Starlord
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Thanks for posting the topic George. At the moment I'm looking forward to tomorrow when I will get My Mind Melted and the 80 Day Bus Trip badges and touchwood the POG Sunday badgelet, never thought I stood a chance of that one, took my time thinking about what to answer also doesn't help have an arthritis flare-up in my hands, it's painful even when not typing, making plenty of typos as fingers are so swollen they hit the keys next to the ones i want to hit. Got an outside chance at Fill Me In monthly, only really started playing for it seriously halfway through the month, if I miss it this month I'll go for it next month. I will not worry if I miss it as this has been such a good month for badges, 4 badges and 2 badgelets so far. Reply #1. Apr 25 10, 1:06 PM |
robert326
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Wrapped up Fun Facts this week...next up are the monthly badges for Word Wizard and Who Am I. In Who Am I, I've climbed the ranks and am about 5th or 6th for the month in whozits. In Word Wizard, I've rallied from #49-51 this weekend to #26 last night. I'm still a few spots behind the 10th person eligible for the badge, so it'll take a fierce rally today and tomorrow. But I'm giving it all I've got! :D Reply #2. Apr 29 10, 10:16 AM |
robert326
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And this might sound silly (I'm at level 80 right now), but I still need the Country badge. Several times I've gotten 10/10 in the first three countries but missed a question or 2 in the last country. Hopefully I'll get it, probably next week once I wrap up the monthly tournaments for April. Reply #3. Apr 29 10, 10:20 AM |
salami_swami
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Robert, that doesn't sound silly at all. It's a tough badge. :-) I will be getting a monthly badge on the 1st, excited about that, and I should be getting the Whozit Collector, Mind Melt collector, and Pot of Gold Hoarder by next month. I'm currently at 3600 on two of them, and 4,000 on one of them, somewhere in there. Shouldn't be long. I have about a month left of bus ride left... Not sure if I'll get it too soon. Reply #4. Apr 29 10, 11:14 AM |
scottishrose44
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Still working on the chatterbox badge, how much do I need to chatter? I'm trying very hard to get to level nine in GC. Reply #5. Apr 29 10, 2:00 PM |
salami_swami
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Scottishrose, you have 55 posts. Good start. 45 more to go. ;-) Haha. At least you have a fairly large time span to do it in. Reply #6. Apr 29 10, 3:05 PM |
robert326
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salami_swami--is that true? I didn't think there was a target amount of posts for the Chatterbox badge, at least not a number that was disclosed. Reply #7. Apr 29 10, 6:00 PM |
redwaldo
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Team Magnate Reply #8. Apr 29 10, 6:13 PM |
salami_swami
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Robert, there is no specific number, but there is something mysterious about the badge... Everybody wins it the night they had hit 100 posts within a 30 day period. ;-) Much like the team player, there IS a number, it just isn't anounced... Not sure why. Reply #9. Apr 29 10, 6:26 PM |
Schoonie101
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Probably because you get people pulling front page sweeps in an effort to get the badge in one day. Mind Melt monthly not in the cards this month for me due to missing a couple days in addition to some severe failures. Not too far off Team Magnate which would be a nice one to get. Several weeks out though for that one. Reply #10. Apr 29 10, 6:56 PM |
flopsymopsy
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I'd like to get the rest of the Pot of Gold badgelets, though a couple of those are in topics where I always struggle and they're probably beyond my reach. I'd also like to get that elusive Daily Badge! A couple of months ago Schoonie told me it was near impossible to get that badge these days and a couple of days later I missed it by one second, grrrrrr. So tell me again, Schoonie, maybe that will swing it this time, lol. Team Magnate is not far off for me. I think one of the Joliettes will get it before me but not by much. I keep telling the Llamas to do better but they don't seem to pay any attention! ;) Reply #11. Apr 29 10, 7:21 PM |
Qmel
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I'm alos less than a million team points away from Team Magnate. Hopefully I'll get that one before the end of the summer. Reply #12. Apr 29 10, 9:36 PM |
Schoonie101
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flopsy, that daily game badge is all but impossible to get. Hope that puts the jinx together for you! Just checked out your profile - congrats! You ARE close to that Magnate badge. Just a few weeks. I've still got about 140,000 points to go or so. Getting there but a ways to go yet. :) Reply #13. Apr 29 10, 10:35 PM |
pmarney
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It's not that I am working on a badge, but I would like my acheivement badge for fill me in, the problem I have is that I am such a bad speller, that even when I get 10/10 I don't because I have always spelt 1 or 2 wrong and then I kick myself everytime for being such a "Wally", one day though Reply #14. Apr 30 10, 4:44 AM |
agony
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Jack of All Trades keeps eluding me - I only need two more wins to get this one, but the last month I'm barely in the top ten most of the time. The other day I was in the lead until the last three minutes, and was beaten out by a few seconds - have to remember *that* category... Reply #15. Apr 30 10, 7:51 AM |
Starlord
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I know the problem Pete, I've even spelt false, flase! My problem is my keyboard skills aren't what you would call brilliant. I know the answers they just don't quite come out as planned. lol I know I should check what I've typed, but when you are playing a timed game speed is of the essence. It happens with other games where the cursor fails to mark the right answer and I get the familiar " You did not answer this question." Once had three of those in one knockout game! Reply #16. Apr 30 10, 8:00 AM |
robert326
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Wow, agony and flopsy! You ARE real close to those badges. I have tried (casually) for the Daily Game badge. I too am convinced it is impossible. But yet I have won the Impossible! badge...twice in a row, in fact. :D I just got Expert win #46, I will keep sputtering along towards #100. I should have had a win yesterday in "Other People," but somehow I clicked on (or thought I clicked on) one answer that didn't get recorded, and it was for a question I knew! Worst of all, I got the other 14 questions right. A 15/15 in the time that I had "would" have been good enough to win that category. Ah well, will have to be more careful next time. Reply #17. Apr 30 10, 8:10 AM |
Lochalsh
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I have only 33 Expert wins, but I'll chug along and hope to reach 100 one of these days. On Feb. 8 (I think), I had 5 wins in a row--oh, glorious morning!--but all that seems to have been a fluke. I get frustrated when I'm at the top until the very last minute and then lose the win, but those are the breaks. :) Reply #18. Apr 30 10, 9:05 AM |
salami_swami
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I don't know how many expert wins I have... 22 or 23, depends on whether I won last night or not. ;-) I doubt it, though, with my score. ;-) Flopsy, it's only bottle_rocket ahead of you, right? I've been monitoring... I keep forgetting to check bottle_rocket's profile, until recently, he leads the pack on a lot of things, but before it was kickaha, then you, now him. You 3 are the top, I think. ;-) Qmel, you meant 100,000, right, not a million? We're all less than a million away from it. ;-) Reply #19. Apr 30 10, 9:35 AM |
flopsymopsy
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Winning Impossible! twice in a row is pretty good, Robert. :) It took me forever to get that badge, if only because in the last couple of GCs there were a few players who seemed to win it every session. I decided towards the end of the last GC that I'd have to play the GC this time round just doing that category until I got the badge - and then of course I got it with a couple of weeks to go. I find that often happens, you reconcile yourself to never getting the badge and within a short time it drops into your lap, lol. As for the Team Magnate badge, it goes without saying that other people in the team also have to do really well and I'm lucky that the Llamas are pretty competitive as well as being a nice friendly bunch. You're right, Meathead, bottle_rocket will get the badge first - he's a couple of days ahead of me - and kickhaha is just behind. I missed a couple of team games a few months ago and that's the difference between me and bottle_rocket. Still, he beats me in everything else so it's not a surprise, lol. I got my 43rd Expert win a few days ago so there are only 67 things I don't know about to go. One of my team mates said once, when he missed out on getting a particular category, that he didn't mind too much as he wasn't an expert on the subject. On that basis, I need to give 42 of mine back! Good luck with your final two, Agony, hovering on the edge like that must be so frustrating. :) Reply #20. Apr 30 10, 2:18 PM |
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