April 14, 2010: Everyone Wins Bingo & Crossword Cove

Everyone Wins Bingo Badge Challenge
Spring Saplings Badge
Call 50 vertical bingos this week!
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

I completed this badge with an additional 3,735 tokens in 45 minutes with EW Bingo Buddy's help. I think you could do it a bit faster because I was playing in a room with only 1 other person, but for this particular challenge a fuller room might work to your advantage because you'll receive more wilds to make more bingos. Anyway, here's what worked great for me:

Select a 5-card FAST room to speed things up. UNcheck "Use wild card for wild bingos only" in the Buddy's options, if you let it autoplay the entire challenge. Personally I played along WITH the Buddy to maximize my vertical bingos. This is done by first checkmarking "Hold wilds" in the Buddy's options. THEN after all of the numbers have been called, place the wilds yourself on numbers that complete vertical bingos. This is more efficient since the Buddy would place them wherever thereby obtaining horizontal or diagonal bignos. :-)

Crossword Cove Badge Challenge
Hermit Crab Badge
Earn 12 star powerups this week! (Easy and Medium difficulty level puzzles contain star powerups)
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

Even though Play Buddy didn't have a Buddy for this challenge, I completed it in 10 minutes (but only got an extra 10 tokens, too) because I discovered a great trick. Of course this completely defeats the purpose of playing the game fairly, or solving the puzzle, or trying to obtain tokens, or using your brain. ;-P If you're interested in this tactic, then read on!

Click on the word that contains the star powerup. Now click on Pogo's "Hint". Now a "Solve" button will appear. Click it. Notice that the word has been solved and the powerup star has been placed in your bucket. Voila! Repeat this process on every star on the puzzle and then press the "All Done" button. Now repeat this process on the next puzzle until your badge is completed. This will ensure you don't get tokens or points, BUT it DOES result in getting the badge. :-)