November 25, 2009: Mahjong Garden, KenoPop! and World Class Solitaire

The Mahjong Garden Badge Challenge

Mystic Garden Badge
Match identical Flower tiles 60 times this week! (Flower tiles are Bamboo, Plum, Orchid and Mum)
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens

It's so nice when Play Buddy has all the autos for the weekly badge! This Mahjong Garden challenge was completed for me courtesy of the MahjGar Buddy Pogo cheat. I started out on the Medium level then switched to easy since I didn't care about earning more tokens, only about matching those flower tiles. Sadly this was not an option in the Buddy... if it were, it would drastically reduce the time it takes to complete these kind of badges. That said, it took me an hour and 12 minutes! Eh well, that's significantly better than the 1 day and 12 hours it would have taken me on my own. ;-) And at least I was compensated for my time, with an extra 7,472 tokens... wowza!

I found it helpful to play with the Buddy instead of letting it 100% autoplay... I started this about half way through and towards the end of my challenge I noticed the collections going much faster. What I did is stop the Buddy before the start of the new game and I'd immediately match all the flower tiles I could. Then I'd let it autoplay until more flower tiles were uncovered, which I'd then match. Otherwise the bot would put any 2 flower tiles together which made the progress slower (good for its strategy but bad for my badge!). I sent in a Play Buddy feature request so here's hoping this option gets added for future challenges.


The KenoPop! Badge Challenge

Soda Pop Badge
Win 7000 tokens this week! (Including Jackpot Spins)
Win this badge plus 3000 Tokens

With the help of Kenopop Buddy I easily completed the KenoPop! challenge. In fact, I let it play while I finished up my dishes and laundry (cute game with fancy graphics, but a bore to sit and watch). It took 21 minutes and earned an extra 2,215 tokens in addition to the badge award. Not too shabby!

The World Class Solitaire Badge Challenge

Black Friday 2009 Badge
Win 5 games between 12 AM PT November 27 and 12 AM PT December 1!
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

The good news is that the Class World cheat got my badge for me in 36 minutes along with 2,072 extra tokens. The not so good news is that it could have done so a lot faster if it didn't get stuck in a few loops. Although the strategy was better because my game win percentage was over 60% and the last version was around 40-50%. The nice thing about Play Buddy is that I sent in a bug report and can now wait for the improved update.

Nov 18, 2009: Toot Sweet 2 & Pogo Bowl

The Pogo Bowl Badge Challenge

Pinned Down Badge
Knock down 400 pins this week!
Win this badge plus 3000 Tokens

I used Play Buddy's Bowling Buddy Pogo cheat to accomplish this badge. It took 33 minutes and in addition to my 3,000 tokens, I made an extra 1,396. If you're like me and feel that these rounds take FOREVER, definitely use the FAST rooms like I did. I used the default setting on Bowling Buddy and had 14 strikes and 27 spares. I noticed it almost always bowled so that the two front left pins were left. So I thought about changing the settings but it seemed that randomness comes from Pogo... for example, even though my bot is doing the exact same roll, Pogo would have the pins sometimes split, or even give me strikes. And keeping a vigilent eye on the leader board, I noticed that the same people gravitated towards the top or bottom, but that the actual winners or losers definitely varied. So, in short, Bowling Buddy probably did about the best ya can do when considering Pogo's programmed results (not proven, just my own theory based on what I just said).


The Sweet Tooth 2 Badge Challenge

100 Percent Cacao Badge
Collect 7 Chocolate Coins this week!
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens

This challenge was completed by a Sweet Tooth Pogo cheat (Tootsweet Buddy). I was so grateful to let this bot get this badge, because this game is soooooo tedious and hard to do on my own (especially on level 5 which was required to complete the challenge!). It took 37 minutes and I earned an extra 1,703 tokens (wowza...what a token earner!). I imagine the speed would be much improved if a "chocolate coins" option was included in the bot (here's hoping for an update) - I was surprised it wasn't there since Play Buddy is usually on top of that kind of stuff. I did notice a high score option, though... cool for people who play Sweet Tooth 2 to be on top of the leaderboard.