Games Master Challenge 2015

[The Scrac that Smiles Back]

Not sure I'm going to have time to try at these games I've never broken the asked for score in before.

I like that cauldron prize for the Edna game.

[doctortomoe]

So since Wicky Wocky Wobble is my best game on all of Neo, (Seriously, my high score is 200 points higher then the current high score for this month) I decided to make this a real challenge and see if I could break 220 with my eyes closed.

I got 257

[Rabbit ♠]

Finally, some games that aren't terribly difficult for me. I had to try two times for Attack of the Gummy Dice and Wicked Wocky Wobble was a bit stressful for me, I didn't spend an hour on a game like Edna's Shadow yesterday.

[Liou]

*sniffle*
So Edna's Shadow really wasn't too bad once I'd got a chance to study the levels, (and once I'd remembered that Edna can actually zap the beasties) (because at first I was running around like HOW I GET RID OF THOSE THINGS), but unfortunately I came home too late yesterday to get it done. Didn't have time until this morning. My first green checkmark.
G-goodbye, All-Gold! ;________;
I'm still in this to fight the snow.
Gummy Dice, boring but ok. Wicked Wobble bores me too, but I just dodged all the items worth few points and waited for the ones worth more, so as to get the required score with a stack as small as possible. >_>
About to tackle the others. Splatter is... weird, but not too bad. Berry Bash is my favourite out of today's games, but another tedious one. Yeah, all of today's are pretty tedious for me.

[Zoey]

attack of the gummy dice is RIDICULOUSLY tedious... one game took me probably about half an hour to get to 900. D: But otherwise, all the games today weren't hair-ripping frustrating like edna's shadow. I liked berry bash, easily my easiest game out of all of them. XD That winter I spent playing Diner Dash paid off! Wobble took two tries (be patient and dodge the low-point items, as liouanne said!) and then it was only until the second game of Snot Splotter that I realized that if I just used my 2x bonuses in like, the first three levels, it was an easy 13k points. *facepalm*

[Duke Pikachu]

DAY 5:

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Challenges:
1. Om Nom Nom (Score 900 or higher in Attack of the Gummy Dice)
Game is tedious but not hard. Your main enemy in the game is not the risk of losing but them taking a point away from you for every block remaining when you complete a level (which or later levels can be really annoying). Don't really have any major tips but to remain patient, be smart with your placements, remember you can turn a block with A, and keep in mind the effect of some blocks (if you get a bomb or morph block try to place it on the taller stack).

Oh, and once you get over 900, QUIT! Don't even finish the level, just quit since you don't want to go under 900 when it subtracts points at the end of the level.

Also here's some cheats:

Type "delightful" to turn your current set of dice into morph blocks of a random color once per game. (I suggest waiting till a later level where you start getting sets of 5 blocks to place for this one)
Type "explode" to turn your current set of dice into bomb blocks once per game. (I suggest waiting till a later level where the blocks start to stack themselves up from the start)
Type "gummydice" to turn your current set of dice into a random color once per game.

Also while not a cheat, very rarely you may get a block with the Ollie, the Phantom Orange Shirt Guy, on it. His block works like a bomb block BUT it not only destroys the stack its place on but any block surrounding it!

2. Snot Funny! (Score 13,000 or higher in Snot Splatter)
Once you know the trick to do to get a TON of points its easy to complete. Its hard to explain, but what you want to do is try to "pump up" as many snot bubbles as you can till they're one or two drops away from bursting. Once you do that pop one of the snots and watch the point multiplier skyrocket you to thousands of points! Once again, if you're having problems just watch a video on Youtube to get a better understanding.
There is another strategy where you focus on getting a certain power-up (the Score Doubler) by trying again and again to get a chain of 20-29, but I kind of forgot about that strategy yet was able to get 13k without it.

3. Tower of Trouble (Score 220 or higher in Wicked Wocky Wobble)
This one is a bit tricky since its more a matter of luck than skill. Once you get a stack of two you need to start doing the balancing act. If it leans left you need to go right, if it leans right you need to go left. If you want to make it lean the other way you'll need to keep going the opposite direction its leaning until it switch which side its leaning. It can be a bit finicky which is why you should probably play more smart thank skilled. Basically just wait for the high scoring items to fall. Your main goal is Mr. Coconut The Wailing Evil Coconut and the Harffel Fruit (don't worry if you don't see them as they have a blinking alert border as well) but since those are rare focus on the 50 and 80 point items (just see JN's guide which you should be checking anyway for all games), maybe 35 point items. Finally type in "Wocky" for a Buzzer to drop a power-up that'll freeze your stack for a few seconds. Since you play this game with the mouse I suggest typing in "Wock" at the beginning so that way when you need it later all you need to do is pres "Y" to freeze the stack.

4. Buried in Berries (Score 1,000 or higher in Berry Bash)
This one is just a game of patience of multitasking. Honestly you'll get 1k way before it becomes difficult. Seat a customer, click on them to take their order, wait for the berry to grow, clock on the berry to pick it, click on the customer to deliver the berry to them, wait for them to eat, and click on them to clean up. All the steps are simple mouse movements/clicks that you'll get into the swing of things in no time. By the time the Tombola/Tiki Tack Man start appearing you should almost be done.

Today wasn't that hard, a bit tedious with some games but hey I'd take that over 900 in Edna's Shadow. But there are still 2 days left so be prepared for anything...

[The Scrac that Smiles Back]

YAY SNOWMUNCHER

[Mostly Harmless (flufflepuff)]

Aside from figuring out what world goes with each game and figuring out my progress today's challenge is pretty easy.

I just kept refreshing the page after playing my daily 18 -ish games.

Because...we have to do all the qualifying games on the last day don't we? I did a few at a time so it'd be easier tomorrow. Did anyone else do that?

[Rabbit ♠]

Spellseeker took a bit, and it was a bit boring, but otherwise, the games weren't that bad.

I would like to say that I love the prize from the Spellseeker game, though. That hat is just too cute. X3

EDIT: I played Advert Attack as one of my 15 games and I got the avatar.

[Liou]

Yay Spellseeker, Yay Goparokko! =D
(I enjoy Spellseeker for some reason. Only with the numbers, though.)

For the different worlds challenge, I only did one of each world, but tried to focus on those I hadn't played yet, in case there's a PLAY HUNDRED GAEMZ challenge tomorrow. Couldn't be bothered to do more than 15 today, though.
I just picked my favourite from each world and freestyled it.

Now I remember why I like Nova Defender: the little "pew pew pew!" sounds. Too cute.

[Duke Pikachu]

DAY 6:

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Challenges:
1. Globetrotting Gamer (Play one qualifying game from 15 different Neopian lands)
An easy challenge with two ways you could have done it:
Either do what Mostly Harmless (flufflepuff) did by just playing through the Qualifying games list until you beat the challenge (though making sure not to play all the games. However it would help with tomorrow which will have the 60 game challenge).
Or you can do what I did and just through through the Games Room "World" tab and play one game from each list until you've complete the challenge. It's probably the quickest and more organized way but you'll play less games.
The choice is yours, though with there being 19 Neopian lands you'll be able to complete the challenge. BTW, make sure the score you send in in a decent score, while it's not that high of a mark I do think there is a minimum score level for each game. I'll let you decide what's decent.

2. Munch, Crunch, Munch (Score 1600 or higher in Snowmuncher)
Because this is a Team Fire game, right? Looks like JS might have given up on the Team exclusive games.
Anyway, when you know what you're doing this is an easy score to get. Basically you want to focus on 3 things: collecting gems, your bloat meter, and the Bloat-B-Gone potions. Bloat-B-Gones remove 50% of your meter so don't bother collecting them until your at or over 50% in your meter. From there I can't really think of any other simple tip because honestly you don't need anything more complicated to get to the score. Like you can carefully eat the snow to try and make them combo (if a row of Snow colors match they'll vanish an give you points) and in later levels you'll encounter things like eggs (which hatch into snow wurms which will harm you but at the same time release a higher value purple gems), other edibles (fruit, eyes, and watch), and blocks that takes two bites to get through, but I don't think you'll need any of that to get to 1,600.
Like there's also a cheat, "buuuurrrrrrrrp" (4 u, 8 r) which acts like a Bloat-B-Gone but I don't think you'll need it as long as you're careful.

3. Flippin' Blocks (Score 800 or higher in Goparokko)
This game is just getting used to what to do which is easy as it has 3 difficulty levels. If you never played this game before or need a refresher I would suggest playing beginner for a bit to get a hang of things but, while you can probably get to 800 on easy, I suggest playing Medium or Hard as it gives more points. Nothing really to say other than that, just be quick as you are timed (though the timer resets after each move, on Easy it moves slowly but on Hard it depletes within a few seconds). And remember, you always turn things clockwise.

4. Abracadabra! (Score 50,000 or higher in Spellseeker)
This game is easy once you know what to do but can get tricky. I personally play on the Symbol mode but I think you can get more points with the Number mode as, depending on the rule, you can get a much longer chain going (infact you can get over 50k on the first level if you manipulate things enough). Whatever mode you choose to do the main thing to remember is that you want to get long combos for more points. If there's a gold piece you definitely want to combo with it as it not only gives you more points but fills the hourglass. However what you need to watch out for is the poison pieces as if they reach the bottom of the screen its game over and every match you make with them not in it they destroy the tile under them to get to the bottom screen quicker. So while you don't need to immediately get rid of them, keep them in mind as you'll need to get rid of them soon. And if too many poison tiles are on the screen and you can't get rid of them or don't feel you'll be able to complete the level on your next move, if you have the hourglass filled you can use it to turn the poison tiles into normal tiles! 50k seems like a lot, but it's actually so don't fret.

So Day 6 is done and it was... well... I don't want to say it but... easy. Yeah, I know, I probably jinxed things for tomorrow, but I can't lie and say any of these challenges gave me trouble. But tomorrow is the last day, and while we know one of the challenges will probably be the 60 game challenge (which isn't hard just a bit tedious), its the other challenges you gotta prepare for the worst for. Seeya then!

[Huntress]

Huwah, the Globetrotting challenge was weird. I made a list of all worlds I'd already completed a game for, determined that I had two more worlds I hadn't yet played a game for, did those, still didn't get the prize, figured I'd have to send in scores for fifteen different worlds' games starting from the point the challenge got released and began to chip through the worlds again, only to get it at 12 worlds. Not that I'm complaining, because I got to chip away at that gamelist.

And of course tomorrow is going to be a particularly insane workday for me so I'll have to do the final five challenges on top of magicking a dozen pages' worth of translation out of my brain.

Spellseeker is arguably easier for a high score in Number mode, it just takes more thinking than Symbols (but it's not timed anyway, so). With symbols, you have to make a chain of the same symbol so it's visually easy to do but sequencing numbers gives you a whole lot more leeway with the sequence.

[Patjade]

I just puled up the Worlds map in the Games Room, and started going around to each, picking a game I haven't played yet. Then I'd refresh the GMC page to see if I got the prize.

Still haven't gotten Itchy or Edna yet.

[Zoey]

So last day wasn't bad. Edna's was easily the worst game, imo (gummy dice trailing behind only because of it taking freaking half an hour). Yay for gold checks! ^.^ Wonder what the prizes will be this year?

[Ian Wolf-Park]

Oh, that's nice. I just took out my previous high score in Petpet Cannonball (717) by a measly 1 point