The Jeweled Journey Badge Marathon has started, with 5 badges to tackle!
To get started, visit the Badge Marathon page and scroll down to activate the badges available for this marathon.
If you complete all of the marathon badges before 11:59pm PST on April 2, 2021 you’ll earn a bonus completion Badge Marathon Badge. This bonus Victory Badge will appear in your Special Edition Badges Album at some point after the marathon ends:
Victory Badge
Check out the badges for this marathon below:
Bejeweled Stars – Jeweled Journey Lap 1 Badge
Collect 300 Butterflies in 3 weeks!
300 Pogis
(Bejeweled Stars Ranks, Badges & Tips)
Jungle Gin HD – Jeweled Journey Lap 2 Badge
Score 450 gin points in 2 weeks!
200 Pogis
(Jungle Gin HD Ranks, Badges & Tips)
Peggle Blast HD – Jeweled Journey Lap 3 Badge
Complete 30 levels in 3 weeks!
300 Pogis
(Peggle Blast HD Ranks, Badges & Tips)
Spades HD – Jeweled Journey Lap 4 Badge
Win 8 Nil Bids in 2 weeks!
200 Pogis
(Spades HD Ranks, Badges & Tips)
Sweet Tooth Town – Jeweled Journey Lap 5 Badge
Win 40 games in 3 weeks!
300 Pogis
(Sweet Tooth Town Ranks & Badges / Badge Guide)
Share your thoughts on these badges, tips for completing them, and your progress in the Badge Marathon in a comment below.
WCurry5990 says
Hi Everyone;
As was reccomended to me by a friend, inre Bejeweled Stars playing level #129 “50” or more butterflies per game can be “collected. GOOD LUCK “EVERYONE”! 🙂
Bernadette Raftery says
Good morning, Anyone know which level in Bejeweled Stars has the most butterflies.
Thank you!
Brenda M. says
Surprise Marathon this morning. I really like the badges and the games. I used Level 20 for the butterflies in Bejeweled Stars. That game is my favorite, I love it. The only one I may have some problem with is the Nil bids in Spades, but I think it won’t be that long!! 🙂 The others you can do favorite levels to get the badges.
Have fun, everyone! 🙂
Brenda M. says
I know it was listed on Lura’s list, as usual, she is the best at letting us know. But I missed seeing it. Thank you, Lura!! 🙂
Esque says
For Spades, overbid your first hand so you lose…your next hand will ask if you want to bid nil. You can then just repeat the process. Good luck!
MomsBassetHound says
That’s a blind bid that you are thinking of. You do not have to behind to bid nil.
Suz
Esque says
Learn something new everyday. Thanks everyone!
Mozartjea says
There is no advantage losing a hand, you can just bid nil anytime you don’t have a good deal.
Julia
FADEDWILDROSE says
This spades badge is just for nil bids, not BLIND nil bid so you do not need an overbid and to bid blind. The table can be set up to allow nil bids not just blind nil.
Life4Style says
For the Butterflies in Bejeweled Stars, I used Level 47. It has 40 Butterflies, and gave me better success than I was getting in Level 81, which has 50 Butterflies.
shelnick9293 says
Thanks for this suggestion. I used this one and finished in no time.
Bernadette Raftery says
Bejeweled Stars
This is from Pat on a different thread.
Butterflies
level 19 (you get 14)
level 24 (30)
level 27 (35)
level 61 (55)
Thanks Pat!
tiedye says
I found four of them easy, but I’m not a big spades player and have no clue how to win a nil bid. How do I set up the game etc. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
FADEDWILDROSE says
For spades nil bids, I double browse and have the host switch seats so both accounts are on the same team. I set up the table to pass 1 card before bidding. Often by playing both hands, you can use one partner to take any trick that the nil bidder has a high card in. Also if the nil bidder has a void in some suit, the partner can lead that suit so the nil bidder can slough off other suit high cards.
FADEDWILDROSE says
I realized that I should have made sure that you knew that your “nil bid” means that you will take zero tricks.
Jennifer says
I do that also. I also have the “pass a card” option checked so if the account that needs a nil bid has a high spade, I can trade it to the other account. It helped a lot, especially because I had one account finished and the other was at 1. Passing a card then really helped.
Ksc811 says
Your goal is to take NO tricks. Try playing the highest card you can without taking a trick. Dump your highest card if someone plays an ace. If a trick is trumped you might consider also playing a high trump, but don’t take the trick
Kay says
Click on Host Game. Check Requires Password, Play against robots, limit players to Beginners. The other options for Help and Preferences are your choice but I checked Yes, No, NO, NO, Yes. Then check pink box at bottom that says Reuse Same Options for Next Time. Then look up at the top and click on Game Settings: Click Yes, Yes, No, 250 Score, No, Yes, NO, NO and then check the pink box that says Reuse Same Options Next Time.
When your hand is dealt, if you don’t have many spades and no high ones, and you have lower cards to play in each suit you can probably win a Nil Bid, Just click on the red NIL up top and play the hand. If not, click on the Stand Up button on the top left and leave and go back to host game and try again. Do this until you get the low cards. O.ccasionally Nil bid isn’t offered as an option, and in that case just stand up and repeat.
You don’t have to play the entire game to get credit. It gives you credit each time you win a Nil Bid.
catania1966 says
If anyone needs help with Spades – playing with a partner is useful also
So if anyone needs help just Pogomail me and I’ll be happy to help
catania1966 is my pogo name
Bev says
Very doable. I did them in order (1-5) except for Sweet Tooth Town which I broke up between the others to ease the boredom of doing 40 at once.
pamdew says
I am loving this!!! All games I like and especially after doing Trizzle Ugh! it was so nice to see this yea!!!! Having fun!!!!
shelnick9293 says
Finished all five. Very easy day today. So glad not to see QA.
Sonja says
Finished all 5 too and it was fun! Lol, it was more difficult to finish the Snowbird daily..
Spades — I didn’t understand a “nil” challenge since it’s never been a weekly AFAIK and been playing forever. Got great tips on the forum and it’s all in setting up the table. Honestly, once I followed those tips I felt so stupid by complicating everything. Great way to play the game. 2 hands and done with the game, rinse and repeat.
Cher says
I love this marathon. I love the games and requirements aren’t overwhelming. What a fun and welcome surprise! Thanks Pogo!
Enjoy !
Cher🥰🤩
FADEDWILDROSE says
One more post of advice for spades nil bid table setup. In “game settings” section for the 4th item listed, allow pass one card to partner before bid=yes, and the 7th item allow nil bids=yes. Also, on the “advanced setting” section scroll down the page and set the “minimum team bid” down very low. An example of the reason for this is: at the default minimum team bid of 4, if your partner has bid before you and bid only 3 or less, then you will not be given the option for a nil bid with the team min. bid set to 4.
Forevrneverends says
I found this to be the easiest and the most fast marathon to accomplish was a nice change from some marathon’s that the requirements take eternity to get.
Wannabewhizz says
I loved this marathon–nice selection of games.
bafflingbarnacles says
Not too hard of a marathon. Finished it already.
Happy to see Spades get recognition in this marathon!
daxmomma says
Since I play neither Spades nor Gin I knew I wasn’t going to get the completion badge for the Marathon. But, to make the Pogo Bowl weekly badge less tedious and boring, I completed the STT and Peggle badges between frames. I could have done BJS too, but I had earned that one already. All of these games have so much down time between actual play time it worked out great. I did level 8 of Peggle because it only takes one ball to win the level and did the tutorial in STT because you can win it in 2 moves. All doable during the ridiculously long wait between frames in PB.
~Cindy
puddytat222 says
I like Level 8 (which only requires 1 move) to get through Peggle Blast.
ultimatetreebe says
Good marathon, easier requirements, and fun games. I would love to see more marathons like this, unlike the other one going on with 400 mega matches in trizzle…no way!!!!
Jon C says
Finished 5 challenges this week
zandbmom says
The bonus completion badge has been awarded.