Tips and Hints: Get Eleven Solitaire

The Get Eleven Solitaire Trophy Challenge is underway, so it seemed like the perfect time to share some hints and tips I’ve learned for winning big at Get Eleven Solitaire.

Here’s how the game works – you’ve got a pyramid of cards that need to be cleared. In order to clear the cards you need to create groupings of 2 or more cards that add up to the number 11.

If you need help, click on the draw pile to get additional cards…but be careful! The cards from the draw pile will be added to your pyramid, which means more cards to clear before you can pass the level.

Here’s a look at the game in action:

The game is timed, and the higher the level you reach, the less time you’re given to clear the board. If you run out of moves or time, the game is over.

 

So now that we’ve taken a look at how to play Get Eleven Solitaire, let’s talk about a few hints for reaching higher levels and getting a better score.

The first thing to know is how to use the “Bonus Cards.” Bonus cards appear in the column on the right side of the game.

You earn Bonus Cards by clearing 5 groupings in a row without clicking on the draw pile.

When you earn a Bonus Card, you’ll hear a special ringing sound. The card will pop up in the Bonus Card column, and it’s now available to be used to help clear the deck.

You do NOT have to use the Bonus Card in order to pass the level. However, unused Bonus Cards will disappear at the end of each level. Also, you do not have to use the Bonus Card before you can earn additional Bonus Cards. It’s possible to save them up and even use multiple cards in one grouping.

In order to pass the higher levels of Get Eleven Solitaire, you’ll need to be fast. One way I’ve been able to speed up my game is to memorize the pairs that add up to eleven. For example, if I know that 8 + 3 = 11, then whenever I see an 8 I’ll look for a 3 and vice versa.

Memorizing the four pairs below will help you clear your pyramids much faster:

One last tip I have for Get Eleven Solitaire is to just forget about the clock.

Focus on adding up the cards as quickly as possible and don’t worry about how much time you have left. In a game like this, even the seconds count, so you don’t want to waste valuable time looking up at the countdown.

Other than those tips and hints, the best advice I can give is to just keep trying. 🙂 If you keep practicing, you’ll definitely see an improvement in your score.

What tips or hints do you have for Get Eleven Solitaire? Let me know in the comments!

 

Ant Mania Trophy Challenge: Tips and Hints

If you read Webkinz Newz, then you probably know that there’s an Ant Mania Trophy Challenge coming up this month. The Ant Mania Trophy Challenge lasts from July 28th to July 30th.

I’m not very good at Ant Mania, so I started looking for some tips and hints at how to get a better score. I came across some pretty helpful information, so I thought I would share it with all of you. 🙂 Maybe it will help you get the trophy a little faster!

Let’s talk about the game itself – you’re a large black ant trying to pick up pieces of food on a picnic blanket…while avoiding smaller red ants. The more pieces of food you pick up, the more red ants that appear.

Eventually, after you’ve picked up a certain number of foods, a spider appears. (The number of food pieces that triggers the spider’s appearance varies according to whether you’re playing on easy, medium or hard.

If the spider or one of the red ants touches you, the game is over. You don’t get multiple lives or multiple chances – one touch, and the game is done.

There are three boosters or “Power Ups” that will also appear on the blanket:

To collect a “Power Up,” just run over it the same way you do when picking up a piece of food. Don’t wait too long or the Power Up will disappear. Like collecting a piece of food, collecting a Power Up also adds to your score.

Each Power Up gives you a different type of advantage and lasts only a few seconds. A power bar at the top of the screen shows you how much time you have left with your Power Up. It starts out green when it’s full, then goes to yellow, then orange and finally red just as it’s about to end.

Here’s the snail in action – you can see that it slows down the red ants (it slows down spiders as well):

Now here’s the tennis shoe – it makes the black ant (you) much faster:

Last is the lady bug armor – this protects you from the “enemies,” like a shield. If  you’re wearing the lady bug armor, you can touch a spider or red ant without losing the game:

Now that we’ve covered the basics, here are the tips and hints that I found:

1. The red ants are faster than the black ant, so don’t try to outrun them. Only when you have the tennis shoe/speed “Power Up” are you faster than the red ants.
2. The spider moves faster if you stay still. Once the spider appears, you want to keep moving at all times because the spider’s speed increases when you’re standing still…meaning it can reach you much faster.
3. You can move diagonally. You’re not limited to up/down, left/right. You can move in a diagonal line as well by using two arrow keys at once.
4. When wearing the lady bug armor, don’t waste time trying to hit the ants. There’s no real benefit to purposefully running over the ants while you’ve got the lady buy shield. They’re only stunned for a split second. It’s better to use the time getting as much food as possible.
5. The lady bug armor will start to flash/blink when it’s about to run out. This is helpful because you don’t have to look at the bar up top in order to know when armor will disappear.
6. You get a lot more points per food when you play on hard mode. Playing on easy and medium modes can help you get more comfortable with the game so you can play on hard mode and (hopefully) get a higher score more quickly.
7. You don’t have to run directly over the food. All you need to do is graze the side of the food in order to collect it.

Those are all the tips I have for playing Ant Mania. Do you have any hints for getting a higher score? Are you looking forward to the Ant Mania Trophy Challenge? Let me know in the comments!

Jumbleberry Fields Trophy Challenge

The 2017 Webkinz Berry Fest kicked off yesterday, and one of the activities to enjoy is earning a Jumbleberry Fields Trophy. To win the trophy, you must feed your pet 12 jumbleberries, 8 pickleberries and 5 moonberries.

There are a few different ways to get your hands on these berries. The first way, of course, is to play Jumbleberry Fields. Because moonberries are harder to win, you could consider buying some moonberry seed packets from the Ganz eStore.

Then there are the floaty clicky events. You’ll find different types of berries floating around Webkinz World all during Berry Fest (which lasts through June 28th). Also, be sure to stop by Webkinz Newz and find the floaty clicky berry there each day, too.

And remember to check the Daily Activities. There will be berry giveaways during Berry Fest, and you can earn more berries when you spin the Wheel of Yum.

If you get down to the last minute and still don’t have all the berries you need, you can use eStore points to “skip” a task. (You can purchase eStore points online at the Ganz eStore.)

I’ve earned the Jumbleberry Fields Trophy on my GABirdGirl account because I had enough berries saved up to fulfill the tasks. You see, all of my jars in Jumbleberry Fields are currently full, and I’ve been leaving them full so I could trade them in for the newest prizes.

Here’s the Jumbleberry Fields Trophy, front and back:

And here’s how the trophy will look on a pedestal in your trophy collection:

When you win the Jumbleberry Fields Trophy, you also win a Moonberry Gift Basket:

Drag the Moonberry Gift Basket into your pet’s room, and you’ll be awarded 5 moonberries:

Are you excited about the Jumbleberry Fields Trophy? Do you have lots of berries already saved up or are you going to have to win them? Let me know in the comments for some Jumbleberry Fields via Kinzpost. (Friend me on my TreeHuggerJess account. My GABirdGirl account is full right now.)

The Great Trophy Chase: Scrambled

When I first came up with the idea of The Great Trophy Chase I didn’t plan on trying for a Scrambled trophy, but this weekend I won a Scrambled trophy on both of my accounts!

The trophy looks like a folded omelette:

It’s also animated and bounces up and down:

Scrambled, which is actually called “Webkinz Scrambled” if you’re looking for it in the arcade, is a lot like Pizza Palace. Instead of pizza, though, you’re cooking up omelettes for a line of customers.

Here’s what the basic game play looks like:

(That’s my Strawberry Cloud Leopard named Lila – I also got the high score that day!)

You blend up one or more eggs plus one or more ingredients, depending on what type of omelette the customer has ordered. You put the omelette on the grill, pick it up once its cooked and put in on the customer’s plate.

Scrambled sounds deceptively easy because it’s more challenging than it first may seem. There are only 10 levels total – when you pass the 10th level you win the trophy. Levels 1 through 4 are pretty simple; even Level 5 isn’t too hard. It’s around Level 6 when some new challenges start to get thrown your way.

I’ve gahtered up some tips for Webkinz Scrambled that I think will help you pass the higher levels and eventually win that cool trophy. 🙂

First, there are two very important things to keep in mind while playing Scrambled. One is that every second counts. Two, stay calm and don’t panic when the customer starts to get angry.

What do I mean by an angry customer? Well, just like in Pizza Palace, a customer will start to show signs of anger (frowny face, puffs of smoke) when they’ve been waiting for a long time.

Here’s what an angry customer looks like in Scrambled:

There’s some good news, though. Customers may seem to lose their temper pretty quickly, but they actually stick around for quite a long time even after they’ve started to let out puffs of smoke/steam. It can be tempting to keep looking up at the customer or to get frazzled by their impatience. If you want to win the trophy, though, you have to practice ignoring the signs of anger and just keep playing the game calmly.

My next important tip is to only take care of two customers at a time. Now, there are five plates total, which means in the higher levels you’ll always have five customers waiting to be served. If this was Pizza Palace, I would suggest that you multitask and take several customers’ orders at once.

However, in Scrambled, you can’t really multitask – there’s only one blender, and you can’t buy more blenders, a faster stove, etc. Click on the first customer in line. Take their order and start blending up the ingredients. Once that omelette is on the grill, take the next customer’s order and blend it up while the first omelette is cooking.

That’s it. Just two customers at a time. Keep using this strategy throughout the whole level on every level. Just ignore the line of customers that start to crowd up in the back. I promise you can win the trophy with this strategy.

Staying calm and sticking to your strategy is how you earn your trophy. However, that doesn’t mean you can go slow or just take your time. Like I said before, in Scrambled, every second counts – even a split second counts!

So here are some tips and tricks I’ve learned to keep you from wasting any valuable time.

1. Keep your egg tray full

In the higher levels customers will start asking for four and five eggs in their omelettes, which will empty your tray of eggs quickly. Click on the stack of egg cartons to refill your tray – you don’t have to wait until the tray is completely empty.

Fill up the tray any chance you get or you could find yourself with an empty tray and having to wait to fill the next order. Also, don’t stop to watch the egg tray fill up. Just keep moving on with the order.

2. Dump in the ingredients as quickly as possible – you don’t have to go one at a time.

You see the cheese, onions and tomatoes in the bowls above? Those are the three ingredients you have to work with. Just go click, click, click. You don’t have to wait for one of the ingredients to fully empty into the blender before you can click on the next one.

3. The omelette only needs to go one shade darker

Scrambled is different from the Cooking Class where the pancakes must go two shades darker before they’re ready to be served. As soon as you see the omelette go one shade darker, that means it’s done and ready to be served.

4. You don’t have to babysit the blender

Once the ingredients are in, and you’ve clicked the button to start up the blender, it will do all the work on its own – including stopping on its own when the mixing has finished. So just start up the blender and focus on the next task.

5. Be precise about where you click

I’ve found that being sloppy with your clicking, especially when cooking and serving the omelettes, will waste valuable time. The game doesn’t give you much leeway in where you click in order to perform a task. Click directly on the omelette to serve it, and click directly in the middle of the customer in order to put the omelette on the plate. For me, this has been one of the most important time savers I’ve developed.

6. From Level 6 onward, each customer wants all 3 ingredients

You’ll notice this one on your own, but just remember that in Levels 6 through 10, each customer is going to ask for all three of the ingredients, so you only have to worry about the number of eggs.

One last important tip – serve the customers in order of arrival!

As I mentioned above, there are 5 plates on the counter. In the first few levels, the customers go to each plate in order from left to right, so it’s really easy to keep track of who you should serve next.

Unfortunately, this gets trickier in the later levels. Instead of lining up neatly from plate 1 to plate 5, now each customer will simply appear at the counter wherever an empty plate happens to be. This means you can’t just keep moving left to right and still be serving the customers in order.

What happens if you serve the customers out of order? Well, as we saw above, customers get angry when they have to wait. If the customer waits too long, POOF! They disappear. You only get so many “tries” on each level. If you lose too many customers in one level, the game is over.

So what’s the solution? There’s two parts. First, use your peripheral vision to see what animal has stepped up to which color plate. By that, I mean look from the corner of your eye while still working on blending and cooking up the omelettes. Second, if you’re not sure who’s next, look to see who’s starting to get angry. If a customer has started “smoking” or “steaming,” then they’ve been there the longest and that’s who you should serve.

Whew! I know that was a lot of information, but I hope it was helpful. When you pass Level 10 you’ll see this message, and you’ll know you won the trophy:

So what do you think about Scrambled? Are you going to try to win the Webkinz Scrambled trophy? Let me know in the comments!

Pinky’s Big Adventure: Trophy Challenge

I’m really excited about the Pinky’s Big Adventure Trophy Challenge that’s going to take place from January 27th to January 29th in Webkinz World.

Here’s a look at what you need to do in order to win the trophy:

Complete all 3 tasks on the list, and you’ll be awarded this awesome trophy:

The Trophy Challenge, as the name suggests, centers on playing Hungry Hog 2: Pinky’s Big Adventure – just called “Pinky’s Big Adventure” for short.

Pinky’s Big Adventure is very similar to the original Hungry Hog game. You’re playing as Pinky the Pig, and your goal is to gobble up all the junk food that’s scattered throughout the maze…but watch out! There are bees flying around the maze as well, and if a bee touches you, you lose a life.

The game board looks like this:

If a bee spots Pinky, it turns red and looks angry:

Even though your goal is to collect all the junk food, eating the junk food will actually slow you down. When Pinky is moving slower, it’s easier for the bees to catch him. That’s where the vegetables come in.

Eating a vegetable will speed you back up. Unfortunately, eating a vegetable will also make more junk food appear, which means it will take longer to complete the level.

Here you can see Pinky eat a piece of broccoli – he speeds up, but more junk food appears:

Pinky is not without a defense against the bees. Each level features one or more “bee helmets” that you can collect.

When you run over the bee helmet in the maze, the helmet will appear on Pinky’s head and remain there for a limited amount of time. During that time, Pinky can run into the bees without losing a life and can actually knock the bee off the screen temporarily. You also earn points for knocking a bee off the screen.

The bees are smart, though. When they catch sight of Pinky with the helmet on, they’ll turn and fly the other direction to try to get away. You’ll know they’re trying to escape because a bee helmet icon will appear over their head.

Here’s a gif that shows what Pinky can do with the bee helmet on:

I did say the bees were smart – but I guess that’s only partly true because the bees can get confused pretty easily. Turn a corner, get out of the bee’s line of sight or get behind a bee and they’ll no longer know where Pinky is. So, even if you can’t always “out run” the bees, you can usually hide from them pretty successfully.

I’m okay at Pinky’s Big Adventure, but honestly I’m not great. I haven’t made it past level 5 or 6. I do have a few hints, though, that I think will help you earn that kinzcash faster so you can get your trophy:

1. Take your time: the game isn’t timed so there’s no reason to rush. If you need to go slow and stay hidden from the bees, that’s okay.
2. Work one area at a time: the food is spread out everywhere on the board; instead of running back and forth (and probably attracting the bees) focus on one area of the board at a time. Once that area is cleared, move onto another.
3. Draw the bees to you and knock them out: To make the most of your helmet, wait to “put it on” until a bee is near you so you can knock the bee off the board. This not only earns you extra points, but it gives you a little bit of free time until the bee reappears. If you stand still near the helmet, you can draw the bees towards you and then put on the helmet and quickly knock all of them out.

Do you have any tips or tricks for succeeding at Pinky’s Big Adventure? Are you looking forward to the Trophy Challenge?

Cash Cow 2 Trophy Challenge

I’ve been so excited about the Black Friday Sale at the Ganz eStore (and all of my other Black Friday shopping, too!) that almost forgot that this weekend is your chance to win a Cash Cow 2 Trophy!

I prefer the original Cash Cow game, but Cash Cow 2 is fairly easy for me, and I definitely want one of those trophies! 🙂

As you can see in the picture above, in order to win the trophy, you need to earn 200 kinzcash playing Cash Cow 2, spin the Wheel of Wow one time and feed your pet 3 glasses of chocolate milk (at the W shop for 6 kinzcash). Overall, it’s a pretty simple challenge, which I really like because some of the other trophy challenges, like the Dashing Dolphin, were too hard for me. (I’m still bummed I missed that trophy!)

If you have a bit of a hard time with Cash Cow 2, here are a few tips to help you earn your trophy faster:

Hint #1: You only need to match up two blocks of the same color in order to remove them, unlike Cash Cow which requires three blocks of the same color.

Hint #2: Be sure to remove the cracking colored square first or else you have no chance of a perfect round (clearing all of the blocks from the board). You have 4 turns to remove the cracking color block before it turns gray and can’t be removed.

 

Hint #3: Try to remove as large of a “chunk” of blocks as you can at one time; this gives you more points.

Hint #4: The lightning bolt block will remove all of the blocks of one color.

Hint #5: The special block that looks like the top of a soda can will remove a 3×3 block of squares. It’s helpful to save this block until the end so you can remove remaining blocks that don’t match each other.

Hint #6: The special block that looks like a battery with a lightning bolt on it will remove an entire line of blocks. Again, it’s best to save this special block and use it at the end of a round to remove all the remaining blocks that don’t have color matches.

Hint #7: The plus sign block will do one of two things, depending on how many blocks are currently on the board. If there are a lot of blocks on the game board, it will “rain down” more blocks. If there are a lot fewer blocks on the board, a whole line of blocks will rise up from the bottom. It’s more beneficial to game play to have the line of blocks rise up from the bottom, so wait until you’ve cleared a good bit of the board before using the plus sign.

Raining down blocks:

Adding row of blocks to bottom:

Hint #8: After you get past the first few levels, a special block with a “x2” on it will be introduced. When this block is included in a group you’re removing, you get 2 times as many points. You want this group to be as large as possible.

 

I hope these hints will help you earn that Cash Cow 2 Trophy even faster! Do you have any tips for scoring big on Cash Cow 2? Let me know in the comments!

Black Friday Sales! Big savings and lots of fun!

The Ganz eStore is having a HUGE Black Friday sale. Whatever items you’re in the market for, the eStore has got you covered. There’s 70% off on items including clothes, furniture, wallpaper and flooring. There’s 40% off select exclusive online pets. And that’s just the beginning!

One of the highlights for me is the 50% off sale on CandyKinz pets and CandyKinz theme room items. I used several pieces from this collection in my “Good Ship Lollipop,” which won me a free virtual Pet of the Month from a Webkinz Newz contest.

For instance, I used the CandyKinz Lollipop Chair and the CandyKinz Wishing Well in my design. I created the pathway use CandyKinz Pathway Tiles. And I even included the CandyKinz Gumdrop Sofa!

I thought the Licorice Fish was so adorable that I bought one of those, too! I’ll adopt it this weekend so I can put up a video and show you how the Licorice Fish looks in Webkinz World.

Another pet I picked up this weekend is the ultra exclusive Sugar Plum Sparkle Pegasus. This online pet is ONLY available during the Black Friday weekend sale at the Ganz eStore, and once the sale is over, this pretty purple sparkling pet will be gone! I’ll adopt her this weekend too so I can show you what she looks like in Webkinz  World. (I definitely think my Sugar Plum Sparkle Pegasus is a girl!)

It’s time for me to go eat some lunch – but I’ll be back later today with more reporting on the Black Friday Sale at the Ganz eStore. And I’ll do a post with some hints for earning the Cash Cow 2 Trophy (only available this weekend!).

 

Closer Look: Webkinz Color Storm Trophy

I won the Color Storm Trophy on my gabirdgirl Webkinz account, and it’s awesome! The trophy is animated, and it has sound. When you click on it, it makes a loud thunder crashing sound, and then a lightening storm happens inside the jar.

Here’s a gif I made to show you what it looks like:

And here’s a look at the Webkinz Color Storm Trophy in my Trophy Room:

Have you earned the Color Storm Trophy yet? Do you have a Trophy Room? Let me know in the comments!

Quick Tip: Color Storm Trophy Challenge

This weekend (June 10th – June 12th) is the Color Storm Trophy Challenge on Webkinz. And I’ve got a quick tip to help boost your score.

To win the Color Storm Trophy, there are three tasks to complete:

The first two are easy – earning 350 KinzCash is the real challenge. My tip for higher scores on Color Storm is to try to make groups of 6 blocks.

To make a group of blocks of disappear, you need to make a group of at least 4 of the same color. If you can make a group of 6, then all of the rest of the blocks of the same color will also disappear!

Here’s what the game board looked like after I made a group of 6 pink blocks:

As you can see, there are empty “pockets” in the game board – that’s where the pink blocks used to be.

Making a group of 6 is challenging because you have to be careful that it doesn’t turn into a group of 5 – a group of 5 won’t do anything special. Here’s a couple of examplez of what it looks like to get set up for a group of 6:

I hope this tip helps – good luck as you try for that trophy!