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Neopets Guide
Games, Tips, and Strategies
Originally written by: New Clee Er (Now Polar Kraken)
(polarkrakenfaq at gmail dot com; AIM: DaRealKingkevin)
Currently written and maintained by: Jelly Soup (jellysoup at gmail dot com)
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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1. Introduction
2. Version History
3. Choosing a Pet
1. Getting the Limited Edition/Restricted pet
1. Restricted pets
2. Limited Edition pets
3. Other ways to get the Rare pets
2. Painting your pet
1. List of Paint Brushes
2. Wait! Theres more!
3. Abilities
1. The List
4. Making NP, the game way
1. Action Games
2. Luck/Chance Games
3. Puzzle Games
4. Games Graveyard
5. Strategy Submission Policy
5. Making NP, the restocking way
6. Around the (Neopian) World
1. Faerieland
1. Faerie City
2. Mystery Island
3. Krawk Island
4. Lost Desert
5. Haunted Woods
1. Deserted Fairground
6. Meridell
1. Meri Acres Farm
2. Meridell Castle
3. Citadel of Darigan
4. Brightvale
7. Terror Mountain
1. Ice Caves
2. Top of the Mountain
8. Tyrannia
1. Tyrannian Plateau
9. Virtupets Space Station
10. Neopia Central
1. The Neopian Bazaar
2. The Neopian Marketplace
3. The Deep Catacombs
11. Maraqua
12. Roo Island
13. Kiko Lake
14. Jelly World
15. Kreludor
7. WHAT ELSE TO DO?
1. Guilds
2. Build a Neohome
3. Neodeck
1. Neodeck Q&A
4. NeoBoard
1. Neoboard Basics
5. Creating a shop
6. Neopian Bank Account
7. Trading/Auctions
8. Faerie Quests
9. Petpets and Petpetpets
1. Petpet Care
2. List of Petpet Paint Brushes
10. Stamp/Coin Collecting
11. Stock Market
8. Battledome
9. Random Events
1. Random Event List
10. Usefull Information
1. How to keep your account safe.
2. Web Browser Compatibility
11. Your Questions Anwsered
12. Things to come
13. Credits
14. Legal Mumbo Jumbo
15. Contact Me/Final Note
To find the section you are looking for, type ctrl + F and either type in the
name of the section you are looking for, or the section number for it (eg:
Restricted pets is in section 3.1.1.).
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1. | ***Introduction*** |
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Welcome, Neopet player. Assuming your reading this instead of the guide, I ask
you that you not post this guide without my permission. I should inform you
now, Gamefaqs.com is the ONLY site that will ever have permission to post this
FAQ. EVER. For little help not covered in here, go to the message board. There
are many helpful (and a few not-so-helpful people) there. Also, I suggest
reading Lord Treant/PyroFalkon's guide.
Now, I will try to keep this guide up-to-date, but the Neopian world is ALWAYS
changing. What's junk one day is priceless the next. That's another reason why
the message boards are so helpful. If your new to Neopets, I urge you to
spend some time just exploring the site. New things are added all the time.
But, please, keep in mind that this in not the only Neopets FAQ on gameFAQs.
There are some very good writers out there, so don't just limit yourself to
this guide.
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2. | ***Version History*** |
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October 21, 2004 - Version 2.01 - Added Destruct-O-Match II, moved
Destruct-O-Match I to the Game Graveyard, added Neopian Music Shop to the
Bazaar (I had Petpet Supplies listed twice 0_o), added a Useful Information
section, added Bori to the Neopet list, corrected The Neopian Bazaar, updated
Meri Acres Farm.
Ok, listen up, starting now, this guide will be going through some major
changes. I need to reformat and focus it into something a little bit more useful
than the mess in front of you right now. It will take time, but feel free to
keep sending me your game strats, tips and anything else.
September 6, 2004 - Version 1.91 - Updated Brightvale, updated the Petpet Paint
Brush list, NEW E-MAIL FOR Polar Kraken, added a Games Graveyard section,
updated the chia colors list, added PetpetSitter (game), moved Mutant Graveyard
of Doom to the Games Graveyard, added a section about Random Events and a partial
list of known Random Events, added a stamp and coin collecting section, added
Wheel of Misfortune to the games section, added a prize list for the Wheel of
Excitement, the Wheel of Monotony and Wheel of Knowledge.
August 27, 2004 - Version 1.81 - Updated painted pets section, fixed a few format
errors, added the Petpet Care subsection, added new strat for Ultimate Bullseye,
updated Roo Island map, removed Meristones (neopets removed it from the site),
added Ruki to the Neopets list, CHANGED E-MAIL ADDRESS, added Brightvile,
updated Top of Terror Mountain, added a bumch of games.
July 02, 2004 - Version 1.71 - Updated painted pets section, added Yurble to the
pet list, corrected the max number of nps you can win from games, added
Kayla's Potion Shop to Meridell Castle, added Tyrannian Mini Golf to
Tyrannian, added Jelly Blobs of Doom to Jelly World, added pinkpt.com
back as an acceptable submission username, added Dung Petpet Paint Brush
to the Petpet Paint Brush list, added Sketch Petpet Paint Brush to the
Petpet Paint Brush list, added strategie for 200m Peanut Dash.
May 25, 2004 - Version 1.61 - See, thats what happens when you update
in a hurry. You forget things. Anyway, Tyrannian Plateau map has
been updated, corrected a few *ahem* spelling mistakes, added 2
stratagies for Zurroball, updated the Neoboard section, added Neoboard
Basics subsection, updated the Citadel of Darigan, added a strategy
for Grundo's Snowthrow, added a strategy for Bilge Dice, added a
strategy for Extream Potato Counter, removed pinkpt from the list
of accepted submission usernames.
May 19, 2004 - Version 1.51 - Added Kreludor to the world list, added
new links to the Bazaare, added new links to the Haunted Woods, fixed
a few format problems, updated the Action games section, (finally)
updated the Puzzle games section, added list of petpet paint brushes,
updated the painted pets section.
May 04, 2004 - Version 1.41 - Updated paint brush list, updated the
Bazaar shop list, added Raiders of Maraqua to the Action Games list,
added tips to Raiders of Maraqua, added Wheel Of Monotony to the Action
Games section, added the codes to the restocking section. Big updates
coming soon.
March 31, 2004 - Version 1.31 - Updated some of the transformation colors,
added some helpfull links to the guilds section, added a Q&A section
to the Neodeck section, fixed some spelling errors, added new links to the
Bazaar. More on the way.
March 19, 2004 - Version 1.21 - Me, Jelly Soup, will be updating this guide
from now on. Lets see...fixed a few formating problems, re-did the table of
contents, added a few worlds, added my contact info, corrected the name of
a few games, added more to the Choosing a Pet section, added a few missing
games, added lists about paint brushes, corrected some of the information
throught out the guide, added two new sections, made the guide for
organised....bunch of stuff...
March 5, 2004 - Version 1.11 - About time, eh? Fixed a few errors, but the
major update is here is announcing jelly soup the new co-author and
maintainer of the guide. Thanks and good luck, jelly.
Sept 1, 2003 - VERSION 1.1 - Gave the guide a major facelift, added Chat
Boards to the Extra's section
August 29, 2003 - VERSION 1.0 - Submitted the Guide. Includes everything I
wanted except a Puzzle Games Guide. Looking to add that soon. I probably
missed a bunch of stuff, see contact info if you want to add anything.
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3. | ***CHOOSING A PET*** |
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So, you've created your account, activated it, tried to do something, but
apparently on this virtual pet site, you need a pet. Fancy that. There are 46
species of pets. In alphabetical order, they are:
Acara
Aisha
Blumaroo
Bori
Bruce
Buzz
Chia
Chomby (Limited Edition)
Cybunny (Limited Edition)
Draik (Limited Edition)
Elephante
Eyrie
Flotsam
Gelert
Grarrl
Grundo (Restricted)
Ixi
Jetsam (Limited Edition)
Jubjub
Kacheek
Kau
Kiko (Limited Edition)
Koi (Limited Edition)
Korbat
Kougra
Krawk (Restricted)
Kyrii
Lenny
Lupe
Meerca
Moehog
Mynci
Nimmo
Peophin
Poogle (Limited Edition)
Pteri
Quiggle
Ruki
Scorchio
Shoyru
Skeith
Techo
Tonu (Limited Edition)
Tuskaninny
Uni
Usul
Wocky
Yurble
Zafara
-If a Neopet is restricted this means that you cannot create it in the normal
way. You will need to find out the secret way to create that particular
Neopet.
-If a Neopet is limited edition this means that there are only a certain
number of them in Neopia. From time to time more limited edition Neopets are
released, you just need to keep checking back.
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3.1. | ***Getting the Limited Edition/Restricted pet*** |
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Yes, TNT likes to screw with you. Especially when you see this ultra cool
Neopet and you want it, but YOU CAN'T HAVE IT, cause its one of the the
Limited Edition/Restriced pets!
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3.1.1 | ***Restricted pets*** |
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The Restricted pets are:
Krawk
Grundo
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To get a Krawk: 1. Get a Krawk petpet. They cost at least 350K.
2. Make sure you have 3 or fewer neopets and attach the Krawk
to one of them.
3. Go to your Pet Status Page and click on the Krawk. This
will alowe you to name the Krawk whatever you want.
The name you give it now will be the name it has when
it become a Krawk (neopet).
4. Go to the Fungus Cave on Krawk Island, which can be found
here: http://www.neopets.com/pirates/funguscave.phtml
You will be given the option to feed your Krawk Petpet some
special fungus. Do so and you will have your very own
Krawk.
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To get a Grundo: 1. Make sure you have 3 or fewer neopets.
2. Go to the Space Adoption Agency on the Virtupets Space
Station, which can be found here:
http://www.neopets.com/space/spaceadoption.phtml
Click on Enter Agency and adopt a Grundo.
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3.1.2. | ***Limited Edition pets *** |
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The Limited Edition pets are:
Chomby
Cybunny
Draik
Jetsam
Kiko
Koi
Poogle
Tonu
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How to get Limited Edition pets: TNT releases only so many of these guys every
now and then. You just have to be there when
this happens.
Draik, the one exception: Draiks are never released. To get a Draik, you must:
1. Make sure you have 3 or fewer neopets.
2. Get a Draik Egg. These come in a few colors, but
all costing at least 500K.
3. Take the Draik Egg to the Draik Nest in
Meridell, which can be found here:
http://www.neopets.com/medieval/draiknest.phtml
You now have a Draik!
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3.1.3. | ***Other ways to get the Rare pets*** |
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- Feed your pet a Morphing Potion. These can change not only your pets
apperance, but also its, species.
- Sometimes you might get a rndom event in which your pet will be changed
in some way (VERY RARE).
- Blast your pet with the Lab Ray (you need all 9 peices of the Secret Lab Ray
Map).
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3.2. | ***Painting your pet*** |
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Yeah, you can paint your neopets. No, silly, not with regular, boring paint,
but with magic paint! To do this, you need a magical Paint Brush.
A few things about Paint Brushes:
- There is NO Neopian shop that sells Paint Brushes, but you might be able to
find one on the Shop Wizard.
- Paint Brushes can only be used once, and then they dissapear.
- To use a Paint Brush, you need to take it to the Rainbow Pool in Neopian
Central, which can be found here: http://www.neopets.com/rainbowpool.phtml
- You will sometimes get Paint Brushes through random events.
- You can get one (randomly selected) paint Brush by refering 10 people to
neopets.
- Some Paint Brushes only change your pets color to another color. Others
change your pets color to a pattern. Others still transform your pet
into strange and magical things.
- Not all the Paint Brushes can be used. There are two brushes that have lost
there magic and can no longer paint pets.
- There are two Paint Brushes that will paint a pet diffrently based on its
sex.
Other things you should know about Painting a pet:
- Not every neopet can be painted any one given color. To see what colors your
neopet can be painted, go here:
http://www.neopets.com/rainbowpool_allpetcolours.phtml
- There is an item called Rainbow Swirly Potion that can change your pets
color, sex, species and a few stats. But, its UNGODLY rare.
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3.2.1. |List of Paint Brushes|
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Plain Color Paint Brushes:
Purple Paint Brush
White Paint Brush
Red Paint Brush
Yellow Paint Brush
Green Paint Brush
Blue Paint Brush
Silver Paint Brush
Gold Paint Brush
Brown Paint Brush
Orange Paint Brush
Pink Paint Brush
Pattern Color Paint Brushes:
Rainbow Paint Brush
Glowing Paint Brush
Striped Paint Brush
Shadow Paint Brush
Split Paint Brush
Cloud Paint Brush
Disco Paint Brush
Electric Blue Paint Brush
Fire, Fire, Your Pants On Fire Paint Brush
Speckled Paint Brush
Skunk Paint Brush
Starry Paint Brush
Spotted Paint Brush
Checkered Paint Brush
Transformation Color Paint Brushes:
Grey Paint Brush
Invisible Paint Brush
Scritchy Sketchy Paint Brush
Strawberry Fields Forever Paint Brush
Faerie Paint Brush
Lost Desert Paint Brush
Tyrannian Paint Brush
Baby Paint Brush
Pirate Paint Brush
Mystery Island Paint Brush
Ghost Paint Brush
Plushie Paint Brush
Darigan Paint Brush
Maraquan Paint Brush
Snow Paint Brush
Sex-Dependent Color Paint Brushes:
Usuki Paint Brush
Royal Paint Brush
Paint Brushes that no longer work:
Stone Paint Brush
Glass Paint Brush
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2.2. |Wait! Theres more!|
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There are some colors that can't be gotten from a Paint Brush and some that
are species specific.
Mutant
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Your pet becomes a mutated version of itself. There are only 2 ways to get a
mutant pet:
1. Feed your pet a Transmogrification Potion.
2. Lab Ray side affect.
Jelly
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Your pet is turned into jelly (this one is REALLY FREAKEN COOL!)!
The Lab Ray is (currently) the only way to get a jelly pet.
Snot
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Your pet is covered in snot (yeah, I know, its stupid....).
The Lab Ray is (currently) the only way to get a snot pet.
Sponge
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Your neopet turns into a sponge (this one looks uber cool~)!
The Lab Ray is (currently) the only way to get a Sponge pet.
Alien
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AISHA ONLY! Your Aisha turns into an Alien Aisha!
The Lab Ray is (currently) the only way to get a Alien Aisha.
Malevolent Sentient Poogle (Msp)
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POOGLE ONLY! Your Poogle turns into an Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushie
(like the one found on the TCG). The Lab Ray is (currently) the only way to
get an Malevolent Sentient Poogle.
Special Chia Colors
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Chias have the ability to be painted to look like fruit and veggys.
To change a Chia into a fruit/veggy, you need to feed it a Magical
Chia Pop.
The Special Chia Colors are:
Apple
Asparagus
Aubergine
Avocado
Blueberry
Carrot
Chokato
Durian
Gooseberry
Lemon
Lime
Orange
Peach
Pea
Pear
Pineapple
Plum
Thornberry
Tomato
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3.3. |Abilities|
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Yeah, your pet can learn Abilities. These abilities can be used in the
battledome. To learn abilites, you must first find Bottled Faeries.
There are 6 types of Bottled Faeries:
Bottled Dark Faerie
Bottled Light Faerie
Bottled Earth Faerie
Bottled Fire Faerie
Bottled Air Faerie
Bottled Water Faerie
And one type of Bottled Faerie that hasen't been released yet:
Bottled Grey Faerie
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3.3.1 |The list|
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The Faeries will only teach your pet an abilitie if it is of a high enough
level.
Here is a list of the abilities that each faerie will give you:
Air
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Level: 1
Abilitie: Spark
A gentle bolt of electricity will help fend off your enemies.
Level: 5
Abilitie: Air Shield
Gusts of wind encircle your creature when it is attacked and help fend off
incoming blows.
Level: 8
Abilitie: Haste
Your pet becomes faster in movement and combat.
Level: 10
Abilitie: Thunder Tail
The mighty Thunder Tail attack.
Level: 12
Abilitie: Flight
This will allow your creature to take to the skies and fly.
Level: 17
Abilitie: Dive
Dive into combat and surprise your enemy with this attacking advantage!
Level: 21
Abilitie: Invisibility
This will make you safe from attack Well,as long as your enemies do not rely
on their
sense of smell.
Darkness
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Level: 2
Abilitie: Night Vision
Night Vision allows your pet to see at night.
Level: 4
Abilitie: Nighttime
Darkens an illuminated area.
Level: 7
Abilitie: Temporal Leak
Creates a bubble of slow time that will slow down all creatures that come
near you.
Level: 10
Abilitie: Shroud
Makes you 99% invisible to creatures of good faith.
Level: 12
Abilitie: Demon Breath
Your pets demon breath releases a fearful stench that prevents most creatures
from
coming closer.
Level: 17
Abilitie: Shadow Health
This will allow you to extend your creatures maximum life by borrowing
defence from
the shadow plane.
Level: 21
Abilitie: Drain Life
This evil ability allows you to steal health from another NeoPet in combat.
Earth
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Level: 1
Abilitie: Magic Pebbles
This allows you to animate the rock around you and fire pebbles at your
enemies.
Level: 3
Abilitie: Tough Skin
The power of the earth will harden your pet's skin, making it more difficult
to hit.
Level: 6
Abilitie: Magic Berries
Creates magical berries for your NeoPet, or its friends, to eat.
Level: 10
Abilitie: Burrow
By activating this ability, your pet will burrow out of harms way when trying
to evade combat.
Level: 12
Abilitie: Negg
Creates a juicy Negg for your pet.
Level: 15
Abilitie: Twisting Vines
This ability summons vines from the forest to twist around and attack your
opponents.
Level: 19
Abilitie: Great Feast
Create a feast fit for a king with this powerful ability.
Level: 23
Abilitie: Regeneration
The power of the earth will help your NeoPet naturally heal faster than
others.
Flame
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Level: 1
Abilitie: Smoke Screen
Escaping from combat is easier if you can hide yourself in a smoke screen.
Level: 3
Abilitie: Fiery Roar
This loud roar is sure to scare away even the most fearsome of enemies.
Level: 6
Abilitie: Fiery Gaze
By using the fiery gaze ability your pet can hypnotize weak-minded creatures
and
force them to do its bidding.
Level: 8
Abilitie: Fireball
This powerful ability lets your pet shoot magical fireballs at its enemies
Level: 12
Abilitie: War Cry
Rushing into combat with a war cry will make your NeoPet more aggressive.
Level: 15
Abilitie: Lava Spit
Your pet gains the ability to spit a bolt of molten hot lava at an enemy.
Level: 19
Abilitie: Song of the Volcano
The song of the volcano gives you protection when roaming the hot lands of
Neopia.
Level: 24
Abilitie: Boil
Invoking the power of flame against water will give you a powerful advantage
against water creatures.
Light
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Level: 1
Abilitie: Magic Torch
The Magic Torch lights up dark areas and never goes out.
Level: 4
Abilitie: Flash
Blind your enemies with this flash and escape from combat easily.
Level: 7
Abilitie: Bless
When your NeoPet has been blessed, it will heal faster and also become
stronger in combat.
Level: 10
Abilitie: Sun Ray
A bright beam of sunlight that will help you defeat evil creatures.
Level: 13
Abilitie: Psychic Blast
A psychic blast may overwhelm weak-minded opponents.
Level: 17
Abilitie: Mote Dance
Small motes will circle around your creature, protecting it from harm.
Level: 22
Abilitie: Restore
Restores some of your NeoPets health, and negates any bad things that may
have happened to it.
Water
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Level: 1
Abilitie: Heal
With this, your creature gains the ability to heal itself.
Level: 3
Abilitie: Bubble Shield
Although not a strong shield, this bubble will protect your pet for a short
period of time.
Level: 6
Abilitie: Water Jet
Allows your pet to shoot a powerful jet of water at an enemy.
Level: 9
Abilitie: Quench
Quenching the flames of fire-type creatures will give you an advantage
against them in combat.
Level: 12
Abilitie: Steam Shield
The steam shield is a gaseous force field that deflects light attacks. Its
effects are temporary.
Level: 16
Abilitie: Water Breathing
This magical ability allows your pet to survive underwater for long periods
of time.
Level: 20
Abilitie: Water of Life
This ability allows your NeoPet to create magical healing waters.
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There are more abilities than the ones listed above. Higher level pets can
learn other abilities.
For more information about abilities, see Firestorm88's Faerie Abilities FAQ,
which can be found here:
http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/online/file/neopets_faerie.txt
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4. | ***MAKING NEOPOINTS THE GAME WAY*** |
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Games, the reason you probably signed up for neopets. There are over 140
games, which fall into 3 categories - Action, Puzzle, and Luck/Chance.
Also, every day there is a different featured game which when played
will score you double the amount of neopoints you usually would. Some
make better NP than others.
Not all the games are listed here. If you have any tips/strategys that you
think should be listed here, e-mail them to jelly__soup@hotmail.com (you
will be credited).
NOTE: "Plays" refers to games in which you sent the score. If you got 400
points, then 350 points, and sent score for both, but then got 100,
and didn't send the score, you still have 1 "play" left.
ANOTHER NOTE: Remember, the Featured game will give you double the neopoints
you win, but there is a 1000np cap to the amount of neopoints
you can win from a flash game at any one given time.
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4.1. - ACTION GAMES
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Quick notes about Action Games:
- As paid advertisement games come and go, they will not be listed here.
- Action games are, 9 times out of 10, Flash games. That means you need
the Flash plugin. If you need it, the game will not load and give you
a link to the site you can download it for free at.
- Action games 'tend' to give out more neopoints in a shorter amount of
time than other games.
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*200m Peanut Dash*
Difficulty - Easy to medium
Reward: 1.3 times your score(appx.) in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
You start by violently tapping the left and right arrows on your keyboard
alternating. This will give the elephant the power to toss the peanut. You
want more power; I like to get about 4/5th of the way down the bar. When
you have enough power, tap the up key to toss the peanut. The pupplyblew
will take off running. You control the puppyblew, and are racing to catch
the peanuts. Unfortunately, there are several logs lying on the ground.
You must use a special move to jump these:
Left Up Right => Front Flip
Right Up Left => Back Flip
Up Right => Straight Jump
Left Right Left Right Up => 2x Front Flip
Right Left Right Left Up => 2x Back flip
You get three throws to get as many points as possible. You must catch the
peanut to get a score. When you are done, you can send your score if you like
it, or try again.
Strategie by care_bear_kara@hotmail.com
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The way to really get alot of points is at the beginning, when you give
energy to the elephant, tap both the left and right arrow keys at the
exact same time until the bar reaches its maximum. This way, you can
send the peanut 200 m every single time. Also when jumping over the
logs, do not just flip over it, double flip over them every single time.
And at the end when catching the peanut, double flip up to catch it,
you will get a 50 point bonus. With these strategies, you can get 900
points every single time.
=Now accepting Tips/Strategies for this game=
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*Advert Attack*
Difficulty: Easy to hard
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
The object is to win a race by clicking the "Go" signs on the bottom half of
the screen. They move after every click. Starting with the second round, you
will have to deal with pop-up ads on the game screen blocking the "Go" signs.
You delete the popups with a red x in their upper-right corner, and if you
cant do that, you'll have to move it by clicking along the top and
dragging. This can be easy at times, but can get very, very, difficult.
=Now accepting Tips/Strategies for this game=
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*Better Than You*
Difficulty: Medium to Hard
Reward: 1,000 - 20,000 NP, a trophy, and an item
Limit: You can beat a challenger once per week
Each week neopets puts up a new challenger and a score you need to beat at a
certain game to win. The earlier you win, the better a prize you get. Note
that you MUST access the game through the Better Than You screen for it to
count. The first 10 people to beat the challenger get 20,000 NP and a gold
trophy for your user lookup, the next 40 people get 10,000 NP and a silver
trophy, the next 450 get 3,000 NP and a bronze trophy, and the other 4500
who win get 1,000 NP and a medal. This varies in difficulty due to the range
of games from week to week.
NOTE: To have a chance, you need to be there within the hour that the new
BTY challenge was started. As of 3/3/04, news is updated at 12:00am NST.
Thats when a new BTY challenge would be started.
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*Bumper Cars*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Ram the others cars, don't get rammed. Very easy. There also a number of
pickups: Wrench, which heals your vehicle; engine, which gives temporary speed
burst and increases damage infliction; oil can, which makes turning an
adventure; and land mines which badly damage your car. You can play up to 4
humans, but Neopoints are rewarded to solo vs. computer only.
=Now accepting Tips/Strategies for this game=
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*Carnival of Terror*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
A classic wild west shooting game without the Wild West. Shoot the clowns
while trying to get the powerups, which fall from the sky, as they will
grant more time, more health, or more ammo. Shoot the pies that fly at
you, as they will hurt you. Yes, pies are actually bad in this game.
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*Chia Bomber*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
You're a chia in a crazy world. You try to shoot the other things whilst
moving to avoid them. They can set set red mines, watch out for them,
and pressing the m key will drop a green mine for your help. You can
drop 5 mines per round. You do have infinite ammo.
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*Chomby and the Fungus Balls*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
A game similar to a classic "Chips Challenge" As you try to collect stars
while avoiding little critters and purple "Fungus Balls" Get the green
star, and bring it to the Purple circle with a star symbol. Control is
very poor. I suggest not playing this game.
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*Deckball*
Difficulty: Medium to Hard
Reward: 3 times your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
I really like this game. It's basically soccer one on one. You can play one of
3 modes - Survival, where you score as many goals as you can before the
computer scores on you. There is timed mode, where you play for 3 minutes
trying to outscore the computer player. And finally, points mode, where it's
first to 5 points win. There are 4 powerups/random event things. The cracker
will speed you up, or if Mirgle, the CPU gets it, it will slow him down.
Anchor, which is the anti-cracker. It will slow you down if you get it, but
speed Mirgle up if he gets it. Walls and holes. A wall may appear in front of
your goal or your opponents for a random amount of time. A hole will appear
inside your goal or Mirgles goal, and if a ball goes in it, it will reappear
in the center of the court without a goal being counted. For an in-depth
guide, I suggest reading Lord Treant's Deckball FAQ.
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*Defender Trainer*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: Twice your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Pay attention, there'll be a quiz. Oh wait. This is the quiz. Defender Trainer
will test your knowledge of pets, petpets, and food. Sometimes the images will
be turned upside down, become smaller, or get shadowed to make it harder for
you. They will ask you "What begins with the letter _?" or "Which is an
anagram of _____". You can play on one of three difficulties: Easy, which
has 4  choices per question, Medium, which has 6 choices, or Hard, which
has 9. If you know your neopets, this game should be rather easy.
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*Defenders of Neopia*
Difficulty: Easy to hard
Reward: Trophy
Limit: None
To ACTION! This game requires you to track down a thief who has stolen
something from a poor Neopian City. Basically, you have to beat whoever stole
whatever in a 1-player battledome fight. This means you must have a pretty
good pet to get past the first couple rounds. Talking you your supervisor
will give you some hints, but it all depends on your pets' strength.
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*Dubloon Disaster*
Difficulty: Easy to Medium
Reward: Five times your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
This is one of the first games I play every day. It pits a krawk in a boat
against an infinite number of mines while riding around collecting dubloons.
The dubloons range in value from two dubloon coins to two hundred dubloon
coins. Obviously the lower value ones are much more common. You move the boat
using the arrow keys to control. You should get used to the acceleration -
deceleration fairly quickly.
The big thing to remember is that two mines will explode if they collide. So
collect two coins, then position your boat in about the middle of the two.
When they get close, continue to position yourself until they collide.
Then there are no mines. Repeat this every time after 2 mines.
Remember, though, mines will speed up when they get near you. This will
take a lot of practice, but when mastered, it should not be uncommon to
score 100-200 NP per game. The only other thing to watch out for is a
whirlpool, in which case head to the corner farthest away from it
until it disappears.
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*Escape from Meridell Castle*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Double your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Right away I saw similarities to the old Mario games for NES. You take the
role of Valrigard the Draik who needs to escape from a castle to clear
his name from a crime he was framed in. You fly using the up, down,
left, and right arrow keys. Hitting space bar will swing your sword.
Do a test run to get used to the sword's physics. Also, be careful when
flying, the collision detection is tough, and you'll need pretty good
control to navigate the vertical levels.
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*Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars*
Difficulty: Med
Reward: 100NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
Hop inside your X-Scrub 4000 Walker Bot and patrol the outside of the
space station, using your laser cannons to shoot the enemies. Earn
points for each kill, and spend these at the end of each level to
upgrade your walker.
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*Extreme Herder*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: 3 times your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
A pretty simplistic game. You control Samrin the Kacheek, who is trying to pen
the petpets up before Balthazar gets to them. You automatically pickup the
petpet if you touch it. If for some reason you want to drop it, press space
bar. In the latter stages of the game, you will only be able to put the
petpets in from 3 sides, then 2, then eventually 1. The only two powerups
are a snowflake, which is helpful because it temporarily freezes
Balthazar, and an orange orb, which gives you a temporary speed burst.
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*Extreme Potato Counter*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: 7 times your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Potatoes will begin to fly across the screen. Your job is to count each and
every one. Eventually they will stop, and you will enter a guess. If your
guess was, say 10, you'd get 10 points. In further rounds, other things
will fly on the screen; try to ignore them.
Strategy by Goodbye Galaxy:
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Count the potatoes in groups of two so your brain doesn't get so
cluttered up with numbers.
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*Faerie Bubbles*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 75NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
A neopets version of Bust-A-Move and one of Jelly Soups fave games.
Faerie Bubbles pop if you get three of the same type together, and it's
up to you to clear each level by popping all of them. Use the left and
right arrow keys to move the bubble cannon and press the space bar to
fire.
If you get four or more bubbles together you will set off a combo. The
first three are good combos, and the bottom three are bad combos.
Water - This destroys all water bubbles on the screen.
Light - This changes all bubbles touching the combo to a random colour.
Fire - This burns all non-water bubbles that touch the combo.
Air - This is BAD. Don't do an air combo, seriously.
Earth - This makes a new line of bubbles appear.
Dark - All the bubbles in the combo will turn to random types.
The less moves you complete each level in, the higher your score will
be. Also look out for Nova and Rainbow bubbles, each with their own
special effects!
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*Faerie Cloud Racers*
Difficulty: Varies
Reward: Twice your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
You pick a faerie, and then try to avoid everything solid while trying to make
the other one crash into a wall, or the path you've gone over. See, as you go,
what you've gone over becomes solid, and cannot be crossed. There are 3
difficulties, Easy, Medium, and Hard. The rewards are less on Easy, but so are
the speeds of the faeries. On hard, you score the most points, but it also has
the fastest pace. You can solo play 2 player against a friend, though no NP
can be scored.
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*Feed Florg*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
You have a hand, which you spin around a table, trying to keep the petpets on
the table. Every couple of seconds, and new petpet falls on the table.
Occasionally, Florg will eat one giving you more points. You get more points
for certain petpets.
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*Freaky Factory*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 150NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
You drop the colored blobs in to the vat of the matching color. Becarefull,
some blobs have special affects and others will change when you click on them.
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*Grand Theft Ummagine*
Difficulty: Hard
Reward: Twice your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Pretty Fun game, easier if you do one thing - Get the guard behind something.
He will never go around it, so after that, get the fruit and get out of the
level.
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*Grundo's Snowthrow*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: Twice your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Your trying to kill the snow beasts, what better way then with snowballs. Hold
down the left mouse button for power, then release to throw. Snow beasts
sometimes go down without dying, so don't be fooled. Remember, you get points
for quickness, accuracy, and number of rounds, so just keep that in mind.
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To get fast NP. Beat the first round without missing a single shot. In
the next round let the bad guys beat you (you can even speed up the
process by hitting your own guys, but agian, DON'T miss). The game will
give you 100 points for accuracy which, plus round bonuses, is well over
300 neopoints for about 30 seconds work. Get over 1000np in less than
two minutes this way.
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*Gourmet Club Bowls*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 100NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
In this game, you play against a variety of opponents. You each get to
roll one of your bowls (yours are red, your opponent's are blue) down the
green to try and get it closest to the jack (the white ball). You may
knock your opponent's bowls out of play, and he may do the same to you,
but if the jack goes out of play your opponent gets 2 points.
At the end of each round, points are awarded depending on the number of
bowls in play that you have nearest to the jack. If there are two blue
balls closest, that means you score two points. The first to 7 wins the
match, and moves on to play a harder opponent! Lastly, watch out, in
later levels there may be hazards on the green that will hinder your play.
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*Hannah and the Pirate Caves*
Difficulty: Hard
Reward: 1NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
This is an adventure game, where you play as Hannah. The object is to
get to the end of each level, collecting treasure along the way.
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*Hasee Bounce*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 3x your score in np.
Limit: 3 plays per day
To play Hasee Bounce you will need to use the mouse. Move left and right
to position the Hasee in the correct place and then press the left mouse
button to make one Hasee jump down and the other Hasee jump up.
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*Ice Cream Factory*
Difficulty: Too easy
Reward: A fourth of your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
This game is fun and easy, but not worth it. Why? Points come too slow, and
you only get 1/4th of your score in NP. Anyway, the powerups are:
Yellow Scoop: Gives you enough points to get to the next level
Purple with Chia inside: Makes you smaller
Blue with Chia inside: Makes you bigger
Red with heart: Extra Life
Dark Blue with - inside: Scoops come slower
Light blue with + inside: Scoops come faster
And one tip: If your in danger, right click, then right click somewhere else
to appear there.
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*Igloo Garage Sale*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Half your Score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
The famous Igloo Garage Sale at the top of Terror Mountain has it's own game.
Carissa will drop stuff, and Mika has to get them. The hardest part is the
acceleration/deceleration of Mika on the bottom. The different things and
point values are:
Pink bag - 1 point
Gray cylinder thing - 2 points
Umbrella - 3 points
Morphing Potion - 5 points
Rainbow thingy - 10 points
Dubloon coin - 50 points
Bomb - Stuns temporarily
Piano - Ends game
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*Jelly Processing Plant*
Difficulty: Hard
Reward: Twice your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
This game is tricky because you can only move to set places, not free
movement. Use spacebar to pick up jellies and move them to their
color-coded bin. If it's Ice cream, let it go to the Skeith's mouth.
If you're good at it though, you can make some good NP
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*Korbats lab*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: One fifth of your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
This game takes way too long to get a good amount of NP, so I'd avoid it. But
if you want to play it, I suppose I can help. The flame block will take out
all blocks below it. A bomb block will take out those around it. From
the second level on, use this strategy:
At the beginning, position the paddle so the ball is on the left line, then
launch it. This will always make it go up the side.
The potions are as follows:
Purple - Bigger Paddle
Purple w/ white bottle - Smaller Paddle
Yellow - Inverses controls, left is right, right is left
Blue - Slow paddle
Red - Ball goes through everything except Korbats and Spyders
Black w/ Green Outline - Rocket which will break a wood block
Skull - Game Over
Flashing green - Faster paddle
Bright Orange - Blows up a group of blocks, but makes a skull fall
Black w/ red outline - Restart Level
Orange w/ red outline - Korbats and Spyders disappear
Solid White - Advance to next level
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*Kreludan Mining Corp.*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 140NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
God, this game sucks...You have to pick up some rocks with your ship and
then guide the ship to the drop point.
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*MAGAX: Destroyer*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Pretty fun game. You have to destroy enemies shown on your top radar, the red
dots. Momentum is the basis in the game, once you start in a direction, you
keep going that direction, continually increasing speed. You have to start
going the other way to slow down. Space bar fires the laser.
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*Meerca Chase*
Difficulty: Varying
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
Can you say snake? That's exactly what this game is. There are 3 different
difficulties which affect the speed of your Meerca, and how many points each
negg counts as. Don't get the red neggs, and avoid your tail and the walls.
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*Meriball*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Twice your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
You take the role of Lisha the Aisha playing Meridells most popular game. You
take turns hitting the ball against the wall using space bar. The opponents
get gradually harder (faster) as you go on. There are several powerups/traps,
including moles that pop up, bombs, slower ball, etc.
UPDATE: You can now also play as Boris, Morris, Keyla and Jeran.
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*Mootix Drop*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 150NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
To play, use the space bar to launch, and the arrow keys to guide Harry
to the target. On the way down there will be a number of rings to fly
through. Make sure you guide Harry through as many as possible in
order to maximise your score. Flying through the centre of a ring
will give you double points! If you quickly tap left or right twice
in succession, Harry will do a barrel roll.
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*Neopian Adventure Generator*
Difficulty: Varies
Reward: Trophie is you make a good adventure.
Limit: None
Make or read a Choose-Your-Own Adventure thing. They're pretty fun to do
actually, even though there is no reward.
UPDATE: You can win trophies from this. All you have to do is make an
adventure and let people vote on it.
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*Nimmo's Pond*
Difficulty: Medium
Reward: Half your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
This IS Asteroids. You're a Nimmo destroying other lily pads by firing with
the space bar button. Momentum is a huge factor here, so it takes a while
to get used to. You can also snatch bugs and use bombs. Fans of the old
game might like it, but don't expect anything groundbreaking.
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*PetPet Battles*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: Petpet levels
Limit: None
Very shoddily done, pointless thing right here. You can only attack head,
body, or defend. I guess it could help your pet in battledome, but it
won't make a huge difference. I wouldn't play these unless your bored,
as a lot of luck is required.
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*PetPet Rescue*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 3 times your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
In case Asteroids wasn't enough, now we have a Frogger game. Only this time,
you have to get petpets back to the main dock part. Get a pet pet and bring
him back to the door at the bottom of the screen. You get points per
petpet, and pink gems will give you bonus points, which will help get
you to the next level.
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*Petpetsitter*
Difficulty: Easy
Reward: 40NP per 100pts scored
Limit: 3 plays per day
Mad old Mrs. Williams has gone away and left you in charge of all her
Petpets - she has so many of them she simply does not know what to do!
Petpets will roam around the house and it's your job to take care of
them...
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*Pterattack*
Difficulty: Hard
Reward: Your score in NP
Limit: 3 plays per day
A hard but fun game. You need to shoot the Pterodactyls and avoid Grarrls. You