Games Room Dilemma?

by 10rose10

GAMES ROOM - You’ve probably been to this room a lot, to find a game that is suited for you. It is extremely hard finding games that you are both good at and give you a lot of Neopoints. Trust me, I know. Well, my devoted Eyrie 10snowflake10 and I have put together some guides to a few random games. The summaries are Snowflake’s, with some editing from. The advice is mine. Hopefully they’ll give you some ideas for some games to try, or some games to watch out for.

Summary: You’re a little Meerca who has to eat all the neggs (except for the red ones) in order to earn points. If you run into the wall, your tail, (which grows every time you eat) or a red negg you lose. This is a must-play game. Especially if you have a slow modem, because it is the smallest game I know, so it wouldn’t take too much time to load. (It’s only about 18 K)

Advice: Start on the easy level, and once you get bored with that, try the medium. If you are insane, like me, try the hard level.

Summary: You’re a Pirate Blumaroo who has to ‘swab the deck’ by landing on each square. Sounds simple, right? WRONG! You have to avoid big bad pirates while collecting dubloons and going through something very much like an obstacle course. Unfortunately, you no longer get real dubloons from this game.

Advice: Find your own way to get through each ‘maze.’ I recommend spirals, but that doesn’t always work.

Summary: You have to place the shapes on the board so that all the shapes turn to swords. Sound easy? NOPE! It’s the hardest game I know, with a few exceptions. If you can’t deal with frustration, or you hate REALLY hard puzzles, this isn’t the game for you. GOOD LUCK!

Advice: Read the instructions. Read them again. After that, just try it. There are hundreds of solutions. Try to play it twice a day. If you complete a level, add another two times. That way you minimise frustration, but still get Neopoints If you don’t like it, or it just doesn’t click, try Sewage Surfer.

Summary: It’s a game VERY similar to Shapeshifter, in which you are Matt the Wocky who has to repair Neopia’s sewage system! Sounds disgusting, right? RIGHT! For once you are absolutely correct. Anyway, you have to place the pipes around obstacles so they connect one pipe to the other. It isn’t easy. As you can see by my pathetic scores, I just gave up.

Advice: Not much, except for you should plan your own way to work out each level. Again, GOOD LUCK!

Summary: It’s a little like the classic game Alphabets, in which you have to click on the blocks that are the same colour AND are next to each other in order to blow them up. The point is for you to clear the screen, or get enough points to go on to the next level at least. There are four levels, and each time you go up a level they add another colour block.

Advice: Start from the top of the screen and go to the bottom. Also, make sure before you click that you aren’t disrupting another group of blocks.

Summary: You’re Garon, a heroic Lupe, who has to get through the Ice Caves safely. You have to use the arrow keys to work your way through a maze to get the silver key, and then get to the door. Sounds easy, right? Okay, so maybe it doesn’t sound easy. It’s not. There are all sorts of obstacles ranging from bombs to puddles to balls, and secret passage ways. I’ve only been able to get to level three, and that level is IMPOSSIBLE! If you are able to get past it, congratulations.

Advice: Keep practising. And watch out for the bombs, unless you’re really frustrated and want to make a suicidal Lupe out of yourself. :) If you find you’re good at this, try Faerie Caves. It’s almost the same thing, just harder.

Summary: It’s practically the same as Ice Caves, just a whole lot harder. Each level was made by a different faerie and is themed that way. If you actually get to complete a level, you should be rewarded. The levels are really, really, hard.

Advice: They say Light before Dark, Earth before Air, and Fire before Water. That’s the order you should do the puzzles in. But be warned, the light faerie’s level is amazingly strange. Only half the bombs will blow, and you can’t backtrack. Once you leave a square it fills up. So if you’re just starting out, try the Fire or the Air faerie’s level, just for practice.

Summary: You have to position a crossbow/catapult, which is held by a Turtum, then and use the powerbar to shoot at the bullseye. Sounds easy, right? (I hope you’ve figured out the answer by now) WRONG! First of all, the bullseye is TINY! Second, it’s just plain hard. You get ten shots, and different points for how close you get to the bullseye, ranging from 1 to 5. If you get a bullseye, you get 10 points and a power-up. Power-ups are really cool features like enlarging the bullseye.

Advice: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! And don’t put on too much power. The fourth or fifth line on the powerbar should do it.

Summary: Buy the cheese from the cheese shop with your own Neopoints, and then see how fast you can run down the hill with it! If you get down in under a minute you get to keep the cheese! It’s not that simple, but that’s about the gist of it. This game is especially good if you like to collect stuff, because cheese is a perfectly reasonable thing to collect! (At least in my opinion. I like to collect the cheeses.)

Advice: The more expensive the cheese is, the more likely it is that you’LL get to keep it. For a list of cheeses and other hints for Cheeseroller, click here. (It’s a really good site that I found, but it isn’t mine.)

Summary: What is there to say? It’s an extremely hard crossword puzzle based on Neopets. If you haven’t been on Neopets very long, I wouldn’t recommend it. Some of the questions have to do with Maraqua or old, outdated items.

Advice: Open up two windows, one with the actual crossword puzzle and one on Neopets that you can use to search. Just check the puzzle every day and if it looks too hard, don’t do it.

Summary: It’s one of your basic shoot-down-the-things-that-come-at (after) -you type games. You have to shoot the Chia Clowns and their pies before their pies get you and you lose health. Each Chia Clown part is worth a different amount of points. Also, you should try to shoot the ammo, time, and health boxes to earn you more time, ammo, or health. If you run out of either of those things, you loose!

Advice: Shoot the pies at all costs because they are the things that make you lose health. Also, you don’t have to shoot all the clowns. If they’re moving too fast, don’t shoot. You’LL just lose ammo.

Summary: This game is the easiest, most boring, and most Neopoint give-out game I have ever known. You’re Adee the Chia, who has to get to the good ice cream by going through a security system of ice cream cannons and a maze of boxes in the warehouse. Good news though! You can dodge the cannons firing at you, and you can push the boxes! Simple, right? Um, maybe. There are a few catches, though. Catch number one: with the completion of each level the ice creams get faster. Catch number two: There are different kinds of Ice Creams. (This one I can help you with. All ice creams are bad except for the two pink ones, the dark blue one, and the yellow one when you’re not on the yellow level.) Catch number three: It’s really annoying, unless you are REALLY patient, partly because you don’t get that many Neopoints, and partly because it’s just plain annoying. Other than that, it’s a cool game, I guess.

Advice: Try playing it once or twice, and then only play it when you REALLY need Neopoints That’s what I do for this annoying, slightly twisted, game.

Once you’ve found your game or games, play them three times a day, every day. You’d be surprised to find out that your scores will get better and better, and you will get more and more Neopoints And if you don’t like any of these games, try some card games. I didn’t include any since they are really hard to summarise. I would recommend Cheat, or Pyramids.

Note: I am NOT an expert at these games, and I don’t pretend to be. Your scores will be very different from mine. You also may think that Faerie Caves is amazingly easy, or you may think Ultimate Bullseye is really frustrating. Feel free to Neomail me with any comments, suggestions, or questions. I hope you’ve found some games that suit you. Happy Neogaming!

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