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24 Flash Games Retiring October 8th

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Pogo News: Extra ExtraOn October 31st October 8th*, Pogo will be retiring the following 24 Flash games from their web site, citing the phase-out of Flash by 2020:

Alhambra Solitaire
Beaker Creatures
Bloons2
Bouncing Letters
Chain Reaction
Cirque du Flea
Classic Mines
Daily Crossword
Dominoes Single Player
Gems 3
Gem’s Warfare
Greater Than Sudoku
Letters from Nowhere**
Loop the City
Martha Solitaire
Math Lines
Maze Solitaire
Nine Men’s Morris
Payday Poker
Pile of Balls
Poker Square
Puck’s Peak
Reversi
Sudoku X
Word Out

*Note: on August 26th, Pogo silently changed the date in their article from October 31st to October 8th.

**Update 9/6: Pogo has added Letters from Nowhere to their retiring games list. It too will be retired on October 8th.

Until the retirement dates, players that can still access these games are encouraged to work on existing challenges and ranks while the games are still available. Pogo says they will be bringing back as many badges as they can for these games at a 50% discount. According to Pogo, “You will be automatically awarded Badges for any in-progress or purchased Challenges you are unable to complete in time.” In addition, Pogo reassures its players that they have “already released over two dozen new and updated titles, with more in the works. The future of games on Pogo is very bright!”

It is likely that this is just the first round of Flash game retirements to come starting this Fall, as Pogo broke the retirement of their Java games into three rounds this June through July.

Are you having a hard time keeping track of badges and games and features are going away and when? BadgeHungry has a page of what’s retiring that you can use to make sure you don’t miss a thing!

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  1. I have a query about Cirque Du Flea – if we buy the episodes will they be auto awarded like badges are?

    • Good question 🙂

      Someone needs to ask Pogo Llama under her blog next Tuesday.

      There’s only 4 games that I see on the list that we ever had badges in…Beaker Creatures, Bloons2, Payday Poker, and Puck’s Peak.

      I’m sorry to see that they are starting to retire the Flash games already. But at least they are giving us 5 months notice.

      Suz

  2. I just saw that over at Pogo. A lot of those games I wasn’t even aware existed but Uh Oh, I’ve seen several people who like Beaker Creatures and Puck’s Peak, though for the life of me I can’t see why, lol. At least they don’t retire until October so will give folks a lot of time to finish up badges/ranks.

    • I really like Beaker Creatures because of the challenge, I love to find all the perfect matches, but Puck’s “Puke” is my ultimate dislike. 🙂

  3. Alas, the beginning of the end of Flash…
    At least most are the games without ranks and the “Light and Fun games”, which few people liked judging by how many playing at any given time.
    GL EV1 in EWB!
    Tom

  4. Beaker Creatures! A true favorite of mine, and was lots of fun to rank out in. I hope there are some old badges for it sitting around that I don’t already have because I’d love to play it again for a badge before it goes.

  5. The only one I’ll miss is Beakers Creatures. I will NOT miss Puck’s Peak (I had another name for it but can’t post it here). Most of the others I never knew were available and never played them. No big loss, but I’ll be interested to see how many 50% off badges I can buy!

  6. If you go in to play the games, it says in a Warning banner that they are retiring in August. At least I saw it in Payday Poker and Beakers Creatures. In Beakers, I’m at rank 31, so won’t bother to try to finish ranks. For the Poker game, I have been trying to rank out by playing a little bit each day. I have 8 more ranks to go, however, so I guess I’ll need to play more than a little bit each day if I’m to make it in time. I hope the October 31 date is correct.

    • If you play Beaker Creature’s on hard you could rank out in 1 weekend. It’s actually no harder playing on hard than it is playing on easy.

      Good Luck!!

      Suz

      • Thanks for the encouragement. I had gone in today and played one game on hard and it was a perfect game, so I guess I really should try. I get most of my badges by either rank or marathons/challenges, so here’s my chance to get a couple more.
        Bonnie

      • Thank you so much Suz for posting this! I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to finish and rank out this weekend, but already made it to rank 10. 🙂

    • For what it’s worth I was checking on these games today and the banner across Beaker Creatures and every other game listed in the post above now says it is retiring in October.

  7. Not too bad……….for now! lol
    Mostly Light & Fun games, some I liked to play now and then but I don’t really care if they go or stay.

    Only 3 games with ranks and badges, I will miss Beaker C and Pucks 🙁 2 of my favorite games.
    Beaker C I ranked out ages ago but I still play just for fun. And Pucks noooooo, I love Pucks Peak 🙁 I’m still trying to rank out tho, I think I can make it in 5 months.

    Payday Poker, well I never really liked this game but rank badges are añways badges lol and so I have been trying for ranks too, just got 3 or 4 ranks in the last few days and still 15 or 16 ranks to go. I hope 5 months is enough time to do it.

    The way I see it almost all Flash games will be gone by the end of the year (along with tons of members! 😉 )
    Going to try to rank out as many as possible just like a did with Java games.
    .
    And now that they started I wonder what is going to happen with all the Flash HOGs and also Mahjong Escape and Sol. Gardens?

    • Ohh ya, Bloons 2 also have ranks.
      Not care for this game much either and I ranked out long time ago.

  8. Looks like Jungle Gin and Canasta will be at the end if they dont convert. I am thankful for that.

  10. I don’t think I have played any of these games except in a weekly so I guess I won’t miss them but I will hate to see what the next round of flash games are going to be.

  11. Well to be totally honest there are only a couple that have held my attention (albeit for a very short while) so there isn’t one game on that list that i will miss!

  13. I hope pogo has plans on converting more games than what they have showing under the coming soon games. It still doesn’t compare, considering how many games they are taking away. We still have a year to go on flash games. I like canasta, and gin, and bowling and a few others. Is bookworm yet another word game? I despise a way with words. And solitaire gardens is game of the month again. I see that that game is delayed. Will we all have to start all over again like all the others?

  14. Did not know Zuma Slots is been terminated … I only have one badge which should be on sale …
    Beaker Creatures, but Zuma Slots is showing up that it is 8 gems and showing expiration date of
    Aug 1, 2019 …. just wondering

    all have a great Sunday … enjoy
    legit

  15. Aside from the disappointment from the whole thing, I would have at least hoped they would scheduled Spooky Slots for Halloween. *sighs*

    • Spooky Slots is Java, and has to go with the rest of the Java games, sorry.

      Suz

  16. Maybe this is a mistake but the retirement date for these games has been changed to October 8th according to the Blog post.

    • Pogo really is the worst sometimes, sneaking unannounced changes in like that. 🙁

      Thanks for letting me know, Cyrabi. I’ll update the post above.

  17. Most of these games I didn’t play anyway so they won’t be missed. Beaker Creatures and Pucks Peak were the only two and mostly I played for badges.

    Thanks for all the updates.

  18. I’m working to get my Flash M&Ms done before anything else. I got a bunch in the dog and flower sale.
    I’m thinking ahead for when they roll out the “new experience”, which they advertised as planned for “sometime this fall”.

  19. I know this is an older post but the games are now retired. I had purchased the 5 game award badges in Flea but never could earn Level 4. The game is retired but I was not awarded Level 4. When looking at my badge book, that badge is actually gone. Did anyone else need one of these badges and got it awarded?

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