July 4, 2012: Ride the Tide & Lottso! Express Badge Challenges

Ride the Tide Badge Challenge

Riding High Badge
Earn 3,000 tokens this week! 
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

Well Ride Tide Buddy got the job done. It's a process but it gets there:

Game Difficulty: N/A
Buddy Settings: Change bet to 'bet max'
Tokens: 3,790 tokens earned
Time: 51 minutes
NOTES: I changed the default bet 5 setting to 'max' to increase the amount of tokens won.

Lottso! Express Badge Challenge

Winning Smile Badge
Reach the 5th goal 3 times this week! 
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!
Yay for a brand new Lotso Xpress Buddy! Read my notes on the completion for this one:

Game Difficulty: n/a
Buddy Settings: Speed 1 / always play for mega lotso (see NOTES)
Tokens: 6,094 tokens earned
Time: 34 minutes
NOTES:So this is kind of a 'luck of the draw' situation... you'll need some lucky draws for certain balls AND some lucky guesses on the mega lottso card to boost the points enough to finish goal 5. To complete this challenge as quickly as possible, play WITH the Buddy. Here's the trick: turn ON 'always play for mega lotso' in its settings so you get your mega lottso card. Then turn it OFF so that it can acquire the points needed to COMPLETE the 5th goal (poorly worded by Pogo this week - reaching the 5th goal does nothing towards the badge; you have to reach 11,000 points thereby COMPLETING the round to get credit). ALSO when I saw it getting low on balls in goal 4 or 5, I'd make sure it collected any 'extra' spots AND if it was going to throw away balls (refill), I'd place them in any empty bonus slots.