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Contents
Ø Featured Article Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, or whatever...
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Featured Game
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Featured Site
General News
Neopets issued the following reminder about chain letters/message boards: Recently people have been sending chain letters promising some reward from the Neopets team if you send the message on to x number of people. This is totally false, we do not reward people for spamming and anyone found doing this could have their account frozen. Chain letters are annoying rubbish and we will not condone them. (November 1, 2002) Obviously, this was not strong enough, because this follow-up was issued: UPDATE - If you post any scam chain letters (i.e. post this on ten boards and get a faerie paint brush) then you will be frozen. You have been warned! (November 14, 2002)
Neopets is going to be replacing Whackabeast with a new game where members of the Neopets Team pop up and you have to hit them on the head. (November 4, 2002)
Cheeseroller now has 4 more types of cheese to choose from. That brings the total to:
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Price |
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Spicy Juppie Cheese |
150 np |
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Smoked Snorkle Cheese |
300 np |
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Triple Mustard Cheese |
450 np |
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Honey Cheese |
600 np |
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Big Beefy Cheese |
750 np |
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Purple Spotted Cheese |
900 np |
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Brain Cheese |
1,050 np |
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Alkenore Cheese |
1,200 np |
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Mutated Cheese |
1,350 np |
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Bubbling Blueberry Cheese |
1,500 np |
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Tyrannian Dung Cheese |
1,650 np |
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Quadruple Fudge Cheese |
1,800 np |
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Brick Cheese |
1,950 np |
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Gooey Snot Cheese |
2,100 np |
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Peppermint Cheese |
2,250 np |
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Overgrown Cheese |
2,400 np |
(November 4, 2002)
Another new random event has been released: (November 4, 2002)
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Something has happened! |
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A Ghostkerchief goes up to Jenny945 and gives them a big hug. Looks like you have found a new friend! |
Another “spooky” random event has been released:
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Something has happened! |
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Hubrid Nox stares at you, and his eyes glow. All your Neopets have come down with a bad case of NeoWarts'!!! |
(November 6, 2002)
The Kitchen Quests are now being a little more random in the items they ask you to get. (November 13, 2002)
Several new Neopedia articles have been added this month:
ü Battle Potato (November 6, 2002)
ü Golden Carrot (November 6, 2002)
ü Dorak the Krawk, star of Dubloon Disaster (November 12, 2002)
ü Bendy Desk Light (November 14, 2002)
ü Regal Bridge (November 14, 2002)
This month could be renamed “Month of Product Placement Game Invasion” rather than “Month of Storing”. Here is a list of all the product placement games that were added to the site:
- Cheetos Chase by Cheetos (November 4, 2002)
- Solar Surfer based on the upcoming Disney film Treasure Planet. (November 4, 2002)
- A Brush With Fate by Oral-B (November 4, 2002)
- Bubble Yum Blowout by Bubble Yum (November 13, 2002)
- ESCAPE FROM MERIDELL CASTLE by J. Boogie Enterprises(November 13, 2002)
- Dazzling Dress-Up by What’s Her Face (November 16, 2002)
- Lilo & Stitch - Hawaiian Rollercoaster by Disney (November 20, 2002)
- Race for the Taste by General Mills (November 21, 2002)
The only non-product placement game additions this month were Attack of the Marblemen on November 21, 2002, and Spell-Or-Starve on November 29, 2002
Now that you can only have 100 messages in your neomail box, Neopets has added a warning in your Inbox, in big red friendly letters, if you have 100 messages or more. (November 21, 2002)
Well, it seems Maraqua may have its first new inhabitant (at last!) Maybe they will finally get around to finishing the plot line they started several months ago. (November 21, 2002)
THE WAR HAS FINALLY STARTED - Yes, from his floating citadel, Lord Darigan has commenced attack on Meridell. His claims his orb was stolen by King Skarl years ago, and now he has come for it back. Who is at fault? Who is truly good and truly evil - well we’ll just have to wait and see. You can sign up for whichever side you want at either Meridell Castle or The Darigan Citadel. (November 25, 2002)
Now you can see all the Neopets merchandise that is currently available and even create your own wish list. (November 27, 2002)
Special Days for this month were:
- Nov 8th - Pteri Flying Championships (Pteri Day)
- Nov 14th - Celebrate the birth of the first Chia
- Nov 15th - Neopets is Three Years Old.
- Nov 27th - Usul Skiing Season begins (Usul Day)
Pet Changes
Neopets released a new paint brush, the Plushie paint brush, at the end of this month. Keep an eye on the Rainbow Pool for pet availability.
Pets are painted at the Rainbow Pool (on the Main Shops page) with special magic paint brushes. Click here for a list of all pets and their available colors.
v Even though it’s a bit late, Tonu owners can now turn their Neopet Ghost. (November 1, 2002)
v Zafaras can be painted with the Halloween Paint Brush at the Rainbow Pool...(November 4, 2002)
v Chias can now be painted FIRE. (November 7, 2002)
v If you own a Pteri, you can now paint it a Starry color at the Rainbow Pool. (November 8, 2002)
v The Pteri has been added to our How To Draw section. (November 8, 2002)
v The Baby Zafara has just been released. (November 11, 2002)
v The Buzz has been added to the How to Draw section. (November 11, 2002)
v You can now paint your Nimmo with the Island Paint Brush. (November 12, 2002)
v Scorchios can now be painted Purple. (November 13, 2002)
v The Eyrie has now been added to the How to Draw section. (November 13, 2002)
v The Moehog has been added to the How to Draw section. (November 14, 2002)
v If you own a Koi you can now paint it SPLIT color at the Rainbow Pool. (November 19, 2002)
v You can now own a Baby Lenny if you want one. (November 19, 2002)
v The Scorchio and Ixi can be painted with the spooky Ghost Paint Brush. (November 19, 2002)
v Kauvara has been working on lots of new Ixi Morphing Potions. Get yours in her Magic Shop now. (November 20, 2002)
v The SPOTTED Wocky is now available. (November 20, 2002)
v You can now turn your Cybunny into a Tyrannian version at the Rainbow Pool. (November 21, 2002)
v If you own a Lupe, you can now paint it Purple. (November 25, 2002)
v You can now own a Baby Quiggle. (November 26, 2002)
v PLUSHIE PAINTBRUSH - Giant Neopet Plushies have been spotted walking around Neopia. No, it's not some bizarre curse from Jhudora, it is merely the newest paintbrush. The first one available is the Skeith. (November 26, 2002)
v Put your Usul in the tiki mood with this new Island paint job. (November 27, 2002)
v Usuls can now be painted with the Fire, Fire, Your Pants On Fire Paint Brush at the Rainbow Pool. (November 27, 2002)
v Some new Usul Fun Images, Neogreetings, and three new Usul themed Screen Savers were released. (November 27, 2002)
v If you get a Plushie Paint Brush, you can now use it on your Chomby. (November 29, 2002)
v Kacheeks can now be painted a rather seasonal colour with the aid of a Christmas Paint Brush. (November 29, 2002)
v Kauvara has been busy mixing up these very sought after Draik Morphing Potions. (November 29, 2002
PetPet Changes
For those of you looking for the Petpet Puddle, it is part of the Rainbow Pool. When you are on the Main Shops page, click on the Rainbow Pool. At the top of the next page is the link to the Petpet Puddle. Click here for a list of all petpets and their available colors.
q The Blooky and Ghostkerchief have been added to our How to Draw pages. (November 4, 2002)
q The newest petpet, drackonack, has been released. (November 6, 2002)
q Walking Carpet and Baby Fireball have been added to the petpet How To Draw section. (November 6, 2002)
q The rare petpets that were brought out of retirement for Halloween have now been retired again. (November 7, 2002)
q If you own a Harris, you can now paint it lots of colors at the Petpet Puddle. (November 12, 2002)
q If you own a Blibble, you can now paint it Brown, White and Green at the Petpet Puddle. (November 14, 2002)
q Mirgle petpets now come in a variety of colors. (November 19, 2002)
q The Pawkeet has been added to our How To Draw section. (November 19, 2002)
q The Khonsu has been added to our How To Draw section. (November 20, 2002)
q Poppits can now be painted Green and Red at the Petpet Puddle. (November 25, 2002)
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Get your
hands on a Robot Petpet Paint Brush
and you can paint your Doglefox, Mallard, Poppit or Spyder! (November 26,
2002
TNE News
We are hoping to be able to offer Neopets merchandise for
those of you who do not have a Limited Too or Clare’s in your area.
Featured Article
Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, or whatever...
Gwynniae, or Gwynn for short, stuck her head in the room and called out over the Fluffy Sounding Speaker, “Hey, JC! We’re here!”
The desert aisha, Jenny945, looked up from her book with an excited grin. She closed A Warm Christmas and switched off the round table lamp on her wooden desk as the baby zafara crawled into the room.
“Great! We’ve been cooking all day…or at least most of the day.” JC turned the speakers down and flopped down on the bed next to her friend. She could hear the others downstairs in the parlor. Tonight was the last big get-together before everyone headed different places for “the holidays”. She had already watched as many of her friends had left. They chatted back and forth without making any effort to head to the parlor until another head poked inside the door. It was Traumaneo, Gwynn’s electric tonu brother. JC waved him inside and he made himself comfortable on the thick cream rug.
“Galanci will be up in a bit. He’s trying to interest Krawkie in a practice BD match.” JC laughed. She had known them long enough to know that despite whatever diplomatic phrasing the friendly tonu used, that what had PROBABLY happened was the ever complaining skunk krawk had said something to upset the baby draik and had been issued a challenge.
“Happy Hanukkah!” Piped Galanci3987 as he made it to JC’s door. Krawkie_ followed close behind with a surly expression.
“JC celebrates CHRISTMAS,” He smugly informed his little brother. Even the normally easygoing tonu glared at him when Galanci’s face fell. Before JC could retort, Gwynn rounded on her brother.
“Just because you’re nervous about the holidays, you shouldn’t take it out on him. Don’t ruin things for everyone else just because you are SCARED.” JC blinked in bewilderment. Gwynn turned to JC, “He thinks we’ll be left alone during the holidays. Remember all the others left here last year without any food or shelter? The Soup Faerie couldn’t even keep up.”
“But…MobileChick7 wouldn’t do that to you! She loves you!” JC looked at the others and realized that Gwynn, the oldest, had only seen one holiday season. The two youngest were barely half a year old…and they were afraid of tomorrow’s departure. Obviously, they had heard all the horror stories from other pets of being left to fend for themselves over the holidays. JC had fond memories of the last two years. StaggPub had booked her in the NeoLodge with all sorts of extra goodies as a special treat before she went on a trip to some Earth place called Washington, DC for Christmas. This year, she had saved up a few np on her own and planned to rent all sorts of video games.
StaggPub and MobileChick7 came upstairs chatting. On the way into the guest bedroom, StaggPub was telling her how much easier things ran with the Robo Acara helping in the home office.
“Are you about ready to eat?” MobileChick7 asked them, peeking into JC’s room. Everyone trooped downstairs to the dining room, with Gwynn and Galanci riding on Traumaneo’s back. JC noticed that the mood wasn’t as happy as it was before Krawkie clouded the festivities.
As StaggPub passed around plates heaped with food, talk naturally turned to plans for tomorrow. JC tried to throw in an offhand question that would relieve her friends’ fears.
“Will you be staying here for the holidays?” She asked MobileChick7.
“Not this year. In fact, the caretaker will be closing up the house tonight.” Before JC could ask anything else, StaggPub and MobileChick7 began tossing ideas back and forth about who would still be able to spend time on the Newbie Chat. JC noticed that Galanci looked like he was on the verge of tears. Even Krawkie was unusually quiet, not voicing a single complaint. Only Gwynn seemed unconcerned. When MobileChick7 casually mentioned a rise in NeoSitting scams, Traumaneo jumped in.
“What, exactly, is a ‘NeoSitting scam’?”
“Basically, it comes from two different approaches,” StaggPub explained. The first is to trick people who want to help. They ask for someone to “babysit” or “NeoSit” while they are gone. Obviously, anyone doing this would have to have the password to get into that account. They tell the sitter that since they are trusting the other person to watch their account, the sitter must give them the password to his account “just to be safe”. Another way they trick people is by offering to NeoSit for anyone going on vacation. Once the other person gives out his password, they rush in and strip that person’s account, sometimes abandoning the pets in the pound and/or changing the password to lock the real owner out.”
“But isn’t it better to risk that than to leave us to fend for ourselves?” Krawkie complained. MobileChick7 shook her head sadly.
“It’s true that some people leave their accounts unattended for days at a time over the holidays, but there is absolutely no need to take a chance with a NeoSitter. Neopets offers Neolodge rooms for as little as 5np a day and they will care for everything during that time. They’ll let you get rooms for up to 28 days at a time, too, in case you don’t know how long you’ll be gone. Even if owners do not have fast computers or cannot play the Flash games, they can play enough games to afford the basics. NeoSitting is just evil.”
“So does that mean we’ll be at the Neolodge?” Galanci asked with his first sign of hope.
“Of course,You’ll be staying in the same one as
JC. We set it up as a special surprise a couple of weeks ago. Happy Holidays,
everyone!
Featured Game: GoGoGo
Have a guide you'd like to see here? Send it to: Naomi_Tran@baylor.edu
GoGoGo
By daytonakit
GoGoGo can be a confusing game to start with. I cannot recommend any sure-fire strategy to win. But I can offer you some advice that will help you get the most out of your 50 NP (the cost to enter the game).
- As with any game, you want to beat everybody. But as with any game, that isn’t always possible. Fortunately you do get points if you beat even just one opponent. Remembering this can ease frustration when you’re just not having a good game.
- Always try to play the lowest possible card, especially starting out. This will save your high cards for emergencies. Threes and Fours are great starters because they are your weakest cards. The only exception to this guideline is the Two. Since it can be played anytime (except on top of a Three), it’s a good reserve card to have, so save it as long as you possibly can.
- NEVER play a Ten if the Discard pile is empty. The Ten is a great opportunity for you to clear cards that are either completely useless to you (i.e. Threes, Fours and other low cards) or dangerous in the hands of your opponent (Aces and face cards). Save your Tens for that purpose.
- Try to keep track of what cards your opponents get when they pick up the discard pile. Those cards might be used against you later, so you want to be aware of who has what cards.
- If you have a bad hand and the Discard pile is low (3 or less), go ahead and pick it up. Of course, you don’t want to do this when the cards in the Discard pile are worse than what you already have. ;)
Here are a few screenshots along with suggested strategies to help you out:
The Ace is the only good card. If you play it, then you’ll have nothing good later to play. By then, the Discard pile will have grown and you’ll have to take several cards. Since the King is currently the only card in the Discard pile, it will be easier to take the King and have an additional high card to play later.
As tempting as it may be to play the Two, play the Five instead. Save your Twos for emergencies, when you have nothing else to play. This will keep you in the game longer and it will stack the Discard pile nice and big for your opponents.
In this shot, you just had to pick up a Discard pile of 18 cards – YUCK! This may turn into an advantage, however. Your first move with this new hand will be to play all 4 Queens. Playing the Queens will clear the pile, give you another turn, and prevent your opponents from using those Queens against you in the future. SAVE YOUR TWOS FOR LATER. They could get you out of a tricky situation as well as clear the Discard pile. If the opponent playing right before you plays an Eight, King or Ace, use that to clear some more cards out of your hand and out of the Discard pile.
Play your Aces first. The opponent will either pick up the cards or play the 4th Ace. (You can’t see it, but he already has several cards in his hand so he won’t be finishing the game soon.) Then on your next turn play your Twos, hence clearing the pile and giving yourself another turn. Your final move will be to play your last Face Down card and finish the game.
This is where Tens come in handy. You don’t want to open with a Ten because that wastes it. However, using a Ten now will clear the Discard pile and give me another turn. You can then play the Jacks, clear your hand, and begin working with your Face Ups.
What a crummy way to start! You can only play Odds on a Three and even though it would make sense to me, the Ace does not count as an Odd. Just pick it up and hope that this is not an omen of things to come. On the next turn, you can play the Ten then get that useless Six out of the way afterward.
Another curse turns into a blessing. Your opponent just played the King. Play your Kings and clear them out of the game forever. Then play your Threes and follow them with the Seven since it probably won’t do you much good anyway. Again, save your Twos until the time comes that you have no other cards to play.
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