First of all, as you may already know, sponsorized and luck games cannot be available as WC games. So when you look at your high scores (click here to open a new window and see your high scores), only take a particular attention to Flash Games and skip all sponsorized and luck games. Here is a screenshot of my high scores :

This step is the most important since it will help you to be successful with your WC Competitions.
Flash Games which have a green background are games where my highest score is:

1. greater than the "points limit
2. or sufficiently high to easily win a WC Competition

1. Each Flash Game has a "points limit", i.e. whenever you send a score which is greater than that points limit, TNT will review your score. If it is valid, then TNT accepts it and you receive a neomail which confirms your score and you get your Neopoints at that moment.

How can I know what is the points limit of a particular Flash Game?
Well it's difficult to precisely know the points limit of a particular Flash Game. The best way to know it is to look at the high score tables just after the reset (i.e. at the beginning of a month). Since it takes time to review high scores, a lot of Neopians send their scores just below or at the points limit. For example, the highest possible score you can send for Destruct-O-Match II before TNT reviews it is 3,499 points, i.e. if you send a score of 3,500+ points, it will be reviewed by TNT.

2. There are some Flash Games which you don't need to send the highest possible score to win a WC Competition. For example, if you play Faerie Cloud Racers and send a score above 3,000 points, you are almost sure to win.

How can I know what kind of score(s) I have to send to win a WC Competition?
Well again it's difficult to precisely know. The best way to know it is to check the scores sent by other Neopians. If your highest score is above a great majority of those scores, then the odds to win is very high. Let's take an example. You decide to take part into the Hasee Bounce WC Competition and your highest score is 360 points. You look at the scores of your opponents and there are only one who sent a score above 360 points. Your odds to win is high. However suppose that there are 3 Neopians who sent scores above 400 points. Your odds to win is now very low. But since your opponent is randomly chosen, you can either win against a "newbie" or loose against a true gamer. Moreover, you are limited to 3 WC winners per day, therefore there are hours where scores are very high (when true gamers play their daily WC Competiions) and other hours where sent scores are lower (because true gamers won't play 7-8 WC Competitions since you can only win up to 3 WC winners per day).

Flash Games which have a yellow background are games where my highest score isn't sufficiently high to easily win a WC Competition but I may win depending on the scores of the other Neopians.

Well here you need luck. You know that your highest score isn't sufficiently high but as I said before you still can win a WC Competition when there are no true gamers who play against you. For example, my best ever score in Neverending Boss Battle (when I'm writing this guide) is 9,290 points. The highest possible score is 17,495 points before TNT reviews it. When I take part into its WC Competition, I often loose against true gamers. But sometimes I do win (against "newbies"). So you have to wisely choose when to enter a WC Competition and send your scores and when you need to wait.

Note : If I classified Bruno's Blackwoods Breakaway under the second category (yellow background) it's because this Flash Game is a "Limited Points Game", i.e. you can't go above 5,180 points. Hence whenever there is a WC Competition for that particular game, it is hard to win one of it since almost all your opponents will only send scores of 5,180 points (you'll find below how to win a WC Competition). Therefore, it is difficult to win (even though you send the highest possible score).
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Once you've selected some Flash Games from the first two categories (green and yellow backgrounds), open the corresponding game page and look at the bottom of it. You should see the following image on your screen:

The image figuring the Earth (or Neopia?) will link you to the region of Neopia to which the Flash Game you've selected belongs. On this new screen, you'll see which WC games are available for that day.

Note : Popular Flash Games such as Hasee Bounce, Destruct-O-Match II, Faerie Cloud Racers, etc. are available every day so if you're good in one of those popular Flash Games, then you can daily take part into their WC Competitions and I hope you'll win. Some other Flash Games are less popular (for example: Neverending Boss Battle) so don't expect to see its WC Competition very often :(
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Ok, you've made your selection (your Flash Games with green and/or yellow background) and one of your Flash Games is available as a WC game for that day.
If you haven't already played your daily 3 games, then start first by playing a game and try to get your highest possible score. If you're not satisfied with your score (or if it is not high enough to win against your opponents), then restart a new game. If you're satisfied, then pay the 100 Neopoints fees to enter the corresponding WC Competition. Never start by paying that fees if you can't send a sufficiently high score afterwards (i.e. you may have wasted 100 Neopoints for nothing!!!) However if you already played your daily 3 games, then you have to pay first the fees and then click on the link provided in the grey background at the top of the WC game page.
So you've got a high score to send. Pay the 100 Neopoints fees to enter the corresponding WC Competition and then send your score. If it's a popular Flash Game, you'll have to wait for a few seconds or a few minutes (another Neopians will send his/her score and will be compared to yours). If it's not a popular game, you may have to wait up to a few hours :o to see your username in the list of gamers who take part into that WC Competition. Now there are three possible scenarios :

1. You WIN!
   Congratulations !! You've made a great step towards a WC winner! Look your ranking now. If you're above an horizontal line, it means that you're in a good position to win your WC Competition (Tally). If you're under that horizontal line, then click on the link provided by TNT (Hour's HS, i.e. highest score of the hour and Score Totals, i.e. highest total score of the hour) to see if you're above the horizontal line for those parallel WC tables (see the screenshots below). If yes, you still can win even though you're under the horizontal line for the default ranking (Tally). If no, you'll have to send another score to either go up (if you win again) or go down (if you loose). Whenever you win against a randomly chosen opponent, you get +1.


2. You LOOSE!
   Well definitely you'll have to send another score since you can't win a WC Competition with a negative tally! Whenever you loose against a randomly chosen opponent, you get -1.


3. You TIE!
   Well it's extremely rare to draw with a randomly chosen opponent because it means that you and your opponent did send the same (high) score. Whenever you tie against a randomly chosen opponent, you get 0, i.e. you neither win nor loose. However since your tally isn't negative you are still qualified for a WC winner if you did send a very high score. If it's not the case, you'll need to send another score. Again check all rankings to see if you're at least once above the horizontal line.

Below I've taken three screenshots of the same Destruct-O-Match II WC Competition:

As you can see, you can win in 3 different ways:

• Best Tally
  The more you win against randomly chosen opponents, the greater will be your Tally. To see your ranking, just refresh the page as it's the ranking by default (or click on Tally). If the ranking by default is "Best Tally", it's because you need a tally greater or equal to 0 in order to be eligible to win a WC Competition. You immediately see if you match that requirement or not. The top screenshot shows you that Opponent_A to Opponent_F and myself are eligible to win that WC Competition. Opponent_A, Opponent_B and myself are above the horizontal line. It means that we are in position to effectively win that WC Competition.


• Highest Score of the hour
  The higher your score, the greater chance you'll win a WC Competition. To see your ranking, click on Hour's HS. The second screenshot shows you that Opponent_A, Opponent_E and myself are above the horizontal line. It means that we are in position to effectively win that WC Competition. As you can see, Opponent_E has a Tally of 0 and is ranked in 6th position in the "Best Tally" WC Table (i.e. he is UNDER the horizontal line for that WC Table) but he managed to send a sufficiently high score to be ABOVE the horizontal line in the "Highest Score of the hour" WC Table. Now you see why the first step is so important!


• Highest Total of Scores of the hour
  The more you play, the greater your Total Score. To see your ranking, click on Score Totals. The third screenshot shows you that Opponent_D, Opponent_A and myself are above the horizontal line. It means that we are in position to effectively win that WC Competition. Again as you can see, Opponent_D has a Tally of 0 and is ranked in 5th position in the "Best Tally" WC Table (i.e. he is UNDER the horizontal line for that WC Table) but he managed to send sufficiently enough scores to be ABOVE the horizontal line in the "Highest Total of Scores of the hour" WC Table. Again, you see why the first step is so important! And did you notice that Opponent_H has the third Highest Total of Scores of the hour ? If he doesn't win that WC Competition, it's simply because his Tally is negative (-3) !!

Some remarks

• As you can see, Opponent_A and myself are above the horizontal line in each WC Table. It doesn't mean that both of us win three times. Indeed you can only win once per hour and the amount of Neopoints awarded aren't always the highest ones (see the screenshot and its explanation below)


• If you want to win a WC Competition with a high score, then only send ONE VERY HIGH score. Why ? TNT has defined an ordrer of importance (1st : Best Tally, 2nd : Score Totals and 3rd : Hour's HS) Since the rankings for the "Highest Score of the hour" have the lowest importance, your Tally will be considered first, then it's your total of scores (see the screenshot and its explanation below)


• In rare case of equality (i.e. you tied with a randomly chosen opponent or you're at the top of the table with the same highest score) I can't tell you how it works (what are TNT's criteria to say you come first or you come second ?). It often happens when you play Bruno's Blackwoods Breakaway WC game.

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First of all, you need to wait till the next hour come. Between X:00:00 and X:03:00, the results of the previous hour are official, i.e. if you :

1. ended the WC Competition of the previous hour with a non-negative tally
2. AND your username was at least once above the horizontal line

then you'll receive from TNT an automatic neomail which confirms your WC winner. If one of the above conditions isn't satisfied, then you won't receive your prizes. You can also click on Previous Hour's Results to see all details of the previous hours. Below I've taken the corresponding official results of the above Destruct-O-Match II WC Competition:

As you can see, I've put in bold the Neopians who effectively managed to get a WC winner. Opponent_A, Opponent_B, Opponent_D, Opponent_E and myself won that Destruct-O-Match II WC Competition (see the green box which surrounds the rewards in Neopoints).

Opponent_A, Opponent_B and myself won the "Best Tally" rewards.

Opponent_D won the "Highest Total of Scores of the hour" rewards with the 2^nd highest total of scores.

Opponent_E won the "Highest Score of the hour" rewards with the 3^rd highest score.

Although Opponent_C did end with a positive non-zero tally, he never occupied a rank above the horizontal line in any WC Tables (see the above 3 screenshots).

And as I already said, Opponent_H could have won that WC Competition since he had the 3^rd highest total of scores. However, he has a negative tally (-3) and hence don't satisfy one of the two conditions that I've just mentioned before.


Below, there are two screenshots of two consecutive Hasee Bounce WC Competitions:

If I took that screenshots, it's because I wanted to show you something very curious. Look at the highest score sent by Opponent_A (284 points). Did you notice that this score is the lowest high score of the previous hour ? As I said it before, your opponent are randomly chosen. Therefore, Opponent_A had a great great luck to win 3 times (i.e. each time he sent a score!!). Now look at Opponent_Js high score (449 points). It's the 3^rd highest score of the hour :o And he... LOST :o Well definitely Opponent_J had a bad bad luck since only two Neopians did send a better score and with his high score he only could loose against one of them :o :( You CAN win a WC Competition with luck but it is rare. So always remember to first complete the first step of this WC guide to maximize your odds to win a WC Competition.

I've taken this screenshot to give you an example of what I've written under "Some Remarks". Here you can see that Opponent_A, Opponent_B and Opponent_C won the "Best Tally" rewards (there is a little "1" near their tally). I won the "Highest Score of the hour" rewards since I sent the highest score of the hour (and you can see a little "2" next to my score of 432 points. Opponent_F has the 2^nd highest score of the hour (420 points) and he could have won 375 Neopoints. However since he sent two scores, he won the "Highest Total of Scores of the hour" rewards (there is a little "3" near his total of scores). And since he had the 3^rd highest total of scores, he only won 188 Neopoints. I repeat again: If you want to win a WC Competition with a high score, then only send ONE VERY HIGH score. And this also confirmed what I said before, that is you don't always win the highest amount of Neopoints (see the above first remark).


Now, you won a WC Competition ? So you got a neomail from TNT which confirmed your WC winner. The amount of Neopoints is automatically added to your total of Neopoints (top right corner). Now go to your inventory and you'll find an item. This is what TNT calls a "piece of artwork". Below, an example of piece of artwork:

Do you remember what I said in the second step of this WC guide? Each Flash Game belongs to a region of Neopia. When you win a WC Competition, you get a piece of artwork of the region of Neopia to which the Flash Game you've chosen belongs. Pieces of artwork are tradables items, so you can find them in shops and in the Trading Post. But you can also collect a set and try to convert a WC image:

Note: To be able to convert a WC image, you have to collect all 20 pieces of artwork which form a WC image. Each piece of artwork has two informations in its name:

1. the region of Neopia (for example: Neopia Central, Space Station, etc)
2. the numbers 1.XX, 2.XX, 3.XX where 1, 2 and 3 stands for the WC first, second and third image respectively of particular region of Neopia

Therefore, if you want to convert the Space Station first WC image, you need to collect 20 different pieces of artwork (from Space Station 1.1 WC Piece to Space Station 1.20 WC Piece). When you convert a WC image, you automatically get 2,000 Neopoints and a randomly chosen item !! (take a look at my gallery here). You see that it's worth to take part into WC Competitions !
So once you've converted a WC image, you can't use the pieces of artwork of the converted WC image (you have the above screenshot on your screen)

Note: The above screenshot shows that my second Space Station WC image isn't already converted (as I'm writing this WC guide) because I haven't collected all pieces of artwork which form that WC image. Since this WC image isn't converted, I can use the pieces of artwork that I placed there by clicking on "Inventory". By doing so I now have the corresponding piece(s) of artwork in my inventory and I can put it in my shop or in the Trading Post. But since I can get good items from converting WC images, I only put in my shop or exchange in the Trading Post doubled piece(s) of artwork. Each time you win a WC Competition, you obtain a randomly chosen piece of artwork. Due to randomness, some pieces of artwork are harder to get and hence have a greater value. So you may win 6 times the same piece of artwork before getting one that you don't already have in your WC gallery ;)


FINAL WORDS:
I believe that it's the easiest way to get paint brushes (apart getting one from a random event). And you get Neopoints every time you win a WC Competition and when you convert a WC image. So there is a lot of small profit before getting an item which can give you a great profit !! Moreover, once you converted all WC images of a particular region of Neopia, you can restart from the beginning, i.e. restart collecting pieces of artwork of the first WC image of that particular region !! In the long run, you may have a lot of high valued items by only converting those WC images :O :D
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