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BIG SHOP NEWS! Both Chocolates Restocked, New Mystery Items posted, and a MONDAY BADGE DROP!

by eli

What is going on here? Well, with only Three weeks before the end of SUMMER GAME 2012, things are HEATING UP AGAIN! First, we've added EVEN MORE CHOCOLATE to the Summer Game Shop, because you guys snatched up the first 60 over the weekend, so there's 60 more! Don't eat it all at once, you'll get a tummyache! But that's not all... if you look through the Summer Game Shop carefully, you'll see some NEW mystery items that weren't there before! These will all be revealed before the end of the game on 8/31, so stay tuned to make sure you don't miss anything!



And just so everyone's on the same page, here's the endgame plan:

Summer Game 2012 Scoring ends at Midnight on Friday, August 31st.

The Summer Game Shop will close on Monday, September 17th.

All Summer Game Shop Orders not picked up by Monday, October 8th will be canceled and returned to inventory.


And yes, all your unspent points and tokens will still be available to spend NEXT SUMMER when the Summer Game returns! Any questions? Ask away! Plus, here are 5 new badges for you hardcore badge hunters:

Summer Game 2012 Badge Drop #9.5
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Comments

Sounds exciting. Can't wait for the mystery items. I'm sad that I'll miss the secret shop this week though.

The 3rd code for the famous fairy spotting has something to do with someone named Briar R***.
The last code for the famous fairy spotting is the Sugar**** fairy.
For the fairy identification, the 3rd code has something to do with a creature like a fairy starting with the letter p, the other one has something to do with the picture in the badge.

@gxl: sorry it wasn't the 3rd code in the famous fairy spotting, its the second code
i already knew it was the Sugar**** fairy, i tried searching it, but i didin't get it
as for fairy identification, is the creature a p***e, i still don't know what to do with it same with the picture in the badge one

or maybe the person was spamming. HEY PEOPLE! IF YOU WANT HELP, TELL US WHAT YOU NEED HELP WITH!!!!!!!! DON'T JUST WRITE I NEED HELP, BECAUSE THAT'S A WASTE OF TIME!

I looked for the fighter flewn by captain starbuck and Apollo, but I did not get any fruitful results from it. Is the fighter "Battlestar Gallactia"?

I think they are missed badges from Friday.
Are there going to be any more Olympic badges now that the Olympics are over...I liked those a lot (even if I don't have all of them).

I was already quivering with excitement for mystery item #2. Now I anticipate items 7-10 being of strong interest too. Plus whatever the secret shop has in store for us in these last few weeks!

I have to use a different computer to get into the shop, but I'm probably going to spend a lot of my points this week...
Love how eli named the badge drop "badge drop 9.5."

So tempting to go for the chocolate (it was so good last summer!) but I think I'll wait for the mystery items. Some of those sound quite tempting!

where could you find the name of the Luciosoma Spilopleura? I get apollo shark and apollo sharkminnow

Thank you for the clear information telling us the end dates for scoring and for shopping, and for the assurance that unspent points will carry over to Year Three of the Summer Game.

and thank you for the Monday badges

and thank you for restocking the chocolate. :)

Q: When I was trying to get a code for the Bork's Biggest Bully badge, I accidentally got a code and badge from Summer Game 2011: This Badge Eats People
Are the points from Summer Game 2011, if earned in 2012, accessible to the summer game shop this year?

I'm certain you can use 2011 game points; if points from 2011 earned in 2011 and carried over can be spent now (which they can), then it seems certain that they would be spendable if earned now.

Do the points you earned from that code show in your 2011 ledger or in your 2012 ledger? I am curious how it was set up. EDIT: nevermind. I figured it out. I remembered that I stumbled upon a 2011 code in the catalog, and looked at my 2011 ledger. There were 10 points earned this summer there at the top of my 2011 game points.

Also, interestingly, one of my daughters has spent more in points than she has earned for 2012. Her page shows a negative balance for 2012 shop points and a positive one for 2011 points, netting out to a low but positive number when they are added together.

I know this isn't from this badge drop, but no one will answer my question if I put it in the right badge drop, but will someone help me with the last code of the Serially Weird badge. Thanks!

@gxl,cherylo: Are you sure? Because if I go to try to checkout something. It shows me: Vroom14's Summer Game points (and it shows my points+my secret shop tokens)
my points that it shows are the current balance of my summer game 2012. it doesn't say anything about summer game 2011 points

@ vadnala: I'm pretty sure the book is in a C****'s N**** series book, for the weird way badge. Also the 3rd clue for the Serially Weird badge doesn't really relate to the 4th one.

@vadnala
I guess it may behave differently if you do not have an existing summer game 2011 record. Did you look at your summer game 2012 ledger to see if the points for the 2011 game scored there?

This is from waaaaaay back in badge drop #3, but can anyone help me with the first clue for the Fish Tank Tales badge, the one about music only eels could love. Even after reading the hint I still couldn't find it, I've searched eel, electric, electric guitar, electric eel. Any tips? Thanks!

*edit: never mind - I searched the plural and found it. I guess I assume a search of a singular term would also turn up the plural but I guess not!

Having trouble with the first two codes for the <strong> Medalsum Kids </strong> badge. I know it's FELIX and BOLT, but there are too many things that come up. Any way to shorten it?

Soo confused with the <strong>Gold & Silver Where?</strong> badge.
First code: City + Medal
What does it mean by "medal?" do you mean what type of medal (gold, silver, bronze) or where they won (as in swimming, diving, etc.)?

I'll be sad when the summer game comes to a close! I can't believe it is almost the end of August.

Although this seems a little late, could someone tell me how to get the last code for the calvin and hobbes badge?

I hope the shop is going to have the card do-hingy that you clip to a do-hingy and you can just swipe it instead of using your do-hingy (library card). I know there was talk about getting more in for this year. Did ya get them? Did ya, huh, huh? Did ya? I waaaaaaaant one sooooo baaaaad. (Yes, I'm resorting to whining and begging now). Please??

There have been A LOT of badges shown through out the My Summer Games. I'm sad that it's almost over so I'm gonna make the best of it and so should everyone else. Make the last three weeks exciting and earn more points!

did anyone notice that the circle icon for the badge drop is the 2011 style circle? curious...

I know this is from a long time ago, but can someone help me with the first code to the Even Teen Fairies Fret badge, I have all the codes but the first one.

The fairy badges are my worst badges. :( I almost sure I found the series holding the first code to the Devilish and Dark Fairies, but I can't find the code, any help?

I could use some help with the 60s are Weird badge code number 2. You're supposed to be looking for the short story that inspired Terminator (80s movie with human-like robots), which I've googled and found was inspired by several short stories by Harlan Ellison. However, there's nothing written by him in the 60s in the catalog! I am missing something here? Assuming the wrong humanoid robot movie from the 80s?

For the Medalsum Kids badge, where are you supposed to look for the list of the olympians with the most medals? I know it's on the Olympics website, but where in the website.

I have no clue how I found it, but I know you have to sort by Pub Date: Oldest. Sorry. :( :(
Edit: It's in a 1968 book, I don't know if this is the series, but hope this helps, Blade Ru****.

I still have 77 badges left to solve (late getting started this summer) and only 17 days left which means I have to solve 4 or 5 badges a day to get them all before the game ends. Ack! It's a good thing you all have been so helful with hints - if I get stuck I just search the comments and it is so helpful. So thanks!

vadnala has duplicate comments........ Thanks to the person who gave the olympic MEDALS page hint......... I was here a few hours ago and now there's 30+ comments...........

thnx!

How do I get the last code for the calvin and hobbes badge? Even though it was a long time ago.

So good

Wow, I'm off for a day (and spent it out enjoying the sunshine yesterday!) and 68 comments! People have really picked up on posting. I haven't even attempted the mid-week badges yet, though I did finally finish the ones from last Friday.

Can someone help me with the first clue to the Hillary Texts badge...I'm catching up on game codes right now.

@gxl: "Find the last code in a book by the indie media company that Ariel’s dad owns!" and "Her Dad normally holds a trident which is really a kind of fork. Just like the Chicago based fork festival he owns."

In reply to by vadnala

I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry!!!!

@vadnala: I believe that you're looking for a whole different type of fork - not related to the sea but perhaps related to a "harvest" of a different sort. Let me know if that doesn't help and I'll try to put it even plainer without giving it away.

@gxl: The 3rd code is easy to find if you can find that particular secretary of state's nickname and then search that term in the catalog. You can get a list of the US Secretaries of State on Wikipedia.

The 4th code - if you Google "Ryan and Hillary" you should come up with a news article about a celebrity and Hillary. Put that celebrity's name into the catalog and eventually you will find the code, tho' it may take looking thru several items.

In reply to by Bookbird

But I can't play Points-O-Matic or get into the summer games shop, because of weird computer problems...

@gxl: I believe "Geekly Intervention" was from finishing the Treasure Quest before the new summer game started. I'm basing that off of the fact that I have 3 shop tokens from "Geekly Intervention" and that's the same amount I rec'd for finishing the Treasure Quest before the new summer game. :)

@gxl: Hmmm... not sure how much to give you without completely giving it away. She was one of two Secretaries of State under Bush. I *THINK* you can actually just search her last name and eventually find the item with the code in it, if I'm remembering correctly. It comes up more quickly if you can figure out her nickname, but I think it will come up if you just use her last name.

the chocolate pack is tiny. i mean tiny. its only 4 inches by 4 inches at the most. really disapionting

Does anyone know why the points value for my checkout history on my SummerGame2012 scorecard would suddenly be negative?

I can't comment as much because I don't have Internet... :(
Does anyone know if there's going to be a Treasure Quest like game during the school year, like last year? Treasure Quest was so much fun...I hope there's a sequel!

Oh dear my computer crashed last night so now I'm having problems accessing anything online including this :(

Well, I am finally caught up on finding all the codes for the badges, on a Friday just in time for the next drop.
I love how this game keeps you going.

I've been searching all week and I'm still stuck on a few of the badges.

1. For the new Fish and Ships badge, I finally found the correct captain, but I can't find two of the ships (the third and fourth codes). I found the names, but I can't find anything in the catalog.
2. For the new Robots badge, the second code: eyes? I don't get it.
3. For the Bonehead badge, I'm stuck on the fourth code. I've searched the internet and the catalog and have found nothing.

Thanks!

Twinkle is a good song. Girl's Generation is one of the most famous girl bands in Korea, but the people are sooooooooooo hard to tell apart, I only know two people. I wonder how fans follow them...

From being their fans for a long time. I remember when I first started listening to some bands I couldn't tell them apart. Now after watching thier music videos, live performances, and fancams, I can recognize them by name.
I bet you can tell apart the member of Nu'est while I can't...
Though it does help if the members have drastically different appearances, such as different hair colors...

Right... *has no clue who Aron and Minhyun are and has no idea what you are talking about*

On second note, did you know that you can watch M Countdown in China? The hotel I am staying at apparently has this music channel called Channel V and it plays Kpop every once in a while.
They call Girls' Generation 少女时代...

No, it isn't, SHINee is just my favorite boy band out of those 3. Aren't 2PM, TVXQ, and MBLAQ pretty famous too? I actually don't have a favorite girl band, I like songs from IU (solo), Girl's Day (not very famous), HELLOVENUS (rookie band, same company as Nu'est), f(X), Girl's Generation, 2ne1, 5dolls, T-ARA, etc. The band where I can actually recognize all of them is Miss A, I think my favorite girl kpop singer is Suzy. These are only kpop bands cause I also listen to jpop and one of my favorite bands is a jpop boy band.

It's B2ST there's no A. I don't like Big Bang's style of music, but I think they are more famous than SuJu. My favorite kpop boy bands would probably be Nu'est, Teen Top, and SHINee. Another girl group would be A pink. I think next year there will be a group called Seventeen with 17 members, finally something bigger than SuJu.

I know... It seems like Summer Game passed so quickly this year...
But maybe there will be something for us players to do over the school year... *hint hint staff* :D

Hmph. Yes I HAVE done more things with my planner.
Like let Z use it to go to the bathroom...

Anyways!
I'm SOOO happy Treasure Quest is back! Another year of staying up until midnight to figure out the riddles... *sigh*
Anly, since we're in the same advisory, we have to work together!

*GASP* HOW DARE YOU USE MY NAME IN PUBLIC?!?! DO YOU KNOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN?!? I COULD GET STALKED BY SOME RANDOM DUD OR BE KIDNAPPED FOR A RANSOM OF 600,000 SUMMER GAME POINTS!!!!!
jk. :D

People already know who you are...
I told them my name was Jessica, so between the whol Jessica-Anly-Morgsush-Smiles thing they can figure out who you are. There were only two people involved anyways...

If you do get kidnapped, I will be sure to pay your ransom! Next year! If I can maybe get that many!

So if you get kidnapped, you'll have to stay a kidnappee until summer starts, sorry Smiles...

Dud?

In reply to by gxl

I have to do orch 8 because at Tappan all 7th graders have to have orch 1st hour, but I HAVE to have math 1st hour, so I had to go to orch 8.

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