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Pogo Mini: Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!Happy Weekend Everyone!

How many badges have you purchased but not completed? What’s stopping you?

The weekend open thread is a regular feature at BadgeHungry. Every weekend, we chat about the discussion topic, or anything else game-related. It’s a great place to test the waters of commenting and introduce yourself, ask for help with a game or challenge, or talk about your games and make friends.

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  1. OMG good question, I have 26 M&M albums still uncompleted but am trying to get them done when there is not a marathon on which these days it seems every week

    Have a good and safe weekend all

    AJ

  2. I have a question mahjong garden will only open to 85% for me how do I get to 100% so I can get my badge I have tried on early and classic and different browsers and cleared my cache and closed my pc down and back up and still will only load to 85% .
    Thank you for any help

  3. I only have 18 undone M&M of my account and 5 undone on Holly’s account. All of them have been released in the last week except 1 from the Amazon collection that is partially completed.

    I do everything based on when it needs to be completed. Right now I’m working on the 3 event badges on both of my accounts, the 2 weekly badges have already been done. Next I’ll work on the GOTM badges, and then work on the remaining M&M badges.

    I’m watching the snow fall outside. I woke up Wednesday morning to 3 inches of fresh snow, and it’s been snowing on and off ever since. I’m guessing we have about 6 inches at this point, and it’s supposed to end sometime today. It should start to melt quickly tomorrow when the temperature goes up to 43 degrees. Luckily none of it stuck to the roads, but all the front lawns and back yards have piles of snow again. Even the Hounds are tired of playing in it. Somebody forgot to tell Mother Nature that it’s Spring 🙂

    Stay in and stay safe everyone!!

    Suz

    • As I recall, Punxsutawney Phil said we’d have an early Spring. Maybe that only for the eastern part of the country — we’re getting rain. LOL I wonder how many people are preparing groundhog stew? LOL Maybe Mother Nature thought you needed more exercise Suz. 🙂

      As for this week’s topic, because just bought some of the Cookie and Coral Reef Badges (and had to purchase some more gems to do that) I have 53 badges that are undone. What’s keeping me from completing them? LOL Because I’m trying to complete the Snowbird Solitaire Challenge!!!!! What a way to kill a game!! I wasn’t a fan of the game to begin with, and I’m less of a fan now!! I completed the first hundred, so I’m able to play previous levels. But it’s torture trying to get a game that meets the requirement — win 60 with 5 cards left — Really????

      I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. If any one is in a tornado ravaged area, you certainly didn’t need that destruction with everything else going on with the pandemic!! My hearts goes out to you. As I said earlier, we’re getting rain in MA with high winds on the Cape. It’s forecast to clear up and get warmer next week. I hope so because my yard is getting out of hand. 🙁

      • Once we hit 48,000 on this constellation we are done until May 12th.

        Everything we earn over 48,000 will be zeroed out, and lost, when the new constellation begins.

        Suz

    • I know you said you get all the badges. WOW! I don’t know how you get them all done. Thanks for the in on snowbird but, it is not going to happen. I have power ups but, do not understand them.

      • I play a lot, way too much probably 🙂 And I really enjoy most of the games. And I’m not a big power up user, probably have 98% of the free ones that we’ve been given. I sometimes will try one just to see what it does. Usually if you click on the ? you can find out how certain power ups work. Or you can always ask in BH. Someone will be able to explain it to you.

        Suz

  4. That’s a good question! Can’t wait to see what everyone has to say.

    1) I have 43 in my current M&M Albums – most purchased recently. Nothing stopping me as I like them all and am playing them as the mood strikes me. Looking forward to each and every one!

    2) I have 47 in old M&M Albums, almost all are Magic badges I got in the pack of 30 free. They are not ones I wanted and I’m not interested in all in doing any of those. Phooey!

    Question: I noticed that I have Magic badges in games that have retired – like Mahjong Escape and Solitaire Gardens for example – that have not been awarded to me. Was I suppose to get them already?
    They are not counted on the front of the M&M they reside in, but they haven’t been awarded or marked as completed either.
    Any help or information is appreciated.

    • I just saw someone today that had some of those M&M Badges awarded…finally. So if you don’t see them in a day or two I would email Pogo_Llama.

      Suz

      • I just opened my badges and saw four ME MnM Dragonfly Magic badges as well as a Cat Slingo Blast badge so they are starting to award some of these oldies. I didn’t even know I had a Cat badge open, lol.

      • I did e-mail her and she replied quickly, here it is:

        “While the auto-awarding is in process, it’s going to take several weeks because there are so many badges. Apologies for any confusion on the timing for this.”

        Mystery solved.

  5. I seldom go beyond badges that are part of Pogo to buy one or a PBA; maybe two or so a year and they are always finished and replayed until I feel I’ve got my value from them.

  6. I have approximately two dozen MnMs in some older books, most, but not all, are various Magic badges I don’t want to do. The others are in a few games I’ll play but I’ve been so busy with everything “new” I haven’t gotten back to them.

    And for “new” I have approximately 20 unfinished badges, they are just in my last 5 MnM albums and ones I am working on at present.

    I’m glad I don’t have to count undone in the PBAs anymore. 🙂

  7. I currently have 51 M&M badges that are undone and what’s stopping me from completing them are various reasons: First I wait for a challenge to appear so I can double up, secondly I need to be in the mood to do them, thirdly I don’t have the time with all the responsibilities I have (though whenever I take breaks from cleaning, cooking, shopping, etc.) I run to my computer and play.

    RyzandShyn, I also have Mahjong Escape and Solitaire Gardens in my badges that have been retired and I have been wondering the same as you.

    Hope everyone can stay inside! Even though I’m in my 60’s I am lucky that I can order groceries online and drive to the supermarket where they load the groceries in my trunk. I do have to go inside the drug store to pick up my Mom’s medication as they don’t deliver and I’m very careful taking all the precautions.

    Enjoy the weekend as much as you can with some of these very challenging badges!

  8. I have about 35 purchased but not completed Mix and Match Badges in my albums – and the reason that I have not completed them is because I will finish the first constellation too quickly if I work on the badges. The trouble is, that as I am stockpiling them for the next constellation to be released, it occurs to me that I will ALWAYS have a stockpile of badges that I am holding back on, because the constellations are not geared up to people who buy all the badges and want to complete them.
    Consequently, there are about 50 badges in Badge Central that I have not even bothered to buy – because that just adds to my hoarding problem!
    i am still at the stage that I am angry about the loss of tokens – and the thought that I would spend good money and time and not get anything in return for the completion of the badge because my Pogis total is full for this constellation means that I am altering my buying and playing habits, and altering them so that I spend less and less time on pogo and spend as little as possible – great job Pogo!

    • I will finish tier 14 on gold tomorrow morning, if I don’t do anything else today. But at least I’m going to get 6 good power ups for Snowbird, so the first set of power ups that I may use 🙂

      The constellation is set up for members who do all the freebies, and buy a couple of badges here and there. I’ll be finished this constellation by next week, and I didn’t have a back log of badges when this started. I even made sure that my weekly badges and the marathon were all completed on March 11th, before Pogis was introduced. My account where I do all the freebies, and buy nothing extra will probably not finish the silver level.

      I expect the same think to happen with every constellation. But they will never be able to make it so that everyone is happy. Those who buy it all will lose the most. But those that buy nothing will not be happy either.

      Suz

      • I understand how you feel about the tokens Eggfarmer , and I get holding back on Pogi challenges. When I finished the constellation , gold tier 15 it was so what! Nothing like when I got my 1st million tokens,. With all the events Pogo has I think it will not be difficult IF one buys M&M and does the events. I did use some of the power ups i amassed along the way so they were helpful. Going forward completing the next constellation will not be a top priority as the novelty seems to have worn off already. Stay safe everyone, thoughts and prayers for all.

        • I agree, I think the novelty of Pogis will wear off in a few months, especially for players who don’t seek every badge anyway. I think Pogo is making the recent badges more difficult, because of earning Pogis.

          I miss being able to gift friends, using tokens for expressions and the mini mall. I know that’s all in the past, but the aspect of gifting friends “something” is sorely absent in Early Access. I hope there’s plans for that in the future, but I don’t think EA truly understands our desire for the social aspects of Pogo.

  9. Currently, I own 227 mix n match albums, and of those, 45 are open, with a total of 305 undone challenges.All I can say is that it’s a definite struggle to catch up. I blame Pogo (lol) … they have too many events using mix n match challenges and I cant set a mix n the same game. I now try to play pogo wiser. Today I decided to ditch the Forest Forage completion. I reached 17/60 for the Snowbird challenge — forget it. Hard nuf to win, yet alone to win with 5+ cards left. I can do soooo much more in the time it would take to finish that challenge. GL to all this weekend!!

  10. I am almost done with all my m&m albums. I wish i could afford to buy some . I will start on completing the weekly albums . It will take time though. And i wish they would let us have the badges of the retired games. It’s just not fair.

    • I have to disagree here. Why do you think it would be fair to those of us that completed those weekly badges if they were just auto awarded to others?

      Suz

  11. I do not have any bought badges that are undone. The only M&M badges undone are 3 of the new GOTM, Trivial Pursuit win 50 random games/Spellbook #55, and Lottso Express win 3 games/Spring Magic Lap 44. I had hoped that the TP would go away on March 10, but it is one of the games that didn’t get cut then.
    Bonnie

  12. All of my M&M albums up to #186 are completed. I am working on the 20th badge in that album and now have 2 out of 4 cities visited in WCS. My patience and tolerance for that game is limited so I saved it for last and now goad myself with, “But I’ll get TWO (completion) badges when I’m done.” That manages to get me back to flying for a little while. But alas, I have strayed off again and again and have now completed 12 new badges in album #187. Decision time: do I get to go and purchase more for a ready and waiting #187 or do I muster up some discipline and complete #186?

    Seriously, such foolish- trivia- but- major enjoyment that Pogo bestows on us is indeed a blessing as we all struggle in a new unknown world.

    Janet

  13. I have 5 unfinished M&M albums, one has 10 done the others have a couple each done. My kids have been home since March 9th (first week was their scheduled spring break). Hubby has been working from home since March 16th and he decided he didn’t need to bring home his stuff from work, he would just use my laptop. So my pogo time is significantly reduced, just trying to keep current with events & weeklies.

  14. Currently have 4 GOTM and 2 MnM’s.

    Don’t like having unfinished badges waiting for me so my method is to purchase as I go along and if a sale happens then will buy a few at a time and finish before buying more.

    Summertime weather here in Fl and with being on “house arrest” just glad we can get out to take a walk and enjoy it.

    Everyone stay safe and healthy and enjoy the weekend!

  15. I have 50 open badges right now and am currently working on leveling up in games like Jungle Gin, Bingo, etc. I also need to start working on Sudoku since I am so far behind on filling in the various numbers.

    I play Pogo in the morning and then late in the evening. During the day, you will find me outside with my dogs and working on my garden. I am finding more and more joy in the simple things like sipping some tea in the shade after completing my project for the day instead of crouching behind my computer. Florida is glorious this time of year and I intend to enjoy it to the hilt.

    I hope that everyone and those they care about are doing well and staying safe during this pandemic. Blessings to one and all. Jeannie

  16. Well, that was fun. I have 293 badges that I purchased and have not completed. My main reason is that I’ve been busy with a lot of marathons, game of the month and living my life outside of POGO (say it ain’t so).

    I will try to knock off one old one every day and work on this list. Of course, the next time badges will expire, I’ll just add more to the other end.

    I have 221 badge books — not nearly what many of you own — but enough.

    Stay safe everyone.

  17. Everything I’ve purchased…is done. And up until a short while ago, I bought every single badge ever released. But now there are games that I genuinely dislike enough…that I don’t buy every badge. There are probably a dozen or so badges I haven’t bought

    And now – with the “Pogis”…I’ve completed the last “gold” level of the first “constellation” (excuse me while I roll my eyes, as I write the words)…so now what? If I continue to earn badges, do the Pogi points get added to the next round? Or are they just wasted?

    *sigh*

    • They are just wasted. I’ll be finished this week too, working on last tier.

      Suzz

  18. 212 unfinished mixes.
    198 have Pogis.
    14 were too old.
    I stopped doing any new ones in Dec in anticipation of these Pogis.
    Since the introduction of Pogis I have been catching up doing mostly the non paying ones first.
    I generally only buy stuff on sale or the themed packages as they are “cheaper”
    I will do them slowly taking advantage of all the free Pogis available n do them at a moderate pace to achieve Gold tier 3 for as long as I can without needing to buy more to get there.

  19. I need to get a lot done & now that I tested negative & I’m out of the VA I can catch up. I hate passing up badges in games I’ve ranked out in to do marathon & special badges.
    Good Luck & stay safe & get ready to hug a lot of people when this is over!

  20. I did a lot of catching up on my albums, tp is 1 weekly can not get, scrabble also for 2019,also quinn aqauium 6 sets of shells whick is hard but I am on the gold tier hoping to finish but what does the poguiis go if you have more than you need are they saved or disappear someone asked this here , just wondering, I finished the snowbird badge it took a few days but from tips here I followed them and with hubbys help got it hope all are well and keeping safe hard having to stay put thank the lord for comp and pogo

  21. I have a total of 180 MnM albums of which 12 are uncompleted. My uncompleted badges total 110 with most of them being either free badges or marathon badges that I had purchased and was unable to complete because of traveling.

    Since I have a lot of free time now, I am working hard to get them all completed, even the ones I won’t receive any Pogis.

    I haven’t purchased any new MnM badges recently because of trying to finish all my albums, but I will purchase some of the retiring ones today.

    Be Safe everyone and take care

    Lorraine

  22. I have a TON of badges that I haven’t/won’t even complete or try to. Of the few badges that I have completed, NONE of those have been purchased. Never have,never will. I worked too hard for my money. I enjoy reading way too much rather than playing more than 10 minutes a day on POGO games.
    STAY SAFE ALL!!!!!!

  24. I currently have “7” M-n-M badges to be earned. I’m also going to finally definitely purchase “5 of 7” M-n-M’s that I can buy. The only “2” M-n-M’s I’m not buying are the Stack ‘Em HD badges which requires “Get 2 chain combo or more”. If anyone knows where I can find a “strategy”, please let me know. Thanks inadvance! BTW, I just completed the Constellation Gold Tier #15 badge. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

    • Congrats on finishing your constellation!!

      I only need 800 Pogis to finish mine, so will be done tonight or when I do my daily challenges in the morning.

      Suz

  25. I have 60 completed albums with 20 badges each. I have 9 completed badges in the 61st album. I’m really sad to so the albums leave as it is just too difficult to find the badge you want on the new site. I have over 6, 722 badges to scroll through.!!!! It’s impossible.

  26. I stopped buying badges when pogo stopped awarding tokens.I could care less about pogis.

  27. It seems like I have a hundred (no not quite lol) Many are from the Magic cards in games I can’t play dozens are Quinn’s. However, a couple years back Mom & I made a personal goal to get at least 1 badge everyday. Also I saved special badges I love for special occasions. Birthdays, Anniversary. Now since the accident 6 months ago the passing of Mom & Dad. It may seem silly but, it just made it fun. The problem is on early access it’s not as easy to find them all – I also liked to finish M&M albums that way (also look back on them) but, not with early access. I also found it does not always give me my secret badge (nor the badge for getting all the stars for March in pogo daily sudoku. Getting help is like pulling teeth with tweezers.

    • Are you sure that you got the stars for doing the beginner puzzles for March 1st thru March 9th?

      The stars were not awarded when done the 1st time, and sometimes not the 2nd time either. You had to have all 465 stars. If you go back and look at March you may find that you are actually missing 27 stars. If you are you will just have to repeat those first 9 beginner puzzles until you see the stars go from Spike’s hand up to the total stars.

      And there has also been 2 or 3 M&M completion badges awarded in the last 6 months before they were due, so unless you keep a list, and add to it every time you get a new one, you may already have them. Pogo’s system for awarding those badges is almost fool proof. Only once did they have a problem, and that was over 10 years ago. I have 236 completed M&M Albums, and only once did it happen to me, the 1 time there was a problem, over 10 years ago.

      Suz

  28. Way too many to count! What confuses me is they said tokens being abolished due to unscrupulous players but it seems to me they are actually inviting robo players with these new insane badge requirements and freebies. Don’t get me wrong, I love freebies but these are absolutely teetering on overwhelming me. And I am totally overwhelmed. I am also on fixed income not allowing me to buy the PUs needed to play–like Snowbird. That one has me snowed under! Why is it called snowbird when it’s a beach bird and they aren’t even indigenous to America?

    • Snowbird is the term used for all the folks who live in the cold north who “flock” to the south for the winter. I believe Florida and Arizona are the two most popular states for snowbirds in the winter. I live in Arizona but not down in the Phoenix area where most of them go for the winter.

    • I agree regarding go HARD – I can’t afford to do Sol. – or understand the power ups.
      Regarding the name – I am a Florida girl that grew up near the beach. We call the people that come here from up North in the Winter… SNOW BIRDS

  29. I don’t have any unfinished badges, I have 182 completed premium albums & 84 completed mix & match albums & 8407 completed badges. I’m still working on two of the ones from Forest Forage, I should be able to finish the Daily Sudoko one but the Snowbird Solitaire is going to be a struggle

  30. I’m down to 5 and 4 of those are almost completed. Should be able to complete them in the next few days.

    sirron1957

  31. (6) Pogo Addiction …will get to them
    (3) Pogis helpers 4x’s, 3x’, and 2x’s … don’t need them this month. Got the gold.
    (1) Lottso Express …too hard and I’m lazy.
    (1) Quinn’s… maybe some day.
    (3) Anagram’s … will get to them.

    I don’t purchase everything that is out there. I quit doing that over a year ago.

    Now I will work on all the Story Quest episodes I purchased when they went on sale and wait for the next constellation. I do like Pogis.

    Best Wishes everyone.

  32. I have nearly 100 M&M badges not done. When I looked at my collection before typing this comment, I was surprised to see a dozen M&M Albums with 19/20 and another dozen 18/20. That gives me encouragement to finish them off. I would never have known I was so close to finishing off Albums only for your question. Thank you.

  33. As of yesterday, I have about 15-20 unfinished M&M badges. Yesterday I was able to complete about 6-7 of these that I had unfinished. Since we have went on a mandatory stay inside order in Indiana, I have finished over 100 unfinished badges that i had. A lot of my albums only had one or two badges needed to finish the album at most..
    All of this free time has really given me a chance to catch up on badges. Right now would be a great time for pogo to have a BOGO sale!
    Also, today I officially made it into the 10,000 badge club!
    Happy badging!

  34. I have lots of unfinished badges and i will never again purchase any. . I will do freebies and my weekly challenges and double up as I can. I’m trying very hard to get used to new access and i love that I can now play on my kindle but I cannot get jigsaw to work on THAT. Anyone else having problems? Mahjong safari also!! All other games work. I’ve tried EVERYTHING. Very frustrating.

  35. Question for those who have finished the gold tier…. are you going to save your M&Ms for next constellation?

    I’m on level 13 towards silver, just curious of others strategies.

    • I have not finished gold. But since I calculated that I will finish gold before the end with only daily and weekly challenges, I started saving up M&Ms with currently enough saved to complete the next bronze. Since this first constellation has available the 50 Amazon badges, I do not know if there will be such a big release for the next constellation.

    • I’m not b/c the last thing I want is a backlog of badges. And I don’t think that Pogo is going to start releasing less badges, so I’ll never be short on Pogis. I expect the same thing with every constellation.

      Suz

  36. I had a good morning on Pogo. I ranked out in Pogo Daily Sudoku on my 2nd account. I did that just by doing the 5 daily puzzles and whatever badges that Pogo gave us for free.

    On my main account I finished the Snowbird, and then I completed the last tier on the gold level of the constellation when I did my Daily Challenges. I was going to keep track of how much Pogis I would be wasting from now until May 12th, but a friend emailed me this morning and told me that it still keeps track of our total Pogis, even after we max out at 48,000.

    Thanks to everyone for the support on the Snowbird. I really didn’t think I was going to be able to complete it. Now I’m going to try and do it on my 2nd account too. I still need to finish about 40 levels before I get to the random levels, but have until Tuesday evening to do it.

    Good Luck to everyone still working on the Snowbird. It is a rotten challenge, but can be done.

    Suz

    • Big congrats, the was a good morning. :). I’m about halfway through Daily Sudoku to finish the Forest badge which I’ll finish today and tomorrow. It’s nice getting a lot of in game badges too.

      I’m glad you did Snowbird. I don’t think it was as bad getting the 100 done as it was finishing those last 60 in Quinn’s. Whew! I did use a lot of power ups then but didn’t use any in Snowbird.

      I’m not quite all the way through silver but that’s not a goal of mine, to get all the way through gold.. I’ll get what I’ll get and be happy with that. Probably won’t use a lot of the power ups we get but there are also badges and I’m happy to get those any day. 🙂

      • Thank You!!

        I’m going to take a 30 minute break from doing Snowbird on my 2nd account and finish off the Sudoku badge on both accounts. I was just going to do my daily 5 puzzles and finish it off on Tuesday, but I need something to clear my mind, and working with numbers will do that 🙂

        I am actually enjoying Snowbird, but I think the requirements were a little over the top. It wouldn’t have been as bad if they had given it to us last week, we would have had 2 weeks to finish it.

        Suz

  37. I finally finished the first time round of solitaire Blitz. How do I play for the elite decks? Thanks in advance.

    • If you are speaking about the 18 in game badges where you need to use specific decks, you need to purchase the decks for 10 gems each in the store.

      Suz

  38. Wow, some of you folks have a lot move MnM albums than I do, and I thought I had quite a few at 39! Of course, most of you have a lot less MnM badges still to do than I do. Yes, I have over 100 (135) to complete. Mind you, a bunch will probably never be completed. I really hate QA (of which a bunch of the MnM badges are). I checked and I also have 22 PBA to complete, some with only 1 or 2 left to complete. Probably hard ones, ones I don’t like much. But I was surprised at some of the MnM badges I do still have to complete. Especially surprised that I have a bunch of Claire Hart Classic ones undone.
    I also do most of the badges for my S/O. He would rather watch TV than play on the computer. I’m the opposite, read a book while I’m watching TV with him, then rush to the computer to play my games. They do say opposites attract. But we both like cats. I have one currently standing on my lap (wish she’d sit down). Makes it real difficult to type! Anyway, I counted up 181 MnM badges in his 20 something albums that still need completing and 37 in his PBA’s to complete. Same scenario – QA badges will probably never get done.
    Anyway, thanks for the question. I would never have realized the number of badges if this hadn’t been a subject. And thanks for all the work done on this site. A lot of the badges (especially ones I don’t care for) were freebies. But ones I do like, I think I’ll try to work on – cause I’m pretty sure I’ll not finish the constellations at any time! I am on Silver for myself, but haven’t even finished Bronze for “BernieTheMac”!
    Stay safe and well everyone. Darn, this would a real good time to be able to “chat” with others on Pogo!

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