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Pogo Mini: Who Ya Gonna Call?Happy Weekend Everyone!

How important are stats to you?

The weekend open thread is a regular feature at BadgeHungry. Every weekend, we answer the discussion question above, and chat about anything 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. Even after all these years playing and studying my stats I still have no idea why some stats are kept…lol…I can’t see where having some information is important or where knowing those numbers is important to future success/progress in a game..
    I like them for keeping track of my progress toward the things I can make sense of.
    I’ll be interested in reading what other BHers use their stats for.

    Aside to Lura: Love the Ghostbuster mini! Collecting and playing with Ghostbuster toys was a big deal in my house following the first two movies. I saved them all. Good thing, too, because my grandchildren are as into it now as my kids were then. They took all the toys back to their house and spend hours recreating scenes from the movies. I get to reprise my favorite role as Vigo the Carpathian…lol.

    • My niece was huge on Star Wars when she was younger, had the action figures, etc. She still has them in my sister’s basement, don’t know if they are any of value.

      I could care less about stats, I don’t need to know how many games of something I played or that nonsense, I mostly care about rank.

      To Lura, you can’t call it “Sunday Token Social” anymore, since we are now earning Pogis. Our tokens were useless anyway, except to buy non gem stuff in the mini mall which I hope Pogo brings back.

      • Those were another set of toys I kept too – but the older son took them all. Also the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle stuff. It all made a comeback.
        Glad I did it too – It was a lot of searching for and buying toys back then but my kids had a lot of fun with them and now I’m glad to see that the grandkids are.

  2. To me stats are important to ascertain how close I am to my next badge. Is it a future possibility to resurrect the old BH “YOUR GAME PROGRESS”? It spurred me to work harder in some games. I, too, like your mini and am saddened that new players won’t be able to dress and redress their mini. It was certainly an ”icebreaker” and fun distraction. I enjoyed seeing what others “were feeling in the moment.” Gifting them was also a fun and cheap way to brighten ones day.

  3. hi Lura:I am having trouble getting the right number for the pogo daily Sudoku for oct 16.The number not match with pogo,could you please help?

    • It worked for me this morning. By chance, did you forget to scroll all the way down to Weekly Special?

    • Lura’s are always right. Check what you’re working on. That makes a real difference when you’re getting errors.

    • Did you do every day’s puzzle this week? I forgot to do two days this week so yesterday’s and today’s do not match up. I think I remember reading here not long after the Weekly Specials started that if you miss a day you won’t get the correct puzzles and will just have to wait until the next week.

      It does say that the next week starts in 14 hours but shows that I only did the first three puzzles this week. A new week starts tomorrow so II’ll just have to start over then.

  4. stats terminated being informative when they stopped telling us what we have done to achieve in game goals or what is left to achieve for the next rank – i can not even remember when i last looked at any of my stats. What PAN said – GAME Progess” – after that what do we need to know ? or maybe telling us what equates to a “rank point” in any given game – it is like it is a secret…………..just saying………why do they not us that info when a game come out ? then put it in our stats. please and thank you.

  5. I’ve never really cared that much for stats, personally. That being said, this week I looked up and saw that I had 11,111 badges. I kinda don’t want to win any badges anymore…which I know goes against every bone in my body, LOL…but I really like that number. :o)

  6. I like having stats;it’s a measure of how well one progresses in a game and I find them interesting.

  7. My stats are not that important to me, the only thing I keep a check on are how many Pogois I have, I don’t check it regularly, but when it gets to the end I do. 🙂 This other things are not that important to me.

    Have fun, everyone! 🙂

  8. They used to be kind of “important” to me.
    It was nice to see when you had a nice streak of wins or a very nice high score or some accomplishment that was hard to get like for instance a Perfect Game in Pogo Bowl. Things like that.
    Guess it gave me some satisfaction to see how dedicated I was to the game how good I became after many hours of play, and so on.

    But it’s different now maybe because I’m not as addicted to games, badges and stuff in general.
    Now they are “important” if they serve some specific purpose like telling you how many more games or points or cards or whatever towards your next rank and/or in-game achievements that eventually award you a badge or any other kind of reward.

    Stats that are only informative meaningless numbers are useless and unnecessary. IMO

  9. I wonder if Lura or some other kind soul will post solutions on BadgeHungry to the new Golf, like they did for the old one.

  10. Can anyone tell me, I missed a game of weekly special sudoku and I have been trying to match the answers with Badge Hungry for a week now and they do not match up with the puzzle I have been playing. I even tried different times playing but that didnt help either.

    • If you miss any day in the weekly puzzles it will throw off the rest of the week. I missed two days early in the week and haven’t been able to do the rest of the weekly puzzles.

      The new week starts tomorrow so you should be able to do the puzzles for the coming week.

    • If you miss 1 of the weekly special puzzles you will get random puzzles for the rest of the week. You have 2 options, play it yourself, or use an online sudoku solver.

      The week ended today, so your puzzles will start matching the answers tomorrow.

      Suz

  11. I like to know the progress I am making in games. Right now, I am frustrated because my Weekly Pogo Sudoku puzzle is not working – it keeps showing me that all days are completed – been this way for 5 days in a row. How can I progress when I get no puzzle to play? Contact Pogo_Llama – no response.

  12. I used to check my stats to see how close I was coming to my high score. I was always tying to do better in each game. Now that I only play the classic games, it doesn’t have the same stats that we used to have in Club Pogo. I was looking at the stats in trivial pursuit recently and I saw I had won over 40 million tokens in that one game. I was pleasantly surprised. I’ll miss the old games!

  13. Stats are very important. I Love to get the free 50 gems and work hard to get there. I’m very competitive and sometimes spend too much to get to the end. I’m already at the end and have 51800 and Y’all only need 48000. Playing Pogo is the best thing since apple pie. So, thanks Pogo .. Now, I’m playing Tumble Bees and need to spell 8 letter word. I’ve tried almost everything .. adding an s etc, but still can’t do it. Can anyone help me, please and thank you.

    Dallas

  14. For anyone doing the Bejeweled marathon…today’s daily puzzle only requires one move, and the puzzle doesn’t change. If you follow the hint that is given you can do the same move every time and finish a game in a few seconds.

  15. Completely off topic…

    Has anyone gotten their “rewards” for finishing the Mystical Masquerade? I haven’t.

    • No, it usually takes a week to 10 days after an event ends before we receive the rewards.

      Suz

  16. I enjoy keeping my own stats on certain games.
    The amount of red threes on the initial deal when playing against the bots.
    The number of times the bots knock or go gin in 5 draws or less.
    The percentage of getting O on the free spin bonus in Pogo Slots.
    The amount of times you get the last number called in Poppit Bingo.
    Try keeping tabs on some of these as the result is interesting!
    Oh I almost forgot that it is possible to win in Word Whomp all the time!!
    Carl

  17. hi
    Stats do not mean much to me.. they are just stats….
    also please pray for the state of Colorado.. we have three wildfires near Boulder Colorado
    we need rain or snow …. to get the fires out… have a great weekend

  18. Lovely Saturday evening in Montana, sitting here playing Pogo and watching the 1st snow of the season out the window. We could get 6 inches. It’s too early, that’s all I have to say about it.

    Suz

    • I was thinking about you yesterday afternoon, wondering if you’d had snow yet. I hope you didn’t get 6 inches, too early for that much. Here where I live in Az we’re still in the 80s, may go down to 70s next week but we had the hottest summer on record as did much of the West/Southwest. I’m at 5500+ feet in elevation on the edge of a national forest so we do get snow, just not nearly as much as you or my family back in Vt.

      Stay warm and cozy and Pogo away! 🙂

      • We got a little over an inch overnight, but it’s been snowing steadily for the last 3 hours. I don’t think we will get 6 inches, but won’t be shocked it we get 3 to 4 today.

        Suz

        • I hope it melts soon and doesn’t come back until next month. Nobody likes a snowy Halloween. 🙂

  19. Off topic, is there a list anywhere of what games give powerups, and what games they give them for?

    • There isn’t any game. that I’m aware of, that gives power ups for other games.

      We have events/marathons where we receive a power up pack, and that can be for another game. But that is shown on the event/marathon page, and Pogo can pick any game.

      The new reward system awards power ups on most of the constellation tiers. They change with each level and each constellation. You can always see the 15 tiers for the level you are working on, just click on the gold star with the P on it, on the home page of the new site.

      I’m sorry if I’m totally misunderstanding your question.

      Suz

  20. questions:
    how do you get a long shot on peggle blast level 66? i have tried too many power ups and i am missing something with long shots.tyia

    this weeks jet set badge says it is completed on my mini account. i haven’t activated it. it isn’t in the badge book. i am puzzled.

    • A long shot is one that travels 1/3 of the of the screen and goes from a green/purple/orange peg to another green/purple.orange peg.

  21. OK, now I’m perplexed. I missed two Weekly Special puzzles in PDS last week so my puzzles didn’t match up for the rest of the week. However, today starts a new week, it does say 6 days and some hours left this week but my puzzles still don’t match up. It still showed that I had done three and the puzzle given me today is a Medium, not an Easy. I went ahead and did today’s puzzle and now it shows I have four done and will still have 1 Med and 2 Hard left to do.

    I’m still off with the number of puzzles for this week and they don’t match with Lura’s. How will it ever even out? Will it ever even out?

    • That’s really strange, and it shouldn’t be like that. You may have to email Pogo Llama if it continues.

      Suz

      • Sad to say it didn’t work. First I just restarted the iMac and that didn’t change anything so did my latest update. Unfortunately that didn’t change anything either. Still shows I have 4 done, completed today and have 3 left.

        I posted on the short Missed Day thread of PDS in the Forums. Mod Kalan said he would look into it. If I don’t hear anything in a couple of days I’ll email Llama for the second time in 4 days.

        I don’t have my bonus badge from the Costume event yet either but it’s a weekend so I’m less worried about that than getting this PDS thing straightened out.

  22. Being a finance person, I do look at the stats. I find it interesting how many games, I have played and how many hints I have used, pups scores etc. So yes, I do look at the stats. It lets me know how hard I have worked to get some of these badges…

  23. Cindy4764 – I had same issues as you do. I play every day – never miss a puzzle, but sometimes mine don’t match up with the answers from Badge Hungry. I just go ahead and complete it on my own – then last week, I opened the weekly puzzle and said “all completed* – it said that for 4 days – never giving me a new puzzle to complete. I contacted Pogo_Llama, but got no response. Today, it seem to reset and all was fine. I wish someone would look into this for all of us! Sorry you are experiencing the same problems.

    • Thanks. Mod Kalan in the Forums is looking into it for me, I hope I can get it fixed soon. I don’t even mind missing another whole week but if this continues I’ll never be in sync. 🙁