seems there are two Cindys with references to Indiana sort of – kinda and I am not the Cindy posting under the name Cindy so hopefully all of you are able to tell us apart. lol.

    Enjoy the hotshots and Merry Christmas.

    Cindy

  363. Cindy~I don’t very often post in his forum, but I do want to say to you that I hope you don’t leave any part of BH~I’ve seen the word used often in chat too and while it may be offense given in a certain context I’m sure that you wouldn’t intentionally hurt anybody’s feelings. Heck I used 2 work with mentally retarded ppl many years ago and I’d hear them use the word often in reference to themselves~does it make right idk, but I think ppl need to lighten up a bit~JMHO

    Now for the real reason I stopped in here. The best I’ve gotten was a 6.9 and 2000 tokens for one of the snow backgrounds~not bad, but I’d hav preferred the background AND the tokens. The worst I’ve had is 1.6 and that was the one with the mansion n the hill~I gues that ppl didn’t get the fact that went from rags 2 riches~oh ell what the hey keep on trying.

    So far I’ve seen LGRAHAMFL, HoneyImHome, Hummingbird, Marciawhyme and most all had winning scores. So WTG 2 those that’ve wo the background.

    Don’t know what I got today b/c I just got on here~so we’ll see later on how I did.

    Lastly, Cindy my heartfelt feelings for you and your family with your dear brother. I’ll pray 4 a miracle if that’s alright b/c God does answer kneelmail. I hope despite the fact ur brother is so very ill that you hae a Blessed Christmas and a better 2011.

    {{{Cindy}}} {{{Brother}}}

  364. Cindy – I’ve read each and every one of these posts – and totally didn’t take offense to your post. Post on! I had a mentally challenged cousin in my family ( he was hit and killed). At NO POINT did we ever call him a “retard” or a “tard”… so, that just went right over my head. My husband and I have both worked with mentally disabled people at different times in our lives – once again, never using those words.
    I enjoy your posts… you have a wonderful Christmas and enjoy your visit with your brother! 🙂 Hope to see you back after the New Year! 🙂 🙂
    I’m sorry for the person or people it does offend, really… but maybe I’ve lived in a big bubble – just never heard anyone use it. Probably would have verbally demolished them. LOL To me – someone calling themselves that is like me calling myselfan idiot. I’m sure someone could take offense to that too. 🙁

    And now… back to the subject (sorry for the hijack)

  365. {{{{{{{{Cindy}}}}}} I’m so very sorry to read about your brother. I will keep him and you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Please don’t be upset about things here…. I don’t know if you are our long-time friend and BHer, Indy Cindy, or a different Cindy. But I’m sure everyone in BH is praying for your brother too. No one is looking to stop anyone from coming to DHS or anywhere else on BH. But I’m not going to talk about that now – it’s not important now anyway – just concentrate on your brother and family.

    ~Shel

  366. Today’s Voting Instructions: Of the pair, whose party best is suited for the Polar Party?

    Hmmm, is it just me or is that completely non-committal?? lol

    (I got a 5.0 on the corner office. I seem to be settling right into the 5-something range whether my outfit scores higher for others or not.)

    Amazing, I just did the “bare bones” voting to get to the magazine and I had at least one mini of each pair in sunglasses! It’s dark out, folks!

    Wednesday’s Photoshoot: Stocking Stuffer

    Goal: Those stockings don’t stuff themselves. Dress your model as the preferred household stocking stuffer.

    Okay…….what does a preferred stocking stuffer look like???? I guess we’ll find out soon! lol

    GL everyone! And GL with weekly badges too.

    ~Shel ;>

  367. My blatantly obvious strategy is working – I got the office (not sure what I am going to do with it…). Wish we could send unwanted backgrounds to the land of misfit toys or something.

    Shel, you were right about the vague desciption of the “Polar Party.” It could be cocktails and formals, a rave, a hip hop hoe-down, or a costume affair hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Claus lol. So, sticking to my strategy, I am going as one of Santa’s happy helpers (aka ELF *yawn*).

    As for the stocking stuffer, I harkened back to my childhood and dressed as my dad in his pajamas to fill the stockings after he THOUGHT we were in bed. We shall see. After typing that, it dawns on me that this is really a bit bizarre…. anyway,

    Good Luck All

  368. GM BHERs and gl with badges and scores on HOT SHOTS. I woke up to an 8.0 for the corner office theme, dressed as a man, clean-shaven, short hair, rectangular specs, and the business suit, NOT the shiny suit, suited for a party goer or father of the bride, with a drink in his hand! Oh sure, you’ll get hired that way! LOL! woooo hoooo!! LOL! Still having a blast with this. I too, have crossed-ethnicities due to such pretty faces on the African American women, but, then again, all women are beautiful ;-D
    Now, I am already to stuff stockings, hmmm……. we’ll see.
    I hope Santa is very good to you all, you all deserve it, but please don’t forget the ‘Reason for the Season’. Carol C.

  369. I voted about 50 times and saw at least 60 people with sunglasses, a half dozen in robes, and a bride. I must have had the reject minis this morning…..LOL

    Suz

  370. I got 6.6 for the office but someone with the same outfit got 7.8. That’s okay though.
    My mother was up voting when the hotshots was getting ready to switch over and when they did, pogo already had certain ones with a rank of 10 when others had 0 and 6… hmmm ….
    As for today’s stocking stuffer I dressed as Santa. We don’t put any gifts or stocking stuffer out until the kids are in bed on Christmas Eve. So I thought of them getting up and seeing the person stuffing the stocking and I thought it would be best if they caught “Santa” doing the stuffing.

  371. GA everyone, I finally won~Corner Office 🙂

    #375 kristinerosern~just voted for you early this a.m. I also voted for cindy1016_ those are the only 2 BH’ers I saw. Good luck. Oh and I dressed up as Mom in my jammies 🙂

    A friend of mine dressed up for the Polar shoot in a bikini b/c she already has the background and doesn’t want it so she was just being silly. Good luck everyone and have a great hump day/badge day. Cya at Pogo.
    ~Linda

  372. I think the office one I did the worst so far. Guess if not dressed in the stuffy grey suit, you didn’t win. I only had a 3.2 and daughters had a 2.2!!. I had them dressed in dress slacks, no Jeans, and a top. No belly or boobs sticking out. Will have to see what happens with the polar party. I dressed in Santa sweater and a skirt. No elf for me, no sun glasses or fire hair. That would elt the snow!.
    Will have to think about dressing for stuffing stockings. NOt sure if I want to be santa or do the preferred “household” stuffer. Santa doesn’t live in my household. Maybe do one of each. GLE1. Sharon

  373. Mamabear#371: Thank you very much for your kind words and prayers and to everyone else for your prayers. My brother,Leslie C. Edwards died this morning in the VA Hospital in Indianapolis at 6:30. i wanted to add that my name is Cindy & i hope i didn’t confuse my name with Indy Cindy,because i didn’t mean to do that. I’ve been posting here for about 6 months,so i hope this clears up for anyone that thought i was Indy Cindy. I added the first initial to my last name which is C. so hopefully this will not confuse anyone that thought i was Indy Cindy.Again, thanks to everyone for their kind words and prayers. My family and i will never be the same without our big brother. He has been our “rock” since our father died in 2006. Again i apologize to everyone that i offended. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

  374. CindyC #381 My sincere and heartfelt condolences on the loss of your brother. The void left with the loss of your brother will be immense and I hope that you can find some type of comfort and strength to see you and your family through this rough time. I will keep you in my heart and my prayers. All of us at BH will lend a shoulder for you to lean on. So feel free to do so.

    ~~ Cindy

  375. Please accept my sincere condolences. Your loss is especially hard considering the time of year. May your faith sustain you and God’s blessings be upon you and your family.

  376. Cindy, I’m so sorry to hear about your brother. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family. 🙁

  377. {{{{{Cindy & family}}}}} Very sorry for the loss of your dear brother. My condolences to you and your family.

    ~Shel

  378. Voting Instructions: Of the pair, who would you rather have stuff the stockings?

    Key word “household” is missing, so I’m thinking Santa or an elf might work, but – heck – what do I know?? lol I wish I had thought of the pajamas – so, I’m thinking PJ-wearers will get my votes.

    kristine #375 – Very cute story about your Dad! I saw people in elf costumes with good scores and with so-so scores, so – to me – it is starting to seem very much more random.

    Ms Tish & Mamabear & any other winners out there – WTG!

    Thursday’s Photoshoot: From Santa

    Goal: The best presents are our friends and family. Dress your model up as the finest gift from Santa!

    This is an animated ornament background – which I *think* might have been a freebie in another year?? Does someone with better memory than me remember that?

    Very good luck to all.

    ~Shel

  380. Hi Everyone,

    Cindy C. you have my deepest and most heartfelt sympathy. The bond between siblings is unbreakable, even after they pass. I lost my brother in a helicopter crash while he was serving in the Navy when I was 16, but he is with me everyday. My first-born son, and my grandson carry his name into the future. I miss him everyday, but as time passes, those good memories… the goofy stuff you did as kids, the fun times, and the precious photos become a source of comfort and good memories and the tears will be slowly replaced by the ability to smile again at the thought of him. I will be thinking of you and you are in my prayers.
    <3 Kris

  381. Another day, another win (yea!! – not like I need another Christmas background, but it is always nice to win). Guess the the “Polar Party” was hosted by the Claus family.

    I have seen some rather bizarre things in voting for who would I like to stuff my stocking!! WOW – if I had peeked around the corner as a kid and saw a lady with her hair on fire, or a bikini model. or a cup o noodles filliing my stocking, I think I would have needed therapy.

    Thanks for the vote Mamabear, and the sweet words Shel!! Hopefully dad came bring home a win for my stocking 😉

    For today, it was tough… I tried to make my entry resemble my sons, since they are they most precious gifts I have. However, the selection of males looked a bit mature. With a Boys and Girls Club tee, basketball shorts and shoes, I hope I got close enough that people get it – or else it will look like some dorky guy lol.

    Good luck Hot Shots!

  382. Today’s animated ornament background was a Christmas time freebie from two years ago if memory serves.

  383. Shel #386 – It’s the background that Pogo gave to Club Members in 2008, it’s called Ornamental You!

    Suz

  384. CindyC condolences in the loss of your brother.
    WTG winners in Hot shots
    I won the Safari background the other day

  385. CindyC please accept my heartfelt condolences in the loss of your dear brother~you’ve lost a brother and the rest of us have lost a brave soldier. God Bless him for his previous service to his country.

  386. #381 CindyC my heart goes out to you as well.

    As for hot shots, I have a horrible confession. I’m so ridiculously bored of the game already. I just click as quickly as possible while voting (sometimes while the 2 images are still spinning around or not loaded yet). I then have to laugh when it turns out I’ve voted for a robe. Then when I dress up my mini, I just scroll through the outfits and costumes tab until I find an appropriate one. I don’t even bother putting on glasses or changing the hair anymore.

    Oh, and I’ve won about 6 backgrounds so far, my method works lmao. The problem is that I almost never change my mini, and all the backgrounds that I’ve won so far are ugly.

  387. Midnight in New Jersey: I predict that only the Santas are going to get the background, based on what I saw during my voting. Even one of those was only in the 6.0 range. But the rest were winning scores. A few of the elves were up there too, but not consistently at all. PJs, Christmas outfits were mostly in the 5.0 range.

    I refused to vote for anyone dressed as the Christmas package. Not only do they not have hands to stuff the stockings, but how good are they going to be stuffing stockings if they wrapped themselves up by mistake?? ;>

    ~Shel

  389. Voting Instructions: Of the pair, who’s the gift from Santa you would rather receive?

    Friday’s Photoshoot: A New Toy

    Your model needs to prepare for a day in the toy shop. Dress your model as Santa’s dearest toy maker!

    Very cute Santa’s workshop background – I really wouldn’t mind this one! Don’t remember ever seeing it before, but for a long time, I didn’t really pay that much attention to the mini mall (I know, tuff to imagine lol).

    GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  390. Kali #394
    I’m bored of the game since it came out lol
    I just play to see what’s going to happen with my mini, I don’t even bother myself on voting anymore, just the initial 5 votes you need to make so you can move on.
    Now I just go for the obvious outfit, nothing creative, ant it’s working too lool

  391. OMGosh! Cindy, you also have my deepest condolences, I’m just so very sorry, but, if it helps, he’s in a much better place. You and your family will be in my special prayers that your pain will ease with time, hopefully, and I’m sure you did NOT offend any1 here. This is another family to be part of, that’s full of wonderful people who really care.
    God bless you and yours, hon. Carol C.

  392. On another note, I am really confused, more than usual, LOL! When I came in yesterday morning, the theme said “Dress for your mate” or something like that. Came back in the evening and the theme was “Dress for family and friends”. I immediately went to my other acct. and dressed a bit more properly, ahem, a LOT more properly, LOL! Did any1 else see this?
    Thank you very much Shel for the WTG. 😀
    Now, I feel like a dang fool dressed in a bikini :-O.
    I found today’s voting very hard as I misunderstood to begin with. Oh well, always the next time to read more carefully.
    Merry Christmas to all, and GB. Carol C.

  393. Hi,come to the site daily for tips and read latest news.Have no earthly idea how to win a background have entered since day one dressed accordingly sarfaria (safari outfit) who you rather have deliver presents dress as santa never get over a 6.7 on safaria and 5.5 on santa now come on i know it cant be this unfair

  394. It just depends on what your mini is up against in the voting. I have dressed Holly & I the same numerous times….Holly wins the background, and I don’t. It’s just luck on whether you go up against a mini in a robe, or a mini that followed the theme.

    Suz

  395. Thanks to all who answered me about where I had seen the ornament background before – I thought so!

    Kali & nessa – I’m more than a little bored of the “game,” too, yet I can’t seem to stop myself. lol I do at least go for the tokens, though!! lol

    DJ #396 – Yep, and apparently post about it too! lolllll

    MsTish #400 – Do you think you misread it, or do you really think it said “mate” on yours? I have been seeing the “Goals” pretty early nearly when they are first opened most nights. When I go back later in the day to do my Mini, I haven’t seen the Goal’s wording change at all.

    OogaChacka #401 – Welcome and good luck! It really is so random sometimes, that it can seem unfair, but it is happening to everyone – if that helps at all. Mamabear #379 just won her first one, so it can take awhile. I won a few in the beginning, but have been going thru a dry spell now.

    I’m still thinking what to do about my Workshop Mini Me. It would seem obvious to go with one of the Elf costumes….but if everyone goes with an Elf costume, might there not be a Elf backlash??? lol

    ~Shel

  396. #398 nessa – LoL! I’ve been bored of it too since it came out. And I’m really mad at myself for calling it a game up above LoL. It’s not a ‘game’, it’s an activity!

    #403 Shelgenie – I went with the elf costume because it was the first costume I found that seemed to fit.

  397. ~*~Merry~*~ ~*~Christmas~*~ Hot Shots!

    Voting Instructions: Of the pair, who looks like Santa’s dearest toy maker?

    I decided to go with a take on Mrs. Claus – who else will be dearest to Santa?? So far, though, it is elves, elves and more elves. And some are scoring high, some low, which is what is going to happen when everyone looks the same. I saw someone with a little bit of a different take on things….but they ruined it with sun glasses. Highest vote I saw? Male elf. Dearest? Hmmm.

    Today’s Photoshoot: Fruit Cake Love

    Goal: Some people are foodies and some people love food. Dress your model as if they came to the party just for fruit cake.

    O_o

    ~Shel ;>

  398. Well so far, all the elf costumes are doing very well. Seeing most elf scores ranging for 8.2 to 10, but it’s only an hour into the voting. So there’s plenty of time for the elves to be paired against each other and many of their scores to fall.

    #405 Shel – I’m actually somewhat looking forward to voting on tomorrow’s challenge. How did fruit cake ever become synonymous with Christmas? The people in my family seemingly re-gift the exact same fruitcake to each other year after year. It’s pretty hard and nasty now. LoL.

    To play devil’s advocate…But fruit cake is so scrumptious. Especially the ones made with snozberries. I love when the snozberries taste like snozberries.

  399. I only ~thought~ I would be seeing a lot of the obvious elves.
    WHY am I seeing people on Pogo sticks and the Pogo outfit??? People in bikini’s, regular clothing, let’s not forget the sunglasses (no blowing hair this time! what a shock!), and a minimal amount of elves!!!
    Oh… the over the top one that I had to pause on… someone stirring a cake mix??? Wait… favorite toy maker, right??? I’m NOT losing my mind… right? *attempts to shakes fog out of head*

    I know some people don’t think it’s fun and I don’t consider it a game… but I find it entertaining. I guess I’m trying to find “what’s behind the mini” when it’s not the “norm”” captions would add so much – maybe.
    Maybe I’m just HOPING they would add something and people really are just throwing things on. LOL

    As far as a theme changing… I SWORE I saw it change once too.
    I do these as soon as they come up – which is 1am my time. I came back on later to see how things were progressing and the wording was slightly different – as well as new items that had been added.

    Todays – the fruitcake theme… was really the only one that made me think. No sleep in days will do that to me but HOW exactly can one dress for going to a party only to enjoy fruitcake???
    The only thing I could think of is… the only people I know that like fruit cake are OLD! LMAO (don’t hit me, my grandparents and that age range liked it… and I don’t know anyone else who has ever eaten it!)
    Talk about stereotyping!

    Just missed the backgrounds again – which was no biggie since both accounts had the “freebie” and both got 2000 tokens.

  400. I love fruitcake!!!! I could eat it 365 days a year. But I’m particular which ones I eat. I don’t eat those crappy ones that you get for $2 in WalMart. If you ever want to try the best, it’s from Figi’s….$50 for the 5lb one…..no liquor. And the ones from Collin Street Bakery in Texas are very good too.

    Suz

  401. Mornin’ BHers and Merry CHRISTmas to ev1.
    Shel, #403 ~ Yes, I am positive I saw the word “mate”, or I would have never dressed as I did, (hangs head in shame), LOL! I live in FL and still never dress like that, aye, aye.
    For the Fruitcake Theme, I crossed-dressed again as an overweight male, 2 diff ones. Sent myself a guest pass to my non-club member acct., and will continue to do so til I run out of passes, might as well, as when I send one to a non-club member, they never use it.
    Off to TP, CC and my personal. I’m finding I’m having too much trouble with the other 2, guess I just don’t have the patience right now and want to get all my pogo stuff done b4 company arrives. My hubby, George, is having his (our) 18 month old nephew over, love having babies around , especially this time of year!
    God bless you all….. Carol C.

  402. So, Suz loves fruitcake! Now I just have to figure out how to dress like Suz. ;>

    MsTish – Carol, I am starting to think you aren’t the only one who saw that “mate” – I did see LOTS of bikinis during that ornament contest. Though, perhaps, that would be what some people would most like to see. lol

    Also just trying to get a few things done in Pogoland before I head out for the day. Much fun and good times, everyone – drive safely!

    ~Shel ;>

  403. Howdy all! Hope you all are having a nice weekend!

    Well, people didn’t like my take on Mrs. Claus as Santa’s dearest toy maker – solid 3.6. lol When I was voting last night, the male elves were scoring really pretty dang well, which is kind of strange to me. Even stranger were the number of bikinis — seriously, Santa’s dearest elf is some tootsie he keeps on the side in the toy shop?? lol lol

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who came to the holiday party just for the fruit cake?

    I ended up cross-dressing for only the 2nd time. I picked the dancing guy (older mini, not the guy in a suit) and put a Christmas hat on him. I’m hoping he looks excited to be standing next to his fruit cake. lollll Hope I don’t get an anti-dancing backlash. lol

    SUNDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: The Discerning Returner

    GOAL: Returning items is such a drag. Dress your model in such a way nobody would doubt their reasoning!

    Okayyyyyyyy……GL in the voting and with the new contest, everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  404. i went with the elf also.. and scored low.. thinking they should change and instead of voting for individuals vote for the best outfit.. lol then those of us who have the same outfits would win also.. couple of backgrounds i would have really liked and had the winning outfit just didnt get the votes.. hope everyone had a great christmas and that those expecting bad weather are warm and safe

  405. I went with the elf and scored 6.9… so close, yet so far. I must have been paired up with too many other elves during the voting.

  406. #408 Suz, I love fruitcake too. The best we ever had was made by some monks up in the Upper Pen. of Mich by some monks. expensive but worth it. My late hubby and I bought a sampler package one year for our treat. They were soaked in brandy. Not a drinker, but they were the best fruit cakes I ever had. Would like to buy one again but the $45 p;rice is little steep for me.

    I was wondering if the low scores for the “santas favorite toy maker’ were maybe because not so many people voted as had before. Too buxy with othr holiday activities. I was elf and got 2000 tokens, daughter was Mrs. Santa and only had a low score and not many tokens. But got tokens just the same. soooo was not a total loss. Now to dress for returning gift, I haven’t a clue. Shar

  407. Well, my dancing fruit cake lover didn’t feel the love from the voters. lolll Actually, it will be interesting to hear who, if anyone, got the background. Because in all my voting, I think I saw only 3 people over a 7.0.

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who looks like the more discerning gift returner?

    MONDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Dancing Coats and Armor
    (Looks like the inside of a medieval castle)

    GOAL: Who says chivalry is dead? Dress your model as a fair maiden or a knight headed to the ballroom.

    20+ inches of snow and still counting here in Jersey!! GL to everyone in the path of the storms, and of course, with their new Hot Shots assignment!

    ~Shel

  409. Shel – Holly dressed as a guy and got a 6.9 with the fruitcake, mine only got a 6.3 and was dressed as a female.

    One of the reasons I moved from NJ to TX in 2007 was the fact that I would never have to see snow again. Stay safe!!

    Suz

  410. gee wizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    how do u dress like 4 this shot?
    a knight? a princess?
    nothing in the selection 2 do it.
    rats n double rats
    good luck

  411. Sheljin #415 I dressed. like the female with the mixing bowl for the fruitcake one. I had a 6.9. My daughter dressed her own while here and got a 6.5 dressed with a Christmas sweater, jeans and a hat.

    Stay safe with all the snow. We had tht about a week ago but not as much. Enjoy it LOL.
    Pogo we need more clothing to go with the themes you are giving us or different themes. Sharon

  412. Fruitcake 6.3 *sigh*

    Dressed as a warrior I guess you’d call it~was the last costume on the page~well it looks like a warrior to me~dressed as a female.

    GL e1 and a very happy Monday to all.

  413. Kimi #416 – Backatcha! lol What are you not understanding?

    Hey, you guys all did better than me. I really thought the jig-dancing guy would look like he was super-excited for fruitcake! lollll I did vote for the minis with the mixing bowl, shar.

    There are some cute medieval possibilities in the regular Mini Mall – wonder if someone at Pogo forgot to flip a switch and get them added to the game’s mall for today?

    31″ of snow!!! Eek! Maybe that could be our allotment for the year???? lol Staying safe staying on Pogo. lol

    Shel ;>

  414. Judging by the highest votes in todays voting many people did not read the instructions so I guess my chosen outfit in the “what where they thinking when they gave me this gift” outfit will not be winner. I dressed in the gaudiest outfit I could put together as an old fogey and had my mini wearing the spiked hair. People either do not understand the meaning of discerning or they just don’t care and click any mini to get past the voting stage and collect the tokens.. not becoming much fun to play anymore.
    For today’s Shyanne chose the Queen from the deck of cards and I chose the King…hmm will see what happens tomorrow.

  416. Hello all and GL in the future.
    WTG! ~ Miss Holly Noelle and not too bad, either, Moms! lol.
    WTG to all other big winners. I haven’t been doing too well, lately, but that’s OK, I’ll continue on under both accts.
    Til tomorrow, g’nite all and GB. Carol C.

  417. #422 – Justagramma – you have exactly my thought!
    I think people either ceased caring or didn’t understand the word discerning! There were quite a few interesting mini’s though! I could see where “some” people had put some thought into it.

    More and more I find myself wishing I could use MY closet!!! LOL
    Especially with the ballroom for knights and princesses. I cross dressed for that one. I dressed my mom’s the best I could for female – so… should be interesting. (or not! LOL)

    I find it irritating that when I do ours the same – she’ll win and my will score low or visa versa. I guess it depends solely on what we’re up against and how often it goes up. Pogo really should come up with a better system. This morning – I had one mini come up FOUR times. Seriously… 4 times!!! Then, I had identical mini’s come up several times.

    But… my all time best laugh… I was voting in my mom’s account… and voted against myself. Yes, I remembered how I had dressed my mini – sorta… but this other mini was dressed more themed in the whole scheme of things and even without thinking that it COULD have been mine, I clicked… and sure enough, it was! LOL

    WTG on everyone winning!!! For those that aren’t – just remember, it’s free tokens for a short amount of time.
    And for those who just don’t like it or understand it… well… can only say, you don’t have to do it but it’s sure easy tokens to build up on.
    For me, I’m still blaming Shel! LOL It’s silly, a tad frustrating at times but entertaining for me. A break from the regular Pogo games (that seem to freezing up on me a LOT lately!) that costs me about 5 to 10 minutes of time for 2000 tokens a day minimum. Not bad! 😉

  418. Just a quickie…….

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Which maiden or knight seems headed for the ballroom?

    (No difference from Goal this time.)

    TUESDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Sca-Hairy Anticipation

    GOAL: Dress your model so that the hairstylist knows not to try any funny business with their ‘do?

    So, does that mean some kind of intimidating outfit? GL!

    ~Shel

  419. an intimidating outfit or will the wording change and is this a time for the flaming hairdo.. or the pink in the hair.. or the pink or blue hair.. who knows

  420. Back off, Hair Stylist! I have flaming hair and I know what to do with it!!!! lol

    Will be interesting if this is one of the FEW times Pogo changes the wording from Goal to Instructions. I know it has happened, and may have happened all the time the first two weeks. But we’ve been documenting the Goals and Voting Instructions for weeks here now and most days they mean and say exactly the same thing.

    That said, I still need to go figure out how to be intimidating. lol

    ~Shel ;>

  421. Well, I went biker dress on one… no one wants to mess with a biker chick, right? LOL
    And then a professional on the other… mess with a professional and you really end up in a mess… like in small claims court. Of course, without a caption, I don’t know if anyone else will get what I was going after. ~sigh~
    I really wish Pogo would get their “COMING SOON” up and running!!!

  422. Intimidating was a rough one, but that is how I interpreted the instructions too. So I went with sunglasses, cause sunglasses indoors is off putting. And an arms folded outfit. We’ll see how it goes, but I am not holding out much hope, I don’t think I’ve gotten over a 5.5 in a week lol.

  423. dress as knight or maiden
    seeing loads o’ kings n gals in the blue and magentta dress getting high scores WTG! ( pogo please, please put more items in ur choices)
    EEK! hairstylist background – b intimidating? well i put on the ghoul
    outfit (hoped all u voters wd c my meaning) think i’m gonna get a
    low score.
    happy new year every1 & good luck ~bj~

  424. Well, I cross-dressed as the princely looking guy and got a 6.7, highest score in awhile, but no background. I know I saw 7+ for this guy on others, so guess it was just the luck of the draw for me.

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Which one is dressed to say “don’t mess with the do”?

    (Seems to follow spirit of the original GOAL #426.) Quickie review of the minis shows prim and proper vs wild and crazy, and early in the voting, they both seem to be getting votes at times. Quite a few curlers showing up already – doesn’t curlers say the opposite though? Like, give me a ‘do? lol

    Wednesday’s PHOTOSHOOT: All Night Rock and Roll

    GOAL: Rock and roll still isn’t dead. Dress your model to give the fans a night they would never forget!

    GL Hot Shot dudes. lol

    ~Shel

  425. GM BHERs and GL with everything all week!
    I ran in to a bit of a problem the other day ~ both my appropiately dressed models showed up at the same time! My Tish model and my Luckylucy1958 showed up side by side, luckily, neither one was me! Whew! LOL. Gotta watch that. One was male and one was female. It was the maiden/knight ballroom photo shoot.
    Had fun with today’s already, Rock ‘n Roll. Gotta be careful NOT to mix, using punk, huge difference as far as I’m concerned.
    Well, it’s 6:18 a.m. here and I am just so sick, had a dr.’s appt., too, should go, but, I’m just too weak, and have been up since 2 a.m.
    I’m going back to bed now.
    HAGD all ‘n GB, Carol C.

  426. Oops, one thing I’ve been meaning to mention.
    Once, whenever this model/photo shoot is over, how much will it cost to get our photo albums? Or, will they even be offered? I would love to have mine, only the Tish acct., tho.
    Just something I’d thought I’d throw out to see what other players may think. I want to remember…..wayyyy back when! LOL!
    GM ‘n GN again <3

  427. Well, the wacky ‘dos seem to be winning by a mile! I really thought “don’t mess with the ‘do” might lean towards intimidating minis – military, cops, ninjas. But even tho I voted for them, they were pretty low in the scores, sorry to say.

    For me, the wacky ‘dos were almost like the “after” pics – like, the intimidating minis would be saying, “I don’t want THAT!” lol Ahhh well. I ended up voting for a lot of them because the peeps they were up against just looked like every day models – nothing wacky or intimidating about them.

    Ms Tish, hope you feel better soon! I would like an album that shows all my past minis too. Supposedly that is a “coming soon” feature – they better not decide to charge us for it! And I hope whenever “soon” is, they do include all our old ones.

    ~Shel

  428. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who can rock the fans all night?

    Seems to me to follow the spirit of the original Goal.

    THURSDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: To The Moon

    (This is a New Year’s background from a few years back, an astronaut jumping on the moon with Earth and fireworks behind him.)

    GOAL: Put your model on the moon in an outfit that is “outta this world”!

    GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel

  429. GM all ‘n GL!
    Scored not so well on the “do” photoshot.
    Thank you very much, Shel, for the well wishes!
    Found out I can’t send a pass to my alter, as I’ve gotten it bk., unused (doinks self in head), LOL! Maybe if I change my pw, I dunno, just think I’ll stick with just Tish for now.
    Now, I’m sorry I didn’t see the astronaut and the fireworks. I need to check closer, once I see something I like, I tend to go with it right away. Going to look for it under LuckyLucy ‘n see what happens.
    Again, tyvm, Shel for the great tip.
    Haven’t been able to active the 9k Thursday tokens, yet, and I can’t figure out why not, oh well, I’ll get the some time today. HAGD all ‘n GL with all you do.
    Take good care and GB, Carol C. ;-D

  430. To my surprise I won the haircutting background (don’t think I already had it because I do get a lot of the backgrounds). I used the grey-haired, tight-lipped model and put the multi-colored superspiked hair on her. Dressed her in baggy black jeans and the poison shirt – I think she scored either 8.0 or 9.0 and got me around 3000 tokens. I used the ghoul with sunglasses for the “outta this world”. Sometimes the shoots with little thought score the highest, lol. Not sure why I like this dress-up game, but I do. I did kill the sound on this game a ways back – cannot stand the tune.

  431. I won the background on the Sca-Hairy Anticipation and got my best score ever. Yipppeeeee!!! I love this game, I guess because it is so different from all the other games. I do keep a daily log of it and how many tokens I get …..so on the hairy one I got 7187 tokens. Gosh I needed those so bad. LOLOL
    Shel I come here everyday before I go to hot shots just to get your take on it that day so keep up the good work!!

  432. Oh Wow, that was bad. The hair shots Idid for myself and daughter were not received well. I had one in military garb and can’t remembe what the other was. But a 2.5 and a 3.1 are not good. THinking about laying off for a bit. Nothing new to use for wearing and same stuff. soooo will see.

    Mctish 437, for some reason they are not giving out the triple tokens today or next Thursday. I read it on the POGO calendar of events. I was going to do them already last night seeing I was up late. Maybe they have something better waiting for us. LOL. Sharon

  433. Hiya Hot Shots! Checking in here before I go finish up my voting and style my model for her “moon shot.” lol I have that background, so it will be a case of just seeing if I can get the maximum tokies….

    Lisa & twuzzie #438 & 439 – Congrats on winning the Sca-Hairy backgrounds! lol I was starting to think none of us was going to win anything anymore. lol That was an awesome score, too, Lisa – wtg! I, too, killed the sound the first week the game was out. How completely annoying!

    You know how you can tell when the sound is REALLY annoying?? Pogo feels the need to include “how to turn sound off” in the game’s “how to play.” lollllll

    twuzzie – thank you for your kind words!! If you keep winning, you will need to post early also and give the rest of us some advice. lol

    Debi #425 – I’m still not taking the blame, I tell ya!! lolllll That was too funny, you voting against yourself. I have found myself accidentally voting for something I had planned NOT to vote for – either their opponent was WAY worse, or something subliminally made me vote for it anyway. Then I’ll be all upset – ohmigosh, I voted for sunglasses!!! lol (Yes, I need a life. Hey, wait a minute! I was playing DCR with gbpack last night – maybe HE has brainwashed me to vote for the bad minis!! Oh nooooooo! lol)

    sharbear #440 – Don’t give up on us, or at least not on the free tokies!! lol I am feeling frustrated like you, though. I too went with a military person, with sunglasses (as someone else said, they seem standoffish), and got a REALLY low score – in the 3s, I think. Arrgh. lol

    I did see one BHer yesterday – wheatonmom. I voted for you! The bride was a cute idea – don’t be messing with the bride. lol Basically, though, I kept thinking – if they don’t want to be messed with, why are these people in the salon to begin with?? lol

    Okay, off to vote and take care of moon bizness. GL again everyone.

    ~Shel ;>

  434. I was checking to see how many times I have won a background – looks like I have won 5 times, so I guess that is not too shabby. But I have learned sometimes just to cop out and use a costume instead of trying to be creative 😉

  435. Check your own personal minis, ladies! When I went to vote on the rocknroll contest, some of the ladies were showing up without any bottoms on!! Oh my!!! O_o

    Then I noticed my own Mini was bottomless, too!!!! The trauma! lol

    Now, if only we could have planned for no bottoms for the moon shot background. ;>

    ~Shel

  436. Hi, y’all,
    My first post in thie VERY LONG thread.. Needs a Part 2. LOL.

    Thank you to sharbear565 12.19.10 at 11:55 pm for the shout out re: voting.

    I tend to dress my 2 minis extremely different because I think that Pogo is sort of divided into the mainstream, middle aged gamers, and the young, restless punkers ( who apparently think a lot about sex- I’ve seen more sweaters without pants than my eyes can take!)
    I dress my main account more like the real ME and my secondary account more like what I see when I go to the Mini Mall and click on their Hot Shot Winners. ( nothing against those of you who win HS contests).
    IOW, I dress more ” out there” with the secondary account usually, AND IT HAS WON AT LEAST 9 BACKGROUNDS.

    I am ALSO NOT SURE if this game is rigged because on my main account, I have at least 100 backgrounds. I don’t buy mini stuff for my secondary account.. So maybe Pogo is ” giving” some points to the members with mostly bare closets? I don’t know, but it is a thought, seeing the backgrounds on one account and not on the other.

    I have developed a theory, based upon my background wins that people will vote for those who have picked out SEPARATES ( top and pants or skirt) more often than people who choose from either OUTFITS or COSTUMES.
    It seems fair, if the occasion is appropriate, because it does take slightly more thought to put together a cute outfit from scratch.

    The things which seem to lower votes ( besides the obvious): glasses, gray hair, pregnant minies, sunglasses ( I don’t think some people know you can skip the glasses all together).
    Also, leaving the hair like it is on the mini before dressed seems to be a score lowering deal too.

    My TWO TOP PET PEEVES: The sickening ” costume” of the slurpy dripping noodles. I gag when I see it, literally. I’m going to go Karen Carpenter thin if they don’t get rid of that thing. It makes me very sick.

    And the fact that if one wants a mini that doesn’t look like she has PMS, the darn thing has to be winking like a fool.

    Pogo had fun with us in Beta with this. It was somehow ” fun”. When it went to Reg Pogo, it lost soo much.. I cant explain how or why, maybe all the pant-less wonders or bikinis or just blatant attempts to be sexual in a tacky way.. Didn’t see a bit of that on Beta. I don’t have much patience with those who seem to be making fun of women’s bodies.
    JMO, of course. 🙂

    Amanda

  437. Shel-441/443..NOOO, not me brainwashing ya. Must be a case of “snow blindness”. Now bottomless minis…I can vote for that. That WOULD be great for the “moon shot”. Actually, last few days, I’ve seen less & less robes & bikinis, but normal amount of shades & hip-shakers to vote on. Lots of very similar minis against each other, with very different scores on each. No rhyme or reason that I can see.

    Remember, you gave me the award for quote of all-time..”After all, ugly minis need votes too”. Just living up to that. Have a great New Years Eve everyone. Dave

  438. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, which one looks “outta this world” on the moon?

    (To me, seems to match the GOAL just fine.)

    FRIDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: New Year’s Kiss

    (Animated night-time party scene, with a mirror ball showering colorful lights on the floor.)

    GOAL: What is the best way to get that New Year’s Kiss? Dress your model in the most kissable way possible!

    Dang, we need some mistletoe in our closets! GL, everyone.

    ~Shel ;>

  439. Hello BH’ers, happy last day of the year to e1. Hope everyone has a great NY’s Eve no matter what you’ll be doing.

    First time seeing myself when I was voting last night and I already had 10.0 LOL Didn’t see any other BH’ers though, but GL e1 hope you get high scores.

  440. Hi everyone,
    I have been on a major losing streak lately – ugh!! Although I must say the variety of voting options has been plentiful lol. Finally I won the rock star one and I wanted it BAD!!! I thought if I cannot dress a mini to look like Steven Tyler and win the background, I am taking my toys and going home ;-D SO ROCK ON!!

    Shel — “Moon shot” – LOLOLOLOL Luv it!! (and I see your obsession has not abated at all AND that you crossed to the other side, you go dude!!)

    This is the second time we have been asked to represent ourselves to the intergalactic community, and my oh my, what must they think of us?? What is up with the “Puck People??”

    For today’s “Make yourself kissable,” I sure hope they don’t swap the wording around when voting starts or I shall look like an IDIOT because I made my mini too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my cat… (You all will be so glad I planted that classic tune in your heads, won’t you?)

    In conclusion, I have found that I do something in my voting that just occurred to me. When I have to choose between two jacked-up looking minis, I always vote for the one on the right (I think it is because I am right handed… I don’t know). Have any of you noticed that you favor one side? Just an observation lol. This is getting serious – “A Behavioral Study of ‘Hot Shots’ Voting Habits.”

    Have fun and a great day Hot Shots!!

  441. I won the rock and roll background and 2600 tokens. When voting on the moonshot I saw one ghoul and it was a low scorer. Guess I should went with the more obvious in one of the uniform outfits (boring).

  442. Shel (443): Mooning minis! I love it. And it would surely be doing better than my hovercraft mini is now.

    Lisa (449): Congrats. My rock and roll mini was the highest I have been in more than a week, but still no background. Winning this game is harder than it looks!

    I have been out of town, just kind of running through the game. One day (hairdresser) the background would not load and I forgot to go back to create one later. That non-play day was about as successful as I have been lately; the scores have been really low for me. Please bring on the captions…that way my pregnant mini making a return would make sense to someone other than me.

    From today’s voting, I see that the air force has been sending a lotta minis to the moon. If might have been nice for pogo to provide an actual space mini.

    Happy New Year! Here’s hoping our minis are “kissable”!

  443. GM BHERs!
    TYVM Sharbear, #440, the ad DID say it ran til the 30th, oh well.
    WTG all on your high scores!
    NOW, for some reason, I can’t activate the Lottso Express, played 4 times ‘n nuttin’. Even rebooted, still nothing.
    May you all have a Happy New Year, full of health, wealth, love, and which HS to choose! LOL!
    I so totally enjoy each and every post, here, every day. Especially love it when players DON’T respond to ugly comments, hee hee.
    My best to you all and all people around the world.
    TC ‘n, as usual, GBUA! Carol C. <3

  444. Congrats on all who won recently – glad to hear it!

    Okay, “outta this world” – why are the military, race car drivers, those types all getting the votes? They look space-suity? But then they aren’t “outta this world!” I’m voting for wacky ones, with the exception of robes – you haven’t gotten me completely gbpack!!!! lol And I have decided to vote for the scuba diving ones too – at least the helmet looks a bit more like a space helmet and the hose could be attached to a space ship. I voted for some hovercrafts too. Unfortunately, the only high vote-getters seem to be those minis holding helmets, etc.

    And for being kissable……I still don’t have a brown haired option that isn’t winking like a fool, as Amanda said! Grrrr!

    (Amanda (#444), I have been holding off using the “rigged” word, but I have been thinking it for a long time now. I have seen way too many 7.0s on a typical costume or mini, then suddenly another one dressed in that mini will be down around the 4.0 range…..seriously? Everyone but ONE dressed that way? Hmmmm. lol)

    kristine – I may have crossed over to the dude side twice, but it didn’t get me a win. *sigh* lollll

    Okay, back to voting. lol Hope everyone is enjoying their New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day!

    ~Shel !*!*!**!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*

  445. My other-worldly ghoul was a bomb for the moonshot. I got 150 tokens and I think a 2.3 rating =( Does not look good for my New Year’s kissable either. I used the red lips shirt and the models dressed in that shirt were not scoring too well when I voted this morning. My scores and wins are much better when I cross-dress as a man.

  446. ~*~Happy~*~ ~*~*New~*~* ~*~*Year’s~*~*~ ~*~*Day~*~*~

    You are not alone, Lisa – my other worldly model scored in the 2s too. *sigh* I still think she looked beautiful and other-worldly, so there. lol And, FWIW, Lisa, I voted for the ghouls I saw…thought it was a great idea.

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, whose outfit is more kissable for the New Year?

    Okay, I know I’m tired….but doesn’t this read like we’re supposed to be kissing clothing??? I have deleted the 2nd line I was typing 3 times now, so I think I’ll just say nothing more. ;>

    NEW YEAR’S PHOTOSHOOT: New Year Garage

    GOAL: Happy New Year, time for some cleaning! Dress your model for a dusty day of dejunkifying the garage.

    Seriously?? Pogo can’t give us a day off to just watch Football, or the 3 Stooges (shout out to gbpack Dave!) or stay in our PJs and play Pogo?? Or eat? Or sleep? Seriously, it is a dang holiday, Pogo! lol

    I choose going back to bed……see you Hot Shots later on!

    ~Shel ;>

  447. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Who is better dressed for a dusty day of dejunkifying the garage?

    Sorry – not feeling it for the peeps dressed in barrels. How do you clean up wearing one of those? You can’t even bend over! lol

    SUNDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Urban Renewal

    GOAL: Your model is the leader of this city’s urban renewal project. Dress them as a city planner who thinks outside the grid.

    So, a leader who doesn’t necessarily look like your typical city leader. Seems like one of those “goals” where we don’t have the stuff in our closests to really express that, and if we try, most voters won’t “get” it.

    Anyone agree? lol

    ~Shel ;>

  448. Well, Shel…”think outside the grid?” The shirt options this morning showed naked women, just boobs, no clothing. Thought of putting one (two) on and wishing I had the option of using a caption…cause I woulda scored my first “10” for sure…LOL!

  449. naked? wowww too funny
    maybe a gauranteed background with that lol
    i really wanted the garage but didnt get it ughhh
    i am taking a chance on my urban. i had a few ideas but went conservative gl all

  450. terri #457 – You won’t find out until tomorrow if you won the garage, that’s what we are voting on today.

    Suz

  451. Happy Sunday (football) ev1.
    For tomorrow, I chose the 2 different men (not the dark one) and dressed them alike.
    Also, what an ordeal to get a 2nd account!! Picked BfloGal716 for my 2nd.
    GL all and have a great week! GB, Carol C.

  452. Hmmmmmmmm!

    Who did Pogo leave in charge over the holiday weekend?? I saw bottomless models the other day and now Ellen is reporting topless women!?!?!?!?

    I do agree that you might be looking at your first 10. lol lol

    I just dressed like i felt like dressing for my urban renewer model. Like me or not, voters! I still get my 3540 tokens. lol GL Hot Shots.

    ~Shel ;>

  453. Yep, I’m noticing more and more that “mainstream” seems to be the way to win. I keep saying it and I’m going to start screaming it on the Letters to the Editor I swear… GET THE DANG CAPTION BOX UP AND RUNNING!!!!
    Seriously, why is that so hard???
    I’ve heard in here what people are thinking when they do their mini and I have the “oh, well DUH!” moment! I’m sick of seeing the same old thing day after day.
    I have a wonderful suggestion for Pogo – and it might just give them some $$$ in their coffers (like they need more! LOL)
    How about opening up our closets to us? Those who have bare closets might be more inclined to buy something (okay, it’s a long shot but worth a pitch, right?) and for some of us – it would sure be a welcome change to the same old garbage I’m sick of seeing!

    As far as the city planner who thinks outside the box… well, my brother is a city planner for San Diego – I just tried to make him (therefore, cross dressed both mine and my mom’s mini’s). Probably won’t win on either but… you know, that is one background I can say with some certainty I will never use. Trash in the street is really not my idea of fun background. Maybe with the ecco-friendly suit… maybe! LOL

    The kissing background… anyone else notice that the tiara on the gals head said “2010′??? Ummmm…. yeah, I would never use that. However, tokens would have been nice. The dancing mini’s did NOT seem kissable to me nor did people with drinks in their hand (what if they spilled on me)
    Just personal observations… LOL

    Looking forward to see what the garage sale comes out as. Some were comical – others were ridiculous. Who cleans their garage in a ballgown and heels?

  454. Rats!! I wanted the garage background. I did my garage this summer and had to do a minor cleaning. I have over 30 garbage bags full of soda cans for reycling. They are paying good but I don’t have a truck to get them to the place. So I could use a cleaning again. It would have been an appropriate one for me. Guess who got a 7.3 for her dejunking and the background??? My daughter. Guess I better use my ideas for her on me. I think that makes 6 for her now. I have 3. BOo hoo. So far what I see for the urban renewal models, those dressed like me are doing ok. Just what I want…. Not. C’est la Vie. Sharon

  455. Today’s Photoshoot: High Flying Fashion

    Your model’s sucess has given them their own private jet. Dress them in some high (flying) fashions. Hmmm. Does Pogo want us in pilot uniforms or fancy dress clothes? Another photoshoot where I’m not quite clear on what they want from us… Wish they’d give us some examples or something more to work with…

  456. It doesn’t matter what Pogo wants, it’s what the people who vote want to see…..and that will be different depending on the person.

    There is no right way or wrong way to dress your mini!!

    Suz

  457. Dear me!!
    I won the garage background on both accounts, also the NY one. Yeah, really will use those.

    The prettiest bg I have won thus far is like outer space but not cartoony, all dark with some starrs and the planets. Just the planets. It’s beautiful I thihk. Of course, it went to the account that I don’t buy mini stuf for. THIS IS ALL RIGGED. I know my ” poor” account that I am using just for double browsing is winning a LOT more stuff for no good reason.

    I’ve been dressing both my minis exactly the same since one started winning almost every day. It’s STILL winning and the other isn’t.
    You know, do y’all think maybe SOME PEOPLE have found a way to look at the screen names before voting? It was set up like that in Beta. I’m really starting to wonder..
    I have over 225,000,000 tokens on the main account. It doesn’t win jack, usually.

    Just sayin’.
    Amanda

  458. Won my second background~garage sale~first one was the corner office.

    Everyday I vote I see only one person from BH and that’s kali 🙂 I also see several other names over and over again~not BH’ers though~wonder what the odds are of that happening?

    GL with the high flying photoshoot. I just went with a classy look we’ll see what happens come tomorrow.

  459. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who is the city planner who thinks outside of the grid?

    MONDAY PHOTOSHOOT: High Flying Fashion

    GOAL: Your model’s success has given them their own private jet. Dress them in some high (flying) fashions!

    Well, I’m thinking dressed up, not pilot uniforms. lol I wonder how many flying hairdos we’ll see?

    Scored a 5.something on my garage. That’s the best score I’ve seen in a week at least! I am starting to think I’m not going to win anything again. lollll

    Toying with cross-dressing for the high flyer……we’ll see.

    GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel

  460. so far i’ve won [ nferno8 – female] 7 backgrounds
    and my other account [friskyfrog1 – male] has won 7 backgrounds

    i usually use the same model for both female & male. i tend to vote for the model as well as the outfit.

    question – do you actually get more tokens after the 500 are awarded?

  461. Hiya Everyone
    Since when are suits,evening gowns and office attire outside the grid?..lol
    Sheezzz,I give up..from now on no matter what the theme,I’m wearing an evening gown!..even if at times I do feel like pulling it up over my head..hehehe
    Hope ya’ll are having better luck than me with this game:)
    Huggles,Undr ^j^

  462. I cross-dressed on one account with the high flyer. Once again, who knows?
    I’ve scored lower on some than I’ve seen white robes scored at! I don’t get it at all! But… still, I’m addicted to playing with my “dolls” LOL
    Won the garage sale background on my account but just missed it on my moms.
    I think maybe it has to do with how many times it comes up??? And then of course, what it’s up against.
    I’ve had identical mini’s pitted against each other more times than I can count. Mini’s that have NOTHING to do with the theme, the dreaded bathrobes, flaming hair and other things that I personally hate (sunglasses indoors being one of them).
    Right now, I want to be employed by EA Arts or Pogo as a programmer so I can tweak that game (if you could call it that). I think it has the potential to be a LOT of fun. It could be really creative if they’d just work a little with it. They’ve done nothing lately and it’s really disappointing.
    Anyone who plays every day… think we should shoot off a letter to the editor telling them to get it together! LOL

    The tokens are easy for the amount of time involved and the backgrounds… eh… sometimes (if I don’t already have them) but I go for the thrill of the win! I want those captions now dang it!!! :p~

    And I’m STILL placing all of this squarely on your shoulders Shel!
    I wasn’t going to do this… nope, nope, nope… but you made me curious and now look what you did! Just look how many posts I have in here! LOL (It’s okay though, if I wasn’t having fun – even if it’s frustrating, I would have stopped, I promise!)

  463. did the daily hotshots this morning.. and so many blowing hairdos and flaming ones.. first i would be very leary of flying on a plane where my hair was blowing.. and how unsafe is flaming hair lol.. havent won much on here even though i have picked the same mini as some of the winners.. wonder who ive been paired against.. gl every one

  464. Hi all–
    Finally figured out some things to help win…lol.
    Usually have a smile if the occasion calls for it..
    Basic common sense, which sometimes is just not there…haven’t these people figured out flaming hair, bathrobes, flying hair, sunglasses inside except on stage, is not gonna cut it…lol.
    There’s one ladies top that almost always scores high..the purpley one with shiny scarf and nice slacks…
    Most of the time dress as a guy, seems to get more votes…lol.
    Been about half and half winning…hate just missing with 6.9!
    Voted for 3BischonAmanda today, was doing really well..

    I too seem to be on a loop and see the same people every day and I mean every day.. sorta spooky. once in a blue moon will see someone I know..saw pastorpapabear once, and momsbassethound twice.
    I like this, it’s kinda cute, but it’ll never take the place of the mini shows..
    enjoy all your comments, especially shel…you make me laugh.
    luvs,V

  465. Debi (461) – I have also wished on many occasions to be able to use my own mini closet. That might be a bit of a nightmare for Pogo; I don’t know enough about this industry to comment on that. However, I do think that they should frequently rotate the inventory in the stock “mini mall” that they offer. Picking from the same old stuff is getting boring.

    Shel (467) – I also cross dressed for the high flying background and went with a classy, “I belong on this plane” kind of look. Somehow a suit seemed more appropriate than a ball gown or party dress. Fingers crossed!

    There were several people with wings in today’s voting. I found it irritating until I realized they were “flying.” Ha! Bring on the captions already, so I don’t miss those subtleties.

    nferno8 (468) – congrats on your wins!

    Debi (470) – a few days ago I had a very unique mini come up twice in my voting — it was the same person. Not against each other (I have had that too, same bathrobe, different name) — but still, I have never seen myself and only once saw a BH’er, why should I vote on the same person twice?

    Like most, I have certain things that irritate me: robes, blowing/flowing hair indoors, bikinis for no good reason, the lack of dark haired models (grrr), etc. However, I have also noticed that I do not like the look of some minis. Put identical outfit on (okay, I might not get the name quite right here) “Petra Janssen” and “Meridith McKnight” and I am always going to pick “Meridith.” It’s not rational, and I don’t judge real people the way I do avatars, but for a number of reasons the face on that avatar does not appeal to me at all.

    Ditto some clothing looks: no matter how appropriate the wiggling hips woman or that really, really oddly walking red-dressed lady is for a background, I just can’t stand to vote for them. I also hate the eco-trash look (just seems too preachy for some relaxing pogo fun), even when it is wholly appropriate.

    This is what I am dancing around: I don’t think it is fixed, I think it just depends on the personal tastes of the people your mini happens to be presented to and the mini it is up against.

  466. Jenna #473 I dressed one of mine with wings on because they had the “flying” in quotes. So I thought what the heck!!. Who knows what goes. Will see how it goes.Now to do the biker babe or worker or whatever she should be.
    I too would like a dark haired female. I usually use Meridith McKnight(?) but wish she would smile. I think the blonde ones look so pastey and need a little sun although the one does have a smile. I do use her once in while just for that. GL everyone. SHaron

  467. I wish they would do away with the winky faces. I find them very creepy and never vote for those because of the creepy factor. I saw a couple with the blowing hair in the plane today too. With the blowing hair I thought it would work with today’s cause it looks like the ocean in the background. Its always windy by the beach so hair blows. Makes sense there but not inside. And I agree about the sunglasses indoors too. Works for a stage like some rockers where but not in a house setting. I wonder what some are thinking sometimes when they do their minis.
    BTW, I have won backgrounds about 3-4 times now. I have come close to winning a bunch more times then that. LOL Some I wish it would have just hit that mark and a few others I was ok with not winning because the backgrounds were so so.
    Congrats to all those here that have won.

  468. Are we all in agreement that the winking mini’s have to go? They creep me out too! I think the ONLY time that they ‘might’ be appropriate is in a bedroom setting… and that wouldn’t be very family oriented! LOL

    I only use them if I can cover them up with dark glasses. I think I did it on today’s because it was an outside setting (with the biker idea) and I could actually use the flowing hair. It’s always windy at the beach! So yay on both of those! LOL
    Of course, I’m so conditioned on not using either of those… I’m not even sure I did. the joys of doing these at 2am! LOL

    I’m reading these comments and wishing once again, Pogo would open the captions because I totally missed the point of the fairy wings!!!
    I was thinking “what WERE they thinking?” Now I know! 🙁
    It was nice to see some variety again. I totally don’t get the barrels and bathing suits… unless someone was thinking “Swimsuit model” on the bathing suits. But a barrel??? really???

    I just realized, I wouldn’t know some BH’ers because not everyone posts their BH name on here… like me. I just use my real name.
    my Pogo name is AzFreebird2007. My mom’s is Minkee2p. My niece is luvsdolphins005.
    I’ve seen my twice (voted against myself once, now that’s bad!) seen my mom’s once and never seen my nieces!

    Good luck, happy dressing and have fun everyone!

  469. Trying to catch up a bit here…..didn’t have internet Monday night (I can’t even remember now if I ended up missing a Photoshoot or not – will go to check in a minute) and getting back into the work swing after the holiday break. Maybe I’ll be able to answer more posts soon, but for now I’ll say:

    Down with winking models!
    More brown-haired/dark-haired models!
    Different face choices that smile!
    Bring on the captions!
    I still deny being the cause of anyone’s addiction to this game!! lmao

    I got a 5.5 on the urban renewal background and so won 1000 tokens. That’s two in a row in the 5.0 range, so at least I did not head back down. lol

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUESDAY: Of the pair, who is wearing the highest flying fashions?

    TUESDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Uneasy Rider

    GOAL: Easily ridden, sure, but these choppers are hard to build. Dress your model as this year’s most innovative chopper designer.

    Well, I have NO clue which way to go except……I get to choose the brown-haired model because I can hide the atrocious wink with sunglasses and still make sense! lol

    GL Hot Shots! And GL with weekly badges too.

    ~Shel

  470. Back again! My high flyer scored a 6.0, so still on an upward trend here. 2000 tokens, no background obviously. lol

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who is this year’s most innovative chopper designer?

    Still not really sure what would be THE costume for this challenge, so I will probably be voting for more edgy looks. And will try to remind myself that flying hair and sunglasses might deserve my votes this time. lol

    WEDNESDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Pee Wee Coach

    GOAL: Prevent offsides with in styles. Dress your model as the star coach of the pee-wee ice hockey league.

    This is a background I haven’t seen before: animated kids’ ice hockey game. Can’t imagine using it, but still want to win it, dang it! lol

    ~Shel

  471. My small streak of wins has come to a halt. Today I picked the an easy cop-out for the coach – one of the men in the ice skates and stuck a beanie hat on him…

  472. Good Morning and Happy Wednesday,

    For anyone scoring the “dreaded” 6.9, take a good look at the right-hand side of your magazine score page announcement… my instant groan when seeing 6.9 this morning turned to unbelievable surprise when I read the words “GREAT JOB! YOU WIN: THE BACKGROUND”.

    I took a screen print of my 6.9 score clearly stating I did win the background – and WOO HOO, it’s in my mini closet !!

    Anyone else notice this happening? Has this always been the case? I suggest if anyone’s ever scored 6.9, please check your closet (I did by background name, release date doesn’t put it in front of your new items). Good Luck everyone !!

    Flower

  473. Flower (480): I noticed that at Christmastime. It was the “ornamental you” background, which I already had because it was a freebie from a year or two before. I thought maybe everyone was “winning” the background because it was Christmas; but, the score WAS 6.9, so maybe not.

    Shel (478): My cross-dressing high flyer won the background for me. I think it is clear my male minis win more than my female. I decided to cross dress again for the hockey coach. I am hoping that keeping him out of skates was not a mistake (although I don’t have kids and don’t play hockey, so I would never used the background.)

    Debi (476): AzFreebird2007!!!! I HAVE seen your mini! That’s a good point…we don’t always know a BH’ers pogo name.

  474. Grrrr! My uneasy rider only scored 4.0. I used the flowing brown hair with sunglasses which I saw tons of time getting over 7.0 scores. I guess my mistake was not putting myself into the same leather outfit that I saw with almost every pair I was voting on today. Grrrrr! I hope you all did much better than me!

    BTW, I went in and was voting right up until time was up. I wanted to see what would happen. Right in the middle of voting for someone, a box came up and told me time had run out since I had loaded the last two pictures! So, that was my new Daily Hot Shots “fun fact” – seeing how they cut off voting if you are still there clicking away. lol

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who looks like the star coach of pee-wee ice hockey?

    Straight-forward, to the same point as the goal. From the first voting, this looks like a man’s background. I did cross-dress again….really didn’t have time to think about this one so ran in and picked a face and put him on the skates and added a hat. We’ll see!

    THURSDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Puppet Governing

    GOAL: The toys and puppets need a new governor. Dress your model as the new leader of this larger than life toy village.

    Over-sized toy background which I remember from our Mini Mall but I never purchased. Not sure if it is still available or not. So, how to convey toy-like and leader-like in same outfit?? lol

    GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel ;>

  475. Hi all,

    I have finalized the not-so-secret for success. I posted before to be BLATANTLY obvious (subtlety is NOT appreciated in this “game”) AND dress like a dude lol. EVERY single time I dress male, I win at least 2600 tokens and the background!! If I dress a female mini, I get a max of 500 tokens.

    So, until captions become available, I am officially a cross-dresser! ;-D

    Good luck all – have fun and I predict that those dressed like Gepetto or the Old Gentleman for “Puppet Mayor” will be the winners.

  476. I just voted for pastorpapabear!
    nice to know about the 6.9, darn hadn’t noticed…

    the men’s costumes has a clown outfit, so dressed him in that and we’ll see…lol.
    has anybody else noticed with all the different names one sees that there are some really skanky names out there? eww…ran across a couple of them lately.
    was in texas holdem one time and a guy had a really offensive name (didn’t know at the time one could report that) and someone asked him and he bragging, said he did it on purpose to see if pogo would pass it and so far they hadnt said anything..what a jerk!
    just figured out (i know, brain cells slowly going byebye) that if you vote for one like yours, then it’s best to dress in a cliche..lol

  477. My male bike designer scored miserably. Some of the males in skates are doing well and other are not doing so well for the hockey background. I dressed my puppet leader as the Fairy Godmother, but I think kristin (#483) may be right – the males seem to score better and most backgrounds I have won have been when I cross-dress as a male.

  478. My Uneasy Rider scored a miserable 4.5.
    I did not even see the skates and I crossed-dressed on the Pee Wee Coach……. oh well what would I ever do with that background anyways. LOL
    On the Puppet I cross-dressed again because I thought the males had better outfits to choose from on this one. I dressed as a clown……its funny but when I choose my outfit I ALWAYS think its a winner!!! LOLOL Good Luck everyone!!

  479. I, too, do the “Daily Hot Shot” & have won a few. I only do them when I see the background is not currently located in the mini mall and/or a “gem” item background.

    As for the facial expressions/hair, Pogo should add the same facial expressions/hair found in the mini mall—happy eyes, bad teeth, options of hair colour, etc.

    As for the male models winning more, I think it’s due in part to the “larger” variety of outfits as opposed to the female wardrobe which is limited in my opinion.

    Good luck to all!

  480. Well my “easy rider” got 5.4 and I got 1k tokens. Like most I thought it looked pretty good but whoever knows with this silly thing. I guess like most I do it for the daily voting tokens. I didn’t cross dress for Peewee Hockey coach – I have seen more robes today than any other tho – or was it just me? I did not vote for anyone wearing the cricket uniform – as a huge hockey fan it is just wrong to dress as another sport LOL. I also did the Puppet Governor as the Fairy Godmother so we shall see. GL to all and see you in the voting 🙂

  481. I think I am really laying off this stuff for awhile. NOthing to work with and very por on scoring. THe flying one I dressed one with wings and got a whooping 1.8!!! Other one I did did not do welleither. MOtorcycle one was a bust also. Maybe Ishould use the windblown hair. Was beginning to think my monitor would go off the right side of desk with the motorcycle one!!!. I crossed dressed for the skating one in one account. Will see how that does

    I too noticed at one time my daughters acct. got a 6.9 and I said ohh crap. But she too got the background.Didn’t metion it at the time, just in case it waas a mistake. LOL.

    I can see how letting people use their own closet would not be fair. New people would not have the closet as older members. Same would go for stuff that we get from buying and playing some of the downloads. But come on, give us some choices other than some old stuff that doesn’t fit with the themes you come up with.
    Think I will just be voting for awhile and check to see what the shot for the day is and decide from there.
    GlE1 on today Hot shot . Sharon

  482. i, too, voted for pastorpapabear!
    sassyb, #484, i’ve seen tons of names too that have gotten past pogo. the worst i’ve seen is: liquorwhole, maybe that’s what you saw, maybe not.
    either way, GL all, and i can totally identify with sharbear #489, but, gonna stick with it, think my laptop is dying out, so, I’m gonna use it as much as i can b4 it goes to laptop Heaven. don’t know what i’ll do then, as i just HAD to sell my Saturn due to economic issues, that darn near killed me, being disabled and such, oh well, life does go on……
    GL all ‘n GB, Carol C.

  483. Okay, now I’m going to cry foul here! LOL My mom’s got a 6.9 on the biker and didn’t win the background and received 2000 tokens. Mine won with a 7.8 (my second highest score to date) and unless I’m losing it… I got 2600 tokens and the background. Didn’t the tokens used to be higher???
    I also missed the high flyer with a 6.9 and didn’t get the background!
    (don’t have it, never saw it… wanted it! LOL)

    I cross dressed mine for the biker – thinking men have better biker outfits than the women did (we have one!) and yep… it won.

    I don’t CARE if I win today’s toy themed one… it’s really creepy. I didn’t realize there even was a clown costume and clowns creep me out. I threw the big Pogo suit on my mom’s and to be honest, have no clue what I put on mine! LOL… get in, get out. With any luck maybe I’ll score high enough to get 1000 tokens but it doesn’t sound like it.
    Some creative ideas in here and I was totally lost on that one.
    Rotate clothes, get rid of winks, (Please pogo get rid of those winking faces!!!) and give us captions! Do something to give the loyal players something different to work with and vote on.
    I’m so tired of seeing and voting for the same thing day after day (or in my case, night after night!)

    When I suggested Pogo let us use our own closet – I realized that would be an unrealistic idea. I don’t think the program they run with it would even support it… but it works in theory! LOL
    Much like the “mini event” they have. Right? I guess I just want something new already! I’ll settle for captions at this point!
    Of course, as with anything… I’m sure someone would abuse the caption box too! 🙁 Maybe that’s why they haven’t put it up yet?

    Good luck all! Debi

  484. So, breaking news: the speech bubbles are in testing! They should be released soonish.

    Also, this thread will auto-close after 90 days. I’m trying to come up with a new way for you guys to keep chatting about this topic when this one closes. Don’t fret. 🙂

  485. Debi #491 – I think that 2600 is the most you get, at least that’s what is in my memory bank, but some days it doesn’t work as well as others.

    Here’s what I think about those of us that won with a 6.9…..it could be that they are using a sliding scale and on days when there aren’t many that score 7.0 or better they change it. It’s only happened to me once and I’ve had a 6.9 more times than that.

    I dressed both Holly & I exactly the same for the biker photo shoot, won the background on my account and only got 1,000 tokens for Holly. So it’s just what you get put up against during the voting.

    Suz

  486. Why, why, why?

    Why does the man’s skate outfit come with white skates? Evokes images of figure skaters for me, not hockey.

    Why isn’t there a woman’s skate outfit?

    And why are so many of today’s minis dressed in what appears to be a cricket outfit?

  487. Well, here’s a switch. My “Biker Mama” mini scored a 7.2 and won the background while the male mini I used on my primary account only got a 5.6. This is only the second time one of my cross dressed minis won while my normal male mini didn’t (the other was the 3rd grade classroom… no pigtails for the boys). There were two other times that I did win with a cross-dressed mini but I also won (and scored higher, I believe) with a male one as well.

    Also in checking my closets I found the corner office on my secondary account which I don’t remember winning, but I did score high so maybe it was a 6.9 winner as well. Anyway my scorecard now is:
    Primary – 8 wins (all male)
    Secondary – 11 wins (4 female)

    Lura, great news about the speech bubbles/captions! I’m also looking forward to seeing those because sometimes I just don’t “get it” or I get 2 minis so similar I flip a coin to decide which to vote for and a caption would help me decide.
    As for this discussion, considering the popularity of it I think including this on the Most Popular Pages section would be very appropriate but maybe call it “Daily Hot Shots Discussion”. That would also make it easier to check out on weekends or badge days when most of the recent comments are on those topics.

    Well I’ve still got to finish my voting and decide how I want to rule over toyland, so good luck everyone!

    -Tom

  489. I know it is just co-incidence but we did get some new tings to wear today. When I posted last, I had not seen them either. I see some of the backgrounds are now on sale in mall. I got the safari one i wanted. Would like the garage one but will wait. With not getting 2323 times 10 on Monday and no triple tokens today, I can’t shop much LMAO. I usually shop in mall after I get allthose tokens. God the things we do for tokens!!.
    For today I dressed one of us in one of the new old castle looking ones and the other I cross-dressed in polka dot shirt and shiny pants I think. I will probably win that one. LOL.
    Well off to bed for me. Up too many nights late and old age is catching up with me. HEE hee. Sharon

  490. You guys are just cracking me up!! For example:

    Misskittykat #488 – “I did not vote for anyone wearing the cricket uniform – as a huge hockey fan it is just wrong to dress as another sport LOL.”

    Amen!! I thought the same thing. lol

    sharbear #489 – “Maybe Ishould use the windblown hair. Was beginning to think my monitor would go off the right side of desk with the motorcycle one!!!. ”

    Glad I wasn’t drinking when I read that one – it is SO true! You can’t give up on the “game” Shar because we need you to keep cracking us up. lol

    Catching up with some of the chatter…

    twuzzie…..I always think I have a winner too. It is silly how proud I get of some of them. lol lol Oh lordy, I need a life.

    Moms – I *seem* to remember getting 3000 tokens once upon a time. But it was SO long ago now, I could’ve just imagined it, ala my Dad talking about his youth, “when *I* was a boy, we walked to school each day in 6 feet of snow, uphill both ways!” Maybe my imaginary token total will continue to grow as the weeks without a win go on. ;>

    AZfree Debi – I remember thinking the Toy background was kinda creepy when they first showed it in the Mall, so you are not alone with that. In terms of closet-usage in this game, I just think they should expand what they offer us period. It would be too hard to program it, I think, so we could use all our own closets. BUT….I am thinking they could put a ton more items into circulation for us, for sure.

    And as for expressions…..Totally with leslie, I think they should offer us the same choices we get in the mall now. Let us choose eyes, nose, lips, craziness, emotions, even WINKS *IF* we want them! lol C’mon Pogo!!

    kristine #483 – Congrats on officially embracing your cross-dressing self. lol I have cross-dressed 3 times now, though, and have not won once as a man. So, apparently, I am an equally disastrous dresser no matter what sex I am!! lol

    flower #480 – Thanks for the head’s up on the 6.9! I know I scored that once, but will have to check my closet to see if I can recognize winning a background then or not. I think Suz has the most probable explanation – that they change the “winning” score based on how many or how few score high for the background.

    sassyb – Welcome to you and any other new posters, glad to have you and thanks for your nice comments! As for raunchy names on Pogo – say it isn’t so!!!!! lolllll Seriously, I have seen some really bad ones too, in the “game” and throughout Pogoland.

    Pogo NEVER checks names when they are first created, but they absolutely DO take accounts away when someone points out atrocious ones to them. They take them away without even checking with the person first, which happened to our own Amanda (_3bichons) because some ignorant person decided her name was cursing.

    It happened to a friend of mine, too, and he was unable to get them to reconsider. The name had been around for years, wasn’t offensive IMO, and simply was targeted by someone. So what did he do? Created a new name immediately – same name, added “jr” to it – and has again been playing just fine with it. They don’t check until someone points them in that direction.

    They don’t check because they don’t want people to have to wait to get an account to start playing. So, if you remember back to when you signed up, you filled out your screen name form and poof! off you were, on to the games. I don’t think the obviously “bad” words get thru their filter, but we have all seen very creative nasty names, so all sorts of things squeak by.

    MsTish Carol – Here’s hoping your laptop keeps hanging on!! My first new car was a Saturn back in 1992. God, I loved the original Saturns and I loved my car. Silly to say maybe, but it broke my heart when that car had to go.

    Congrats to all who have been grabbing some wins & backgrounds and continued GL to everyone. Lura, ty for “soonish” news on captions!!!! woohooo! And ty for finding a way to let us all keep gabbing about our new shared activity. lol

    ~Shel ;>

  491. I’m ticked again!!! They added outfits AFTER they put up the toymaker/puppet keeper. While I’m happy with some new clothing I wish Pogo would do that BEFORE they put up a new day’s challenge.
    That’s really frustrating! Second time it’s happened now. ~kicks dirt and goes grumbling off~ LOL
    No hockey wins for either account – not that I expected one. I did identicals – I came out with 2000 tokens, my moms account got 500. Gotta love that voting process! 😉

  492. Woohoo, finally a win cross-dressing. A win with the most obvious outfit I have had on to date: a male skater with a winter hat on to coach ice hockey. I know, stunning choice. lol lol 7.2, 2600 tokens. Not as high as some of the 8s I was seeing, but I’ll take it.

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who looks like the leader of the toys and puppets?

    This might actually be a tough one to vote on – of the 10 models I just saw, I could have voted for 8 of them, and all were different. (BTW, Lisa zel5, I liked your Fairy Godmother idea too.)

    FRIDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Locker Pranks

    GOAL: High School isn’t easy. Dress your model as if they were just rescued from being stuffed in a locker all day.

    Background is a grungy, broken-down-looking open school locker. Yummy…not. lol

    ~Shel

  493. WHY do I keep winning the UGLY backgrounds? I don’t like mini things with little kids in them ( no offense to those who do) nor do I like hockey.
    OF COURSE I won the stupid Hockey BG.

    I like the Toy background a lot. 🙂 I collect dolls.. Just a big kid at heart. And of course, I am wearing the same red and blue ” Regal Attire” that half the minis are wearing ( the half that aren’t Mother Goose or whoever she is).

    I tested the stupid bubble thing today. It’s LAME. And people are going to get thrown off POGO left and right for saying sexually explicit things, IMO. It’s a horrible idea to give some of those NUTS with all the bathrobes a chance to ” speak” too.

    Pogo, the site, is turning into an iPhone type app. right in front of our eyes. Why don’t the add sound effects too?
    I’m sorry, but y’all, trust me- WORDS ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT ANY BETTER. I saw this on Beta. People voted for the prettier mini. didn’t matter what they were saying.

  494. I scored 4.7 as the Pee Wee Coach.

    On the Puppet voting today looks like all of the Cinderella style dresses were winning big time. I did see one brownie dressed girl that had already won the background but for the most part all of the bouffant hairdos with the ballroom dresses were winning. I saw several clowns and they were winning big also (I dressed as a clown so maybe I will get this background)!! (fingers crossed) LOL
    I did see several dressed in that huge pink blow up looking thing and they did not do too well (thank goodness!!)
    On todays Locker Pranks…..I dressed my model to look as messy as the background. I really did not know how to dress for this one at all. Good Luck everyone!! AHHH there is always another day.:)

  495. Hey Everyone,

    Another win for the Hockey shoot – my biggest to date 3600 tokens (I just went”Cha Ching” and forgot to look at my score, which had to have been close to 10). I have now named my male alter-ego!!! “Mr. Obvious” was wearing the only outfit with ICE SKATES (shocker!!) and a coordinating baseball cap. As for the ladies, this is the second time they have stuck us on ice and still no skates?? Don’t even get me started on the shameful lack of desirable footwear for women – not just on Hot Shots, but even in the mini mall… it distresses me LOL.

    I am a bit miffed also that new outfits were added AFTER I created my puppet Mayor. There was no fairy Godmother, or Elizabethan garb when I made my mini – grrrrrr. So I dressed Mr. Obvious up the the German “Gepetto” looking outfit. When voting, I was definitely seeing that the benevolent fairy Godmother is going to take the prize… oh well. No fair changing rule after the game has started!! 😉

    As for the “Stuffed in the Locker” – yikes!! I looked and looked for some form of disheveled geek-chic. It definitely seems like a “guy thing,” but all the minis look a bit too mature. Anyway, Mr. O is looking as geeky as I could I make him. I am not sure what I would do with that background anyway – I am not feeling confident today. wa wah…

    Good Luck Hot Shots!!

    Kris

  496. Oh my–got the peewee hockey BG with 3500 TOKENS! 8.+, so excited,forgot to sear it into my brain…lol. highest one yet for me. dressed in men skates with orange hat…I tend to go for visual appeal sorta no matter what they ask for.
    also dressed for toy room before BG is definitely a head scratchernew releases and used tinkerbell and then on other account, saw the new ones and dressed as a clown w/green hair.

    this locker one is definitely a head scratcher…gonna be lots of different things which sometimes means not lots of high scores..boo hiss.

  497. My puter isn’t letting me say much today, so a two=parter here.
    Lura, love the idea of a special thing for daily hotshots, can never find it if not on recent comments.
    now, I really don’t want to get all serious or preachy here, but todays locker is bothering me a bit. who do you put in there to get the votes? nerdy kids, heavy kids, cheerleaders ? is it me or does this sorta smack a bit of bullying? ah see, I knew it sounded too serious, it’s all just fun and to be taken that way…sorry guys, have a good day…

  498. Aunt Debi, I think the problem is that you do them too early. By the time I did the Hot Shots at 9am EST, the new outfits were there.

  499. Well my “hockey mom” as I dubbed her did not fare so well (500 measly tokens) so I guess I should have chosen the crossed dressing male skater guy. For the voting today on the “leader of the toys” I have seen a lot of the fairy godmother (which I chose) doing well so we shall see. I still wish that you could skip if you don’t want to vote for either mini – I had a LOT of these today..as for the “locker pranks” I went with the Emo Goth girl – she looks like she should be stuffed back in the locker LOL. GL ev1 🙂

  500. : 6.8 on my coach. I knew I should have gone with the skates. At least I did not go with my first instinct, the Canadian hoodie; that one was scoring really low yesterday (at least during my voting.)

    MissKittyKat (488): No way I voted for cricket! That made me scratch my head (no offense to anyone who dressed that way.)

    Debi (499) and kristinerosern (503): I am also miffed about the late appearance of fairy godmother, etc. This was a pretty consistent problem at the beginning, but I thought Pogo had stopped that. Since I start school (teaching and taking my own classes) on Monday, I am going to be a 6AM hot shot player (Eastern time), so it looks like I am going to miss out pretty regularly. Grrr.

  501. My cross-dressed skater guy won for me – 2600 tokens and the background. From looking at today’s votes, my fairy godmother choice seems to be doing well, as do the clowns and queens. I picked her because she has a magic wand and could just wave it at the uncooperative toys, lol, to get them to behave. Today, I tried to dress as nerdy as possible – we will see. I am a big fan of Glee and the popular kids are always dogging the nerds.

  502. My first time EVER cross dressing and I won!!!!! I used the man skater and won the background. I had been winning early on but have been stuck in a terrible rut. So I took the plunge… and went to the dark side aka mens side and won first time doing it. I did it again today for the locker shoot so we will have to see how it goes.

  503. A correction to my aunt’s post #476 – She had my screen name wrong.. It’s lovesdolphins005, not “luvsdolphins005”. It’s so sad when your own family doesn’t even know you well!! LOL! I’ll pay for that comment, but oh well, it was worth it LOL! On a sidenote, the locker one is going to be just as bad as the Christmas returns one, where a lot of people are going to miss the mark and it will be hard to tell what will rule.

  504. TGIF to all you working out there!
    TYVM Shel for your kind comment about my Greenlee (car) LOL!
    You are aways so kind to ev1, and, I, for one, greatly appreciate it :-D(no wink) LOL!
    WTG all BG winners, awesome for you, wheatonmom y–, so glad to hear it.
    Couldn’t believe my eyes when I got here a bit late this morning, all the new garb! Woo Hoo!. I absolutely loved The Mayor of the Toys, now that was fun, very cute and made me laugh a lot.
    One thing I thing they should include, is a disgruntled or unhappy face. Not that I’m that way, but, c’mon, are we all happy all the time?? And, sometimes the BG calls for it.
    I totally agree with MissKittyKat78, #507, Goth Girl should be put in there for good, ss to to all whom chose her, gotta remember, there’s all ages dressing here, but, that one, especially irks me~ just MY personal opinion, pls don’t be offended.
    Have a wonderful weekend ev1, tc ‘n God bless, Carol C.

  505. HI ALL I won the hockey background from yesterday & yes i’ll admit it I crossed dressed as a man to get it. think I’ve won 3 or 4 backgrounds since it started. gl on hot shots.

  506. With all this dress-up fun on DHS and all this post-retirement time on my hands, I decided to try my luck at another Amazing Mini event tonight. We shall see – I was unsuccessful with my first attempt at the Christmas event.

  507. lisa #514 – Best of luck!! It’s had the opposite effect on me, haven’t gone to one since DHS started, except the Xmas one and that was for the freebie.

    Suz

  508. #503..Kristinersern….I thought your mini was perfect…Gepetto. Made
    me think of Pinocchio. He made puppets and toys. I hope you won.
    I know I voted for you. It’s amazing how clever some people are when dressing their minis. Good Luck to all.

    Krista*

  509. twuzzie #502 – Just so you know, no one has already won the background when you see them during voting, even if you see them with a 7 or 8. A high score can be lowered as the voting goes on, and a low score can be raised, too.

    Sami #511 — Shout out to you – did your aunt get you????? lol lol

    sassyb #505 – The way to find this thread when it is not in the Recent Comments list is to use the “Search This Site” box found all the way to the right on any BH page. I type in “Daily Hot Shots,” click the search button, and this thread is the first link on the list. Once you are on this page, you can also add the page to your favorites and can find it that way, too. Hope that helps!

    BTW, I understood what you said about the bullying, so don’t worry about getting too serious on us. We can take it. lol I worried a bit about it myself, but basically just tried to pick someone who might look like he was messed up from being in the locker, not necessarily conveying why he was in the locker. Yes, I went male again – and found a guy with a cast on his leg. I have to say, though, not feeling it with this background – not sure I designed a winning model. lol

    Congrats to all who won the Hockey background! I also have liked alot of different models for the Toy Leader background – it was hard to pick sometimes!

    Amanda #501 – I have been waiting and wanting the captions, but have to say your comment, “It’s a horrible idea to give some of those NUTS with all the bathrobes a chance to ” speak” too” made me stop & think some more. I am hoping it doesn’t turn out to be a case of “be careful what you wish for.”

    ~Shel ;>

  510. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who was just rescued from being stuffed in a locker?

    SATURDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Martian Mate

    GOAL: Earth and Mars have joined forces to defeat all evil in the galaxy. Dress your model as the Martian captain’s first-mate.

    (Never saw this background before that I remember. In a space ship with a little green Martian. lol)

    Too late and too tired to even think about what I may think about it! lol GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel ;>

  511. Oh my…what miserable minis I saw today! I could not wait for voting to be over! I saw more “cool” kids, football/cheerleader minis, and “emu” looks than people who chanced being shoved into a locker. Granted, Pogo did not really have an array of “geek-fabulous” looks, but still…

    Tomorrow I am not so sure about…I wonder if there is some costume/look that, once I see it, I am going to be smacking my head saying “ahhh, that makes sense!” I just lamed out and used the female Navy Shooter.

    I think I should stick up for the wink. I have used it before when there is something to be winked at. For instance, I used a pregnant woman mini in the return line winking (although the voters did not seem to understand why she would need to be making a return) in one hot shot. However, I do agree with those that say it should be a facial option, like frowning or smiling…not automatic on some models.

  512. My Toy Master (Fairy Godmother) garnered an 8.2 and 3500 tokens. I agree with #517 Sheljin about the choices sometimes being difficult for the pick option on this one because there were a lot of good ideas. LOL that some of the robes were getting a few votes on the locker shoot. As for today – I think I already purchased the Martian background, but I used the dark lady model and dressed her in the dark uniform holding the helmet, then added the short, spiky brown hair with the greenish tips.

  513. Sheljin #517 I did not know that about the scoring thanks for letting me know that 🙂

    My puppet score was 6.4….very very very disappointing!!! I saw other models dressed exactly like mine with 7’s and 8’s. Guess I will suck it up and try again and of course keep smiling 🙂

    Martian Mate: I dressed mine bald (just the head) I just KNOW this one’s a winner!!
    Isn’t it wonderful that there’s always another day!! Good Luck Everyone!!

  514. I still don’t get it… most of the fairy godmothers got votes of 8 and 9 at 11 pm est when I finished my voting. I dressed my mini early in the day. My fairy godmother scored a 5.4… so odd!!!
    This game is not very fair if you ask me!
    justa

  515. I scored a 5.7 on my Toy Leader…..not bad, I think, considering I kind of designed my own version of a female fairy-type leader. I thought she was cute, but after seeing so many other great ones, and how many Godmothers there who were getting very good scores, I had been preparing myself for a low score. So, I’ll take it! lol

    Still haven’t decided what to do with the Martian background. Like your idea Lisa(zel). I almost never create my model when I first go in to find out what the Photoshoot for the day is. Hearing the horror stories of missing late-added outfits and just wanting some time to think are the reasons why.

    Jenni #519 – I hear you about the wink and it definitely is appropriate or cute sometimes. But since it is the only brunette choice we have, I want it gone. lol Also, it looks kind of creepy with certain glasses, but people keep doing it and, well, it creeps me out. lollllll

    ~Shel ;>

  516. first to sharbear565 if someone hasnt already gifted you the garage background having around 29mil tokens i would be more then happy to.. pogo message me with your pogo name and i will send it to you.. secondly urs ago i typed bichon in room and it was garbled so made the name beyechon for the dog breed of course.. then when i wanted a new name i added jr to it.. and yes the dhs are a bit disheartening having the same mini as those scoring high and not scoring enough for the background.. but then the luck of the placement.. hope everyone has a great weekend any my pogo name is beyechonjr same as i use on here

  517. Hi Everyone,

    Gepetto got 2000 tokens, but no background – oh well (#516 Thanks Krista for the shout out!)

    My what variety we have on who was stuffed in the locker. I think some people are using this as a cathartic experience of who they would have LIKED to shove in a locker in High School. I saw men in Speedos, bikini babes, business suits, cheerleaders, etc, so voting was pretty fun today. There didn’t seem to be a clear front runner yet, although the “Emo” people and the ones who have on all the mismatched clothes were doing well.

    The “Martian Mate” kind of had me scratching my head for a bit. So, I decided to go “Star Trek” and actually made a FEMALE mini (yes, it’s true) who resembled Lt. Uhura with a cliche flight suit on. I guess I am assuming the Martian is male lol. We shall see…

    I, too, had never really thought about what some of these bizarre minis would say – YIKES!!! It sounds like it might be a censoring nightmare. It should be interesting.

    Good Luck Hot Shots!!
    Kris

  518. As I predicted, a lot of people missed the mark on the lockers. Slim pickings on outfits, I get that, but there was still a lot to do.

    Sheljin – No, my aunt didn’t get me, but she also hasn’t posted on here yet either, so it doesn’t mean I skated freely lol. She will sometimes wait to embarrass me. If she posts and nothing is said, then we’re good to go LOL!

  519. Well after much thinking, I decided I would enter the days space shoot. I wasn’t going too because nothing really in the closet that would fit the requirements IMO. Only did mine this time and not daughters. I started doing hers well after mine and she has 8 BG’s to my 4!!!!. Don’t even think she has been in closet to see any of them. A dial up for her so takes so long to get into it. I will vote but won’t participate every day if I don’t think nothing is relevent. Just not enough options there. Too limited of a closet.
    On another note, I saw the cheerleaders being used for the locker one and after seeing them thought, yeah that can work, they are happy to be let out!!!. Never thought of using them myself when choosing an outfit. I once had to vote between a wiggling hipster and a levitating one. Would have skipped both of them if I could have. Don’t know who I voted for.

    Seems like nobody on here is doing too well with hotshots. Would be nice to have the ones who just vote, try it once and see how they like it!!! Hint,hint.
    Think that most of ones that my daughter won have been cross-dressed. The men seem to have a better selection than women. And to go back a little, I dressed in the cricket one ’cause I thought it was the one that looked most like it should be on ice. …pads etc. Only reason I picked it for my acct. Guess who won the BG for that and being crossed-dressed. Can only hope this cross dressing doesn’t “cross” over into real life!! LMAO Sharon

  520. Shar – There are some of us that are doing just fine…..Holly has won 17 times and I’ve won 12 times…..don’t think that’s too shabby. I normally dress us differently so that if 1 doesn’t do so well maybe the other 1 will. I’ve had a few times when both have won, but that’s unusual.

    Suz

  521. I was checking my closet and if I counted right it looks like I have won a background 8 times, mostly as a cross-dresser.

  522. Wow Suz! WTG on the DHS wins. I have been pretty lucky so far, I have won 11 on each account ( mostly cross dressed). I guess what ever gets the win is all that matters LOL. I wish there was some way for Pogo to mark on the tops of the backgrounds that they were won in DHS. Oh well we can always hope. Good luck on tomorrows everyone.

    Paula

  523. Thanks!! I am a numbers person so write everything down 🙂

    Anytime there is anything with ice I use the male b/c they are the only ones with skates. And if I’m so-so on something I will dress mine as a female and Holly’s as a male.

    She won dressed as a male clown today, but my fairy godmother only got a 6.2……just depends who you are put up against during the voting.

    WTG on your wins also Paula!!

    Suz

  524. Okay Sami!!!! I didn’t HAVE to give your screen name you know!!! I’m not doing your mini! :p~ So I got it wrong and I have seen a luvsdolphins not to be confused with ‘lovesdolphins007’ My bad! Hers had a number behind it too. I’d just really like to know where the original owners of these names are!!!! I couldn’t have AzFreebird because it was taken! Never seen him/her and they never answered my mail either! LOL

    Anyway – after my motorcycle background no wins. My moms account has been fairing slightly better. Decided I’m going to do hers first – then mine since it seems to be my second time around that gets better results! LOL
    This whole martian thing… I waited this time to see if Pogo was going to grace us with yet another update in our closet. No such luck. Oh well! It was worth a shot. Not sure I’d ever use that background anyway… maybe… might just be in a funky mood sometime. :p~

    Really disappointed in what I’m seeing in the locker voting. Cheerleaders, bathing suits, robes, and people who look like they belong in the chic crowd… even business suits. Someone wishing they could stick the teachers or principal in their perhaps? UGH!

  525. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who looks like the Martian captain’s first-mate?

    (Seriously? Mermaids? Two in the first 10 minis I saw.)

    SUNDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Hats That Top

    GOAL: Hats are an excellent way to top off already adorable attire. Dress your model in a hat that best accents their outfit.

    Background is of a hat shop……which, again, I don’t remember ever seeing before. It is so funny (to me! lol) that I’m now so into this game when so often I wouldn’t even notice all the mini mall releases. lol lol

    GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel

  526. Shel, you are my entertainment when it comes DHS. We may have to borrow a new Dr to help our own Dr Shel through this addiction. I’m not doing well, only a couple of wins and my nerd got 6.9, yuck! I keep getting close but no cigar!

    While I am not a hard core DHS player, I try not to miss your comments both on this topic and especially on the weekend thread. Keep them coming………

  527. My nerd got a 6.4 and 2000 tokens. Some of the Martian choices were odd – like the previously-mentioned mermaids. I saw a couple of men with a Star Trekish type red shirt one and the people picked hair dos for the most part that accentuated pointy ears. For the hat fiasco, I picked the sleepy eyed red-haired male (he seems to be my favorite model, lol) and dressed him in the pimp suit with the large burgundy hat. I also stuck some sunglasses on him because they seemed to match the gaudy outfit.

  528. I did better than I thought I would with the locker mini. 8.0 and won the background. I have won 11 backgrounds so far, but I think only 2 of them are ones I wanted LOL! The martian’s assistant mini voting was hell!! Wow! That’s all I can say!

    And, umm, Aunt Debi?? I think you just got my screename wrong again LOL!!! It’s lovesdolphins005, not 007 lol. I’m not Bond.. Sami Bond!! LOL!

  529. Woohoo! I’m on a roll now with my primary as my nerd got a 7.2 which was 3rd straight win on that account (along with the skater & clown minis) to bring it up to 11 wins which equals my secondary (occasional cross-dressing) account which got in the upper 5’s for each of those.

    Suz, WTG on the # of wins you’ve gotten! BTW, I voted for Holly’s Mini today but it doesn’t seem to be doing too well (4.7 after my vote).
    It’s still early in the voting and I only did the prelimaryvotes to see the next background so far and will finish later today (after the Eagles whoop the Pack).

    Good luck everyone, and go Birds!

    -Tom

  530. I won the background for Locker Pranks…7.2. HOORAY!!

    With the Hats That Top I went with a red hat lady……which I personally do not care for…..my apologies to anyone who is in this organization. It’s just something that is just not for me.
    Well now the waiting game starts and hopefully I will win another one soon. I had a long dry spell since I won the last one (10 days). This game is so much fun for me and I look forward to playing it everyday its just different and unique. Good luck to all BH Hot Shot Players!!!

    #537 Tom I’m with you GO EAGLES!!

  531. Tom, I have to admit that I try harder if it’s a background that I like. For yesterday all I did was put my mini in the hover chair and give her the green tipped hair.

    I had to vote for a mermaid this morning. The other choice was in a bikini with flaming hair and sunglasses. At least the mermaid had green hair…..LOL

    The men wearing the wizzard outfit seem to be doing the best of any.

    Suz

  532. Happy Sunday, Hot Shots! Tom, I knew I liked you – go Eagles!! GL to all the teams, but xxxxxxxgl to the Eagles! lol

    Suz – wtg on your very many wins! I happen to agree with you that it really depends so much on who you end up being up against, so there is so much luck involved. That said, you are very lucky!! lol But also, you must do well with your models to take advantage of that luck when it comes your way.

    I really don’t know how many wins I have – I really should have kept track. Silly me, still thinking Pogo would come thru and we would have our own record with the game to access. lol I do know it is nowhere near as many as some of you, because I think I would remember being that psyched that many times. lol

    VERRRRRRRRRY glad to have the Martian background voting done. This had the possibility, IMO, to be a fun one to vote on. But, it degenerated badly, at least in the choices I was given. I do understand, I think, what some people were going for. Martians? Saving the earth? Sci Fi! So go for really out-there creatures/costumes/models.

    But, for me, it still said EARTH joined forces and I don’t think even in the distant future, we’re going to see fairies and mermaids as our top military personnel. lol lolllll I also am a just a teeny bit worried (okay, I mean ALOT) about how many hottie barely-clothed women want to be flying around in space with a lil green alien – not gonna go there, nu uh!! lol

    One of my pairings were BOTH mermaids with flowing hair – dang you, Pogo!!! You are cruel, cruel!! lol

    I ended up voting for alot of wizards, if the other model was worse. But from a story-telling perspective, I didn’t like the minis that were so large you couldn’t see the Martian at all. But by the end, almost all my pairings were two bad choices, IMO. And considering they all were at the 2.0-3.0 scores, I think most people agreed with me.

    I would go out on a limb and say that this photoshoot was one of the worst, if not THE worst, that I have experienced in terms of having tons of “no-good-choice” pairings – ones I wished I could just bail out on. Ugh.

    I did think the hovercraft/wheelchair models were a great touch – saw one that was doing well in the voting, but others were not. Also, even of the models I liked – professional/military with a touch of futuristic hair maybe – so many would then top it off with sunglasses or flowing hair. Noooooooooo – you were so close!! Sheesh! lol

    Auntie Deb & Sami – you are cracking me up. Bond, Sami Bond! lol

    Hiya mspat – ty for your kind words – nice to see you! My nerd got only a 5.7, so your nerd beat my nerd. lolllll Hope that helps a lil teeny bit. ;>

    Off to figure out my Hat model….. GL to all those still playing today’s photoshoot!

    ~Shel (live long & prosper Hot Shots!)

  533. Hi Everyone,

    Another day, another batch of tokens and a background – Mr. Obvious comes through again!! I had him dressed as the geeky guy who looked like he is wearing everything he owns all at once. As for the guys who had the bikini models stuffed in their lockers, I defintely do NOT want to see what caption would go with that!!

    I scrolled up to make sure I hadn’t misread the “Martian” instructions, and I hadn’t. (Thanks for the documentation Shel!) The minis were to represent Earth teaming up with Mars. Everytime we are to represent ourselves in outer space, there tend to be a lot of “Puck People.” I, too, saw the mermaid extravaganza,the fairies, and the recycling outfit comes up a lot. “Hi, I come from Earth and I bring you… aluminum and plastic.” (Maybe that is the new intergalactic currency?)

    Today’s “Hat” shoot is very broad – pretty much free rein for any outfit with a hat. I made Mr. Obvious the “dapper gent” – it remains to be seen how he will fare.

    I have no logical explanation of why I am so into this. I feel pretty certain that the majority of the backgrounds (over 20 now…) I have won will never be used, but that isn’t the point!! 😀 I just always get such satisfaction when I see that “Cha Ching” – so I have come to the point of living vicariously through a cross-dressing mini – disturbing, but fun.

    Good Luck Hot Shots!!
    Kris

  534. Woohoo! I won the locker BG with a 6.9! I am a little confused with todays Hot Shots. I see alot of astronauts and pilots, I thought it was supposed to be the Martian captains first mate? Oh well, lol. Good Luck everyone.

    Paula

  535. Oh my gosh guys, 🙁
    It is a game site & if I can put my two cents in: the amount we pay for a year script. is not that much when you figure it out per day. Pogo has a large variety of games to play & the “Hot Shots” was a great idea thanks to pogo for giving us another way to have fun. Please relax & enjoy the site, between BH & Pogo I have a wonderful way to pass the day since I retired.
    I am a forever BH & pogo fan/player. Thanks for letting me vent.
    Angie

  536. My nerd was not well received; it was somewhere in the five range. It was one of those (rare) instances where I was certain I had nailed the look, but, then again, judging from the other minis I saw in voting, most did not interpret the directions as calling for a nerd look when they put together their looks, so it makes sense that they would not be voting that way either.

    I, too, wonder why mermaids have taken over space command. Maybe people just wanted to use the new costumes?

    Tomorrow starts another intensive 16 weeks of schooling; I am both working on an advanced English degree and teaching classes at our local university (in addition to keeping up with my small, home-based business.) Therefore, this will probably be my last post for a while. If Lura finds a new forum for us DHS’ers, I will probably catch up with you all during Spring Break (imagine a 38 year old woman looking forward to spring break!) Last semester I couldn’t even spare the time to work on my badges (thank goodness for Pogo-loving parents who took over the task for me), so I know I will not have time to post.

    So, before I go, I just wanted to say how much fun I have had checking in with this thread on a daily…or almost daily…basis! I have enjoyed BH for well over a year, occasionally adding a comment here or there, but never really getting involved. It has been a great joy to check back here and see what Shel or Debi thought of the voting, if Suz had any words of wisdom, etc., etc. Through this thread I really began to understand how many of you think of each other as friends and/or family.

    Now, on to the books…
    Jenni (polyprisypants)

  537. I’ll start off-topic because the Weekend thread’s closed now, but as much as it hurts me to say it, WTG to the Packers. It was a good game and the better team won.

    Back to the DHS, I think some the Martian’s First-Mate selections were unique, for lack of a better word, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. For example, until voting I never considered the hover chair, levitating or even the skydiving minis until looking at them with the spaceship background and realizing, “DUH! It’s Zero-G!”
    I personally went with the male pilot mini & a “red shirt” mini for my secondary account and while others have mentioned seeing the red-shirts I only saw one when doing most of my voting tonight which gives me some trepidation on that account, but it’s only only tokens and a possible background involved, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

    For those who are wondering how to keep score of what backgrounds have been won, the best way I’ve found is to go to the Mini Mall Home then select “All My Items” and then click the “Backgrounds” selection. This will show all of your backgrounds in the reverse order of when you received them and for me, at least, I can easily check off those that I actually paid tokens for and may also jog my memory of which DHS backgrounds I won.
    A word of warning, though, DON’T choose the “Release” sort option because that will sort the BGs by their release date instead of when they were entered into your closet.
    I’m not sure how this will work if one of the backgrounds won was one that was already owned since that hasn’t happened to me yet (because I haven’t bought many BGs) but I’d like to know if anyone who has re-won a background can check this method out.

    Good luck, everyone, with the Hats BG! FWIW I went with the Cowboy Hat & Western shirt for one account and the Top Hat with formal wear (with the martini, I think) with my other account but there are alot of other good combinations so I’m actually looking forward to seeing what other people come up with.

  538. Papnana #543 – Angie, I am assuming you have read one of the earlier postings, because lately this thread has been 99% fun-chat about Daily Hot Shots. But you and everyone are always welcome for the chance to vent – that’s what makes BH so great IMO: everyone gets to voice their Pogo opinions, pro and con. How are you doing with the Hot Shots?

    Kristine – I have no idea why I’m so into this either, but guess I’ll just accept it and go with the flow! You’re welcome for the documentation – ty for the laughs. I need to go count up my new currency to see if I have enough to buy lunch on Monday. lol

    Wtg nhpollywog on your win! The original goal for the Martian background (see post #518) said that Earth and Mars joined forces, so I took that to mean that the Martian’s first-mate should be from Earth. I think that’s why you may have seen alot of pilots etc. Lucky you — I saw lots of Pucks, mermaids and bikinis. lol

    ~Shel ;>

  539. Cha-ching! My Martian background was a winnah! 7.1 woohoo! I went back to the better sex (hee hee), dressed her as a pilot (with the helmet) and one of the short blond hair-dos. I loved seeing her again – she’s cute, ifn I say so myself. lol Hoping everyone else did well too!

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, whose outfit better is better accented by their hat?
    (NOTE: That is a direct quote – Pogo put in one too many “betters.”)

    No offense to anyone who chose a costume with a hat already on it, but my voting will probably lean towards those models where people put a hat on their own outfit. I already think Pogo’s costumes with hats look great – I want to see what others would do (with a very limited supply of hats though – grrrr, Pogo!).

    MONDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Hard Software

    GOAL: It sure wasn’t soft in the stone age! Dress your model as CEO of Cave Man Computer Chisels.

    Background is an oldie but a goodie – Stone Age office cubicles. lol GL everyone!

    ~Shel ;>

  540. Angie – #543… I’m confused??? What are you venting about? Us venting? Us having fun with this? We are you know! If we weren’t, we just wouldn’t do it. Well, I guess I can’t speak for everyone but I know I wouldn’t.

    I blame Shel for my addiction!!! (see numerous above posts! LOL)

    I just voted for today’s “hat shop” entries. I ~thought~ this was going to be easy. hahahahah… so much for thinking! A lot of my entries weren’t wearing hats!!! Ummm… did we go to the hat shop and forget to buy a hat? Bad hair days don’t count (the beehive with bees buzzing and the outrageous doo’s don’t count, sorry!) LOL
    I went for anyone’s entry that was creative instead of ready made.
    Have to say, I was REALLY impressed with quite a few of them! It looks like some went above and beyond what I would have thought of!
    So – on that note KUDOS!!!

    And to my lovely niece… Bond… Sami Bond… you’re going to get a double 0 0 of something!!!! If you remember way back when – when you came up with 005 I confused it with 007 then too! LOL Now 10 or 15 years hasn’t changed much… especially since I think you were texting me when I was typing this! :p~
    And if you’re not nice – I’ll go in and change your mini on you again!!!!
    Shall I tell everyone what I did to your mini at Christmas time??? Okay, I will… I took away her Christmas stocking with candy and replaced it with coal… and gave her one single present!!! (mean aunt, mean aunt! LOL) You’d never know she’s my very favorite niece would you??

  541. Hi Everyone,

    I am shocked that I won with a female mini – yea!! There IS hope for Ms. Obvious. However, back to the other side for the “Hat Shop” and the “Caveman supervisor.”

    I think the hat theme is a good one because there is no “clear-cut” correct choice and it may be the first time in Hot Shot history where (almost) everything is appropriate. (Wonder how much the “hat on fire is? I hope they gave them a discount.) It was nice to actually deliberate on my vote between two minis dressed according to theme.

    For today’s shoot, Mr. Obvious is dressed… yeah you guessed it… as a caveman!! I thought the cavewoman looked a little too “Raquel Welch in the fur bikini”, and I think it would be a distraction to the workers lol.

    WTG winners!! Woo Hoo Shel!!

    Angie #543 – This has become some strange obsession and we welcome anyone who wants to join the madness – jump on the crazy train. We aren’t venting, we have just lost our minds!! I love this thread and I love DHS. I am like a kid on Christmas morning everyday to see what I have won LOL.

    Have a great day Hot Shots!!
    Kris

  542. so many times i have a winning outfit.. but dont score high enough for the background…was nice pogo brought back some of them for us to buy but would be so nice if on the page where they show your score that they gave us the option to buy the background whether be tokens or gems.. some i would really like to have.. especially doing the amazing mini contests.. gl e1 in your choices..

  543. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, whose outfit better is better accented by their hat?

    Ok everyone, lets count how many models AREN”T wearing hats today. I’ve counted 15 so far.

  544. I only have 1 thing to say about today’s voting…….

    Did the people who did NOT put a hat on their mini read the instructions??

    There were a few times that I really would have liked to have voted for both, a rare thing normally. But the people with no hats drove me crazy, or crazier…..LOL

    Suz

  545. Who goes to a hat store in a bikini?? LOL! Seriously!!!

    See? Didn’t take too long for my aunt to embarrass me!!! Oh, come on, Aunt Debi, the Bond.. Sami Bond thing was funny!! LOL! People laughed, I know they did lol. I don’t need a “double 0 0 of something”, but thanks for the offer!! Yeah, definitely a mean aunt!! Very mean!! Meanest aunt on the planet 😛 Find a mini for that!!!!

  546. Same – I can come up with a mini for that 🙂

    The background with all the planets and a grumpy old lady….LOL

    Suz

  547. Yea me, Murphy won the space background with a 7.5, best I have ever done. I drerssed him in the green one piece thing and I think it had wings. My account didn’t do so well and I really wanted that background to go with my meep shirt. Now I have to play steller to get to rank 6 and get the shirt for Murphy.

    Why would you put a straw summer hat on a mini dressed for winter and conversly a winter hat with a summer dress? At least no flowing hair. I too am voting for those that added a hat to an outfit, not one already done. Have fun

  548. So, a cool outfit with NO hat or a bathrobe WITH a hat? Oy, POGO, the ultimate voting quandary! LOL 🙂

  549. Couldn’t find this thread last night to post. I thought this was the easiest photoshoot to vote on. No hat on your head, you did not get my vote. An outfit a hat already, no vote from me either. But, mean culpa, was force to vote for a wiggle butt!!!!. The other model had no hat. DUH!
    I noticed the two “betters” in the instructions too. Suppose we will see lots of cavemen. I think I will be one of them.
    SHel can you tell me how to find this site when not listed. I think you were the one that told us on weekend thread. I went back and scanned it last night, but gave up. Thanks to whoever can tell again how to find it. Sharon

    • sharbear565: you can reach this thread by category. Use the dropdown box in the right sidebar and scroll down to either “open chat” or “pogo minis”. This thread is filed under both. When this thread auto-closes at 90 days, I’ll place a new thread for this topic at the top of the “open chat” category.

  550. Yes, I’m on-board the crazy train too (that just makes me laugh) and just realized that I enjoy coming here to read about DHS just as much (if not more) than doing the actual DHS … you guys are the greatest! Have fun! alp

  551. Yeah!!! It was a very long losing streak I was on but finally won the BG with a 8.2 on the Martian’s first mate. Went with the lady mini holding the helmet under the head w/ the spiky blue/green hair. Don’t really care about the BG but got 3500 tokens. Oh and yes the minis without hats drove me freakin’ INSANE…how simple of instructions to follow? Did not vote for anyone not wearing a hat and like it was said I did not vote for the costumes already wearing a hat. You were supposed to find the best suited hat not come already made…oh well. Rant over. I did dress my mini in the female cave woman garb. I made her look a little more professional with a bun and cute little granny glasses. GL to ev1!

  552. Yep Shel u r right, I was looking at earlier posts, sorry. I love the Daily Hot Shots, but so far the most I have rated it 5.3, that’s not very good so I guess I will have to try harder LOL!! Thanks Shel for pointing this out to me after I went back & read it & checked why I posted this I thought I must be nuts. Again sorry. But I am glad I gave you some laughs 🙂 I will try to “keep up”
    Angie

  554. Suz-552/Mspatmac-555/Ellen-556…These are a few of my favorite things. No hatters get my vote. Also wrong hats for wrong outfits do too. And, of course, bathrobes, hip-wiggling, & hairblowing always fare very well with me. So, I guess if this is the crazy train we’re on, I must be stuck in the caboose. LOLOL

    Sharbear-557..Nice of you to give a vote to “The Wiggle Butt”..they need votes too, poor little mini.

    Most of all, HAVE FUN with whatever makes you happy. ~Dave~

  555. Tom # 545 – I won the Martian background but I know I had already purchased it whenever it was released. I looked in my closet this morning and it had moved up from wherever it was to the front page when I looked under “All My Items”. So that means you can use that method to keep track of wins.

  556. Thanks, Lisa, for checking that out and WTG on the win! I got 6.7 on both of my entries for the Martian one.

    RE: Today’s Photoshoot, is this game like the Sudoku puzzles in my newspaper in that Monday’s puzzle is usually way too easy while Sunday’s is sometimes too hard?
    I gotta go along with Kris’s assessment and went with Mr Obvious of the Caveman for my Tomd account. I was tempted to go with the Male Viking which I think also works especially since it has the hammer but I’m not sure the Helm fit in with the period.
    For the women’s options there are 2 Cavewoman costumes, though, so I had my secondary mini get a wax and went with the Cavewoman Couture look although I don’t really think Cavewomen did those, LOL. With that one, though, you can also select a hair style so I also had to ask the stylist for an appropriately “primitive” perm and you would NOT believe the look he gave me! 😉

    Ok, maybe I’m getting a little TOO into this game, but I gotta admit it is kinda fun.

    Good luck, everyone!

    -Tom

  558. Hi Everyone!

    CHA CHING!! Mr. O has a hat store lol.

    The Cave men and women seem to be doing quite well – DUH.

    #563 Dave – your dedication to the misfit minis is truly heart-warming. Just like the hip wigglers need love, our train needs a caboose!!

    #558 Alpgarden – I now am thinking that I ONLY do DHS to come to this thread because it is too funny… and on that note…

    #565 Tom – LMAO. It was so thoughtful of you to give your cavewoman a wax before sending her to the office. You know that procedure is more on-topic than you realize since only a caveMAN could have come up with such a barbaric method of hair removal – gives me the chills just thinking about it. GL on BOTH of your entries!! (and thanks for the laugh). Oh, and I agree with your analogy, some days it is a total no-brainer.

    However, there are still those who never fail to disappoint!! Do you think some still haven’t caught on to the “theme” thing? There are always several interesting entries that have me thinking, “HUH??” (but that is just another fun part of it)

    For today’s shoot we find ourselves in a cave – the creative juices must have run a bit dry in the creative department. Well, Mr. Obvious is looking “spiky” dressed as the punk/metal dude with the blue spiked hair (which blends in beautifully with the background) and his spiked leather arm bands and boots. His fate is in your hands!!

    AND… wow, did I come across some vile screen names when voting – eek!! I certainly would have remembered them if I had seen them in a game room – so I don’t know where they go outside of DHS.

    Lura, on behalf of all of us, I want to thank you for finding a “mini closet” here on BH to stick us in so we can continue the mad tea party we have going here. Now THAT is great user service!!

    Good luck and have a happy day Hot Shots!!
    Kris

  559. well, i have crossed over
    my votes are now going to the weirdest one.
    so bring on the flaming hair and the sunglasses and the robes
    you will be getting my vote every time

  560. MomsBassetHound #554 – Don’t give my aunt any ideas LOL! If she wants to come up with a mini for that, she has to do it all on her own LOL!

  561. Ha! I too think that the only reason I do DHS now is b/c of all the fun I have on BH with it…I learned about it on BH and that’s the only reason why I tried it and now it is part of my daily routine just like TP & CC etc. I swear I wouldn’t be half as Pogo addicted if it wasn’t for all the great ppl on here…hmmmm so I guess I’ll tell my hubby to blame you guys when the laundry piles up and he has no clean underwear LOL J/K 🙂

    Got a 6.2 on my cowgirl hat and matching outfit…oh well 2000 tokens are always good. I do not know how my cave lady will fare…prob should have crossed dressed as the Big Hairy Cave Dude. Oh well – dressed today’s mini in the girl biker outfit with spiky hair…it was the only “spiky” outfit I could think of on one cup of coffee. GL ev1!

    Blessings,
    Kitty

  562. Well I Just went to Daily Hot Shots for the first time yesterday. Was supposed to be judging which hat best suited the Mini outfit that was worn and wow what a surprise from Pogo. At least five times I was supposed to choose between two minis that wore no hats at all.
    That so called “game” is worthless.

  563. Steve #571 – We have long ago decided it’s not much of a game, but the tokens are good, and we are having a blast discussing it. The fun factor from this thread is worth the few minutes we spend playing the “game”.

    Suz

  564. Steve (#571) I second that notion. It is not really a “game” but more of an token gathering opportunity. You get approx 3450 tokens each day for just voting on the minis – then most of us come here to this thread to vent and make fun of some of them but that is just for the sheer entertainment joy 🙂 And then you get 500-3500 tokens for your mini you submit daily. Hope you stick with it and then come here to discuss with us all the joy and pain that goes along with DHS.

    Kitty

  565. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Who looks like the real CEO of Cave Man Computer Chisels?

    TUESDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Sedimentary Styles

    GOAL: Promote limestone awareness by dressing your model in spikey styles inspired by the Stalactites and Stalagmites.

    GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel

  566. ALL A-BOARD!! Crazy Train now leaving the station … hold on to your hats (that is, of course, if you’re wearing one) ……..

  568. OK….. on the Hats I got a 5.1 and kinda glad I didn’t win that background (NOT)!!! LOL
    On the stalactites and stalagmites I dressed my model in a pink and blue fairy outfit…..well she does look pretty with the background and she can just blink and get outta there if she so chooses. I am sinking big time with the no wins but I am getting token richer and I am enjoying our discussions here at Badgehungry very much. Good Luck everyone!!
    POGO we do need more CHOICES please!!!
    ttfn

  569. This sedimentary background was hard. I looked at the spiky hairdos first to give me some inspiration, but nothing was working (and it didn’t exactly work with the background). So I did some color matching with the background – some pastels. It doesn’t fit the spiky theme, but who’s really counting?

    And I don’t get how people can dress their model in a tee-shirt and pants when there’s a caveman in the background.

  570. Terriihill-568..Welcome to the caboose. I hit a new high..46/50 votes for the worst of the pair. Robes, evening gowns, even a mermaid were entered, along with the blowing hair & a couple of mohawks. Gotta love em. Have Fun all…Dave

  571. I dont even know why I am entering. I dont like the BGs they have had lately ( Flintstones, GMAB) and this cavern thing is lie about 4 BGs I already have.

    It’s lost its charm for me, since I have over 226 million tokens and dont want the backgrounds since they arent putting pretty ones up since Christmas was over.

    It’s just dismal IMO. Fun in Beta until we tested the WORDS, then fun for a short time on Reg Pogo.

    I’m so sick of bathrobes and hair on fire and winking people and half naked people it just isn’t fun any longer. I havent see a single mini which makes me laugh in many days… There’s no way to COMBINE what is there for it to BE FUNNY!!!

    Pogo goofed up what could have really been fun for us. I have enough Mini gear in my closets to be a riot, whatever the occasion.

  572. Loving all the posts – hoping to have more time to answer some tomorrow because……..I’ve got a snow day! Woohoo! lol

    1st Topic for you all: How did your Cave Photoshoot do? I have to say, I’m bracing for alot of unhappy people. Many, many cavemen and cavewomen, not so many breaking 7.0. I was halfway thru my voting before I saw ANY 7.0s or higher. AND……they were all men. I didn’t see one cavewoman higher than 6.5 and most were in the 5s. And many of the men were in the 5s too.

    My theory? Too many cave-people, so too many went up against each other. (Though what else were you going to choose? Anything NOT “cave” scored in the basement.) And, secondly, male mini bias as we have noted other times.

    So…did you win? Man or woman? Double-check those totals and if you got the background anyway because I can’t help but wonder if this will be one that Pogo shifts down the “win” score.

    2nd Topic: What did you all pick for your Stalactite background?!?!?! This was one of the hardest ones yet, IMO. For me, there were no obvious spikey outfits, with perhaps the exception of the punk guy under costumes tab. So many of the outfit colors looked HORRIBLE with the colors of that background. Once again, I thought the guys ended up with more hairdo choices than the women, but not much.

    I ended up male again, though I really tried to find something I liked in the female closets. I picked the punk guy not only for his hair and outfit, but the blues in his mini really looked nice with the background. Anyway, I’m hoping he might be kristine’s “Mr. O” pick for today.

    And as hard as it was for me to dress myself, how will I vote?!?!?! Spikey or not, I am thinking this will be one where I can’t help just voting for what seems the prettiest with the background.

    What are you all thinking? Any early voting trends you see?

    GL again HotShots!

    ~Shel

  573. My “Cave” report: As I was expecting since I went female, no background for me. I scored a 4.6. I had gone with the white-haired model, thinking it would convey the maturity to be CEO. Went with a curly style thinking it looked more natural ala prehistoric. And went with the “more clothes” cave-woman outfit because I thought the hands-on-hip stance showed more authority. Yes, I thought *that* much about it. I need an intervention!!! Wasn’t someone sposed to be looking for a doctor for Dr. Shel?!?!!??! Now would be the time. lol lol

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Whose styles are more inspired by stalactites and stalagmites?

    WEDNESDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Jungle Survivor

    GOAL: If your model survives in this jungle for just one more day they will win one million dollars. Dress them to avoid defeat!

    Oh lordy! Too late/early in the morning to even think about this, especially after I hurt my brain over the stalagmites. lol This is a vintage jungle background, the one with a few pairs of glowing red eyes scattered throughout it.

    Later ‘gators!

    ~Shel

  574. I jumped on board that Crazy Train a long time ago… I think I’m on the second car! LOL

    Can’t believe that NEITHER of the accounts won!!! My mom’s caveMAN scored a 6.8 (no background!!!) and mine as a caveWOMAN did worse with a 5.7!!! I didn’t glam her up, I swear, figured long hair, no glasses… they didn’t have glasses back in the “good ol’ days” (no scissors, right?)
    Guess my logic didn’t go over so well but can’t for the life of me figure out why the caveman missed the mark.

    In tonight’s version of “What were they thinking?” otherwise known as “voting in DHS’s” I saw very little spikey hair and a whole lot of other things including a lot of mythical themes. I think more people went with the castle in the background and less with the actual reading. Mermaids, adventure outfits… MINK COATS!!! and oh yes – let’s not forget the punk outfits – ugh! I have a headache! :p~
    So many had blowing hair and glasses and all the white robes were back! Who has aspirin?
    It was so bad in fact… I forgot what tomorrow’s theme was already!

    And to Bond… Sami Bond… just wait ’till I find that background (if it’s still available or if Pogo brings it back around) you’ll be sporting a new mini again! :p~ If nothing else DHS’s brings around some really awfully creative idea’s… or maybe they’re just awful ROFL

  575. Hello again all. Well I went back to Daily Hot Shots again. I did find some of the entries rather entertaining. But that doesn’t mean I am going to spend gems or tokens on some mini background just to dress it up. I hope noone is using Pogo gems on these backgrounds, because gems cost real money and noone gets any real return for that money spent in DHS.

  576. Hi All,

    Another day… another BG I will probably never use. Yippee!!

    Help me!! I voted for levitators, Queen Elizabeth, and I even voted for a bathrobe!! Maybe I am in a bad mood, but it just irked me to see the minis flipping around with an uninspired winter coat, jeans, and Ug boots on… UGH (literally). Oh, and the wind inside that cave was BRUTAL!! Those who looked “spikish” in some way, however, did get my vote. Just making an effort means so much lol.

    What is up with sticking us in caves and now we find ourselves in the jungle? It is like the UK TP drug, alcohol, and cigarette obsession for the last 3 daily quizzes. So, “Welcome to the Jungle!!” I think I will be dressing Mr. Obvious in the “safari” theme today (unless I can hunt down something better – where is the crazed survivalist outfit when you need it??)

    Good Luck Hot Shots!!
    Kris

  577. My red-haired caveman got me a mid 6 score and 2000 tokens. No big deal. I cannot remember how I dressed my spiker – I know I was a guy and I used the green-tipped spiked hair, but don’t remember the clothes I used. The wizard men with wings and the fairy women with wings were scoring pretty well when I voted. The worst thing I saw was a fairy godmother with sunglasses – it took me a minute to figure out why her face looked deformed – sunglasses under reading glasses. Today I decided to go with the female ninja for the jungle shoot – she looked better able to survive than the safari males and females, IMO.

  578. Steve #548 – It doesn’t cost you anything to use any of the items for the DHS game. It’s all free. Your regular mini doesn’t change, it’s just for the one you are entering for the next day’s voting.

    Suz

  579. lol well in todays hotshot i mistakenly clicked the photoshoot tried to go out and come back as i hadnt picked an outfit yet so when i came back im in the bathrobe.. im still picking the winning outfit most days but dont score enough for the background

  580. Hi ev1–

    Well..didn’t fare well in the “caveman ceo” BG. got a 6.7 with the lady, but no cigar..lol. I just couldn’t put a caveman up there, didn’t think he had the wherewithall to run a company..lol.

    In the stalactite BG, didn’t even think of fairies and such, my bad, that’s what is scoring..darn. I did the spikey hair and forgot what clothes, but don’t expect much.

    For survivor, i’m going with the real survivor look with bare chests and cargo shorts for man and green bikini for the gal and messy hair for both. We shall see how well they do….
    Love this thread, wouldn’t miss it for the world..get such a kick out of it every day… y’all are funny!

  581. Hmmmm, I must have missed something in kindergarten, cause I was pretty sure that mermaids need water, no??????

    The jungle ones should be pretty interesting. I chose someone that looked like they had been out there for a while with one more day to go. You know, dirty wife beater, an injured leg and bad hair from being out there so long. We’ll see what happens.

    Aunt Debi? You will be able to find a mini/background for the meanest aunt on the planet?? LOL! Really?? Doubt it!! :oP

    Bond….. Sami Bond

  582. My scores for the Cave Man CEO were 6.7 for my Caveman & upper 5’s for my Cavewoman so no background with those which is a little disappointing but it’s probably just a case that my mini kept going up against other Cavepeople like Shel #581 posted.

    For the Stalagtite shoot I went with the Spike haired punk-guy costume for my primary and the multi-colored spicked ‘do from the ladies for my secondary (might as well get my money’s worth from the wax job, LOL).
    From the voting so far it looks like my punk costume won’t make it as they’ve been in the upper 5’s or low 6’s but the multi-colored ‘do seems to be doing better so hopefully that’ll win for me.

    For the Survivor shoot I’ve gone with the male Safari outfit (actually Tri-Peaks per the Mini Mall) for my secondary and went with a Tiki Tee w/ manbag top & Cargo pants for my primary. I’m not sure which would do better but hopefully one will win.

  583. Here’s another though I’ve had that was inspired by Lura’s Mini on this past weekends open topic which is has anyone tried to deliberately tank one of these shoots?
    Maybe you already have the background or just don’t want it and therefore put in a mini with all the stuff we hate to get a low vote. It’d be a nice thing to do since every vote against your mini would be a vote for another but, then again, the other mini may end up being a mermaid in a cave so it probably wouldn’t be worth the effort.

    Anyway, I’m just curious if anyone has tried that and, if so, how low of a score did you get?

  584. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who will win 1 million dollars for their jungle survival?

    THURSDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Space Spouse

    GOAL: Will they be home by dinner? Dress your model as the proud spouse of an astronaut at lift-off.

    Background is a view of a space shuttle launch – not one I remember.

    Hope everyone did well on the crystal background contest – like Tom, my punk guy did just passably well, 5.6. Ahhh well. I think the spike-hair girl may be the big winnah!

    GL again Hot Shots!

    ~Shel

  585. Hi All,

    Alas, all good things must come to an end. No stalagmites for Mr. O punk rocker dude lol.

    On the up side, the safari look seems to be scoring well in the jungle shoot. The bikini babes weren’t doing so well – I don’t think they would survive another day anyway unless there is a cabana boy available that we weren’t told about. Also, what would a fairy do with a million dollars? Can’t they just magically make they own money? Just asking because there certainly were a lot of them wandering about the forest…

    For today, yes, it may be sexist to assume the astronaut is a man, but… I dragged out Ms. Obvious to await her hubby’s return. I dressed her in the white “ladies who lunch” dress and the sleek blonde bob hairdo. I STILL wish we had better shoe options – are there NO fashionistas on the Pogo mini item creative team? 😀 (yes I am shoe obsessed)

    As far as deliberately entering a totally screwed up mini… I may give it a try even though it goes against every fiber of my being to set my hair on fire and wear a bikini or bathrobe, it would interesting to see what the score would be. I know there would be votes from the caboose section of our train here. Maybe there are others out there in Pogoland voting for misfit minis.

    Have a great day Hot Shots!!
    Kris

    P.S. For those who think we are being serious about all this or think this is really a work of genius on the part of game developers, lighten up!! Think of it as a cult film that is so bad when first released that over time it inexplicably becomes “good” and develops a following. Voila, DHS!

  586. Hmmm thursday photo shoot had not choice but to cross dress, don’t think I would have gotten votes dressed as a man. Hope my dress looks pretty enough lol

  587. Well Shel, you have managed to draw me into this thread! No wins for either male of female cave person. Murphy won the crystal background as a male, Wizard Voltaran and I managed a 6.8 with a fairy female. Both were chosed by color.

    I think this thread is inspiring me Dr. Shel but I didn’t enter the jungle one, but going to give the space onr a try. GL all

  588. I guess I missed the mark with the jungle.. I took it to mean someone who has been in the jungle for a long time and only has one more day to go to win the money.. Like Survivor.. Well, there is no way that you would look that good in a jungle outfit after all that time, but that seems to be what is winning.

  589. Lowly 3.2 and 300 tokens for my spike hair guy. I think I already have the background because I buy a lot of backgrounds. I don’t think my ninja lady will fare well in the jungle – I saw some ninja men getting low votes. Probably should have went safari, but the safari males and females just looked so lame to me. As for the astro-spouse, I almost put her in the blue silk robe but changed my mind to a more boring and conservative politician-wife look.

  590. I’m with you Sami. By the last day of Survivor their clothes are torn and tattered. If they had sunglasses they have long since been broken or lost. And with no shampoo their hair doesn’t look so good either 🙂 I doubt I will do well today, but I already have this background, so no biggie.

  591. Well, my survivor (bikini tops and shorts) arent doing well, but it’s looking good for Tom..yay!
    I put my space spouse in a male military uniform…so we’ll see, once again…lol.
    didn’t do so well on the stalactites either, except for the one–wizard.
    fun,fun,fun!

  592. Did I read the instructions wrong? I thought it was supposed to be a survivor of the jungle not for a portrait or a leisurely walk in the park. I expected ragged disheveled people. I was really wrong

  593. I got a 6.0 on the stalactites and stalagmites….ahhhhh disappointing but its a new day!!
    The jungle one I dressed as a ninja type woman because I thought for sure she would be able to beat everything in her path up and win the million$$$$. We will see we will see.
    I had to put my thinking cap on for the Space Spouse so I decided to go with a very demure looking lady with a pink shawl and pants with short red hair and sunglasses to cover her eyes because I know she was crying when he lifted off.
    I just don’t understand why everyone doesn’t think my model looks as good as I do. ROFL
    Good Luck BH’ers!!! Now lets all get out there and get them backgrounds!!!

  595. 601
    I read them the same way. When I saw “survivor of the jungle” my first thought was Tarzan and Jane. My fur bikini is not doing well.

    For todays proud spouse, I’m thinking a nice dress with hat or a pregnant wife… I’m just going from personal experiences from being a military wife.

  597. LOL also @cptenaud – your cop must have eaten too many donuts and could not fit into his uniform anymore. I have never seen naked minis on DHS, but I have seen them a number of times in my own closet when the page was taking a while to load.

  598. Won another one 7.9 for my spikey headed gal in the stalagmites~must’ve been up someone with a bathrobe one is all I can figure. Think this is my 3rd win, but out of all the backgrounds I didn’t get the one I wanted~kids at the hockey rink 🙁

    I was surprised at how ppl were dressing for the jungle survivor too. Don’t care one way or the other if I get that one.

    I had to think long and hard for the spouse returning from a space mission, but finally settled on a summer theme and her waving goodbye. Another one I can take or leave.

    LOL on the nekkid cop.

    Good luck everyone.

  599. Well, everyone took the jungle survivor differently. I was voting for people who LOOKED like they could survive in the jungle. Meaning, not barefoot and having something with them where they could get water, cut jungle foliage with, etc. (bags worked). I thought the ninja’s were odd at first but then it clicked and I thought… wow, stroke of genius! LOL
    I know I’m tired now!

    I haven’t been doing well in any of the themes lately. Even while I’m reading others winning with exactly the same thing I’m dressing in! ARGH!!! Oh well, I’m on board this crazy train, may as well enjoy the ride!

    Can’t wait to see what the voting brings for the astronaut spouse. Wonder how many bikini’s I’ll see tonight? ROFL

  600. cptenaud. wow lmao where would he put his gun?
    i am going with the red , white and blue theme for todays
    it will be interesting to see the results of this

  601. Well, going to complete my voting on the survivor/jungle photosheet. I am a HUGE Survivor fan and that is how I addressed this contest. Gee, “survive” “jungle” “win a million dollars” – why would I think of Survivor?? Silly me. lol

    I did put on a bikini top, because half of those women spend the whole time in their swimsuits. I tried to pick a little bit of an unkempt hairstyle. But I am wishing I just had thrown on the safari gear, because that’s what’s getting the votes. However, they are getting MY votes, too, if they are up against something completely ridiculous.

    As for the space shuttle spouse, I will probably stay female. There are lots of women astronauts now and so a male spouse is not out of the question. But, seriously, I have no faith in the voters voting for a man in this case. lol

    Welcome Mspatmac! Glad to have you, but I am refusing all responsibility for anyone jumping onto this Hot Shots train. lol lol (Ask AZ Debi. lol)

    Thanks for sharing the nekkid model pic cpt! I did have unclothed models to vote on once – I think it was the new Christmas elf costume went missing one day. Very disturbing! lol

    ~Shel

  602. Me again…… I am starting to think the vast majority of players do not know about, or do not read, the “GOAL” each day. Voting on the jungle models, there are tons of both safari-outfits and caveman/woman outfits. Both generally fit the background WITHOUT the whole “survivor” aspect. They look “right.”

    This would also match up with voting patterns – people may not even read the question really, or not care about it, because they know how THEY dressed, which was in no way going with the surviving the brutal jungle theme. lol I felt so badly for all the ones dressed like I did, tattered, etc., with their little scores. Dreading seeing my score tomorrow. lol

    ~Shel

  603. LOL, ok ummm it’s not a unicorn. Being that it’s pegasus I dressed as close to Goddess Athena as possible

  604. Hang on to your monitors again today when voting on space shoot. Lots of blowing hair.But I can see it probably being windy with the blast off and the coast. Can also see need for sunglasses. Dave the puck peak person and the one that is dressed with everything from her closet and the bathingsuit are for you to vote for. LOL.
    Wowie I got a 8.3 and 3500 tokens on my safari model. Nothing special just one of the safari outfits. The highest I have scored on my or daughters account.
    GL on tomorrow unicorn shoot. Stay warm E1 and out of the snow. Sounds like a cold weekend. Good weekend to stay inside and watch football. Sharon

  605. VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who is the proudest spouse of an astronaut at lift-off?

    FRIDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Unicorns Are Real

    GOAL: Science has proven that unicorns exist and they live in rainbows. Dress your model for a unicorn quest to the end of the rainbow.

    Animated unicorn with rainbow background. GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel

  606. *** WE HAVE US SOME MORE FERTILE ASTRONAUTS *******
    HA HA HA!! Has everyone noticed all of the pregnant abdomens on the Astronaut Spouse minis?

    I even saw a pregnant one with GRAY HAIR. I betcha anything a man put that one up there. LOLOL.

    And what is with the black flight suits? It says ” Spouse”. Do they not know what a spouse is? Only a few astronauts are married to other astronauts. This one is HILARIOUS unintentionally..

    AND back to the SURVIVOR minis where the instructions more or less said we had been there and were one day away from RESCUE? I hit all time lows for both of mine 2.3 and 2.6
    Should have dressed up like Allie Carter!! Those are the ones which scored highest.. Totally unrealistic. 🙂

  607. I got 2 more wins for my secondary with a 7.2 for my spike haired female and a 6.9 for my male Tri-peaks safari outfit, so it looks like the survivor one is another where they scaled the winning requirement down.
    My primary got a 5.5 for the spike-haired punk costume & a disappointing 4.1 for my survivor outfit. I thought that would score higher but I had my doubts when voting I didn’t see a single other entry with a tiki-tee which didn’t bode well.
    My biggest peeve of the Survivor entries were the Viking ones. I mean, REALLY?! The Survivor show was set in the jungles of Norway?!

    Very early voting so far for the shuttle spouse is showing a fair number of military outfits as well as blowing hair & sunglasses all of which make sense for this shot. No vikings so far!

    Good luck, everyone!

  608. I didn’t win the jungle BG can’t figure out why I did the obvious choice of dressed in safari outfit and got a 6.5. I saw the cavewomen get more votes than that. Its a jungle not prehistoric. Sometimes I think people don’t read what the goal is.

  609. Good Morning–

    tattered and torn didn’t work, no surprise there, could see it in the voting…I think I got a 2.6, 150 tokens, now that’s a new low for me…lol.

    oh my goodness, love the nekkid mini, so funny, way back when, everytime I tried to take a pic on my puter, they were always w/out clothes…eww.

    i’m trying the colorful polka-dot shirt and white pants on one, we shall see…sorta matches the rainbow I thought..

    have so far seen mermaids? go Dave go…lol
    but lots of nice regular seeing the spouse off clothes…
    beautiful sunrise here again today, pinks and reds and corals with aqua and light blues and all swished across the bottom of the sky…breathtaking…

  610. My ninja survivor scored a low 2.3 and 150 tokens. I was prepared because I saw the ninjas do poorly in the voting. Not sure how I will fare with the astro-spouse – no big deal. For the unicorn – I really liked the male wizard but his wings were so big they obscured the winged horse. So I went with the winking lady and the blue and purple fairy outfit – seemed to blend best color-wise with the background, for me anyway.

  611. Got a 7.6 and 2600 tokens for my obvious “safari girl” – big shocker 🙂 LOL _3bichons4Amanda (#615) I don’t know why but I did one of the pregnant minis, blowing hair and sunglasses so guess I got everything covered. For the Pegasus/unicorn I did the pink fairy with the blue hair – just thought the coloring went well with the background. I have quit trying to put too much thought into this and just enjoy the extra tokens. GL and see you in the voting!

    Blessings,
    Kitty

  612. Your score is nothing more then who they put you up against. I noticed that if you are paired with a bathrobe person you will receive a low score.

    I think it would be more fair if they would revolve your mini with different contestants. And if they would have the third choice button being neither choice. That alone would give us the option of saying we vote for neither, because neither even tried.

    And they need to put the theme in a place everyone can see.

  613. Lisa, you and I are thinking alike for today. I too did the blue and purple fairy it will be interesting to compare scores since we used different mini’s, I used Merideth. I do a male on Murphy’s account (thats my second act for my dog 🙂 and a female on mine.

    I thought the wizard was to big also so went with the Roman guy. Good luck

  614. So apparently a lot of astronauts’ spouses fly to the launch site in their F-16, land in the parking lot, jump out and have to go right to the viewing area in their flight suits so they wont miss the liftoff. Yep, that’s it.

  615. I did horrible on the jungle one.. My worst yet… 150 tokens lol. Silly me for following what the goal said lol! I had the same thinking as you did Shel

    Why so many uniforms on the spouse with the shuttle launch? I refused to vote for a uniform, well that is until Pogo gave me no choicse and gave me two unfirms to vote between! Grrrrrrrr!! I even saw a scuba diver.. what the heck???

  616. Hi everybody,

    Late voting today for me. CHA CHING – got the jungle background with Mr. O Safari dude. I agree that most people don’t actually read the theme or maybe they are like me, they do read the theme, but still dress in the way that is most obvious in the given background because that is how people are going to vote. Yes, Mr. O did look very put-together for being in the jungle for such a long time, but he just “fit” with the background.

    Ok – ROFL over the naked cop (#609 – “Where would he put his gun?”… classic!!). In what other game on Pogo would a glitch be so amusing?? It would have taken everything I had not to choose “the naked gun” for the day’s shoot!

    In voting just a short time ago, I saw a lot of 10’s and a lot of 0’s. There doesn’t seem to be much middle-ground on this one. Those who added the “baby bump” – very clever. I totally don’t get the flight suits, air traffic controllers, and the inevitable recycler (what is it about space and recycling??). Anyway, the obvious choices seemed to be doing well… obviously.

    Unicorn, Pegasus ?? … quest… I went with Ms. Obvious (yes, female again…) in the “Viking” costume. I think the word “quest” got stuck in my head and how can you possibly go on a quest without a sword?? lol

    Good luck and have a happy day Hot Shots!!
    Kris

  617. For the Jungle Survivor…..another loss for the twuzz….1.9 (hanging head).
    If they think they are getting rid of me that easily they are WRONG!! When you hit bottom the only way is UP!!! So with a smile on my face and upbeat attitude I will continue on to the next photoshoot. Which is Unicorns Are Real and I didn’t even notice that the “Unicorn” was a Pegasus!!! ROFL Thanks #612 pegasuszoe…….wings instead of a horn. Headquarters Pogo is making more bungles than I do. I believe I could get a job there!! LOLOL
    I dressed my “Unicorn” (winking)…… model in a long blue sort of mythical looking dress and she has a crown on her head I think. UH HUM it looked like a winner to me when I submitted it and so I hit the enter button and we will see we will see.
    Good Luck to all of our great BH’ers!! ttfn

  618. Dave should have a lot of fun voting today with all the people who did not read the directions. I honestly believe that some still don’t know where to see them. I played the first couple of weeks and never saw them, until someone mentioned them in this thread. I will admit that in some cases I would have done better if I hadn’t read them….LOL

    Suz

  620. Okay, just broke cardinal rule number one. I voted for a bathrobe. It was either that or a guy on a pogo stick. Sheesh people…

  621. So I have learned that if I really try to win the background I get horrible scores!! But when I half arse it, I win. I LOVE the unicorn background so I randomly dressed my mini. But no worries, she is NOT winking, wearing a bathrobe or the flaming hair. I am convinced people vote when they haven’t had their morning coffee or they choose to ignore what the %$$$ they are voting for!

  622. Mspatmac-622..I saw your fairy in voting this morning. You were @ 5.0 score. It would have been more, but I voted for the big, fluffy, white bathrobe that always gets my vote, that you were up against. Had I known it was you……The women in the green gown were all doing well..7’s & 8’s. Had to vote for 2 of those, as I had identical minis to vote on, twice. But mermaids & levitaters got my votes as well.

    Suz-627..It was so-so, as I had many similar ones against each other, but the bizzaros got my vote.

    Pastor-629…Oh the horns of a dilemma. A bathrobe, or a pogo stick? I would’ve been torn on that selection. Hopefully I’ll get many opportunities for that problem in future voting.

    Enjoy your voting, & good luck to all.

    ~Dave~

  623. Of the pair, who found a unicorn at the end of the rainbow?

    I totally agree with the multitude of bathrobes on this one. I love a nice hot steamy shower and sometimes the sunlight hits that steam just right and I get a rainbow in my bathroom. One rainbow is as good as another to a unicorn so I can totally see myself finding a unicorn while in a bathrobe. Humbug!

  625. My person waiting for the astronaut scored a 6.3 and 2000 tokens. Not looking too great for the blue and purple fairy with the flying horse. The yellow and green fairies seem to be doing well as do the winged green-gowned women who are hiding most of the horse. I picked a “not-so-mini” lady in a purple jogging suit for today’s shoot. Seems the fat minis get more votes when food is involved. I don’t always pay attention to the names after I vote, but I did see Kali once and I had picked her DHS as the better of the two on the San Francisco shoot.

    And Dave, I vote for the bathrobes a lot, especially when the other model in uninspiring. People must be starting to figure out how to dress the minis because I am seeing way less robes when I vote, lol.

  626. {{{{{Bad}}}}}} Thanks for posting the daily info today! Loved your robe/rainbow analysis! lol

    Well, my spouse got a 5.5. That was such a weird photoshoot, IMO. I believe astronaut spouses probably look composed and well-dressed for these lift-offs, which is what I went for. With so many military outfits, I think that is more proof that people don’t bother reading the goal, don’t know it’s there, or don’t care, as I said in post #611 – military outfits would work if someone thought simply “who would be at a space launch?”

    If it wasn’t military, then it seemed to be all over the map. I had to fight my tendencies to vote against the flowing hair and the sunglasses as I usually do. lol If I were out there for one of those lift-offs (a big dream of mine), I’m sure my hair would be flowing and I know I would have sunglasses on. lol

    Thanks to pegasus for pointing out the duh moment of the week – its not a unicorn, Pogo!!! lol Duh me too as I was just blindly copying what they wrote. lol

    I am starting to get a little suspicious (okay, still suspicious) how often weird models end up opposite each other. Something I would never have thought of will suddenly be opposite each other and then I’ll never see that “choice) again. I still need to vote on the rainbow one, but during the lift-off one, I had way too many bad choices that I was forced to make.

    Bond, Sami Bond, I also saw a scuba diver. lol Again, I think people were desperately trying to look for something “space-ish” because they didn’t read the Goal.

    cpte #621 – I think most of us believe that they DO revolve your mini to be paired with different other minis all through the voting. The reason you see two low scores together is because in previous voting matches, they have both been losing against their competitors. I often think Pogo may tweak (there, I said the “T” word!!!) some of the match-ups to help people get better scores overall. I don’t think they want people getting discouraged with super low scores, whereas the robe people SHOULD be discouraged (sorry Dave and others in the caboose lol).

    Anyway, tweaking or not, two low scores prove my theory of random match-ups for each voting pair because you can’t have two low scores if they are matched up through the whole voting period.. SOMEONE would have to be winning and especially a good model vs a bad model, the difference would keep growing.

    If two good ones were matched together the whole time (or two bad ones), the voting should be fairly equal, so they would probably both be in the mid-range together, not really low or really high.

    Anyway, those are my theories. lol

    Off to vote on the “unicorns without a horn” and see about the new contest. GL Hotshots1

    ~Shel

  627. Rainbow voting, random thoughts just cuz I have the time and I can. lol

    Wowzer! No offense to anyone who dressed this way, but the fairy with the long green dress, big hair, starfish on her headpiece, big wings, is doing mostly fabulous and I just don’t get it! And I have to say that I just find the wings way too big for this background – can barely even tell the horse has wings too. Obviously, I just don’t think like others do. lol I am voting for her if the other choice is ridiculous, but otherwise, generally voting against her.

    I’m voting for most fairy-like creatures, but it seems like just putting wings on to make your own fairy (and thus explaining how you are up in the clouds too) is not doing as well as I think it should. Why does only one fairy outfit do really well if it is a fairy-like background?

    I think some green fairy peeps are going to be mad though. While I saw a ton of high 7s and even 8s at 3:15 p.m. est, every once in a while, I would see a 5.5. Why? If I owned a losing model in that outfit, I think I would be pretty irked. (I know, I know in theory why it happens – I still wouldn’t be a happy camper. lol)

    For myself, I picked the golden two-piece outfit, gold sandals, with a short blond hair-do, hoping to be seen as kind of goddess-like and not to obstruct the horse more than necessary. So far from what I’m seeing, I am assuming I have another loser on my hands. lol lol Goddess with Pegasus, up in the clouds – yah, that was totally stupid on my part. lolllll

    Not seeing too many men either – if you were a male model, what outfit did you choose?

    Just saw one with the wizard, which I love but it too is just too big for the background (and the guy had to put sunglasses on too! ugh!). He got my vote, tho – sorry, NOT voting for mermaids in the clouds. sheeesh!

    Guy I just voted for had a screen name of SirLoinOfBeefTips lol lol lol

    Newsflash: Big black sunglasses ruin fairy looks.

    Seriously, I need to know: What is the thought process behind mermaids? Saw a ton more after I wrote the above. Am I forgetting something from my Mythology studies?? lol

    Shopping makes one hungry! (Can’t forget the exclamation point – Pogo LOVES exclamation points! lol) Can’t wait to see what people chose to indicate extreme hunger and tiredness, esp with no change of expression. lol

    ~Shel

  628. Well my “fertile astronaut spouse” did not fare too well. A 5.3 and 1000 tokens. Blah! All the fairies seem to be doing pretty good today (I chose the blue haired fairy)…I also saw lots of the fav bathrobes and of all things – a bride?!? Well I guess I’m a cynic but no woman finds a rainbow at the end of the wedding isle (and I’ve been with my hubby 12 yrs and happy but it ain’t been no rainbow of lucky charms LOL).. I did vote for all the fairies wearing sunglasses or winking today just for fun 🙂 For the “Hungry After Day of Shopping” I was creative (which I’m sure I’ll live to regret) I chose the “not-so mini” mini in the pink blazer/tan pants…I mean you can’t look hungry if you are super skinny girl..he he he. Then put the pink hat and glasses on her. I am sure we will see lots of preggo minis tomorrow. GL and see you in the voting!

    Blessings,
    Kitty

  629. I looked at the mall background and the description and thought… Big guy. I didn’t know if I wanted the big guy or the big girl. I picked the big guy in the brown shirt and jean shorts. Maybe I’m wrong and will get a lower score. Oh, well. First instinct hasn’t been great to me so far.

  630. Ouchie! I wasn’t expecting good news, but I wasn’t expecting my “goddess” to score a measly 4.4! *sob* Hope the rest of you did better than that!

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who is more ravenous after a hectic shopping day?

    I tried to find the skinniest looking model I could, hoping to convey extreme hunger. But reading above, I’m wondering if you all with the heavier or pregnant models might have figured out the golden key! We will see. My first pairing conveys nothing of hunger to me, so not off to a fantabulous start here. lol

    Okay with just enough votes under my belt to get to the new Photoshoot, it looks like pregnant ladies & one heavier lady are doing well, along with a few skinny-looking (to me) models too. A male chef scored well too. Way too early to say for sure, but…

    ~Shel

  631. SUNDAY’S PHOTOSHOOT: Classroom Focus

    GOAL: It’s career day, but these kids lack focus. Dress your model to get the control of this crazy classroom.

    Background is a bunch of kids cutting up in class, no teacher in sight. Can’t imagine ever using this background, but its all about going for the win, right Hot Shots??? lol GL!

    ~Shel

  632. Hi All,

    Forgot to post yesterday. I was basking in the glory of my best showing to date – a 9.6 on Mrs. Obvious “Stepford Austronaut Wife.”

    BUT… I am now crushed with the 150 tokens I got for the “quest for the unicorn (that really isn’t a unicorn…)” Ouch, it might as well have said, “Kris, you really SUCK!!” LOL

    As for the food court, when I was making my entry, I was thinking super skinny and disheveled (like an Olsen twin or something…). In voting just now, the “not-so-mini” minis are getting the high scores. Like because they are carrying a few extra pounds, they need to hit the food court ASAP?? If an anorexic fashion-hound doesn’t need some high cal food, who does? I thought the pregnant ladies were a cute idea. Glad I have this background since I am not optimistic about winning anything. Oh.. Bad #633 – I voted for you!! I thought you looked hungry LOL.

    For today’s rowdy classroom on career day, I dressed Mr. O as the cop (and no, he was NOT naked). I figured the gun and mace would chill the little brats out 😀 – we shall see.

    Have a great day Hot Shots!
    Kris

    P.S. The mermaid thing has me totally confused too – I saw several people had mentioned it. I have always been under the impression that they required water – didn’t any of these people see “Splash?”

  633. Right Shel!
    Going back a few days… I know where “I’d” like to put a few cops guns… clothed or not!!!! :p~
    I have managed one background on both accounts… danged if I can remember which one it was now. I don’t think it was the jungle because I was going off on all the other ‘safari’ outfits scoring high while mine missed the mark!

    The shuttle voting was irritating to say the least. Very few good voting choices as far as I was concerned. Wedding dresses? Bikini’s? Fairies?
    Wait… hair on fire??? Don’t think they let you stand THAT close to the launch pad!!!! LMAO I DID vote for the mini’s that had on military outfits. Made sense to me. I also voted for pregnant women and someone who had “dressed” their mini and not just thrown something on (an all in one).

    Today’s “who can get an unruly class in line” (or something to that effect) was a bit of a thinker. I thought about doing a cop… but… kids these days don’t have much respect for the law so I nixed that idea.
    Cross dressed my mom’s, went for a female on mine. We’ll see. I’ll never use the background but dang it… I’m ready for a win!
    Tried to make the “garb” a bit older and hopefully, a tad intimidating.
    Of course, it’ll probably go over everyone’s head. Oh well!
    C’mon 2000 tokens! LOL

    (that nekkid cop was a riot! I’ve never had that in my closet!)

  634. Good Morning..after voting this morning, I saw 3 robe minis in the 3.0 range!! Good for them. Maybe the caboose is stoking a fire inside some voters to join the ugly mini brigade. LOL. I still don’t dress up one of my own, but maybe someday…something “fugly”. Enjoy!!

  635. todays voting is going well for pregnant ladies and a few chunky people lol. for classeroom I went over to the dark side with the elderly principal look I figured he might settle the class down

  636. Blue and purple fairy scored 6.3 and 2000 tokens. So far the baby bumps and overweight minis appear to be doing well in the voting. I went with an overweight female in a purple jogging suit. Big folks like to eat – when I was a bartender and went to take drink orders, the heavier folks almost always asked if we served food and then asked for a menu. I am not skinny and I like to eat, too, lol. I chose the male model with the mustache and stuck him in a fire fighter outfit for today’s unruly classroom – most kids seem to have an interest in fire fighters during what appears to be elementary school. Too bad the nekkid cop was not an option – I am sure he would have at least gotten the attention of the Beavis and Butthead kids.

  637. I will take a naked cop or anything in my closet anyday!!!How naughty is that. Better be quiet now.LOL

    As for today too bad we don’t have expression to use on our faces. Most of them look so sweet, nothing intimidating about that. And so true kids have no respect for others. I can’t comment on the unicorn/pegasus, I forgot to do it that day. By time I remembered I hadn’t done it at 2 in morning,like I do a lot of times, it was time for next days. Oh well. That being said, have a good day everyone. Good luck on your Hot Shots .
    WAY TO GO PACK Sharon

  638. Well a little disappointed…my blue haired fairy girl got a 6.8 (SOOOOO CLOSE) and 2000 tokens. This was one of the few BG that I actually wanted…guess may have to go buy it at the mall. Oh but I had my first BH sighting during DHS yesterday- AzFreebird2007 (and I did vote for ya!) You’d think since I’d been playing this since it was released that I would have seen a s/n I knew before now – my sister has seen me in the voting 2x. As I predicted Lots O Baby Mamas out there today…and a good representation of “fluffy” minis. OMG there was one that had the “bee-hive” hairdo…LOL I voted for her b/c thought if she was hungry enough to stick her head in a beehive then she deserved my vote. Looks like the bigger minis and preggos are doing well. I’ll see how my comes out in the wash – see ya in the voting Hot Shots!

    Blessings,
    Kitty

  639. Oppps forgot to say what I did today.. Well it is probably obvious with a capital “O” but I went with the copper. I did the motorcycle cop lady because if figure she not only has a gun but a nifty helmet to protect her head from flying debris : )

    Kitty

  640. I’m disappointed for my results with the (*ahem*) “Unicorn” shot. While there weren’t many Male options there was one with a green Peter Pan like get-up with fairy wings which was the closest equivalent to the female fairies (which I went with the Blue & Purple one for my other account).
    My results: Female fairy – 5.5 (OK, but others did better), Male fairy – 3.7. I’m sorry, but I can think of now other reason for these scores that that “Unicorn” is SEXIST!! I should have guessed when that “Unicorn” apparently trans-gendered to a Pegasus, LOL.

    My results for the shuttle one were both in the mid-5’s which was kinda what I figured I’d get as it was hard to think of one that would stand out for that one.

    I still haven’t done my voting for the shopping or decided what to do for the School one yet as I only just got off work but I hope everyone here does well!

    -Tom

  641. Oh, I just thought of one other thing I came across in voting for the “Unicorn” in that I think I did run across 2 BH’rs in the voting. I did end up voting for Catania (although it wasn’t doing well at the time) and I also later voted against another mini that was named Chubbycheeks1…
    Lura, is your little one sneaking onto your computer and playing DHS? I was just curious after seeing that name.

  642. LOL You guys are all cracking me up! Chubbycheeks with his own DHS account? I love it! lol And, ladies, we are entirely too enamored of that nekkid cop! lol lollllll

    kristine……..*Please* answer me. What did your Mrs. O on the shuttle pad look like to get that 9.6??? WTG! But, I really need to know, because I really didn’t think there WAS a Mrs. O for that background. Teach us, guru! lol

    Is it just me, or does gbpack seem close to jumping into the dressing up of his model?????? I think he is feeling the pull of the DHS!!!! lol

    And, Tom, boo hoo, finally a background where the male got dissed! Oh, I’m crying….not! lol Tho I did crack up at the transgendered Unisus. Or would it be Pegacorn? lol lol

    Finishing up my voting – why are RAVENOUS, exhausted people – thin, fat, prego – winking at me????? Arrrrgh! And while I get the pregnant minis, what’s with the blue sparkly evening gown, in the mall????

    I still hold out hope for my skinny mini – a few were doing well, and I do think I picked as pathetic a model as I could have. lol

    For classroom, I went with the ninja. Perhaps the threat of a death star (or whatever those are called) would quiet down that room! lol We’ll find out in 24 hours!

    ~Shel

  643. Ahhh – my poor starving model inspired no love from the voters: 4.5!

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Of the pair, who can take control of this crazy classroom?

    (No mention of “career day” from the original GOAL – anyone afraid this will mess up their model’s chances?)

    MONDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Model/Actor Award

    GOAL: A model with a thespian streak! Dress your model to receive the Model/Actor Award at the Pogo Golden Globes.

    GL Hot Shots!

    ~Shel

  644. OMG what is with pogo sticking, graduates and brownies doing trying to control a class. On goal it said it was career day. Going to make a career of jumping on a stick?? That ought to get a class under control…..NOT.
    On the other side there are some that look like stern teachers. Only seen a few that I wanted to vote for neither.
    My havy set girl got a 6.5 in food court. Close but no cigar, but that is ok I have one real similar to that BG.
    Good luck on this days HS. Sharon

  645. Good Morning All,

    2000 for my “hungry shopper” – I was shocked since I didn’t see anything close to how I was dressed when voting, so I’ll take it.

    I had to look at our official record keeping (Shel) to see, but I THOUGHT today’s shoot mentioned “Career Day.” However in the voting, not a word about it. I think that is why I went with the police man – coming to school for “Career Day” and serving double-duty to scare the kids into submission. I did see a lot of uniformed minis male and female and they seemed to be doing well, but I also saw a lot of teachers and principals (and of course, the random mermaid ??!!, dancing guy, and bikini lady with her hair on fire – all, I am sure, would get the kid’s attention… and I am also quite sure they got the “caboose” votes lol).

    For today… The Pogo “Golden Globes” – I must again state that there are not enough clothing options for the ladies! Imagine the horror of another person wearing the SAME dress as you accept your award. I also am launching a protest again the lack of a brunette, caucausian, non-winking male or female mini – I was going to attempt to make Natalie Portman or Colin Firth, but couldn’t pull it off. So… I dressed Mr O in a (DUH) classic tux and he sort of looks like a makeshift Jake Gyllenhal (could be worse). Thought about doing a Mickey Rourke, but I knew he would be doomed. Yes, I thought WAY too much about this considering I already have the red carpet BG, but as we have stated so often… THAT ISN’T THE POINT!!” 😀

    Have a good one and good luck Hot Shots!!
    Kris

  646. My big girl scored 6.6 and 2000 tokens. The fluorescent lighting must have been really bright in the classroom – an abundance of sunglasses. Maybe they were just hiding the black eyes given to them by those unruly brats. The grey-haired lady seemed to be doing well in the voting as did the non-smiling redhead (not the winker, the other one). Some uniformed people scored well and others did not. I saw a lady firefighter who scored low – I had picked a male firefighter. Today I took the red-haired male model and put him in a suit (goldish) with the watch chain and burgundy hat. He does have sunglasses to block the glare of all those flashing cameras.

  647. I thought this shoot was “career day”. Makes me wonder what kind of career when I see bikinis, swim suits dresses with cleavage hanging out LOL; bathrobes, pogo sticks broken leg and of course the pink balloon looking thing and the hover chair. I picked the marine but I don’t think he will have much of a chance poor thing. Today I tried the one who looked like Clark Gable (now that is showing my age). LMAO Have fun all

  648. Good morning. My fat lady and gentleman both bombed. Back on my losing streak.

    Looks like the police ladies are doing very well, I saw one with a score of 8.3. Stern looking ladies also doing well. I combined career day with someone who actually wold shut those kids up, a football player. What group of kids would not be in awe of an NFL player. Don’t expect to do well but I thought it was different.

    The windows must all be broken in the classroom to cause the hair to flow, OMG what’s wrong with people. Bet Dave is having a field day voting today.

    Amazing post season football, this weekend should be very interesting. Packers look terrific, I see them in the Super Bowl but I have to wonder if the Jet has enough gas to keep flying?

  649. for post 650 and 651, tom and lura…now i havent been to hot shots but once and it stuck me in a robe and every 1 was so downing the robes so i NEVER went back but tom you best be VOTING for my “chubbycheeks” everytime you see him and lura, WHAT are you waiting on g/f my baby “chubby cheeks” needed his “OWN” account last year lol…and for the rest of y’all you best vote for my “chubby cheeks” every time his mini comes up, and DONT pretent you dont know which one he is, he will be the cutiest lil man there!!! lol just had to have a lil fun, dont even do the dhs but do reads the thread sometimes doubt i will ever go back since i dont know how and scared it will stick me in another robe lol, but @ that rate @ least i know i would get “ONE” vote hahahaaa that be daves, my packiepoo, he would vote for me in my robe with flaming hair or no hair, winking and blinking lmao….you all are just too halirious….boop

  650. In the classroom voting I saw swimsuits (????),graduates(they are on the way to the beach so you know they are not going to settle a class down), and another load of bathrobes. I just don’t understand those bathrobes. PULEEEEEEEZ LOL
    Not many choices for the Pogo awards so I went with the evening dress and hit submit. It looks like the say something is never going to go into effect. Tomorrow is a new day though so I will hang in there and see where it goes. Good Luck all BH’rs!!

  651. Hi again,

    #652 – Shel – look at my post #594. i didn’t think there was anything that “special” about her. Like I said, she looked like a “Stepford Wife.” All I can imagine is I must have gone up repeatedly against some MAJOR misfit minis with no gbpack or other caboose club peeps to save them. I have my suspicions that he may have entered already and just hasn’t admitted it. Maybe he is using an alias and is the MERMAID!! 😀

    If I keep winning, maybe I can be a mini-stylist LOL. Lord knows Pogo needs some fashion help at the mini mall.

    Kris

    P.S. #567 – Clark Gable is ageless and timeless – awesome idea, he will get my vote!!

  652. Well my big hungry gal only got 5.9 and 1000 tokens…I didn’t want the BG but like it has been said before it is NOT about that – it is for the thrill of Victory!!! LOL I as well wondered if I imagined the “career day” part of the goal when I began voting and saw everything under the sun…I did notice that all the police/military still seemed to be doing really well. The lady firefighters – not so much. It also appeared the older teacher looking minis (both male & female) were faring well. For the model/actor award I did the obvious burgundy evening gown with an up hairdo. The DHS closet is seriously lacking in the evening apparel dept. It is either a blue/burgundy gown or a gold # that leaves the mini with no decency lmao. oh well. GL & see ya in the voting!

    Blessings,
    Kitty

  653. Decency?? We’re sposed to be going for decency with our Golden GLOBES models?? lol lol I agree with everyone – not enough choices for the women, scandalous.

    LGraham – Totally wish I could find one of those cleavage careers – pogo sticking is still too much work for me. ;> And I don’t care HOW old anyone is – you see Clark Gable and you are just done for. *sigh* Good choice.

    Mspatmac – I also liked your idea of the Football player – very good thought!

    I still have to go do my voting and dressing, but had to come here first. Kristine – ty for pointing me in the right direction of your post. Of course, I remembered it once I was re-reading it. lol

    Thinking about your idea of Dave being the mermaid……hmmmm, it boggles the mind!! hehehehe

    I like the one brown-haired male model – don’t you think he maybe could have pulled off Colin Firth, Kris? Colin Firth – I never get tired of looking at him.

    ~Shel

  654. Kris-661..TFF. Seriously, I do not enter a mini, mermaid or otherwise. I just go in to vote, that’s all.

    Beth-659..Of course you’d get my vote, dressed in that sexy robe!!

    Shel-663..You’d love me as a mermaid, or anything else, for that matter. LOLOL

    I voted a little later than normal today, & saw one at 10.0..It was a gal dressed in raggety clothes, so it got my vote. Couldn’t believe it was a 10. Maybe its 1st vote of the day (1-1) Looked like a cheap hooker. Anyways, enjoy the “activity” everyone.

    ~Dave~

  655. Going downhill again – 4.0. I don’t care what the voters say – I *know* my ninja would get that classroom under control in 2 seconds flat. ;>

    VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: Who is more likely to win an award at the Pogo Golden Globes?

    Okay – this may be turning out to be a weird voting day. Early voting so evening gowns getting 10.0 AND 3’s and 4’s! I’ve had two evening gowns going against each other already and both having low scores. Really haven’t seen THE outfit that is guaranteed the high score. Whatcha think? Too few gowns going to bring everyone down?

    TUESDAY PHOTOSHOOT: Mount Fashion

    GOAL: It is a long climb to the summit of the fashion world! Dress your model for a journey to the top of Mount Fashion.

    Beautiful outdoors scene, with some mountains and a lake reflecting the biggest one. I don’t remember this BG from the mall.

    GL everyone.

    ~Shel

  656. Well I was decent with mine. I am showing the ”Golden Globes”. Kinda like what the gal from MOdern Family said.Something along the lines of her golden globes are always showing!!!! THe magenta and blue dress look like model is pregnant, but guess there were those aound other night too.

    For the career day one I dressed like a lady motorcycle police officer and got 7.0. Got the BG but don’t know what I will do with it, but like others said it is a win. Dressed my daughter like a scrub nurse (she is a nurse) and even had models hair like hers is. She got a3.8. Maybe I will have to tell her to chance her profession!!
    Can’t remember what the goal is for tomorrow, but checked it out and not sure how to dress.
    When I was voting, I think it will be pretty dull in the caboose. Not many bathrobes, so Dave ,you may hve to vote for something that might actually be goal oriented. LOL. Good luck. Sharon

  657. Hi All,

    Officer Mr. Obvious scored 7.6 – yea!!

    I almost dozed off voting this morning. You know it is bad when you are h