Mar. 14: Beaker Creatures and Blooop Badge Challenges

Beaker Creatures Badge Challenge

Pot O Gold Badge
Win 10 Jackpot Spins this week!
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

Beaker Buddy knocked this one out of the park! Check out these stats:

Game Difficulty: Easy
Buddy Settings: Default
Tokens: 8,440 tokens earned
Time: 16 minutes
NOTES: Make sure to choose the 'easy' difficulty since you only need to fill up 3 beakers of apx. 100 points to reach the Jackpot Spin.

Blooop Badge Challenge

Vortex Badge
Make 30 matches of 4 or more discs this week!
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

I don't know about you, but this game is definitely not on my favorites list! Thankfully Bloop Buddy came to my rescue and got my badge like so:

Game Difficulty: No difficulty - played against computer under "Beginner"
Buddy Settings: Default
Tokens: 3,350 tokens earned
Time: 36 minutes
NOTES: Create your own game in the 'Beginner' tab so that you can set the game points to '10' (this makes end of round jackpot spins/tallies less frequent) then change it back to '3' when you near 26-29 matches towards the badge (so you don't play longer than you have to).

April 21, 2010: Beaker Creatures & Mini Golf Madness

Beaker Creatures Badge Challenge
Creature Comfort Badge
Win 3000 tokens this week! (Including Jackpot Spins)
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

I thought this badge would take forever so I opened Beaker Buddy and turned on autoplay and left the room. About 1/2 hour later, I came in to check the progress and it was already done! So unfortunately I don't know exactly how long it takes, but I do know it's less than 30 minutes on DIFFICULT level, and I got an extra 4,097 tokens.

Mini Golf Madness Challenge
Chip Shot Badge
Finish a hole under par or better 60 times this week! (Score -1 or less for a hole)
Win this badge plus 3000 Tokens!

Since Play Buddy didn't have an auto for this game, I soloed it and got my badge in 1 hour 28 minutes in addition to an extra 3,490 tokens. BTW, this challenge really means UNDER par. In other words, if you get Par on a hole, it WON'T count. :-( BUT I found some tricks that I think will make your challenge go by more quickly and easily.

First, I recommend playing the easy Warm-up course over and over and over; I found that the more familiar I became with that "easy" course, the more under-par holes I had (my record was 12 holes under par out of 18!). Some helpful hints for particular holes are here:

Hole 3: Shoot to the north-most (upper) hole
Hole 4: Use Big-Gulp if available
Hole 9: Shoot to the south-most (lowest) hole
Hole 11: Draw out the shot as long as you can make it, and aim it north (towards the upper or left side).
Hole 14: Bump it out in front of the car when the car is moving towards the direction of the hole.