This week’s Polar Palace Treasure Chase clues to this week’s three badges and challenges are now available.
This is a weekly event, with three new “secret” challenges each week until February 2nd. If you need more details, see the previous post:
This Week’s Clues
- Your next step is to find tiles to be freed. Dive into the water and look for the keys.
- When searching the castle for the treasure you need, be careful to examine all objects at a steady speed.
- It’s not too late to find the treasure you’ve missed. Just go by fives where words are in a twist.
Spoiler Alert
Here are this week’s games and challenges:
Quinn’s Aquarium – Polar Palace Part 7 Badge
Clear 60 Lock Tiles by the end of the Treasure Chase!
400 Pogis
(Quinn’s Aquarium Ranks & Badges / Badge Guide)
Claire Hart Secret in the Shadows – Polar Palace Part 8 Badge
Find 90 items while the 6x meter is active!
400 Pogis
(Claire Hart: Secret in the Shadows Episodes & Badges / Item Locations )
Anagrams – Polar Palace Part 9 Badge
Find 65 5-letter words by the end of the Treasure Chase!
400 Pogis
(Anagrams Ranks & Badges / Anagrams Answers)
Helpful Info
If you are not getting credit for the challenges and are sure you are playing the correct games, you may need to (re)visit the Polar Palace Treasure Chase page before trying to get credit again.
These badges are considered weekly badges (for at least the time being), so if you attempt these challenges you may notice your 2021 Wednesday Challenge album badge count is different until you complete them.
Are you participating in the Polar Palace? What tips can you share about this week’s badges? Leave a comment below.
Sept8Virgo says
Anagrams – Find 65 5-letter words
Claire Hart: Secret in the Shadows – Find 90 objects while at 6x on combo meter
Quinn’s Aquarium – Clear 60 lock tiles
kay says
thank you for the information and YUCK to all of those games LOL
Summer says
totally agree!! Out of the 100’s of games to choose from, why WHY! do they continually have the same boring ones over and over and over?!! 😉
shesaidwhat?! says
100’s of games? 200 games at least. Are there really that many? This challenge is horrible and I am no longer participating in it. Not doing the golf badge or these. Quinn’s would be fine if lock and keys were more common and easier to find a game with them.
MomsBassetHound says
Currently there are only 58 games on Pogo.
Suz
Iamthatgirl4u says
would be nicer if you didnt have to complete the game to get the challenge give it up pogo LISTEN
Debbie L Ashley says
especially quinns aquarium
tina porter says
I hate hate hate Quinns =(
Kit says
I agree LOL!!
Virginia Roling says
So true for Quinn’s Aquarium. I have a hard time winning in it.
Tweety says
How do you get 6x, Mine goes to 5x, do not get this one!
Tweety says
So sorry, I was on the classic, I guess i need glasses! Thanks Bunches 🙂
Evel says
Make sure you are on Claire Heart SECRET IN SHADOWS and not the original version.
Robin says
Is there a way to hurry this up? What levels have keys/locks?
Thanks.
tiggerlicious196 says
Get to where you can play random leves(finish the 3 tanks in the first location), otherwise no, you cannot select certain levels, you’d just have to keep quitting and restarting until you find a level with them
heybee4u says
i cant find the claire secret in the shadows ????? what chapter is this
DeeVermont says
Any chapter that you like and know where all the objects are so you can click fast.
Hope that helps,
Dee
Evelyn says
heybee4u … Claire Heart secret in shadows is a game and not a chapter within a game. On the Pogo home page, go to the search icon (magnifying glass) and type in Claire… you should have two options, click on Claire Heart Secret in Shadows and you should be good to go. Good luck.
Renee Allen says
This is odd – I already have a badge for the Claire listed. Am I missing something?
Renee Allen says
I have the magnifying glass badge already or is this a different episode of Claire 2? I was awarded it on the 20th of this month.
tiggerlicious196 says
There is only 1 badge for Claire Hart Secrets in the Shadows for this treasure hunt
Lori says
Quinns Aquarium
Clair Hart Secret in the shadows
anagrams—–65, 5letter words
Kathy says
Quinns clear 60 lock keys
Claire Hart Secert of the Shadows Find 90 objects while the 6x meter is active
Anagrams find 65 five letters words
Goobs says
Anagrams is one of the games.
Donna Hayden says
Anagrams – Find 65 5 letter words by the end of the treasure chest.
coco says
Quinns, Claire Hart 2, Anagrams
shnudi says
SPOILER
Quinns Aquarium, key and lock tiles
Claire Heart Secret, find 90 objects while in x6 meter
Anagrams, find 5 letter words
Da Man says
1: Quinn’s – Lock and Key
2: Claire Hart: Secret in the Shadows – 6x
3: Anagrams – 5 letter words
Bafflingbarnacles says
Welp Quinn’s keeps me from finishing this. Wish they’d let us just choose the games.. so tired of them choosing Quinn’s and snowbirds all the time.
Joyce Smith says
Amen to that! Same games over and over in ad nauseum.
MomsBassetHound says
Snowbirds is next week. You can actually see the bird in the picture. And it looks like Sudoku next week also.
Suz
Paulette Davidson says
This is my feeling also. I was having a good time playing, but now with the Quinn’s there, I won’t finish. That game is nothing but a money grabbing scheme.
Terri says
Amen
Because of Quinns and Clair Hart 6x I might as well quit playing for this badge.
Susie says
I do not like Snowbird Solitaire at all. Quinn’s Aquarium is all right, but I don’t like repeating levels just to get luck and key.
stretchdogg says
It’s all about the power-up purchases. bet you big bucks Quinn’s and Snowbirds bring in plenty of $$
DeeVermont says
I don’t buy power-ups for either Quinn’s or Snowbird. Thus Pogo is not getting any money from me for power-ups. I simply use the random puzzles which I can solve very easily.
Maybe others need to buy power-ups, I don’t know.
Dee
ArchieClarker1 says
I totally agree with Bafflingbarnacles.
Elayne says
was enjoying playing this until this week, why does every competition have to have Quinns in not everyone likes the game I HATE IT and have never advanced from the first tank, having played on numerous times even with power ups so once again I will be denied a badge as I cannot play Quinns it sucks.
Penny says
I hate it 2. Every week it is a badgr
Sharon Mullaney says
did you change the tiles to just regular numbers vs. chinese pics?
it helps
Mary Anne Ellis says
Because Quinns and Snowbird are both BIG TIME money makers.
MomsBassetHound says
They don’t get a cent from me. I do all of them on 2 accounts and never use a power up. It just comes down to learning to play the game and being patient, or stubborn 🙂
Suz
DeeVermont says
I don’t spend any money on either Quinn’s or Snowbird. I have some “free” power-ups from the last constellation and I have not used them. The current constellation also gives free power-ups if you reach that tier.
Good luck to you,
Dee
DeeVermont says
For Quinn’s if you are able to play random puzzles (you would have to had finished the Tropical Tank: all 3 parts) and have the patience to find the puzzles that have at least 3 keys and locks then this badge can be finished in 20 games. There are puzzles that have more then 3 locks and keys.
Good luck!
Dee
Gudrun says
Yes, but after finding the games you have to win them! That’s where I have a problem.
DeeVermont says
Yes, you have to win them and when I saw I couldn’t I would click “restart” and get a different layout of the same puzzle so I still had my lock and keys.
Good luck!
Dee
patray2 says
Quinn’s finishes me in this Palace.
I bet a social security check that Quinn’s would be one of the games. At least I get to keep
my check LOL.
Good luck to those of you who have mastered Quinn’s. I admire you.
Stay safe.
Florence says
Note that to activate the quinn’s aquarium badge, one must win not just a game but game with lock and key so I went to random games until I found one with a lock and key.
Darlene McAllister says
I just won a game with locks and it still didnt activate the badge UGH!
tiggerlicious196 says
Did you visit the treasure hunt page before starting to play?
daxmomma says
Be sure that you have visited the Polar Palace page again to “activate” the badges. It really stinks that you completed a puzzle complete with the lock and key and didn’t get credit. QA is had enough to win a game in.
~Cindy
Iris says
What a way to ruin another challenge by adding quinn’s .. do they not read the comments in games,,, everyone complains about quinns and snowbirds always being part of the challenge…. when there are so many other games…
Danny says
‘Everyone’ complains about QA in Forums, facebook and here. Sure. Please keep in mind that the ones still enjoying the game are usually quiet and don’t comment at all.
And there are many thousands that do like and love playing Qa. Just look at the amount of people playing (on the homepage) at any given time. You will be surprised that Quinn’s is one of the top games.
Listy169
DeeVermont says
Listy169 (Danny), you are so right! I play QA when there’s not a challenge and I see thousands playing. It is one of the top games for sure.
In my case I became addicted to the game in the 80’s when the IBM PC came out (the first computer) and there was a version of QA called Shanghai (Activision) which I played all the time at home. Thus when Pogo came out with QA I was very happy to say the least.
I am guessing that many don’t understand the strategy and get frustrated. One of my strategies is to first take some time studying the puzzle looking for 4 matches (on a puzzle that consists of 144 tiles) and if I don’t see them I click restart until I do. Another strategy of mine is to look for loose tiles (tiles that are not connected) and find 2 other matching tiles.
That said when a new game first comes out and I don’t understand it I get frustrated as well and turn to BH where members give tips on how to play as well as Lura’s Badge Tips on the top of this page. She gave instructions and tips on how to play Quinn’s.
To anyone attempting this challenge I wish you good luck! It can be done even with locks and keys. Just takes some patience.
Dee
DeeVermont says
Lura’s Badge Tips for Quinn’s:
https://www.badgehungry.com/2018/12/27/quinns-aquarium-tips/
Hope this helps,
Dee
The captain says
Sixty locks and keys is way too many.
Pogo took the fun out of this challenge with this requirement.
I will save my sanity and not even start this challenge.
Jeannie Marshall says
I know the requirement for Quinn’s seems tough, but I finished it in less than 6 hours, it took some time to find the Lock and Key levels. It was a matter of going into a level and if there wasn’t any locked tiles, I quickly exited and hit the new level until the Lock and Keys showed up.
Monica says
expect to see snowbird next week. if you look at the picture in the upper right hand corner you will see one of the birds from the game.
Sally D'Amico says
I think I will forego this week’s challenges… They lost me last week with the golf one because I cannot play that game, I’m old now and have some fine motor skills problems… I avoid Quinn’s both because I hate it and because of the fine motor skills problems I have which make it very difficult for me to play Quinn’s since it is completely unforgiving of mistakes…
catania1966 says
For Golf try using the “confirmation method” – I believe it gives you better control over aiming and power – you turn it on by clicking on the “gear” icon when you start a hole.
Good luck
sctt7962 says
Quinns is pathetic…tired of the same ole games each week. I won’t get this due to Quinns
RyzandShyn says
And you can also see a jewel from Jewel Academy in the upper left picture, and what looks like Daily Sudoku – pencil and pad by the Cookie Connect picture.
Lizz says
I have looked and looked and I can’t see any jewel or pencel. which one are you looking at?
Lizz says
Never mind, I did finally get it. I was looking at the blue tiles and not at the completed ones.
classyuklady says
Well well Quinns find x number of lock and keys and if wasn’t that one well you can rest assured it was it’s going to be Snowbirds finish x amount of games with x number of cards remaining who knows if we are lucky we may get that next week too what fun good luck to all lol
Hels says
I just knew yesterday that we will get Quinn’s, I just knew. But I didn’t know just how vile it would be. 60 lock and key tiles is a lot of restarts until I get so many winnable levels with locks… Yuck. And once again it’s the same boring games chosen for the challenge.
Kel says
Oh not freaking Quinn’s AGAIN. I’m so sick of this game. And Pogo can keep Snowbirds too. That ends the Polar challenge for me. Way to ruin what was a fun quest…
Jenn says
I totally hate Snowbirds! Quinns is even worse!! UHG!!!
creamtrout says
Unlike most people I love Quinn’s or any mahjong game, but I really would like to see some other games included in these marathons, like mahjong garden or rainy day solitaire. There are many that never get chosen for these. Have fun everyone! and be safe!!
daxmomma says
For Anagrams, I used a scrabble word finder. And I only filled in the five letter words, left the rest blank and hit next level. The words I filled in counted towards the 65 needed for the badge and went very quickly. I was done in less than 20 minutes. I also kept hitting next level until I found ones with lots of 5 letter words.
Good Luck!
~Cindy
shelnick9293 says
Actually Lura has graciously supplied all the Anagram answers here.
https://www.badgehungry.com/anagrams-answers but congratulations to completing it.
Sharon Mullaney says
I do that too also with word whomp and anagrams
DeeVermont says
Thanks for mentioning a scrabble word finder (I never looked for it but will now). I also keep hitting next level until I find a game with a lot of 5 letter words.
Thanks again!
Dee
shelnick9293 says
Well I see another event that I won’t be finishing. For me it is the dreaded QA game so now I don’t have to worry about getting any of the remaining games done if I don’t like them. Anagrams will be easy to finish and even Claire Hart won’t be that bad but QA? No way. How many events can Pogo do without putting this game in them. I can handle Snowbird much better then QA. Now it is just matter of completing what I can for the Pogis.
Captiva007Pl says
Whew! It has taken me all day since 6 AM this morning, but I am finished with all! The weeklies and the Palace badges! Again, Whew!
DeeVermont says
Good for you Captiva!
Dee
Sanibel71 says
Nice Job Captiva
sexysenior says
where are all the keys and locks?
tiggerlicious196 says
If you’ve completed the first 3 tanks in the very first area you can play random levels, there are no set levels that you will find them on and you cannot go back to a certain level, just have to keep quitting a level until you find the ones with locks and keys
Jimyd70 says
Does anyone have any ideas on which group and what level is best to do this 5 letter words?
RyzandShyn says
I used Boarding Challenge Level 36 and Lura’s list.
There are 7 5-letter words on this level.
ArchieClarker1 says
Use Game Mode as there are only 8 levels. You’ll get between 4 – 8 5 letter words. Get those then click end game or continue whatever option it is to submit so you don’t have to play the entire game.
Matthew says
Finally finished the Quinn’s, took me a very long time, for every lock and key game, took me almost 12-15 game changes to find it and can’t do a replay on the same game. I went through the whole thing only for 60 lock and keys, not worth the effort but me being so stubborn, I had to finish it.
Congrats to Captiva007PI for finishing all the games, I finished all except Quinn’s real fast, Anagrams was my favorite, Quinn’s a distant “fun” game….. NOT
Good luck to all
Kia says
hello everyone I have the 5 letter word list for the anagrams polar challenge. my suggestion is to play on challenge mode/ check in challenge. play # 21 .now here is the word list for your polar badges 21: icily ictic licit lytic. good luck have fun everyone. Kia
Kia says
for the anagram polar badge you can play on challenge mode/check in challenge #5. here is the word list , 5: dingy dizzy dying zingy good luck everyone. Kia
DeeVermont says
I enjoy Quinn’s (one of my favorite games) and I’m almost halfway done with the challenge. It takes me more time to find a puzzle with locks and keys then to play the game. I’m very picky with the layouts as I refuse to play a game that has only 1 lock and key (I found several puzzles that had 3 lock and keys).
I expected Quinn’s to be one of the games since it’s the GOTM. Looking forward to Snowbird next week as that’s fun too!
The rest of the games including the weeklies are very easy for me.
Good luck everyone!
Dee
Luxie13smom says
For anagrams, I play challenge mode/check in challenge levels 20 and 21 in sequence. That way, I did not have to go back to the menu and restart the challenge after completing one list.
* List 20 words are quiet, guite, tutee, tutti.
* List 21 words are icily, ictic, licit, lytic.
I hope this helps.
ArchieClarker1 says
I played in Game Mode; alot faster and more 5 letter words…had 8 in 1 of the levels 6 in another level.
JayArvee says
For Anagrams I played :
Challenge Mode : Boarding Challenge : Lvl 34
Eleven 5 letter words :
agger bader badge bared barge bread debag eggar gaged grade raged
Six games and done.
(There are four 4 letter words and four 6 letter words but it goes fast.)
🆒
JayArvee says
The complete list is :
abed dare gage read agger bader badge bared barge bread debag
eggar gaged grade raged badger barged dagger ragged
https://www.badgehungry.com/anagrams-answers/
pas9156 says
Why oh why do they insist on torturing us with Quinn’s. The only reason I have incomplete badge albums is because of Quinn’s.
shelnick9293 says
I know. This badge is going to make the 26th game of QA that I have not done. I have enough to make just an album of this game………lol
VickyC60 says
i can relate Pas9156…. i very much enjoy doing the challenges. However i can NEVER get anywhere doing Quinns ~ so unfortunately once again i will not receive any badge due to having to do that game. There should be an option to do a different game if one can’t do that one~ just saying. However i feel its very sad that one or we have to miss out on anything due to the game of Quinns..So sad!!!
Timeflies says
I feel the same way. Or make Quinns a bit easier or give more credits for the extras needed to complete the game.
hollyszoo1 says
for anagrams, i started to use level 36 on check in challenge. gives 7 5 letter words each repeat. level 20 and 21 are also good for this, as doing them back to back gives you 8 towards the challenge. it is not that long of a badge, unlike qa which will take awhile to find that many levels with locks…yuck! lol.
Fancysecret1 says
The Quinn’s Aquarium badge is ridiculous!!! I have spent most of the last 2 days on there and only have 10/60 I am starting to hate badges and I am getting tired of these ridiculous badges who ever came up with them are out to lunch
DeeVermont says
I think Pogo took the original mahjong game from Activision which was called Shanghai from the 1980’s. It was an extremely popular game back then and it still is now.
I don’t find these badges ridiculous at all not to mention they are free and have pogis.
Best of luck on getting the remaining 50. I refuse to play a puzzle that has only 1 lock and key. I take the extra time until I find a puzzle that has 2 or 3 locks as it goes much faster.
There’s a very simple puzzle that has 3 locks and keys. It has 3 columns and the locks are located on the top of each column. I find that layout a lot in random.
Dee
MomsBassetHound says
That 3 lock puzzle is one I’ll do even if I’m doing a badge that doesn’t require locks. It’s easy and I get all 6 sets of shells on it normally.
And I won’t waste my time on a 1 lock puzzle either.
I’ve finished mine and now I’m working on my 2nd account, about half way done on that one.
Suz
Lizz says
I like the 3 locks also but I can’t seem to get them to come up except rarely. I just keep quitting and started and hoping. There must only be 1. I am doing the 120 locks so plan on a long week.
daffyraffy says
Suz, is the three lock and key game in the Tropical Tank?
MomsBassetHound says
There is in the random puzzles. It’s one of my favorites.
Suz
theshroad says
I don’t mind Quinn’s too much. If I can’t win fairly easily, I will move on. It does get frustrating to have to search for a puzzle with lock and key tiles. I have been fortunate in getting a few with three lock and key sets and winning them easily. I’ve got 22/60 and haven’t spent that much time, but have used a couple shuffle or extra space power ups.
Trcia says
Anagrams: I played the Ascending Challenge Level 20 , very quick
Evelyn says
Why do they make QA challenges almost impossible to complete? Don’t mind playing the game, but 60 locks?!
RyzandShyn says
To tell you the truth –
I’m not a fan of the game, avoid it whenever I can. But, I had a 2020 Wednesday Challenge for 40 lock/key undone, and then this one, and a gifted (?) M&M for 22 games.
So I bundled them together, and am working on them. It’s going rather quickly. I only play when there are 2 or 3 sets of locks/keys. I’m already done with the 40, and without any angst 🙂
DeeVermont says
Good for you! I’m done already and it went really fast for me considering I was out for awhile yesterday.
Good luck!
Dee
daffyraffy says
Is the 3 lock and key game in random Tropical Tank?
Thank you,
daffyraffy
tiggerlicious196 says
Yes they will randomly show up
Evelyn says
RyzandShyn … GOOD FOR YOU!!! Is there a particular tank where you are more likely to get 3 or more locks in one game?
RyzandShyn says
Thanks, Evelyn. No, I just kept hitting Random and restarting if I didn’t get lock/key.
I waited it out so that I did a 2 lock/key and a 3 lock/key in order so that I was getting 5 credits a sitting. It went fast that way – only 12 sittings needed.
(I’m weird – I break all badge criteria into increments and plan my Pogo time around completing those increments)
oldblue153 says
I am not there yet but a couple of friends have said that the Mangrove Tank has boards with 5.
Timothy Oshea says
On that Quinns game it should of been collect 60 shells — Not Locks & Keys
My guess for next week would be Mahjong Sanctuary & Snowbird
Those two all always in their picks . Other one might be even worse .
My only thing is doing all of these and having other things in life to do besides pogo making these challenges harder and longer . Especially when I have no one to help me as I am doing my own and my wife’s also
Stay Masked Up Ya All GOOD LUCK
Ann S Cutajar says
I have seemed to miss a challenge on Polar, what games have been played so far?
MomsBassetHound says
The 3 games for this week are shown above, in the article. You will also find the links to the week 1 and week 2 threads, and you will find the games and requirements in those threads.
Each badge has a number on it. Pieces 1 thru 3 were from week 1, pieces 4 thru 6 were from week 2, and pieces 7 thru 9 were from week 3. Once you know what number you are missing you can go to the appropriate thread.
Good Luck!
Suz
Penny Casebeer says
You got to be kidding of having Quinn as a badge and have to get 65 locks. I hate this badge it is always a badge. I am sick of it. I know alot of people do to.
Paula says
Qiuinn’s Aquarium – ugh – please just make it go away.
heybee4u says
honestly think al though i get them done best i can you think pogo realize they keep making same game over an over.. win 60 win 200 that how about just simplify it a beet better im sick of quin an the same game over an over.. don’t they get it.. so whast next on the list of getting them done games… 120more stupisd locks.. why not make them count even if you cant finis the rond yr in get credit.. they are long an stupid
Kathy says
I finished all three for the treasure chest week three…
Kygirl1942 says
How do you activate Week 3? I can only open Week 1 and Week 2?
tiggerlicious196 says
You visit the page and then go to the corresponding games(Lura has them listed in her post above)
Kygirl1942 says
Ignore the previous question. I did activate the ones I wanted to play and ignored the rest.