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This week's Club Pogo challenges!
Mahjong Sanctuary : Match 70 flower tiles this week!
Thousand Island Solitaire HD : Finish 55 piles this week!
Pogo Slots : Activate any bonus round 15 times in the Grant's Garden Slot Machine this week!

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Posted by Joe C
 - July 17, 2010, 06:49:58 AM
Quote from: Homer on July 17, 2010, 06:42:15 AM
Maybe they will add state capitols next.
For gems they might. hysterical.gif giggle2.gif hysterical.gif
Posted by Joe C
 - July 17, 2010, 06:49:23 AM
Quote from: edfshr on July 17, 2010, 06:25:11 AM
Ahh, but will Word Search Daily end? Or will Pogo add ranks? Stay tuned to find out.
Unless Pogo figures out a way to charge gems for new ranks, or decides to add Washington, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., then we can safely assume that upon achieving rank 50-Alaska, then game will be finished.

Also, the extension of games should not be considered until it actually happens. Otherwise, people would be able to rank out in Greenback Bayou, since Pogo toyed with that idea five years ago.

How does one treat extended games? I think this has been argued on the forum many times. Personally, I feel that if one finishes as game before it is extended, then that person can consider the game finished even as they work on the extended part. When they finish the extended part, they do not get credit for an extra game finished.

Unfortunately, Pogo has slowed down the extension of games and instituted a new policy of not giving credit for work done in the interim period between completing the original requirements and the extension of the game. Many of us ranked out immediately or were granted significant progress in games like Canasta, Wonderland Memories, Lottso and QWERTY. This stopped with the extension of Tri-Peaks, due to Pogo's inability to give credit for the rank progress. When Pogo extended Monopoly, they were bombarded with complaints about the resetting of stats so that people (like me) would not instantly rank out by playing one game. Pogo reset the number of times a player passed go if it exceeded rank 50.

I fear that the violently negative reaction to this stat resetting may have severely reduced Pogo's incentive to add ranks to existing games. A simple database solution does exist, but Pogo does not make money by adding simple code and a simple data point (a separate rank point column, outside of the existing rank requirements like spins, cards, etc.)

Simple answer is that until a game is extended, we cannot count that as part of the requirements to finish the game. beer11.gif
Posted by Homer
 - July 17, 2010, 06:42:15 AM
Quote from: edfshr on July 17, 2010, 06:25:11 AM
Ahh, but will Word Search Daily end? Or will Pogo add ranks? Stay tuned to find out.

Maybe they will add state capitols next.
Posted by edfshr
 - July 17, 2010, 06:25:11 AM
Ahh, but will Word Search Daily end? Or will Pogo add ranks? Stay tuned to find out.
Posted by Joe C
 - July 17, 2010, 05:48:49 AM
Quote from: edfshr on July 16, 2010, 11:23:24 PM
OF COURSE, the slowest is Word Search Daily.

NO ONE has finished it yet.
The inevitable "measurement" issue has raised its ugly head.

If one measures by calendar time, then Clue will be the longest, since badges are constantly being added, leading to an infinite calendar time to finish. Word Search Daily has a finite end. For me, the date is 2/8/2011 and for my second account, 4/8/2011.
Jigsaw Detective used to be the longest, since it started before Word Search Daily. The status of Jigsaw Detective is now in limbo, based on the 70th case.
What is most odd about these games is that the time to finish is variable. Someone today could "finish" Jigsaw Detective in an overnight session or two, since they have all the cases available, as opposed to those that started at the beginning and had to wait.

From a screen time perspective, Word Search Daily is a typical pogo game. I play 45 minutes each month and I am caught up with the 30 puzzles. Extend it out further, and this means Word Search Daily is 50-60 hours of screen time. This is less than 3 days. I personally use screen time to measure how long it will take to finish games. I include all hidden and special achievement badges, such as Royal Flush, Perfect Chain, Rising Star, Big Rollers, Boggle Badge Badge Badge, etc.

I am not sure how to measure the time it takes for the "luck" badges, since everyone's experience is different. Some of those are the most frustrating badges, since until you actually win them, you are technically not making any progress towards them. While random number theory could allow you to estimate, Pogo is not a big fan of random numbers, as evidenced by the difficulty of earning certain luck badges or how play occurs in the poker games.
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Posted by edfshr
 - July 16, 2010, 11:23:24 PM
OF COURSE, the slowest is Word Search Daily.

NO ONE has finished it yet.
Posted by Kenzie
 - July 04, 2010, 04:21:52 PM
Fastest for me: 

Beaker Creatures
Sudoku Blast
Word Whomp
Turbo 21 *ultrafast rankout*
Casino Island Blackjack
Sweet Tooth
All the slot games were fast

Slowest:

Boggle Bash (I hate this bloody game)
Tripeaks
Canasta - I'm at rank 95 right now, huff n puff  crying10.gif

Just be persistent and you'll get there, no matter what game pogo throws at ya. 

Posted by edfshr
 - July 04, 2010, 03:23:07 AM
Quote from: harley89 on November 29, 2009, 01:32:42 PM
slowest on the planet BLOOP
I ranked out on BLOOP in 7 days by double browsing, probably 50 hours of play.
Posted by Sue
 - June 25, 2010, 08:05:20 PM
Quote from: mtndewlover342 on June 25, 2010, 08:18:36 AM
I would choose Dominoes, Dice City Roller, and Pogo Addiction.  I ranked out pretty quickly in those.  I'm working on Jigsaw Treasure and Battleship right now and they are going pretty good.  I'd say they are taking "normal time" to rank out in -- not too fast, not too slow.

Thanks for your response. Appreciate your answers and will probably go with those three. Thanks.
Posted by lilsh0rtii445
 - June 25, 2010, 11:15:21 AM
Quote from: mtndewlover342 on June 25, 2010, 08:20:17 AM
Don't worry about that.  Just go out of that room and come back in to the same room and it will reset.  That happened to me a lot.  Took me about three months of running this auto overnight to rank out in this game -- it can be done though! cheerleading.gif

Well, I finally made it to rank 3.  hysterical.gif

That seemed like it took forever enough.
Posted by mtndewlover342
 - June 25, 2010, 08:20:17 AM
Quote from: lilsh0rtii445 on June 25, 2010, 08:12:55 AM
I tried putting the auto on Battle Phlinx yesterday for a couple hours, and the game kept telling me, "No rank set." I've never had cripes problems with that game like everyone else, but the whole rank not set thing kind of scared me.

Don't worry about that.  Just go out of that room and come back in to the same room and it will reset.  That happened to me a lot.  Took me about three months of running this auto overnight to rank out in this game -- it can be done though! cheerleading.gif
Posted by mtndewlover342
 - June 25, 2010, 08:18:36 AM
Quote from: LuckyCharms on June 23, 2010, 07:54:10 PM
OK here are some of my choices for games to try to rank out in next.

Spades
Shuffle Bump
Battleship
Crazy Cakes
Dice City Roller
Dominoes
Jigsaw Treasure
Pogo Addiction.... yellow cards only

Tell me which three you would do next.

I would choose Dominoes, Dice City Roller, and Pogo Addiction.  I ranked out pretty quickly in those.  I'm working on Jigsaw Treasure and Battleship right now and they are going pretty good.  I'd say they are taking "normal time" to rank out in -- not too fast, not too slow.  

As for slow ones -- Pinochle is HORRIBLE!  Tri Peaks freezes a lot on me (with the auto) so that will take forever.

Good luck to you!   tumbsup.gif

Good luck to you  tumbsup.gif
Posted by lilsh0rtii445
 - June 25, 2010, 08:12:55 AM
I tried putting the auto on Battle Phlinx yesterday for a couple hours, and the game kept telling me, "No rank set." I've never had cripes problems with that game like everyone else, but the whole rank not set thing kind of scared me.
Posted by I r a cheat
 - June 25, 2010, 04:03:45 AM
QWERTY took me 2-3 weeks
Monopoly Slots took me 1 week
Beaker Creatures took me 2 days
Hog Heaven Slots took me 1 week
Trivial Pursuit took me 1 week
Keno Pop took me 1 week

I'd say the ones that take long are games which take long themselves...so games such as

Monopoly - Here and Now
Pogo Bowl
Bingo games
Mahjong Garden
Tri Peaks

Ali Baba, Sock Hop and the other slots can take ages because you need story bonuses to get rank progress and getting them is rare as ever.
Posted by S1lent
 - June 24, 2010, 04:42:41 PM
Hi
I use TRIVIAL PURSUIT Daily 20...and can Rank-out in 5 days (using both sites).  Plus you get @6 million tokens.

S1lent