Pogo has begun another Magic Marathon today. Over the rest of this month, you can earn up to 65 badges total. It begins today, June 5th, and lasts through July 2nd.
To get started, visit Pogo’s Magic Marathon page and click the yellow “Unlock Free Badges” button to start. Once you unlock the thirty free badges, you may choose to buy up to 30 random additional badges for 8 Gems each.
These badges will be yours to keep and complete at any time, but completing various numbers of these badges before the deadline of 11:59pm on July 2nd will award you with bonus badges. To get the first two Bonus badges, complete 30 challenges before the deadline. To get three more Bonus badges, complete 40, 50, and 60 of the challenges before the deadline. You can track your progress on this Magic Marathon progress page. The 5 bonus badges will be awarded after the event ends.
Bonus Badges
Amelia the Genie Badge
Complete 30 Magic Marathon Challenges to win this Badge!
Beatnick Wizard Badge
Complete 30 Magic Marathon Challenges to win this Badge!
Pam the Fortune Teller Badge
Complete 40 Magic Marathon Challenges to win this Badge!
Spike Fakir Badge
Complete 50 Magic Marathon Challenges to win this Badge!
Enchanted Dragonflies Badge
Complete 60 Magic Marathon Challenges to win this Badge!
Share your thoughts on this Magic Marathon in a comment below.
Jet Set Solitaire
Magic Dragonfly 1 Badge
Complete 120 games in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 2 Badge
Complete 35 Airport Levels in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 3 Badge
Remove 1500 cards in 4 weeks!
Jet Set Solitaire
Magic Dragonfly 4 Badge
Score 70,000 points in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 5 Badge
Get a 10-card streak or better 50 times in 3 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 6 Badge
Finish 25 levels with 3 stars in 3 weeks!
Claire Hart: Secret in the Shadows
Magic Dragonfly 7 Badge
Find 500 objects in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 8 Badge
Score 250,000 points in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 9 Badge
Complete 15 episodes in 4 weeks!
Claire Hart: Secret in the Shadows
Magic Dragonfly 10 Badge
Complete 60 chapters in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 11 Badge
Complete 25 chapters each under 6 minutes in 3 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 12 Badge
Complete 40 chapters without using the crystal ball in 3 weeks!
Pogo Daily Sudoku
Magic Dragonfly 13 Badge
Win 40 puzzles in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 14 Badge
Score 180,000 points in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 15 Badge
Complete 45 puzzles on easy difficulty level in 4 weeks!
Pogo Daily Sudoku
Magic Dragonfly 16 Badge
Complete 35 puzzles on medium difficulty level in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 17 Badge
Complete 20 puzzles on hard difficulty level in 3 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 18 Badge
Complete 30 puzzles each within 20 minutes in 3 weeks!
Quinn’s Aquarium
Magic Dragonfly 19 Badge
Match 60 pairs of Shell Tiles in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 20 Badge
Complete 18 games in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 21 Badge
Complete the game under 15 minutes 40 times in 4 weeks!
Quinn’s Aquarium
Magic Dragonfly 22 Badge
Collect 72 Flower Tiles in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 23 Badge
Collect 2300 tiles in 3 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 24 Badge
Match all six sets of Shell Tiles in a game 15 times in 3 weeks!
Mahjong Escape
Magic Dragonfly 25 Badge
Collect 350 tiles after matching the gold tiles in 4 weeks! (Win the game for the tiles to count)
Magic Dragonfly 26 Badge
Complete 25 Time Machine levels in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 27 Badge
Make 1600 quick finds in 4 weeks! (Win the game for the quick finds to count.)
Mahjong Escape
Magic Dragonfly 28 Badge
Complete 50 levels in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 29 Badge
Collect 32 pairs of Lock and Key tiles in 3 weeks! (Win a level to see your progress)
Magic Dragonfly 30 Badge
Collect 1100 tiles in 3 weeks! (Win a game to see your progress.)
Solitaire Gardens
Magic Dragonfly 31 Badge
Complete 85 levels in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 32 Badge
Find 100 Multiplier Cards in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 33 Badge
Earn two stars or better 90 times in 4 weeks!
Solitaire Gardens
Magic Dragonfly 34 Badge
Max out Flower Power Meter 7 times in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 35 Badge
Water 80 thirsty plants cards in 3 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 36 Badge
Unlock 50 Dirt Pile Cards in 3 weeks!
Sweet Tooth Town
Magic Dragonfly 37 Badge
Make 1500 moves in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 38 Badge
Win 130 games in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 39 Badge
Score 1,000,000 points in 3 weeks!
Big City Adventure
Magic Dragonfly 40 Badge
Finish 18 episodes in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 41 Badge
Find 50 hint stars in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 42 Badge
Find 550 objects in 3 weeks!
Jungle Gin
Magic Dragonfly 43 Badge
Win 28 hands in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 44 Badge
Win 15 300-point matches in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 45 Badge
Score 1200 Gin points in 3 weeks!
Canasta
Magic Dragonfly 46 Badge
Meld out before your opponents 40 times in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 47 Badge
Meld 70 Jokers in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 48 Badge
Collect 50 red threes in 3 weeks!
Word Whomp HD
Magic Dragonfly 49 Badge
Find 250 words with any of P, O, G, O letters in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 50 Badge
Find 600 words in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 51 Badge
Win 45 games in 3 weeks!
First Class Solitaire HD
Magic Dragonfly 52 Badge
Win 12 games in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 53 Badge
Clear 30 foundation stacks in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 54 Badge
Get 15 ‘HEARTS’ bonus cards in 3 weeks!
Tri-Peaks Solitaire HD
Magic Dragonfly 55 Badge
Complete 40 games in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 56 Badge
Clear 150 peaks in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 57 Badge
Win 30 hands with at least 5 draws left in 3 weeks!
Trizzle
Magic Dragonfly 58 Badge
Create 500 mega matches in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 59 Badge
Match five or more identical dolls in a single move (can include chain reactions) 350 times in 4 weeks!
Magic Dragonfly 60 Badge
Match 1000 yellow dolls in 3 weeks!
shelnick9293 says
I see they had to throw in QA. For once I like to have one of these without that game. I am confused though. According to Pogo when you flip your first turn you get all 30 badges at once. This time you don’t pick one at a time at least that is the way I read it.
MomsBassetHound says
Yes, 1 click and you get 30 free badges.
Suz
Saraflowers32 says
I have tried everything and nothing opens for me. There are games that say “active” but won’t open so I can play them>>totally confussed<< ty
Saraflowers32 says
its working now ty
RyzandShyn says
Me too. I’ve been waiting for someone to do it and report back.
Call me a chicken, but I don’t want to get stuck…lol.
LinMI says
I really like the badge design this time. I only had to click once and Pogo chose all 30 of my badges for me. I really lucked out because I only have one badge for Quinn’s Aquarium #23 (collect 2,000 tiles). I would’ve liked to see a better selection of badges. Why do they keep adding Quinn’s Aquarium to every magic marathon??
Kathy says
I like the Magic Marathon with the dragonflies .. very nice… Pogo picks the first free 30 cards for you and rest to can purchase with 8 gems a piece… which i did . All the magic marathon challenges this time are long in requirements. gl these will have wait till i finish the Wednesday challenges… and looking for forward to all tips pf these…
wuzzie70 says
I got all 30 challenges at once and I got 4 Quinn’s — yuck! From what I’ve seen of the badges so far, they will all take quite a while to complete. Trizzle is also in the mix, and I got 2 of them — it is not a game I like at all! I did get 2 Canasta badges, and 1 Jungle Gin — yay! The badges are prettier than in the past, I’ll say that much, lol. Good luck to all!
WeenieKay1207 says
Got 4 Quinn’s in my freebies too. I guess this will be another marathon I won’t get to finish. I’m still stuck in the tropical tank.
MomsBassetHound says
I got lucky on my 2nd account and got a better mix of badges with the first 30, only got 2 Quinn’s. I had 4 Quinn’s in my first 30, but since I do all 60 on my account it didn’t matter.
But these are much, much harder & longer than they were the last time. I would like to see Pogo Llama do a Magic Marathon, all 60 badges, herself to see what it takes. I don’t think anyone at Pogo has ever tried one of these.
Suz
karen says
I would like to see the person that sets the challenge goals to do a marathon! Pogo Llama plays but I would guess the person setting the challenges doesn’t even play.
spn50mac says
I have a theory: They have a set number of people who Pogo gives each a set number of the badges and give them a month to finish. So each won finishes the long badges so they obviously think we can finish all 60! lol Probably not true but like I said just a theory.
wuzzie70 says
I completely agree with you Moms! These badges are continually getting harder and harder to do and take up so much time! It is not fun anymore! I think most of these badges (like this week’s Bejeweled Twist) are thought up by young guys who play these awful games! They don’t think (or care) that most of the Pogo players are older people, who like simpler games, and speaking for myself, I like mainly card games! After seeing the “bonus” badges that we can earn after 30, 40, 50 and 60 badges — I think I’ll pass — they are UGLY! Good luck to all who attempt these badges!
GamerNut65 says
Here’s my theory…. the harder they make them to finish, the greater chance you will use power-ups to finish quicker. It’s all about getting players to use more and more gems. Like I said previously, as a personal protest to Pogo’s new direction, I refuse to play any games that use gems to either buy episodes or have power-ups. People can complain all they want here, but as long as people follow the leader and participate in these ridiculous marathons, nothing will change.
NancyV says
Yes, I find the challenges are VERY time consuming! Sudoku is over 100 games to play. I don’t think I’ll finish the badges in time.
shelnick9293 says
I got 5 QA which probably means 5 I won’t be doing……..lol With all the games that are still available why does that one have to be in the mix every time. I didn’t get any Clare Hart and I would of much preferred that one to QA.
RyzandShyn says
Well, I took a deep breath and hit the button.
I only got 2 Quinns, which was a relief, but got 4 Claire, 4 ME, and 4 SG. Then a not too horrific mix from the others.
I might be done sometime next year and some I might not do at all. I’m tired of repeating already played levels over and over just for a badge.
Oh well – it’s still nice to have some free badges to work on in games I enjoy.
Good Luck!
jigsawing says
Thanks Ryz! Except for your specific game picks, you wrote my post for me word-by-word. Love your “Sometime next year”! lol
Kirsten says
Instead of taking a deep breath I closed my eyes and hit the button, lol. Got 2 QA on first acct and 5 on other. Neither were too bad of selections. Going to mutter along and see how it goes. If it happens, wonderful, if not, will get done and have that many more badges to add to my collection.
GL All! 🙂
Pogo Addict says
I know the button was asked for, but I am not happy about it. I got all 6 QA badges. That never happened to me when I was able to pick my own cards.
Catherine L says
I got all 6 QA badges also. I like the game in moderation but I didn’t think I liked it that much. lol
Cindy4764 says
I ended up getting all 60 badges but my quibble is do we really need 6 of any one game? Wouldn’t it be a little nicer if there were only 3 or 4 per game.? Spread it around more games and then folks won’t get 6 of some game they hate.
Catherine L says
Well said Cindy. Some games I like and they are only 3 of them. I only got the 30 free ones so far.
jean123coop says
Cindy – excellent responses. I know I will hear hisses and boos but I enjoy Quinn’s since it is a majohngg game which I generally excel at.
Am really tired of playing Solitaire Gardens and JetSet.
POGO please listen and stop piling up one thing after another. Please give us simpler games to play that don’t take several days to complete. I mean, do we really have to get 1,500 cards to make a badge? Really?
Cindy4764 says
Hey, I’m with you. I got all 60 challenges so I have 6 Quinn’s but I’d rather have 3 more Quinn’s than the 3 Trizzles I got, LOL!
There are 36 HTML games so far but still lots of Flash games they could use as well. No need to give us 6 of anything, in my opinion. And the ratcheting up of the difficult of some of the challenges? I mean, Really? As you say, 1500 of anything is overkill. Then we get a challenge like 15 heart bonus cards in First Class Solitaire that takes minutes because you don’t even have to finish the game to get credit. Took me about 10 minutes. Some of these challenges though are long long long.
jgs98765 says
Thanks for this page. On the Pogo page, when I mouse over the ones on the right to see the requirements, the page cuts off.
Catherine L says
Yes I am grateful for Lura putting it up on her BH site also. The requirements are indeed cut off from the badges on the far right of the Magic Marathon page on Pogo.
nla8712 says
I had to zoom out to 75% and then still scroll to the right to see them.
Bronze says
I got all 60 and love all the game choices. Wish they had a button to get the last 30 all at once if u wanted. Didn’t like seeing Sol Garden since its the game of the month. Wish the right hands at Pogo knew what the left hands were doing. Also, wish they had more variety with only 3 challenges for a game.. The majority of the challenges are quite long. For the first time, I decided to do them all at my own pace with pleasure, and not working at a frenzy. I’m gonna totally ignore the deadline.
susy2913 says
I’m writing this here because I’ve run out of ALL other avenues to turn. My ACCOUNT has been locked out of Pogo Daily Sudoku since March 23. This happens whether it’s Edge, Chrome, or even Android. The game works perfectly if I sign on as Guest. Every case I have submitted to EA/Pogo gets marked as “Resolved” even though NOTHING has changed.
Does anyone know how to get through the Support maze to the one person who still knows what they are doing (if such a person even exists) to FINALLY get this fixed? Otherwise, I’ll obviously not even bother with this Marathon that has 6 badges I can’t possibly earn.
missymiss1000 says
Have you used the calling feature in Help? They called me back after I left my phone number. It’s the only way I finally got to speak to someone and get my account unlocked.
Trish says
Everyone is upset QA is in the mix, but I’m upset that Mahjong Escape is once again in the mix as well. This is my least favorite game. I’ll take QA over ME any day.
brat794684 says
I pass since this dummy doesn’t know how to play Canasta or Jungle Gin and I’m more than happy about not knowing. I’m just not good with card games……….Mary
nessa says
If they are going to throw Quinns at us every single time 🤢 least they can do is put only 1 set of 3 badges!.
There are players that like the game of course but there’s us who don’t like it so 3 badges should be enough to make everyone happy.
And I don’t see why all the bells and whistles about the “New and Improved” event.
There’s nothing new about and the only improvement I see is the “one click-get all 30 free badges at once”, which really is an improvement for some but I was hoping for more, I really thought we were finally getting 60 different badge designs! One can always dream *sigh*
Cindy4764 says
For the freebies at first I thought it would be pretty evenly spread, out got
Jet Set 3
Daily Sudoku 5
Claire 2
Quinn’s 3
ME – 3
Sol Gardens 5
Sweet Tooth Town 2
Big City Adventure 2
But then it completely fell apart I got
1 Trizzle- yay only 1
1 Canasta – one of my faves
1 Word Whomp
1 First Class Sol
1 Tri-Peaks, absolutely one of my faves
And 0 for Jungle Gin, another one of my absolute faves. I’d be bummed but I do plan to get more. whether I get 30 more or not we’ll see, it’ll depend on what I get when I turn them one by one. I want more of my favorites!
Cindy4764 says
I’m baaaack. Well, I ended up getting all 60. If I had gotten the ones I really wanted, 3 Jungle Gin, 2 Tri-Peaks and 2 Canasta I may have stopped before the end. I did get the 2 Canasta at numbers 4 and 5, so far so good.
I got Jungle Gins at numbers 9, 12 and 20 and the Tri-Peaks all the way at numbers 22 and 25….geez, already, so decided to get the last 5 as my worst nightmare, Trizzle, I got all of them early on.
I hope to be able to get at least the first 30 done in order to get two badges, and beyond that if I can, but there are some pretty long challenges here.
All in all, though, I’m pretty happy to have 60 more badges to do, 30 of them free. 🙂
minty222 says
i got stuck with 4 out of the 6 quinns aquarium. no way that is happening. i hate that game with a passion and no amount of times tossing it into albums, or magic marathons or any marathon for that matter is going to make a difference. I refuse to buy the power ups, and i know you can do it without them, but repeating a single puzzle over 50 times before you can beat it requires much more patience than i have. and i have a fair bit of patience. i am so busy in the summer that i can barely get the weeklies done, so i am not going to get my knickers in a knot over this.
Steve says
I will not be participating in this marathon, I do not like clicking one button and getting 30 badges dumped in my albums. I wish they could have just added that feature for those who asked for it. I might have tried for a couple of them. But I do not want 6 numbered badges in Quinn’s which I despise, causing me to have unfinished albums. Some of the challenges are much longer and I do not spend as much time playing games on Pogo anymore. Getting so tired of the same limited games, playing a certain level over and over again!
Well, i’m off to enjoy some good old java games that were created by a great management team and staff, which are greatly missed.
Good luck for those who choose to participate.
skye says
i appreciate the one button “hit” – what we get is no different that it was before – with 29 less buttons to “push”.
Thirty free is more that i had before regardless if i finish them or not.
I cant play sweet town – one of my names is caught in the glitch that was mentioned by several in the forums. It seems to be attached to individual accounts as my other name is not affected – anyway of course that name got three of the sweet town badges which i can’t play.
This seems to be the new Pogo – i shall muddle on. Good luck to all and may you get the badges you prefer !!!
Debbie Dunlap says
I actually bought all 60! That’s a first for me. Have been working on bits of a few of them to keep things from being boring.
Here’s a hint for Word Whomp #49 (my apologies if it’s been given a million times before). Hit “new game” until the ONLY vowel in the group of letters is an O. That way every single word counts towards your total.
spn50mac says
Anyone know the best level for the 1500 matches in STT? I started using Chocolate level 2 because it worked last time with a lot of matches, but know it is only counting the matches I’m making, not the “games”. So I’m only getting about 4-5 a game and the game does the rest.
player08628 says
I notice that most of the challenges are more difficult this time – in some cases the requirements are practically DOUBLE what they were before. Hmmmm
classyuklady says
Ty love the freebie badges but out of the 30 free ones 4 QA badges and 3 Trizzle badges 2 of the worst games for me !!! so i wont be buying the remainder anyone want to swap lol lol
scarlet8715 says
Closed my eyes and took a deep breath, some heavyweight badges to complete this time around.
Jet Set Solitaire – 1
Claire Hart – 2
Pogo Daily Sudoku -5 (Yuk!)
Quinn’s Aquarium -3
Mahjong Escape -3
Solitaire Gardens – 3
Sweet Tooth Town – 1
Big City Adventures – 3
Jungle Gin – 1
Canasta – 2
First Class Solitaire – 1
Tri Peaks Solitaire – 2
Trizzle – 3 (Not as enjoyable now they do not award trophy badges)
Not too bad. I would have liked at least one of the Word Whomp badges. 19/30 are 4000 token badges
A busy month ahead for us all. Enjoy everybody!
madmaude74 says
6 in Daily Sudoku – I wanted to barf when I seen that – Especially with one of them requiring hard level – purchased power up here I come! I will never get through the hard one otherwise. Good luck all!
FADEDWILDROSE says
All the Pogo Daily Sudoku (even the hard) appear every day in the Quick Links tab at the top this wonderful website. No need to purchase any power ups — just send Lura a thanks for the postings.
Curiouskas2 says
Don’t forget that all the answers are available under the BadgeHungry Quicklinks, so the Daily Sudoku badges should actually be relatively easy.
MomsBassetHound says
Rose is correct, not a reason in the world to buy a power up in that game…ever!!
I have been doing the 3 games daily, and except for a couple of easy ones that I played myself, for fun, I’ve used the answers.
And even if you wanted to try one on your own, it’s the same puzzle if you redo it, so you could just write down your answers and use those.
Suz
Kygirl1942 says
How do I get the regular daily Sudoku puzzle? I made the mistake of clicking on the free challenges and now it opens up to a random puzzle, not the daily offering. Any suggestions?
FADEDWILDROSE says
I am guessing that you are in Pogo Sudoku instead of Pogo Daily Sudoku. I am not familiar with Sudoku X to know if it comes up random.
afriend says
OMG it’s way too much just the JS I got 35 airports in the
Magic? Weekly only 18 so almost double. 80 levels of
something 90 in another. ARE they CRAZY. Maybe I am
for getting these. I didn’t buy all 30 extra and I’m not going
to. I have more than enough., I wish I could get a refund on
the 10 I bought for Heaven’s Sake! You know I have friends I
trade off with. I have a fiancé to help. I don’t work. But do I
want to do all this crap? NO. I see most of you think the same
some are just joyous of too much lol.. We’re all different but
really this is pushing me to a breaking point. Ugh gla. Thanks for
this site Lura! I sent someone from pogo the BH iinfo couldn’t believe they
didn’t know about you! Love and appreciate the answers you provide
us for CCove and PSD. Trivia. The rank info. Again thank you so very
much!
Lura says
Thank you thank you thank you for sharing BadgeHungry with your Pogo friends. The site relies heavily upon word of mouth to find new Pogo fans to join us in fun and all of the particular misery that comes from being such loyal Pogo fans! Heheh!
FEM says
yes I recommend this site to a lot of people especially since the daily pogo suduko came out…in chat in games lots were despairing of ever playing it…so recommended badgehungry told them the link to use and also lots of great pogo news from this site….so keep going Lura you do a wonderful job…thank you…
Lura says
Thank you! 🤗
Rob says
I really think it’s cruel they added 6 Solitaire Garden challenges to go along with the 4 game of the month challenges, which I personally find brutally long this month. And this is coming from someone who doesn’t mind playing the game.
I work full time, spend a large chunk of time at the nursing home with an aging mother daily, and have a complete collection minus a completion badge that I had forgotten about because there were 2 or 3 different challenges going on, and I was quite bummed. Sadly this may be the end of the complete collection, as many of these are brutal.
I also feel, there are enough games still here that there is no need for 6 in one game…3 is plenty. I’m so over Jet Set Solitaire, and Claire Har it isn’t funny lol.
Good luck to all who try and have fun. I will do my best. I still have an outstanding rated spades badge to do but that will have to wait as well.
Jill says
Same here! I work full time, have a ton of other responsibilities and for sure won’t have time to complete some of these more advanced requirements.
I too have a rated spades badge that has prevented me from completing a premium album for well over a year now! Is there a way to play against each other in Spades as opponents and we can both make sure we win the rated badge!?lol
I’m just happy there were no spades badges for this marathon. I did get all Quinns badges though so there goes any chances of completion. Good Luck All!
shadylady102610 says
Won’t be a busy month for me. Most of the games in this marathon I do not like and won’t be playing. Why did EA have to come along?? I hate what they have done to pogo.
Lura says
EA bought Pogo in 2001. Have you really been playing at a game site you hate for 18 years?! Tenacious!
jigsawing says
What’s the best place to get “tokens” in Jet Set?
RyzandShyn says
Tokens? If you mean “points”, use Sydney Extended Stay : Didgeridoo 2 (Horn) which is in the Mountains and Sea suitcase.
Seems to yield the highest I have found so far.
jigsawing says
What a mess. Been with Customer support/chat and getting absolutely nowhere.”receive this badge and 1000 tokens” it reads under my 1st Marathon Challenge. Well, I sure did complete 120 games of Jet Solitaire AND I sure did received my badge. But, they say I’m not done! You must “reactivate to receive your 1000 tokens.”
grrrrr
I have had 3 chat sessions, given links that go nowhere. They’d be glad to give me 1000 tokens. Give up. Try again tomorrow for a phone call.
MomsBassetHound says
You should have received 4,000 tokens when you did it. The 1,000 tokens is if you do it a 2nd time.
Suz
wearymom says
For the first time I am seriously contemplating passing on a marathon. I am ‘over’ Trizzle and playing free badges for QA isn’t really free if I give up quitting and restarting and quitting and restarting and buy powerups to use.
I agree with the others that wrote more games with fewer badges in each game. I also work and have other obligations so the frequency of the marathons and the inability to choose my badges is something that is becoming less friendly and more of a second job!
mookermom11 says
I am truly disgusted with this magic thing. I bought all 60, but my plan is to achieve 30 by the due date. I am not buying a bunch of power ups to win.
Oh Suz I am so sorry but I just saw you hit 12,000 badges! WTG 🙂
Good luck everyone.
Rhona (also steers everyone she meets to BH because it’s a wonderful place to be 🙂
MomsBassetHound says
Thanks!!
Suz
Catherine L says
Well done Suz reaching your 12 Badge Club.
Catherine L says
12K Badge Club. Sorry big difference from 12. LOL
MomsBassetHound says
Thank You!!
Suz
deldiva says
Congrats Suz…..you rock!!! How abso–feaking–lutely awesome!!! Again, congrats!!!
MomsBassetHound says
Thank You!!
Suz
Life4Style says
I’m planning to pass on this Marathon, unless I accidently click on a Badge Challenge by mistake, like I did with the Easter Egg Hunt. LOL I’m trying to play more of the Java games before they disappear. I messed up ranking out in Pinochle. I only had 180 pinnochles to make when they removed the game because I spent too much time on their other Marathons/gifts.
Several people have mentioned that the same old games are always being presented for the Marathons. Well, we better get used to it because with all the games being removed (first Jave, now Flash) like a tornado hit the game site, and new games just trickling in, there won’t be many other choices for us to play. They are removing more games than they are replacing.
That’s not a good sign.
mjboder says
Holey moley, this marathon is a real killer. Every badge I have completed so far took me a minimum of 4 hours.
This is getting ridiculous Pogo. It will be a full time job to get it done on time. You really do want us few remaining customers to leave.
Oh, by the way, i joined the 10K club a few weeks back, not know if i will stick around to get to 11K or not.
MomsBassetHound says
Congrats & Welcome to the 10K Club!!
Suz
Kirsten says
Congrats on reaching your 10,000th!
users9425 says
These badges are far to time consuming.. I wish I wouldn’t have gotten then.. Certainly won’t rush to finish them..
Miladylc56 says
I to Took a Deep Breath and Closed My Eyes and hit the button
Jet Set Solitaire 3
Claire Hart 3
Pogo Daily Sudoku 4 (yuck)
1 for Quins Aquarium (Big yuck)
Mahjong Escape 4 (Big yuck)
Solitaire Gardens 3 ( Big Yuck)
Sweet Tooth Town 2 ( YAY)
Big City Adventures 1
Jungle Gin 2 (Big yuck)
Canasta 3 (YAY)
First Class Solitaire 2 (yuck)
Tri Peaks 1 (yay)
Trizzle 2 (yuck)
I do not have the gems for any more right now.
and will do the ones I can at my own Pace
Like others have said with Pogo placing these Badges
in your Mix and Match albums I now have a ton of albums that will never get done.
when I first Joined Club Pogo I read Post in the forums asking for Harder challenges
to me Pogo got a Bit carried away when the started doing what Folks ask for
my way of thinking is for the marathons it should be say for 6 badges 2 easy 2 medium and 2 hard lol
sirron1957 says
Please correct me if I’m wrong but number 14 is almost impossible. We get 90 points per day (10-easy + 20-medium + 30-hard). With those numbers it’s going to take 2,000 days to win the challenge.
I really hope I’m wrong.
sirron1957
FADEDWILDROSE says
The points you list are rank points while the badge uses the score at the end of each puzzle, typically about 6000 or 10000 on medium and hard for me. So that makes it about the size of the rest of these monsters.
sirron1957 says
FADEDWILDROSE, I hope you are right. Pogo doesn’t specify, challenge just says “Points”. And, Thank You for the response.
sirron1957
MomsBassetHound says
She’s right. It was the first PDS badge I did.
Suz
MomsBassetHound says
You are correct. Using the answers I get 3,000 for easy, 6,000 for medium and 10,000 for hard. It’s actually a little more, but rounded them down to the nearest thousand.
And redoing the same puzzle over and over counts for all of these badges.
Suz
Lizz says
Suz, I have not seen the announcement of your 12000 badges, but. . that is awesome. Congratulations
Lizz
MomsBassetHound says
Thanks! I don’t normally announce mine on BH 🙂
Suz
mookermom11 says
Some people just get excited for Mom’s and do the boldest of things 😉
vrymoody71 says
My comment is kind of late because I debated at least taking the 30 free badges or not. I did. However, I am not happy with just clicking one button. and having pogo choose for me. I ended up with 4 daily suduku, 4 quinns, and 4 big city adventure. No Gin or tripeaks at all. If I could have picked my own, I am sure it wouldn’t have turned out that way. I won’t do quinns . I also ended up with 4 jet set oh joy. Oh well. I m not going to race through them either, but a badge is a badge.
Catherine L says
Pogo will still choose what one you get if you pick them yourself. They are random.
users9425 says
Does anyone know which level is best in Mahjong Escape for Collect 350 tiles after matching the gold tiles? Any suggestions would be appreciated thank you.. Have a good weekend..
FADEDWILDROSE says
Byzantine #16: the gold tiles are row 3 col 6 and row 5 col 10. Uncover them and one tile next to each to clear them. Then all the rest of the tiles can be matched. Sure win because no other tiles are stacked.
BTW is you have the lock and key badge you might like Buenos Aires #22 which has 8 pair and is a fairly logical easy win.
users9425 says
Thank you very much for the information.. I much appreciated it.. 🙂
spn50mac says
Thanks for the tip! Got the tile badge in under 10 minutes. Unfortunately I’m not for enough in ME to use the tip on the lock and key but thank you will use it in future badges!
Brenda M. says
Thank you for posting this, it was so great to get that badge quickly! 🙂
MomsBassetHound says
I found a positive with this Marathon. I ranked out in Jungle Gin while working on the last Marathon badge 🙂
And I just saw someone that won 45 Marathon badges in the last few hours. And they think we don’t know how they are doing it…lol
Suz
RyzandShyn says
That’s just crazy – who do they think they’re fooling? The. Nerve.
MomsBassetHound says
I have dreams that after the Marathon is over that Pogo will remove the badges and they will be screwed 🙂
Suz
nessa says
Wow! 45 in only a few hours? ! Pass me the auto plssss lololol
3 days gone and I haven’t even won 10 badges, others are only hafl way and going very slowly. I don’t think I will have enough time to complete the 30 free badges and most probably won’t be buying any.
The whole marathon is an insult !
Now I go back and keep trying. I’m alreary tired and overwhelmed just ot think about “having to” go back to play to earn these badges.
I wish everyone luck with this insane marathon and wish me luck too 😉
Lizz says
are the extra badges (the 2nd 30) random as well or do we get to pick which ones we want to do? And if so will they always remain at the 8 gems?
Cindy4764 says
The second 30 are all 8 gems each but they are definitely random. We’ve never been able to pick the badges in any iteration of Magic Marathons. We pick which card we want to turn but the badges are still random.
missymiss1000 says
I like that we get 30 free badges (thank you Pogo) but most of them will take a bit of time to complete. I can’t afford to buy the other 30 so I will be happy with what I was given and work on them at some point in time. I definitely can’t complete the free ones by July 3rd so I won’t get any bonus badges. Just so much going on that it’s impossible for me to have the amount of time on Pogo that is required to get them done on time.
sirron1957 says
It looks like the Trizzle Magic Dragonfly 59 is not working when it’s a chain reaction 🙁
sirron1957
jhazeleyes says
Congrats Suz, wtg on 12,000 badges. 🙂 I am not playing this marathon; I have bowed out of them lately b/c I have too much going on and not enough time and I don’t like being forced to use power ups.
MomsBassetHound says
Thanks!!
Suz
Melanie says
I Won’t Be Doing The Dragonfly Badge Marathon At All I Just Don’t Care For It At All But Thank You Anyway 30 Badges And 65 Badges Are Just Too Much To Do Anyway I’m Just Not Going To Do Them At All 😢😢
jhazeleyes says
I still like Pogo and play my weekly badges and have gotten all my weekly badges thanks to you kind people of BH, thank you so much for all the tips and especially PrairiesDweller and Suz.
the captain says
Tip
The solitaire gardens badge where you need to fill the power meter 7 times.
Use garden 1 level 55.
Once you fill the power meter click on the deck and start a new chain.
I was able to get 4 power maxes the first game and easily 3 the next.
Hope this helps
Catherine L says
In the Tri-Peaks badge – Win 40 games, it’s actually 40 hands. I am working on that one. In the old version of the game you had to get to the gold chest to win a game, in the newer one each hand counts.
Brenda M. says
This is one of the worse Marathons I got 2 Trizzle! Match 350 5 dolls and 500 mega mataches. These were free, I can’t believe it. First Class Solitaire win 12 games, that game is my nemesis. I’m just so disappointed in Pogo right now, they are trying to get us to quit, I think.
Brenda M. says
mega matches!!!
Sara says
I activated badge #15 in Daily Sudoku. Now I have discovered that previous puzzles from this month are locked. Can you explain how one solves 45 puzzles on Easy level? Four weeks equals 28 days. How is it possible if I can only play one per day? There must be a simple explanation that is eluding me.
sirron1957 says
Sara, you can redo the puzzles.
sirron1957
coco says
Replays count. That’s how you’ll get all of the badges in PDS.
sirron1957 says
Trick I just thought of, for Clair Hart Magic Dragonfly #9 (complete 15 episodes). First do the following:
Dragonfly #11, 25 chapters, do only 4 chapters in 6 episodes leaving one undone in each & 1 chapter in a 7th episode
Dragonfly #12, 40 chapters, do only remaining 3 chapters from previous step & 4 chapters in 9 episodes leaving one undone in each & 1 more chapter in the next episode
That will leave you with episode #5 in each, enough for Dragonfly #9.
sirron1957
MomsBassetHound says
I’m leaving that one (MM #9) until the 9 episodes are released this month, an 8 episode case and a free episode. I know I will buy them and complete them all the day they are released, so will only have to repeat 6 episodes. And I can do the 1st episode in about 5 minutes, so faster than doing 6 episodes I don’t have memorized. And I’ve completed all the other Marathon CH2 badges at this point anyway.
But it will save some a bunch of time if they own that many episodes.
Suz
Kendra says
Does anyone know which is the best level to do the lock and key badge? Lucky me got all 6 in Mahjong Escape. Just not sure which is the best one to do the lock and key. Thank you in advance!
KendraRenae58
Lura says
Questions like this are asked constantly for a variety of games. So I put together go-to levels for different badge types on each game’s page here at BadgeHungry.
Here’s the one for Mahjong Escape:
https://www.badgehungry.com/game-ranks/mahjong-escape-ranks/
Every game on Pogo has a page just like it — I recommend bookmarking this so you can quickly get to all of the tips, hints, and game information:
https://www.badgehungry.com/game-ranks/
Kendra says
Thank you Lura!!!
SandyJWsjw says
I prefer China 28 for locks and keys. You’ll get six of them. Match the tiles in groups of fours.
etfr29 says
There is absolutely no way I can complete all these badges by July 3rd, kudos to those of you who can. It may take me all summer, LOL Just can’t physically play that many hours a day. I assume I will still earn the tokens & badges but just not the bonus badges?
stretchdogg says
We are one week into this marathon I worked like crazy on it for 4 days, then gradually had to sow down, couple things going on in real life, but those are gone and I’ve now quit. Too many long long slogs, on too many games. No longer fun. So once you disconnect, I’m having a hard time staying interested in all the regular daily stuff, the weekly stuff. I’ve been playing for probably 15 years, so maybe time to take a complete break. Just wan POGO to know that the marathon started this withdrawal. Good luck to everyone playing.
JB says
I feel the exact same way. I am rethinking my membership. This was just way too much to pile on. The challenges were too long. I don’t expect to finish everything in one day. In fact, I like to spread it out. This just took too much out of me. I didn’t do most of the dailies while working on this and found that I didn’t even want to do anything on Pogo.
spn50mac says
On Big City Adventure do you need to complete level for hint stars to count?
FEM says
today I completed all 60 badges in the magic marathon…im so chuffed with myself….
FEM says
or is it 65?…never know if its 60 or 65…either way I did them all…pat on the back for me…lol
Cindy4764 says
Congrats! Job well done! It’s 60 badge you finished and you will get 5 completion badges.
FEM says
thank you for the clarification Cindy…now I know…lol
Jon C says
Finished the first 30 badges over 1 week
Kirsten says
Finished all 30 badges. Most of mine were in the “hard” category and very time consuming. Planning on doing 1 a day but after “hitting the button” and found out exactly what the challenges were, decided to get a move on them. Kudos to all who can finish these along with the other 30. Pogo gave a run for it this time, 🙂
All in all, enjoyed it
MomsBassetHound says
They were all hard or long. That’s why we are all complaining.
Suz
JB says
I finally finished!! I broke a rib two weeks ago and have been confined to my house (mainly my recliner) so I worked on these badges solidly all day long. I am so tired of playing Solitaire Gardens!! If not for the broken rib, I don’t think I would have finished these in time.
Catherine L says
So sorry about breaking your rib. I wish you well in your recovery.
JB says
Thank you so much. It gets better every day. Maybe the broken rib is a reason I’m so short about this marathon.
Lura says
There are plenty of people who are so short and I can assure you they did not break a rib!
Get well soon!
JB says
Thank you!!
MomsBassetHound says
Congrats on completing the Marathon!!
Hope you are feeling better!
Suz
JB says
Thanks Suz.
sirron1957 says
JB, hope you heal fast.
sirron1957
Lizz says
I would just like to have a week or 2 to play the games I would like to play. I would like to play games without worrying about getting a badge or completing a marathon or ranking up.. I have had to play some games over and over on easy just to get them done. I need a vacation from pogo stress….haha.
Some day Lura will have the Friday question asking what games we would like to play if we did not have a marathon or time stress at the rate these are going.
Catherine L says
I finished the first 30 today. I am doing about 15 per week. They are so long. I am now working on the QA to finish 40 games in 15 minutes. So far have 17/40. It’s proving to be a killer and a lot of restarting. I bought the power up for the extra slots to give me a little help. All these long badges are proving too much but I will try and get through them before the 3rd of July.
A very good luck to all still doing the Marathon and Congrats to all who completed it.
MomsBassetHound says
Congrats on completing the first 30!!
I just finished my 49th, hoping to finish a 50th before I shut off my computer for the night, but all the stars will need to align correctly for that to happen…lol
Suz
Catherine L says
Thank you very much Suz.
sirron1957 says
I completed all marathons (will tomorrow anyway) and am now working on the dog badges…hope Pogo slows down a little soon, this is getting to be too much!!
sirron1957
sirron1957 says
That was supposed to be “Till tomorrow anyway”
sirron1957
SandyJWsjw says
Here’s how I get all six sets of seashell tiles matched in Quinn’s Aquarium! Find a challenge round. Match the first two sea shells as quickly as possible. If not, quit that game and find another challenge round until you can. After that, count up to 18 for each tile you match. When you make matches 19 and 20, make them toward the outer edges of the puzzle. Usually the next set of sea shells will land right near your last move and don’t get buried too deeply. Repeat this until you have collected all six sets. Not all the challenge puzzles are conducive for this, but I have found if you avoid the ones with keys, you will have more success. Good luck!
RyzandShyn says
Epic Fail. Big Disappointment.
I took the free 30. I did 9 of them happily enough. There are 5 left in games I like that I’ll probably do at some point or another – maybe with a weekly, maybe when there’s new content for the game, maybe when I have nothing else to do. (and I mean nothing…lol)
So that leaves 16 that will sit undone – they’ll be a good reminder of what not to do from now on.
Tip – I made myself a paper/pen list of the 5 – the number, game, criteria. I did that because when the marathon ends, I won’t have the Magic Marathon page to go back to as a reference. I figured it will reduce the time and aggravation of looking for them in the future when I’m ready to play them.
I don’t know if this will help anyone else, but I think it’s a smart move to write them down someplace.
Cindy4764 says
Thanks, I think I will write down the remainder of my undone ones. Lots of times when I’m starting a challenge I’ll go to the challenges page to see if I have any undone that match but writing these down will be good.
Pogo failed with this Magic and I epically failed myself. As someone who has been bitten a few times by buying a PBA or MnM before carefully reading the requirements and vowing to read the requirements, esp. in PBAs where you get 10 at a time, I totally failed with this Magic Marathon. I probably would have gotten the free 30 anyway but after I did I was thinking might as well get the rest as they’ll only add up to 4 gems per badge. Also, I didn’t get but 1 or 2 of the games I most wanted; Jungle Gin, Tri-Peaks, Canasta, so I went ahead and got the second 30 with barely glancing at the requirements. Dum de dumb dumb.
I managed to get 40 of the 60 done in between other marathons and just doing games I wanted to do for fun, plus having a real life too. :). But I swear I will NEVER buy another Magic set, even the free ones if any of them are like the requirements in these games. I could use some bad words here but I won’t so I’ll just say this: @#$%&@#%!
FADEDWILDROSE says
If you cannot use a spreadsheet like Excel, get a young kid to teach you. LOL! Then you can just copy Lura’s Lovely List of badges in an event like this. And with a little editing, make a spreadsheet record of which badges you have and mark off which you are done with. And for me I add columns for checking off each account that I have to do.
MomsBassetHound says
I’m old school like you, pen and paper all the way…lol
I’m sorry that you were so unhappy with the 30 free badges. I do understand your pain. I had all 60 to do on this account, and the 30 free ones on Holly’s account.
But I do have good news to share 🙂
I am out of Marathon Hell, all 90 are done, never to be looked at again!!
Congrats to all that finished! And continued Good Luck to those still finishing up!!
Suz
RyzandShyn says
WTG Suz, and I’m sure Holly is sending you a good Basset happy howl for her account too!
MomsBassetHound says
Thanks!!
Suz
spn50mac says
I know the marathon ends Wednesday, but is there a specific time?
MomsBassetHound says
I actually saw a countdown clock just the other day, and I can’t find it now. It appears that it ends at midnight on Tuesday
If it started at 12:01am on a Wednesday, it ends at midnight on Tuesday.
Suz
MomsBassetHound says
I just found the countdown clock when looking at my 2nd account.
If you didn’t purchase the additional 30 badges there is a countdown clock where you purchase your turns.
At 10am eastern time on 7/1/19 there is 1 day and 17 hours left.
Suz
spn50mac says
Thanks. Still have two badges, Trizzle 5 match and Canasta 40 melds (which is hard because I play robots and they always go out before I even have a meld!)
MomsBassetHound says
Set you own table and in options make it a requirement that you have 2 canastas to go out, the bots don’t like that. And make it so you can use wilds in your opening meld, that should make it easier.
I always play the bots and rarely do they go out before me. And I prefer the 2 player so that gives me complete control.
Good Luck!!
Suz
spn50mac says
Thanks Suz! I did all that and now I’m about halfway done! I wish there was a faster way with Trizzle!
Donna
Rob says
Sadly…I think this is the beginning of the end for me…I’ll barely have 40…just way too many things to do to focus on Pogo…up to now, with the exception of one completion badge I missed because there was too much going on at once, I had a complete collection…and don’t see the point of continuing once that is truly broken.
I think for someone with a lot going on, to have 60 magic badges, a marathon of 8 or 10 badges mixed in, that you couldn’t combo because they switched them from an album to mix/match (and yes I understand why they did that), longer than average weeklies or so it seemed, working full time etc etc, not to mention it’s nicer weather now, I just wasn’t able to keep up. I was actually off this week, but most of my time was doing thank you’s for mom, business stuff etc for her which sadly trumps my fun.
So I think come December, I’ll be removing my billing info and hitting the cancel button, which I almost did last year. I never ever thought I’de ever be doing it, as I don’t entertain often, and this was my fix for board/strategy games. I thought I’de die first. I don’t remember the last time I played something just for fun. Pogo will be losing a lot of money from me.
Trish says
I am so excited to say I finally finished all 60 badges late Friday night. I do have to make-up a few weekly ones as personal challenges when they become available, but that’s no big deal.
I’m now curious to see what this Treasure Chest hunt is all about.
Good luck to those still trying to finish, and congrats to those that have. This marathon was a LONG one.
spn50mac says
Question? I just finally finished and when I completed the Canasta badge for melding out I also received a badge for completing the Celebrations premium badge album. However I don’t know anything about that album. Is it a separate album or part of the marathon?
spn50mac says
Never mind. I have so many premium albums I finally found it. It was a badge completion for a premium album that had Penguin Blocks that I never finished because I didn’t know how to play it lol.
Catherine L says
I have finally finished the Magic Marathon. It took the whole month with only hours to spare. It was one of the longest Marathons I ever done. Especially with another Marathon and other challenges thrown in the middle of it. I usually have Marathons wrapped up early in the event but not this time. I hope every month from now on doesn’t turn out as drastic as this.
MomsBassetHound says
Completion Badges released overnight, but a problem, just like almost every Marathon.
I finished my 60 badges on 6/24/19, but didn’t get the badge (Nestor) for completing all 60.
On my 2nd account I finished the 30 free badges on 6/30/19, but didn’t get any completion badges. I should have received 2 badges, Amelia the Genie Badge & Beatnick Wizard Badge.
And I’m not the only one. I have only been able to confirm with 3 friends so far, but they are missing 1 or 2 badges also.
Suz
Mozartjea says
I am also missing the 5th badge and I completed the 60th marathon badge on June 24th as well.
Julia
TweeTy says
I only received 4 of the 5 badges as well on my main acct but did get the 2 for my second acct. Contacted customer service this morning. Was told that they can not award me the badge without knowing the name of the badge. I don’t think the name was listed anywhere. Don’t know the process of how they are awarded but maybe the last one hasn’t been awarded yet?
MomsBassetHound says
I saw someone with the badge. We just got missed.
Send a Pogo mail to Pogo_Llama and make sure you put the underscore between Pogo & Llama.
Suz
Mozartjea says
I finally got the 5th Magic Marathon completion badge this morning.
Enchanted Dragonflies Badge
Thank you Suz for notifying pogo_Llama about this issue.
Julia 🙂
MomsBassetHound says
You’re very welcome!
I got the missing badges on both of my accounts overnight too.
Suz
Lura says
It’s called the Enchanted Dragonflies Badge.
TweeTy says
Thanks so much Lura for that info. Guess I will try customer service again. Ugh. Lol.
Lizz says
That is the answer. I got some badges this morning and I could not figure out what they were for. Now reading this, blog I finally know what they are for the marathon I have already washed out of my head..
Lura, I thank you every day and Suz, I thought you too. You have taken care of all of us. I think I did 50 badges so only got 3 but that was fine. I at least got something to show for my effort..
Lizz says
Oops. I got 4 for the marathon. I also now finally have hit the new mark
TweeTy says
Still have not gotten mine yet. My case was sent to the specialist team, in whom I have very little faith. After my fiasco with the Claire Hart Speeding Hart Victory Badge, I hold very little hope of being awarded the Enchanted Dragonflies badge, despite having finished the marathon on June 23rd. That was the badge I wanted the most. Will wait & see what happens. If I am not awarded this badge, which I rightfully earned, I will not be renewing my membership when it comes due. Tired of wasting my “play time'” dealing with customer service in order to obtain badges I earned.
MomsBassetHound says
Did you email Pogo_Llama?
That’s what I did and received the missing badges on both of my accounts overnight.
Suz