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Tips for Some of Pogo’s Toughest Badges

Dice Derby – Grand Prix Badge

Weekly: August 27, 2003

Win 600 or more tokens 10 times this week

You have to win the game AND your token payout – including your Jackpot Spin – must be 600

tokens or more in order to make progress on this badge. Since the spin amount is random, and

often lower than needed, this badge may take quite some time.

Play in a 9-lap room. You’ll earn 100 tokens for winning the game, so cross your fingers for a

Jackpot Spin worth over 500 tokens.

Find a few friends who will purposely lose to you. You can always ask other players to help

you out on BadgeHungry Q&A.

If you’re playing alone, quit the game and start over as early as you can if you realize you

won’t take 1st place.

Pair with:

Any other Dice Derby badge. While you’re working on the Grand Prix badge, you can also earn a

lot of the other DD badges – which is good since you probably won’t want to play it again for a

long, long time!

Poppit – Pop-o-rama Badge

Weekly: January 4, 2006

Pop EVERY SINGLE BALLOON in 2 puzzles this week!

There are several Poppit badges that require you to pop all of the balloons, and these tips will

help you earn all of them. Double-up on your progress by activating this weekly with one of the

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Mix-n-Match badges listed below.

Play on easy, at least until you get the hang of the strategy.

Start a new game if your puzzle does not have two star power-ups in it. Once you release

them, use them as late in the game as possible.

Use these strategic tips as you play:

start at one side of the puzzle and work to the other side

work on eliminating balloons of one color at a time

try not to not leave a balloon of a single color without another balloon or set of balloons

nearby

use the undo button (often!) to back up and clear solo balloons that get separated from

a match

Pair with:

Pokin’ Around Badge – 2 puzzles (Mix-n-Match, October 2010)

Professional Popper Badge – 3 puzzles (Mix-n-Match, January 2009)

So THAT'S How They Make the Balloons Badge – 5 puzzles (Mix-n-Match, August 2007)

Phlinx – Power Stone Badge

Mix-n-Match: March 2009

Make 250 groups of 5 or more stones fall to the ground in 2 hours! (This

is an Expert Level Badge)

You’ll need to set aside two interrupted hours to do this badge.

Note: when you activate this badge, it will say you have “1 hour left”. Don’t panic: it’s incorrect!

Pogo’s system doesn’t display minutes over one hour, so 1 hour, 59 minutes left and 1 hour, 1

minute left will both display “1 hour left”.

Set your skill level to BEGINNER.

Before you activate the badge, start to play your first game and take your time to make as

many 5-drops as you can (use the 8-Stone Method below). Right before you finish the night

round, activate the badge and start playing as fast as you can. This will give you a small

head start on the 2-hour timer.

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The 8-Stone Method: place two stones of the same color together

in a place you can easily match them later (1 and 2), Place five

stones underneath, being careful not to make a 3-match (3, 4, 5, 6,

7). Once you have a cluster similar to the one shown here, attach a

same-color stone (8) to the top two stones (1 and 2) to drop the

other 5 stones for badge progress. If you do not have a same-

color stone available to you, fire your stone(s) into the sky until you get one.

After you’ve activated the badge as outlined above, use the 8-Stone Method to drop groups

of 5 stones over and over again. Start a new game when your stones get close to the bottom

line so you don’t have to sit through transitions between rounds, or the Jackpot Spins and

scoreboard at the end of each game. Badge progress is credited after you click NEW GAME,

so you don’t need to play full rounds to earn this badge.

Pair with:

Many players who have completed this badge have mentioned finishing it with just a minute or

two to spare, so it might be best to focus on one thing at a time. That said, if you must activate

other badges, activate them before you start your first game. The Palace Suite Badge (Travel

the World PBA) and the Let Me Sphinx About It Badge (Mix-n-Match, August 2009) are good

matches.

Dice City Roller - World’s Biggest Coffee Cup

Mix-n-Match: November 2007

Clear 30 "5 of a Kind" cards in 5 hours or less!

This badge is difficult only because of its time constraint, and to be honest you’re probably

going to need every minute of those 5 hours.

Set aside 5 interrupted hours to play for the badge and settle in for the long haul.

Play in a No Auction room. Players who have earned this badge have been able to earn it in

both Auction and No Auction rooms, however it may be easier to earn in the No Auction

rooms. In Auction rooms, the actual time of the auction cancels out any bonus you’d receive

from possibly winning extra dice or star dice.

Activate the badge right at the end of the first game in which you clear a “5 of a Kind” card.

Prioritize your “of a kind” pile before any other.

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Pair with:

You could probably find a badge or two to activate at the beginning, but you’re going to be so

tight on time that you’re not going to want to mess with badge award pop-up windows or

finding new badges to activate while you’re working on this.

Thanks for reading! I hope you found this information useful and even more I hope you’ll use it to earn some

of these tough badges. I’d love to hear what you thought of this guide. Share your thoughts with me at

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