That's great news! Some people in a room I was in the other day were saying they thought a new badge album was coming out but I didn't want to get my hopes up until it happened. I still haven't finished two of my badge albums because some of the games are ones I wouldn't want to play, even for a badge. Others I'm worried I may not be able to finish on time and some I can get but I'm just tired of the game (Poppit!) and don't want to go for the badge right now. This new album has a lot of games I like so I'll probably get it soon. I see there are two more albums coming, too! These are the albums I have uncompleted badges in. Loyal Friends - Zippy's Badge (Canasta) - Fluffy's Badge (High Stakes Pool) - Tikka's Badge (Jungle Gin) - Mr. Whiskers' Badge (Supper Lottso) What's Your Sign? - Taurus Badge (Poppit!) - Leo Badge (Stellar Sweeper) - Libra Badge (Mahjong Garden) - Capricorn Badge (Sweet Tooth)

This week's challenges: Wonderland Memories Looking Glass Badge: Win 3,000 tokens this week! Win this badge plus 600 Tokens! Checkers Checkerboard Badge: Win 3 games IN A ROW this week! Win this badge plus 800 Tokens! *** I was having trouble with Wonderland Memories because you have to get a jackpot spin to get points toward the badge and I couldn't get a spin. Somebody recommended hitting submit after getting two matches instead of trying to make big chains of matches and that did go faster.

Who wants to take turns throwing games of Checkers?? I hate that game!!!

Grrrrr!!! I won two games in a row but just couldn't win the third game so it reset my progress. :evil:

I was able to team up with someone else in checkers and we helped each other get the badge. :grin: Sorry, Rufus, I didn't see you at Pogo or I would have hooked up with you. I'll be glad to help you get the badge when you're ready.

I'm not happy with Pogo and the way they're doing the goodies for the Pogo minis. I don't like having a limited time to buy the new stuff for the characters. I've used up a lot of my tokens and they keep coming out with new stuff so I can't build my balance up. 30 days is a ridiculously short time to have new stuff available. I wish they would give it a few months. I'm going to have to earn a lot of tokens to get the newest stuff that came out. If I had known they were going to do this limited time stuff, I wouldn't have spent so many tokens on earlier stuff that's still available. :evil:

ITA, and not only that, but geesh, come out with some new clothes and hats and hair-dos, all they've been releasing is costumes goodies and backgrounds, I want more mix & match dammit! And I've had lots of trouble loading the pogo pages lately, anyone else having difficulties? Not the games, but the pages?

I agree with needing new hairstyles. Most of the ones they have are so boring and ugly. How about having a cool chick with natural hair with colored streaks in it (like red, blue or purple). They only have a mohawk with colors right now and it's fugly. I haven't had trouble with the pages loading but I've had trouble with getting kicked out of games abruptly or the pages won't load in a game so I select a card and it doesn't move until I shrink the window and then restore it. Usually if I clear cookies on my computer it fixes the problem for a while but then it starts up again after a bit.

This week's challenges: Ride the Tide Catch a Wave Badge: Get 6 "Ride the Tides" this week! (Correctly call 6 cards in a row on the same hand!) Win this badge plus 600 Tokens! Tumble Bees Buzz Word Badge: Get 40 tokens or more in a Jackpot Spin 8 times this week! Win this badge plus 600 Tokens!

I'm doing Turbo 21 as my personal challenge this week and I really suck at it. Does anyone have any tips for me??? I could use some help!!!

I love Turbo 21 but I already did all the challenges! I just finished tumble bees, holy cow that was awful!!!!

Do you have a particular strategy for Turbo 21, Rufus? Do you put all the low cards together? Do you avoid putting face cards together? I really hate the game because I can't think of matches soon enough. I often put a card down in one column and then realize I could have used it to clear another column. Is it better to go fast and get through as many cards as possible or is it better to slow down and try to make more matches?

Pika,, I didn't put face cards together because you're destined to bust on that. If you have a face card first, just dump anything from a 2 to an 8 or even a 9 on it and then hope for the best for 21. If you have to bust out a line then bust out the highest column. Play fast!!! You learn really quickly though what adds up to 21. I may just play it tomorrow for a little bit of a break from the monotony of my badges!

Sorry I've no advice for that game, I don't like it much myself. I usually try to go as fast as possible and try keeping in mind the 3 major calculations-17 wants a 4, 18 wants a 3, 19 wants a 2. Anything lower then 17 I will usually bust unless its 14, cos I wait for a seven to come up for it.

I'm doing better at Turbo 21 so I think I might chose it as my personal challenge next week, too, since I have one more Turbo 21 challenge left in the 2003 album. I think I'll do better on the second badge if I do it right after getting experience from this badge. I still don't like the game but at least it's going easier. I found for me it was better if I slowed down and make the best choices I could with my matches rather than going fast and missing out on a lot of matches.