-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PSP - WTF (Work Time Fun) FAQ compiled by Dustin Wood (aka Ahlyis) Created 2-13-08 Last modified 9-1-09 Version: 1.12 This FAQ may be freely distributed provided it is kept wholly intact. It may not be sold for profit or added to anything which is not freely available and/or accessible. All updates will be sent only to www.gamefaqs.com, so look there for the latest version. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction [INTR] II. Jobs, free (with overall job comments as well) [JBFR] 1) Baseball Superstars [BBSS] 2) Pendemonium [PEND] 3) Mushroom Xing [MUSH] 4) Traffic Counter [TRFC] III. Jobs, $1.00 [JB01] 1) Lumberjack [LJCK] 2) Chick Sorting [SORT] 3) Three Count [3CNT] 4) Cliff Race 2000 [CR2K] 5) 4 Fingers [4FGR] 6) Animal Investigation Corps [AICS] 7) Copy Cat [COPY] IV. Jobs, $5.00 [JB05] 1) Private Number [PNUM] 2) Demonstration Roundup [RDUP] 3) Karate Superstar [KRTE] 4) Ready to Order [REDY] 5) Hell Pottery [PTRY] 6) The Net [TNET] 7) William Hell [WMHL] 8) Mad Dribblin [DRBL] 9) RPS World Championship [RPSC] 10) Elf King [ELFK] 11) Run Like Heck [RLHK] V. Jobs, $10.00 [JB10] 1) Caddy's Quest [CADY] 2) Bouncer Bash [BASH] 3) Pollinator [POLL] 4) Candy Shop [CNDY] 5) Private Number Deluxe [PNDX] 6) Happy Bullet [HPBT] 7) Perfect Nanny [NANY] VI. Jobs, $50.00 [JB50] 1) Space Blaster [BLST] 2) Drunken Mayor [DRNK] 3) Ghost Psychic [GHST] 4) Buddha's Quest [BUDA] 5) Private Number Executive [PNEX] 6) Hand Bell Delight [HDBL] VII. Jobs, Two-Player [JB2P] 1) Lumberjack Challenge ($1.00) [LJCH] 2) Seance ($5.00) [SNCE] 3) 3 Legged Challenge ($5.00) [3LEG] 4) CopyCat2 ($10.00) [CAT2] 5) Cliff Race 2000 VS ($5.00) [CR2P] VIII. Tools [TOOL] 1) Eye Spy ($1.00) [ISPY] 2) Ramen Timer ($1.00) [TIMR] 3) Handy Light ($1.00) [LGHT] 4) Restaurant Bill Splitter ($1.00) [SPLT] 5) Counter ($5.00) [CNTR] 6) Chinese Astrologer ($1.00) [CHNS] 7) King of the Castle ($5.00) [KOTC] 8) Matchmaker ($1.00) [MTCH] 9) Bingo ($5.00) [BNGO] 10) World Clock ($10.00) [WRLD] IX. Trinkets [TNKT] X. Frequently Asked Questions [FAQS] XI. Miscellaneous [MISC] 1. Emails [EMLS] 2. Anniversary Gifts [ANIV] 3. Version Info [VERS] XII. Credits and Contact Info [CRDT] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction [INTR] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Work Time Fun has you performing part-time jobs in Hell. Various demons will give you a choice of 4 different jobs to perform. Choose one and when you're done, you may have a completely different set of jobs available. When you first start out, you only have 4 jobs available. To get more variety, you'll have to earn money to spend in the vending machines. The vending machines are where you get new jobs, tools and trinkets. There are 4 types of vending machines, each with it's own cost to use. Each vending machine can give you different items and, as far as I know, each item is specific to one type of vending machine. Some items are even specific to certain vending machines, not just a particular price level. So vary which machines you frequent. This game is primarily about killing time, not about completing objectives. That said, there are awards available and it can be fun to try to collect at least one of every Trinket. You'll have all the Jobs and Tools long before you get all of the Trinkets. Furthermore, you can set objectives for yourself on any given game. Maybe you want to get to 300 pokes on 4 Fingers, or to complete Traffic Counter at least once. Much of the time, you can just strive for the top awards. But if they aren't enough, feel free to set goals of your own. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Jobs, free [JBFR] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In these next sections, I'll list every job available in the game. Each job appears in the section corresponding to the vending machine type where the job can be found. This section is for the four jobs that you start the game with. Each job will have several subsections: Description, Pay scale, Tips/tactics, Awards and Comments. Rules and Controls are readily available in the game itself, so I won't bother repeating them here. Description is just a brief description of what that particular game is about. Pay Scale will detail how your paycheck is calculated for the game. Tips/Tactics, in most cases, will hold suggestions on how to maximize the paycheck. But in some cases will also hold much more detailed information about the game. Check out Buddha's Quest to see what I mean! Awards lists all Titles available in the game. Titles marked with (*1) are Titles which are listed on the d3publisher's website, but which I haven't yet gotten personally to get their exact wording. As far as I know, the list available at www.d3publisher.us/SpoilerSection.asp is complete, though not worded the same as they show up in the game. If you go to that page, scroll to the bottom to find the Title List entry for Work Time Fun. Comments is just a catch all for anything else I wish to add about the game. I will include my personal record(s) in this section. ---------------------------------------- 1) Baseball Superstars [BBSS] ---------------------------------------- A) Description You are trying to catch 1,000 balls hit by a very angry coach. Catch the balls and throw them to first base. If you miss 3 times, Game Over. If you make it to 100 catches, it will clear any misses you had to that point. It clears all misses at each 100. B) Pay Scale $0.02 per ball caught $0.20 bonus for "Nice". (Make 10 "Ok!" throws in a row.) $0.30 bonus for "Good". (Make 20 "Ok!" throws in a row.) $0.50 bonus for "Excellent". (Make 30 "Ok!" throws in a row.) $1.00 bonus for "Oh! Great!". (Make 40 "Ok!" throws in a row.) $2.00 bonus for "Genius!". (Make 50 "Ok!" throws in a row.) $3.00 bonus for "Sexy!". (Make 60 "Ok!" throws in a row.) $4.00 bonus for "Kiss Me!". (Make 70 "Ok!" throws in a row.) $5.00 bonus for "Sweet Honey!". (Make 80 "Ok!" throws in a row.) Each bonus is in addition to the previous ones. C) Tips/Tactics Stand between 1/4 and 1/3 of the way from 2nd base towards 3rd. Stand with the top of your head even with or just below the middle of second base. This gives you the best ability to get to any of the hits from the coach. Remember that you can press X to dive for a ball, but beware of diving too far. If you are nearly to the ball, but can't quite get to it and you dive, the top of your body will likely dive past the ball and the ball will pass through your feet. You can catch the ball with any part of your upper body, but your lower body is incapable of getting the ball. Time your dive so that your upper body intersects the path of the ball. To make a "OK" throw, tap right on the D-pad and press X at the same time or a split second after. Stringing together 10 "OK" throws in a row nets you a bonus of $0.20. The first baseman will say "Nice" on the 10th "OK" throw. If you make 20, 30, 40, etc. "OK" throws in a row, he will have something different to say each time. The sequence of comments for each 10 consecutive "OK" throws is Nice->Good->Excellent->Oh! Great!->Genius!->Sexy!->Kiss Me!-> Sweet Honey! After that, it starts over again and you'll get $0.20 bonus at 90 because the game considers it to be starting a new string with the 81st throw. Every 50 balls, something comes onto the field to distract you. Up to ball 350, it is soccer players. From 350 onward it is a UFO and aliens. These are visually distracting, but completely harmless to run into. Ignore them completely and focus on catching the ball. Occasionally the distraction will decide not to show up or may stick around longer than normal. Nothing to worry about since they're just distractions anyway. The coach usually gives warning when he's about to hit a particularly difficult ball. Actually he just gets steaming mad and then hits a hard to catch ball. These first show up after ball 22, but they become much more frequent at higher levels. There are a LOT of different "hard" balls that the coach can hit. The first to appear are high hoppers and slow dribblers. The slow dribblers will slowly roll all the way up the screen. You don't need to rush in for them, you can just wait for them to come to you. You'll need to move to catch the hoppers at a point where they bounce on the ground. Next will be pop flies. You must catch these in the air. If they hit the ground, it's a miss. Watch out for short flies that you'll need to rush in further to catch. Those first appear at about ball 97. Past 100, you'll start to get deep flies as well. Also available at higher levels are sky high pop-ups. Just get under them and wait for them to come down. There are also line drives which never hit the ground. You must get under where they will pass, then jump up to catch them. I highly recommend playing this game somewhere relatively quiet. It helps a LOT if you can hear the hits and the sound of the ball when the coach hits a pop fly. Without it, it can be nearly impossible to tell if it is short or deep. At 500 catches, the color of the field changes from orange to more of a red. At 700 catches the field changes to blue. The red isn't a big deal, but the blue can be trouble. The shadow of the ball is a LOT harder to see on the blue background. Most of my misses after 700 are because I thought I was in the right place, but was a little off because I couldn't see the shadow clearly. D) Awards Little League Player -- Title for your 50th catch Super Little League Player -- Title for your 100th catch High School League Player -- Title for your 200th catch Super High School League Player -- Title for your 300th catch College League Player -- Title for your 400th catch Super College League Player -- Title for your 500th catch Farm League Player -- Title for your 600th catch Super Industrial League Player -- Title for your 700th catch Professional League Player -- Title for your 800th catch $850,000-A-Year Player -- Title for your 900th catch Mega League Player -- Title for your 990 - 999th catch The Baseball Hall of Famer -- Title for your 1,000th catch (*1) Legendary League Player -- Title for your 1,000th catch without missing (*1) Strong-Armed Player -- Title for 50 nice throws in a row Laser Beam Player -- Title for 80 nice throws in a row Wimpy Player -- Title for being afraid of the ball Morning Practice Player - Title for working in the morning 10 times (*1) Night Practicing Player - Title for working at night 10 times (*1) Struggling Player - Title for making 80 catches with no lives left E) Comments The Wimpy Player award is actually for getting a Game Over on exactly 10. My best: 994 catches and a paycheck of $117.08. My best paycheck is actually $118.82 on fewer catches. ---------------------------------------- 2) Pendemonium [PEND] ---------------------------------------- A) Description This is the epitome of mindless, boring, work. The game will never end on its own. It will let you keep making pens until you tell it to stop, or the PSP dies of old age. See a pen, put a cap on it, rinse, repeat. Occasionally you will have to flip the pen over before putting the cap on. B) Pay Scale $0.03 per pen with the cap on the tip. $0.00 per pen with no cap or cap on the butt end. You get a $0.10 bonus for the 50th consecutive good pen. You get a $0.50 bonus for the 100th consecutive good pen (in addition to the bonus for 50 pens). That should give you an idea of how the bonus is calculated. You can try to figure out the rest of the bonus schedule if you want, but here's a sample from one of my early runs: 3,044 pens, 2 mistakes - $91.26 base salary, $60.50 bonus C) Tips/Tactics Um, this is pretty mindless and simple. If you need help with THIS game, perhaps you should rethink trying to play games at all! If you really want to "cheat", set up something which can alternately press the X and O buttons, then start the game and let it just keep putting caps on pens while you go to work/school/sleep/etc. When you come back later, you can cash out for a large paycheck. You'll probably have $0.00 in bonuses, but you'll still get $0.03 for each pen that was correctly oriented. Overall it seems that about 70% of the pens are correctly oriented by default. So, doing 1,000 pens this way would net about 700 valid pens at $0.03 each for a paycheck of $21.00. And that's just for 1,000 pens, which can be done in 10 minutes or even less if you have the device set up nicely. If you let that run overnight for 8 hours, you'd get a paycheck of about $1,000 in the morning. Of course, you do need to come up with something that will push the buttons for you without your assistance. D) Awards Ballpoint Pen Assistant Manager -- Title for assembling 1,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen Manager -- Title for assembling 2,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen Assistant Gen. Manager -- Title for assembling 3,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen General Manager -- Title for assembling 5,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen Factory Director -- Title for assembling 10,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen President -- Title for assembling 50,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen Legend -- Title for assembling 100,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen Manufacturer -- Title for assembling 1,000,000 total pens Ballpoint Pen-Robot -- Title for incentives exceeding $20.00 Ballpoint Pen Addict -- Title for playing over 20 hours in Pendemonium Ballpoint Pen Victim -- Title for playing over 100 hours in Pendemonium I Feel Exactly Like A Ballpoint Pen! -- ~ playing over 200 hours in Pendemonium Ballpoint Pen Recycler -- Title for making 1,000 mis-assembled pens E) Comments This game is capable of earning you pretty large checks. As large as any game in WTF. You just have to have the patience and/or accuracy to sit through putting the cap onto thousands of pens with little or no mistakes. Doing 5,000 pens an hour is not too hard. You may want to kill yourself after, just for a change of pace. But it's not hard to exceed 5,000 pens per hour if you can stand the monotony. My (2nd) best: 101,000 total pens 73 defective units $3,027.81 base salary $2,016.00 bonus pay $5,043.81 final paycheck My best: 1,000,011 total pens $20,791.74 final paycheck 306,993 defective units Only $1.20 bonus pay (I did almost none of the run while trying for accuracy) I didn't worry about making the pens correctly, simply on putting a cap on and moving on. Took me about 5 months of casually working on this to complete it. ---------------------------------------- 3) Mushroom Xing [MUSH] ---------------------------------------- A) Description You are apparently a hippie on some strange trip. You're playing in traffic and collecting mushrooms that magically appear in the roadway. Cars are only half real. And for some reason, you're literally dying if you don't cross the road soon. This plays somewhat like Frogger. Somewhat. This is possibly the best way to get money from the initial 4 games. Pendemonium is theoretically limitless, but this is faster for short runs. And let's face it, this is much more fun. Baseball Superstars may be better once you get good at it, but this one is easier to learn quickly. B) Pay Scale $0.50 per roadway crossed. $0.15 per mushroom carried across the roadway. (You get nothing for any Mushroom you gathered if you died while carrying them across.) C) Tips/Tactics Learn how the cars move. The first 16 levels are all unique and do not change from game to game. After level 16, the levels repeat, but in a different order. On some levels, it pays to wait. Don't feel that you must start across right away. If you are having trouble with a particular level, let the cars pass by a couple of times before starting across. On some levels, this will make crossing much easier. It is worth it to gather Mushrooms on the early levels, where the cars are relatively slow. But on later levels, it is often better to simply focus on surviving than trying to get the Mushrooms. It does you no good to get that Mushroom if you don't get it across the street. On the later levels, grab any handy Mushrooms and leave the rest. While it is better to think ahead and avoid certain situations, you CAN hover on the white line between cars and have them pass by. This requires tapping Circle at a quick, steady pace so that you "bounce" on the line without stepping on either side of it. While you're better off planning such that you don't need to do this, it is a great skill to develop. It can make some of the levels much easier if you are proficient at hovering. One thing that can help with that is that you glow slightly whiter when you are standing on the line. If you can master the patterns of the first 16 levels, then the only thing that will prevent you from going indefinitely on this game is greed and carelessness. Once you've got them mastered, it should be relatively easy to recognize when one of the tricky levels (like #16) comes up again. D) Awards Enoki Mushroom Hunter -- Title for reaching stage 5 Shimeji Mushroom Hunter -- Title for reaching stage 10 Shiitake Mushroom Hunter -- Title for reaching stage 15 Oyster Mushroom Hunter -- Title for reaching stage 20 Matsutake Mushroom Hunter -- Title for reaching stage 25 Truffle Mushroom Hunter -- Title for reaching stage 29 Mushroom Land's Mushroom Hunter -- Title for gathering more than 70 mushrooms Neighborhood Mushroom Hunter -- Title for working more than 10 times Dead Mushroom Hunter -- Title for getting hit by a car more than 50 times To and Fro Mushroom Hunter -- ~ completing the game without moving left or right Careless Mushroom Hunter -- Title for running out of time more than 20 times Super Mushroom Hunter -- ~ gathering all mushrooms and reaching stage 10 (*1) Legendary Mushroom Hunter -- Title for gathering all mushrooms and reaching stage 20 (*1) E) Comments The Super and Legendary awards only require you to get all mushrooms that actually appear. You do not have to get mushrooms that would appear if you waited for them. If you do that, then you'd have a hard time getting the mushroom that appears when the clock reaches 0! That said, there's so much luck involved in the placement of the mushroom's that I can't even reach level 10 while getting every mushroom. I really can't see ever getting to level 20 while gathering every mushroom along the way. My best: Level 70 passed and a paycheck of $73.25. That's 255 mushrooms over the 70 levels, or 3.64 per level. But 255 is an interesting number in computers and I wonder if maybe it simply stops counting at 255 or if I really did hit that number exactly. ---------------------------------------- 4) Traffic Counter [TRFC] ---------------------------------------- A) Description A bunch of creatures are going to run across the screen at various speeds. Try to count EXACTLY how many "humans" there were. Each level consists of three groups of creatures. At the end, if your count is correct you can proceed or quit. If your count is wrong, the game ends and you get nothing, regardless of how far along you were. B) Pay Scale $0.00 - Fail to have the exact correct count at the end of ANY level. $0.50 - Quit after correctly completing level 1. $1.00 - Quit after correctly completing level 2. $2.00 - Quit after correctly completing level 3. $4.00 - Quit after correctly completing level 4. $8.00 - Quit after correctly completing level 5. $16.00 - Quit after correctly completing level 6. $32.00 - Correctly complete level 7. (Game ends at this point.) C) Tips/Tactics Pay careful attention to the creatures the game considers Human. Note that the Tank is considered human. Also note the lady with octopus looking legs is also "human". Watch for babies hiding behind trucks. You may not be able to see them until late in the round. Watch for humans behind other creatures traveling at the same speed. You may never be able to see them clearly, but you should be able to see enough to recognize them. Your count will rarely be too high. So, if you are really uncertain whether you are one short or not, assume you're one short. Adding the extra one will be right more often than not. But only do this when you are really uncertain. D) Awards Fledgling Surveyor -- Title for completing level 4 in Traffic Counter Full-Fledged Surveyor -- Title for completing Traffic Counter Authorized Surveyor -- Title for completing Traffic Counter 10 times (*1) Iron Surveyor -- Title for completing Traffic Counter 100 times (*1) Leading Surveyor -- Title for completing Traffic Counter twice in a row Super-Duper Surveyor -- ~ completing Traffic Counter 5 times in a row (*1) Legendary Surveyor -- Title for completing Traffic Counter 10 times in a row(*1) E) Comments I have completed all 7 levels more than once, though not more than twice consecutively. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Jobs, $1.00 [JB01] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the section for jobs you get from the $1.00 Vending Machines. ---------------------------------------- 1) Lumberjack [LJCK] ---------------------------------------- A) Description A sadistic old woman wants you to help chop some wood. She throws the wood onto the block and you split it with your axe. The catch? Granny is sick and twisted. She'll occasionally throw bunny rabbits or other things up onto the block. Then, when you split one, well, it aint pretty. B) Pay Scale You get $0.03 for each block of wood you split before killing something non- wooden or failing to split something wooden. $1.00 bonus for each 100 logs split. C) Tips/Tactics Watch out for a stuffed bear that appears starting around 50. It's about the same size as the wood and only a little lighter in color. It's easy to mistake it for a block of wood if you aren't expecting it. At around 75 the old fart gets really nasty. They'll throw up a wooden rabbit. This has the shape of the bunny rabbit, but is made of wood. This one usually catches you because you hesitate too long before realizing it's wooden. Expect it and chop it just like any other wood block. If you make it past 100, you won't get any stuffed bears or wooden bunnies from 101-124. But they all show up again starting at 125. D) Awards Lumberjack Butcher -- Title for butchering 100 animals Lumberjack Boy -- Title for splitting 100 logs Lumberjack Guy -- Title for splitting 300 logs (*1) Lumberjack Pro -- Title for splitting 500 logs (*1) Lumberjack Champ -- Title for splitting 700 logs (*1) Lumberjack President -- Title for splitting 900 logs (*1) Lumberjack Legend -- Title for splitting 999 logs (*1) E) Comments My best: 153 logs chopped. $5.59 paycheck. If you are having trouble with this game and happen to have a second PSP, try playing Lumberjack Challenge with you controlling both PSPs. Practicing that way got me VERY used to only chopping logs, which finally allowed me to top 100 here in the single player version. Just a suggestion, your mileage may vary. ;) ---------------------------------------- 2) Chick Sorting [SORT] ---------------------------------------- A) Description You apparently work for a chicken distributor who needs to ship out baby chicks to farmers across the country. He needs females for egg laying and males for Chicken McNuggets. Send the poor dead ones to Heaven. B) Pay Scale $0.0075 (3/4 of a cent) for each normal chick correctly sorted, male of female. $0.10 volume bonus for each 100 chicks sorted (correct or not). $0.05 Heaven bonus for each dead chick sent to Heaven. $0.10 rare bonus for each rare chick correctly sorted, male or female. The accuracy bonus is roughly 10 times the volume bonus minus $0.40 to $0.55 per incorrectly sorted chick. This is for accuracies around 99% to 97%. Lower accuracies are liable to have too many missed chicks to even qualify for an accuracy bonus. It will be closer to $0.40 for 99% accuracy (and above) and around $0.55 as you get closer to 97% accuracy. Roughly $2.30 to $2.40 penalty for sending a live chick to Heaven. The amount varies some. Sending more than one live chick to Heaven can put a serious dent in your paycheck. It can completely erase your Heaven bonus, though it doesn't affect the rest of the paycheck. All fractions are rounded down by the game. C) Tips/Tactics Whatever you do, do NOT send a live chick to Heaven. The penalties are VERY stiff and can end up wiping out a lot of your paycheck. There is no penalty for sending a dead chick to the male or female box. It does affect your accuracy, but there's no extra penalty. Look for a pink bow. If it's got a pink bow, it's female. Even if it's a special that looks male, if it has a pink bow, it's female. If it has no bow, it's male (or dead for the all blue chicks). You can quit before the full 10 minute run is complete and still get paid, but you will likely not get any accuracy bonus. You need to have about 300 sorted chicks before you start to qualify for the accuracy bonus. Other than that, there's not a lot to say. The game is pretty obvious. D) Awards Accurate Chick Sorter -- ~ more than 99% accuracy for 1,000 identifications Fledgling Chick Sorter -- Title for working till the end of the job 5 times Machine-Like Chick Sorter -- ~ 1,000th identification without error Legendary Chick Sorter -- Title for 1,400th identification without error Chick-on-a-Stick Sorter -- Title for finishing with more than 20 deaths Rookie Chick Sorter -- Title for working more than 50 times Veteran Chick Sorter -- Title for working more than 200 times (*1) Professional Chick Sorter -- Title for working more than 300 times (*1) Meticulous Chick Sorter -- Title for identifying all types of rare chicks (*1) E) Comments My best: $47.84 paycheck on 1486 total sorted, no mistakes, with an accuracy bonus of $31.91. I have sorted higher totals, but not with perfect accuracy. This is a slight increase in paycheck and total sorted, but a decrease in accuracy bonus over my previous best. Apparently the accuracy bonus doesn't include one of the special types, either rare or heaven. But I'm not sure which. I had 59 Heaven and 9 Rare with this best, but didn't record those numbers on my previous best. ---------------------------------------- 3) Three Count [3CNT] ---------------------------------------- A) Description As a pro wrestler, it's all about style. You have to kick out of a pin 3 times. The closer you kick out to the 3 count, the higher your pay. But if you kick too late, and the referee gets to 3, you lose and get $0.00. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for failing to kick out in time on any of the 3 attempts. This nullifies any other payments you may have earned. $0.00 for kicking out between 0.01 and 2.00. $0.10 for kicking out between 2.01 and 2.50. $0.20 for kicking out between 2.51 and 2.80. $0.30 for kicking out between 2.81 and 2.90. $0.50 for kicking out between 2.91 and 2.98. $2.00 for kicking out at either 2.22 or 2.77. This is instead of the normal payout for their respective ranges. $3.00 for kicking out at exactly 2.99. C) Tips/Tactics You can get an award and bonus money for kicking out exactly at 2.22. Another bonus and award is available for kicking out at exactly 2.77. Otherwise, just try to get the rhythm and kick as near to 2.99 as you can. The closer you are, the more money you get. You can also tell how well you did by the number of photographers that come out. If people are throwing things at you instead, you're not doing too well. Other than trying for the award, you are better off aiming for 2.99 than for either 2.22 or 2.77. If you get 2.22 or 2.77 exactly, you get good pay, but 2.99 pays better. Furthermore, missing and getting 2.96 pays a lot better than missing and getting 2.19. Just don't go over. D) Awards Mid-Ranking Wrestler -- Title for breaking the pin at 2.95 three times in a row Triple Two Wrestler -- Title for breaking the pin at 2.22 Lucky Sevens Wrestler -- Title for breaking the pin at 2.77 Underdog Wrestler -- Title for winning while making the audience excited Super Star Wrestler -- Title for exciting the crowd for 5 straight wins Star Wrestler -- Title for getting 2.99 three times in a row (*1) Legendary Wrestler -- Title for getting 2.99 three times in a row with "Abe"(*1) E) Comments If you only play once each time, and never use "Retry", you will never get Abe as the referee. This is one example of a game that behaves differently with multiple retries. My best: 2.97, 2.99, 2.99. I haven't yet gotten all 3 perfect (though my friend has). ---------------------------------------- 4) Cliff Race 2000 [CR2K] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Stop closer to the edge than your opponent. B) Pay Scale $0.50 for each of the 3 races you win. $3.50 bonus for winning all 3 races. C) Tips/Tactics Watch the trees in the background. Not the colorful plants, but the black trees that flash by. You may start in the middle of the pattern, but the red zone appears after a sequence of 2-1-3-1 trees. You can use that to know when to expect the red zone. The pattern is actually much longer, but there's only one group of exactly 2 trees anywhere in the pattern and only one group of exactly 3 anywhere, so just looking for the 2-1-3-1 pattern should give you plenty of warning that the red zone is coming. D) Awards Rookie Cliff Racer -- Title for winning 10 total races Pro Cliff Racer -- Title for winning 50 total races Champion Cliff Racer -- Title for winning 100 total races Legendary Cliff Racer -- Title for 10 sound victories in a row (*1) Unyielding Cliff Racer -- Title for crushing defeat in 50 total races (*1) E) Comments My best: 12 consecutive wins I believe, but am not certain, that a sound victory means winning all 3 races. I don't know what qualifies as a crushing defeat. I've tried losing all 3 races multiple times, in multiple ways and have not earned the Unyielding title. I suspect it may actually mean losing all three races 50 times. 50 total matches, NOT 50 total races as the d3publisher site suggests. ---------------------------------------- 5) 4 Fingers [4FGR] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Mumblety-peg. Most of us have played this in one form or another as kids, though usually with a stick or something which, while it hurts to miss, isn't likely to do permanent or even serious damage. B) Pay Scale $0.01 for each poke that doesn't stab your hand. $0.10 for each successful pass across and back over your hand. C) Tips/Tactics First, you MUST stab at least once between each finger and on each end. You can stab more than once, but if you try to skip a gap, you will automatically stab into the finger on the far side of the gap, ending the game. You can earn a few extra cents early on by making multiple stabs per gap, but I don't recommend doing so. Personally, the extra few cents isn't worth losing track of where the game is at. I mean knowing when the game is going to slow down. The game slowly builds up speed, getting faster and faster until you reach gap #100. At that point, it slows down... a lot. If you aren't expecting it, you will very likely stab your hand when the speed suddenly changes. If you took a lot of extra stabs at the start, you won't know for sure when the slow down is coming. The game follows the same basic pattern every 100 gaps. It will build up speed until it gets to the 100th gap, then slow down again. Occasionally, your paycheck will be short $0.10 as if you had completed one less pass than you really did. I don't know what causes this and it doesn't happen all the time. Still, it does happen often enough and always seems to be exactly $0.10 off. There is an Alien hand which will be used on rare occasions. The alien hand only seems to appear when playing multiple times, never as the first hand you get when picking the game. The Alien hand pays exactly double the norm. D) Awards A Kind of Silly Lunatic -- Title for getting paid over $0.50 Modestly Silly Lunatic -- Title for getting paid over $1.00 Terribly Silly Lunatic -- Title for getting paid over $2.00 Distinguished Silly Lunatic -- Title for getting paid over $3.00 Elite Silly Lunatic -- Title for getting paid over $4.00 Thoroughbred Silly Lunatic -- Title for getting paid over $5.00 Legendary Silly Lunatic -- Title for getting paid over $10.00 Anarchy Lunatic -- Title for failing over 30 times Hey Hey Hyper-Charged Lunatic -- ~ stabbing over 35 times in a return 10 times E) Comments My best: 1,002 pokes and a paycheck of $20.02. ---------------------------------------- 6) Animal Investigation Corps [AICS] ---------------------------------------- A) Description A bunch of nature loving freaks come to you with news of how they spent their day. They expect you to tally up how many of a particular type of animal they each saw. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for any incorrect total. $0.40 for correct totals of the following types: Army Ants, Piranha, Cats $0.80 for: Anacondas, King Cobra, Giraffe, Gazelle, Puma, Kiwi, Zebra $1.20 for: Lions, African Elephant, Tiger, Stag Beetle, Kangaroo $1.60 for: Pandas, Koalas, Wildcats $3.00 for: Bigfoot $3.50 for: El Chupacabra C) Tips/Tactics The game claims extinction for a miss, but the exact same animal that supposedly just went extinct can be the target of the very next game. Pretty impressive comeback for something that was extinct a moment ago! Likewise, the total you get one round, plus the supposed growth is meaningless. The next time you have to count that same type will be a completely random total with no connection to the previous total. You have unlimited time, so if you need to, you can write down the numbers as they give them to you, then total them up afterwards. That's cheating if you ask me, but who's to know besides you? Be careful about numbers like sixteen or sixty. They sound almost exactly the same coming out of the game. Most of the time that I miss is because I guessed wrong about which number they said. It is usually a number in the teens, but not always. If you have to guess, most of the time going with the teens will be the correct number. Consecutive correct answers will lead to higher totals being given. This seems to be a combination of your current overall streak, your current streak with the current animal and a random factor. Occasionally you'll get a ridiculously easy game during a long winning streak. But overall, the longer your winning streak is, the larger the numbers they will throw at you. If you have the headphones for the PSP, use them. It makes telling whether they said 16 or 60 a lot easier. D) Awards Abacus Investigator -- Title for answering correctly 10 times in a row Calculator Investigator -- Title for answering correctly 20 times in a row Computer Investigator -- Title for answering correctly 50 times in a row Legendary Investigator -- Title for answering correctly 100 times in a row Full-Fledged Investigator -- Title for working more than 10 times Silly Investigator -- Title for making a mistake 10 times in a row Ultra-Silly Investigator -- ~ making a mistake 10 times in a row again (*1) Careless Investigator -- Title for answering incorrectly 5 times by only 1 King Animal Investigator -- Title for investigating all animals (*1) E) Comments There are at least 4 "rare" animals to count, possibly more. Bigfoot and El Chupacabra are 2 of them. My best: 110 consecutive correct answers. ---------------------------------------- 7) Copy Cat [COPY] ---------------------------------------- A) Description A version of electronic Simon says, only a bit grosser. Simply repeat the pattern they give you. They add one more to the pattern each round. B) Pay Scale $1.00 per level completed. Each level is 4 rounds. $1.00 additional bonus for completing all 8 levels. C) Tips/Tactics If you suck at this type of game, you can always cheat by writing the sequence down on paper as you go. Use whatever method you want, just add a symbol or letter for each new part of the pattern. That method works, but you'll be better served in the long run by playing the game honestly. Your memory will improve with practice. You will lose if you pause more than 2 seconds while entering the pattern. D) Awards Copy Cat Beginner -- Title for completing Level 4 of Copy Cat Copy Cat Advanced -- Title for completing Copy Cat Luncheon Copy Cat -- Title for playing Copy Cat at lunch time The Copy Cat Jawbreaker -- Title for making over $100.00 in Copy Cat Copy Cat Legend -- Title for making over $500.00 in Copy Cat (*1) E) Comments The Jawbreaker and Legend awards are mis-described on the d3publisher's awards list on their website. You earn the Jawbreaker award for earning $100.00 and I assume that Legend is for $500.00. The really odd thing is that the email you get from wtfnet also lists the Title incorrectly, though the Award does show correctly in the Titles list. The first time I ever played this, I completed it. Granted, I don't complete it every time. But I did it fully the first time I ever tried, without resorting to paper or any other tricks. I've fully completed it many times since. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Jobs, $5.00 [JB05] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the section for jobs you get from the $5.00 Vending Machines. ---------------------------------------- 1) Private Number [PNUM] ---------------------------------------- A) Description This is similar to the game Mastermind. You try to guess the last 4 digits of the girl's phone number. She tells you how many numbers you got right and how many of them are also in the correct spot. B) Pay Scale The chart below lists your paycheck according to who the girl is and how many guesses it took you to get her number correct. Several of the girls will pay beyond 9 guesses, but you shouldn't ever need to go there. Take a logic class if you can't solve any of these in 9 or fewer guesses! Name |Range| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emi Kitamura | 1-4 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00| Kyuko Chinen | 3-6 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00| Rie Ito | 5-8 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00|$1.00| Yui Maeda | 6-9 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$1.50|$1.50|$1.50|$1.50|$1.50|$1.50| Miwa Sasaki | 1-5 | |$4.00|$4.00|$4.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00| Hajime Tsukumo | 1-7 | | |$6.00|$6.00|$6.00|$6.00|$2.00|$2.00|$1.00| Any blank entry simply means I haven't completed that girl at that number of tries yet. C) Tips/Tactics I'm not going to teach you a course in Logic. If you can't figure this game out, try reading a textbook on logic. I will however give a couple of tips. Unlike Mastermind, which can have repeats, there are never any repeats within the number in this game. You can use that info to your advantage. Pay attention to the bio of the girl when you start the game, the bio tells you exactly what range the digits of her phone number can be in. I've also listed them in the pay scale section above. So, for example, Emi Kitamura says 1-4. That means the digits of her number will be 1, 2, 3 and 4 in some order. You can still guess other numbers, but they will never be correct. Use dead numbers as fillers when you want/need to identify a portion of the number without possibly confusing things with the other digits. If you want to know if it starts with 1-2-X-X, put in dead numbers for the X's rather than numbers which might confuse your results. You'll rarely need anything like this if you're really good at logic, but it can help those that are just learning or just want to make it easier even if it might cost them some money due to extra guesses. It makes no difference whether or not you call her. Regardless of what you hear or even whether you call, you get paid the same. One of the girls usually only appears at night and another only on the weekend, though I was playing on the weekend, at night when I built the chart, so I'm not currently sure which is which. But, if you're trying for a certain girl and she just isn't appearing, it may be because you need to play at night or on the weekend to get her. D) Awards Guessing 50 Private Numbers -- Title for guessing 50 cell-phone numbers Guessing 100 Private Numbers -- Title for guessing 100 cell-phone numbers Guessing 500 Private Numbers -- Title for guessing 500 cell-phone numbers (*1) Guessing 1000 Private Numbers -- Title for guessing 1000 cell-phone numbers (*1) Private Number Miracle -- Title for guessing correctly on the first attempt Private Number Knight -- Title for working 15 times at night Private Number Legend -- Title for collecting over $5,000 in Private Number (*1) E) Comments There's no point in reporting a best here. The best is getting Hajime's number on the first try. But since that's pure luck and not skill, why bother to track it? ---------------------------------------- 2) Demonstration Roundup [RDUP] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Someone is going to hold a big, anti-police rally in the park. You have seven minutes to visit the nearby buildings and gather people to join the rally as protesters. The cops don't like this and will try to arrest you and/or disperse your line of protesters. Protesters delivered to the park are safe. B) Pay Scale $0.01 for each protester delivered to the park. $0.02 times the number of protesters in your longest, safely delivered line. C) Tips/Tactics There is only one map, but there are different patterns that the police may take. Try them out to find out which one works best for you, then simply get caught immediately and start over if you don't like the pattern. I prefer the pattern that starts with a solid line of blue cops on both the left and right of where you start. This pattern has mostly fixed position cops with only a few roving patrols. Playing against the pattern described above, start by working your way down and left. Ignore the yellow buildings near the middle and proceed straight to the orange and red buildings near the bottom of the map. Gather protesters and work your way to the bottom left corner. Work your way up the left side, then across the top. Finally work down the right side. When your time is down to about 25 seconds, head to the middle to deliver your protesters. It doesn't matter if the line of protesters is still entering the park as time expires. It only matters that you get them started entering the park before time expires. Watch out for the roving patrols. Some games they'll completely avoid you. Others, they'll seem to be homing right in on you. They can also use the tiny alleys between some buildings to get you or your line of protesters. Alternatively, the one that starts with side-by-side groups of red police has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the groups march along side-by-side the whole time. They'll split briefly to try to catch you if you get too close, but they won't venture onto the side streets. Meaning your huge line of protesters is safe back there even though you can't keep an eye on them. But the disadvantage is that it is almost impossible to safely get a large line across the streets the police patrol. When pulling people from a house, don't stand still. Wiggle back and forth. Because the line behind you follows the EXACT same path, they too will have to wiggle past that house. This has the effect of pulling the rear of the line closer to you and leaving them less exposed while you wait for a building to empty out. D) Awards Neighborhood Demonstrator -- ~ taking more than 200 people to the park at once Village Demonstrator -- ~ taking more than 300 people to the park at once Town Demonstrator -- ~ taking more than 400 people to the park at once City Demonstrator -- ~ taking more than 500 people to the park at once Legendary Demonstrator -- Title for earning $12.00 in one demonstration Freak Demonstrator -- Title for working more than 10 times Anticlimactic Demonstrator -- Title for getting caught right away 5 times Charismatic Demonstrator -- ~ mobilizing more than 1,000 people at once (*1) Acquisitive Demonstrator -- ~ finishing with more than 300 people 3 times (*1) Criminal Demonstrator -- Title for getting arrested more than 20 times E) Comments My best: 681 protesters, all delivered in a single line for a $20.43 paycheck. ---------------------------------------- 3) Karate Superstar [KRTE] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Some idiot is throwing things at you. Knock them out of the air. Each type of item has a small window of time where you can smash it. Too early or too late and it's Game Over. B) Pay Scale Your paycheck is shown as you progress, figuring out what each item is worth is simplicity itself. Why do you need me to tell you what each is worth? Can't you do simple addition/subtraction? $0.05 per coffee mug $2.00 per cash register $0.10 per tiki statue $0.20 per microwave oven! $0.10 per aquamarine vase $0.10 per bag of coffee beans $0.30 per computer case $1.00 per giant mask $2.00 per statue scraping on its head. $3.00 per golden statue $4.00 per charging bull $6.00 per missile C) Tips/Tactics Decide for yourself whether visual or audio based timing works best for you. Personally, I prefer visual. I tend to turn the sound off completely. Learn the patterns so you know what to expect next. There are always the same number of objects on a given level (-dan). What the objects are can vary as you get to the higher levels, but they still will have a limited number of possibilities. And some levels will always have the same final object. Knowing what to expect at any given point can help, a lot. Below is a list of the objects to expect on each level/dan. Level 1 - 7 coffee mugs. Level 2 - 4 coffee mugs, giant mask. Level 3 - 7 random coffee mugs and/or tiki statues, giant mask. Level 4 - 7 same as level 3 plus microwaves, scraping statue. Level 5 - 7 same as level 4 plus the vase, scraping statue. Level 6 - 7 same as level 5, golden statue. Level 7 - 7 same as level 5 plus bricks and computer cases, golden statue. Level 8 - 18 same as level 7, charging bull Level 9 - giant mask, scraping statue, golden statue, charging bull, missile Level 10 - 24 random items (includes bosses except the missile), missile Note that on levels 2 and above the cash register may replace the last item before the final "boss". I once had the cash register show up on Dans 2-6. Five levels in a row! Typically, you'll get 3 or 4 total if you complete the game. The cash register will sometimes replace the Charging Bull on level 9. Level 8 starts with 5 random objects. Has rapid fire brickss from 6 through 14 with (usually) a tiki statue immediately following at number 15. It then finishes up with 3 more random objects before the charging bull appears. Level 10 starts with 4 random items. These often include the "boss" items other than the missile. The background does NOT start flashing before the boss items appear. They are treated just like every other item on this level. Items 5 to 20 will be a sequence of rapid fire bricks with a single other item thrown in at number 14. Here is a list of the various objects and the timing I use to beat them: Coffee mug - Hit X just as the front of the mug passes the start of the largest mushroom in the background. Cash register - Hit X as the cash register passes the middle of the mushroom. Technically, this is a robot, not a cash register, but I'm going to keep calling it a cash register because that's what it looks like to me. ;-) Tiki statue - Hit X a little before the statue reaches the end of the mushroom. Microwave - Hit X as the microwave passes the middle of the mushroom, a hair later than for the cash register. Aquamarine colored vase - Hit X just as the vase reaches the mushroom. Almost the same timing as the coffee mug, just a hair earlier. Pay attention as this item can be very difficult to see. It almost blends into the background. Brick - Hit X early, before the bag even reaches the mushroom. This thing moves very fast. Hit X as the brick is in the middle of the bush at the right edge of the counter. If you wait for it to reach the counter, you are too late. Computer case - Hit X as this reaches the beginning of the mushroom. Use the same timing as for the vase. Giant mask - Hit X as the nose of the mask reaches the second vertical line past the mushroom. Count starting with the line that is immediately past the mushroom. Inverted large statue - Hit X as the scraping statue reaches the third vertical line past the mushroom. Golden statue - Hit X as the front of the statue reaches the middle of the mushroom. Charging bull - Hit X as the front of his head reaches the left edge of the mushroom. He moves faster than the tiki statue, but you hit him in the neck, not the forehead. UPDATE: I now watch the dead center of the mushroom and press X when the bull's neck intersects with the middle. I find this works a lot better for me. Missile - Hit X exactly as the tip of the missile crosses the third vertical line past the mushroom. Basically, the exact same timing as the scraping statue. D) Awards Karate Assistant Instructor -- Title for completing 3 stages Karate Grand Master -- Title for completing 6 stages Karate Leader -- Title for completing the game twice Bold Karate Fighter -- Title for completing the game with the male fighter Sexy Karate Fighter -- Title for completing the game with the female fighter(*1) Legendary Karate Fighter -- Title for completing the game 10 times (*1) Earth Defense Karate Fighter -- ~ destroying a missile more than 10 times Devastating View Karate Fighter -- Title for losing against the "cow" more than 10 times (*1) E) Comments This game can be both highly addictive and highly frustrating. I find that I do a lot better by turning the sound off. That doesn't work for my friend though, so experiment for yourself. There's no pay or timing difference between the guy or girl. Only the graphics are different. I have beaten the game twice, and gotten the Karate Leader award. I did it once with each fighter. Yet I did not receive the Sexy award for some reason. After talking with others, it appears that these awards may be bugged. It may not be possible to get both the Sexy and Bold awards on the same profile. My best: A little over $55 each time I beat the game. ---------------------------------------- 4) Ready to Order [REDY] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Have you ever wondered what kind of hell it is to be a waitress at Denny's when a load of teenagers comes in with enough self-absorption to drown a mule? They fire off their order at you all at once and expect you to get everything right without asking any questions. Ever wondered? Well, wonder no more. Hell has arrived, and it wants a snack. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for even a single mistake. Your paycheck for a correct order is based on which customers are at the table. Here's a list of possible customers and the table configurations I've come across, along with their value for a correct order: OM = Old Man OW = Old Woman PW = Puritan Woman (wears a black Puritan style dress) TB = Teen Boy TG = Teen Girl DR = Doctor (wears green surgical scrubs) HM = Hippie Man (well, looks like a hippie to me anyway.) SM = Stoner Man (well, looks like a stoner to me anyway.) RM = Rasta Man (has green hair and wears a hawaiian/tiedye shirt) MM = Moptop Man (has moptop hair that almost covers his eyes) PG = Purple Girl (one of two girls with purple hair. This one has a halter top.) PR = Punk Rock Girl (The other purple haired, but looks more like a punk rocker than the other.) $3.00 - DR, OM, RM $4.00 - OM, OW, DR, HM $5.00 - OM, TG, TB $6.00 - OM, OW, SM, PG $6.00 - OW, PW, SM, TG, PG $7.00 - OM, MM, RM, TB, PR $8.50 - OM, TG, DR, SM, HM, MM $10.00 - MM, TB, TG, PG, OW, PR I know that there are more configurations, but not too many I don't think. C) Tips/Tactics Practice practice practice. That's all I can tell you. Well, that and memorize where every item on the menu is located. The customers tend to order from the first page, then the second, and finally from the last. The problem is that they don't all go at the same speeds. So, while one of them is already on page 3, another might still be ordering from page 1. Beware of Silly Squid... There's two Silly Squid items on the menu and the customers will often pause after saying Silly Squid and before they say Rice or Shake. Often there'll even be another customer ordering something in between! When a customer says to cancel something, they mean THEIR last item ordered, not necessarily the last item that was ordered. If there have been 3 items ordered by other customers since their last item, you'll probably have a very hard time remembering just what it was they ordered. On top of that, several of the customers have very similar sounding voices, so it can be really tough to know what item is supposed to be scratched. Practice, practice, practice. D) Awards Busboy at Family Restaurant -- Title for collecting over $50.00 Waiter at Family Restaurant -- Title for collecting over $100.00 Asst. Manager of Family Restaurant -- Title for collecting over $500.00 (*1) Manager of Family Restaurant -- Title for collecting over $1,000.00 (*1) Family Restaurant Legend -- Title for taking 50 perfect orders in a row (*1) Big Burden in Family Restaurant -- Title for failing 100 times (*1) E) Comments My best: 10 perfect orders in a row. ---------------------------------------- 5) Hell Pottery [PTRY] ---------------------------------------- A) Description You're trying to bake a pot in the kiln. You have to keep the temperature of the kiln as close to the "optimal" temperature as possible by feeding various objects into the fire. B) Pay Scale A normal pay scale for this is impossible. You can complete the game and get anywhere from $0.00 to $20.00 or more, depending on how well you managed the temperature of the kiln. You can earn bonuses which can push the value to $200 and beyond. C) Tips/Tactics The first thing to realize is that the actual temperature of the kiln is not relevant. What you need to monitor is the yellow plus/minus number beside the temperature. This tells you how close the current temp is to the optimal temp. I am going to refer to this yellow indicator as the marker henceforth. (Though technically, it is the temp of the vase that matters. So, brief spikes in the temperature of the oven won't hurt if you don't leave the temp off long enough for the vase's temperature to adjust as well.) Try to keep the temperature within 30 degrees of the optimal. In other words, try to keep the marker no larger than 30 in either direction. If you are doing well (and haven't already ruined the vase), you'll get a ping and a "good" message. Sending the temperature way out of the optimal range can ruin the vase and result in a $0.00 paycheck, even if 90% of the time you were spot on. Here's some tips on how/when to use most of the items. These are just guidelines. You will need to adjust according to how much the optimal line is climbing or descending: Small logs - Toss on a small log as the marker is decreasing and passing -6. If there is a large decline in the pattern, try to use small logs and toss them on as the marker is passing -14 instead. This is if you don't have any ashes. Medium logs - Toss these on as the marker is passing -12. They take longer than the small logs to catch, but they burn longer as well. Tossing them on at -12 will allow them to catch at about -27. They'll then burn all the way back to over +20. If you toss them on too soon, you'll climb over +30 on the marker. Large logs - Try to avoid using these if at all possible. They're only actually useful for long steady climbs that are fairly steep. Otherwise, they burn for so long that you'll end up climbing well over +30. Also, note that they take even longer to catch than medium logs do. Ashes - Use these when you need to drop the temperature quickly. They'll take a +40 marker and send it solidly negative in a few seconds. Generally, you don't want to use these unless you have to or unless the pattern takes a huge negative dip. Even then, be careful when using ashes because they'll drop the temp even faster than the steepest dive in the pattern. You can safely dispose of ashes by tossing them on half a second after tossing on a tumbleweed. The ashes won't have any effect if you do that. Note that this works best with tumbleweeds and is inconsistent with anything else. Tumbleweeds and Oil - These are great for quickly adjusting the temperature upwards if you've had to dump on some ashes. Under normal conditions, you can use these like small logs. They have no duration, but they jump the temperature by about 30 degrees. So, as the marker declines past -10, toss one of these on and the marker will jump to about +20. It will still be declining though. Spiders, Lizards, Boots and Mushrooms - These are all decorations. They have little effect on the marker. They might have a small positive impact on the marker, but not much of one. Ok, that's the "normal" way to play. But you don't get any bonuses just for making a vase with no flair, no matter how well you managed the temperature. Instead, use the wood to manage the temperature and save the decorations. Once you have 3 decorations available, throw all three on at the same time. You have to be quick or it won't count. But if you throw three non-wood items on at the same time, you put decorations onto the vase and earn a bonus. The bonus is generally about $10 and can be earned multiple times. If you really want to do well, save up and throw three of the SAME decorations on at once. You'll cause the color of the Vase to change. For some real aesthetics, toss five of the same item on at once (or 4 of the same item at 2 different times). You'll cause the shape of the vase to become something else entirely. Having played this a ton, and after conferring with my friend, Chris, we're unsure of the exact pay criteria. It is wildly inconsistent. The only thing I can suggest is, do as many combos as possible, keep the temp between plus or minus 30 and finish as close to even as possible. It also appears that some decorations "cancel" out their opposite. So, if you do two 3-piece combos, but it was one of Boots and one of Mushrooms, they will cancel each other out and your paycheck won't get any bonus. This is all speculative though. I can't be certain how accurate this info is. I sent an Email to d3publisher's support, asking for help here. They had nothing to offer that I didn't already know. :( D) Awards Novice Potter -- Title for making a pot worth more than $10.00 Decent Potter -- Title for making a pot worth more than $25.00 Famous Potter -- Title for making a pot worth more than $100.00 Human National Treasure Potter -- ~ making a pot worth more than $200.00 (*1) Cool Potter -- Title for cooling the oven lower than 300 degrees Hot Oven Potter -- Title for heating the oven higher than 300 degrees Botchy Potter -- Title for making 4 worthless pots in a row (*1) Potter Debut -- Title for making your first good pot (*1) Potter Legend -- Title for completing all types of pots available (*1) E) Comments My best: $135.10 I have no idea what constitutes a "good" pot since I've topped $100 twice and still haven't received the Potter Debut award. ---------------------------------------- 6) The Net [TNET] ---------------------------------------- A) Description This is a great way to earn money while actually doing chores or other activities that don't require the PSP. A fisherman will tell you to come back at a certain time. There are three different fishermen and each has a different amount of time they make you wait. Short durations are usually about 10 minutes. Medium about 30 to 60 minutes. Long is usually anywhere from 2 to 5 hours, though times exceeding 9 hours have been reported. B) Pay Scale You get roughly $1.00 for each minute you have to wait. The amount increases slightly with durations longer than 1 hour. But there is a LOT of randomness in this game's payout. Sometimes you'll earn closer to $2.00 per minute and others you'll hit 2 ghost ships in one run, which will cripple your paycheck. If there is a rainout, you will get a few pennies for your time. C) Tips/Tactics "Winning" is simplicity itself. Simply rotate the stick to pull in the net. I recommend using a counter-clockwise rotation as clockwise seems not to register occasionally, but I've never had trouble with counter-clockwise. Once the net is drug in, a tally of the things found inside will be made and you will be given a share, 10% of the total value. Since the items found are random, your paycheck will be a random amount as well, but will usually be close to the amounts listed in section B. Be sure to set a timer or alarm clock for the medium or long duration waits. It really sucks to wait 4 hours, then miss it because you came back a minute too late. You can't turn off the PSP or do anything else on it while you wait. You can let it go idle and shut down the screen, but don't actually put it into sleep mode via the switch. Which is why I suggest "playing" this game while doing chores or anything else. The long duration waits usually appear at night. You won't get them very often, if at all, during the day. Keep an eye out for "Zeus". He only shows up in the wee hours of the morning, but he is well worth it. Paychecks exceeding $750.00 are possible from him. Note that "Zeus" is how Chris describes him. To me, he just looks like an old man with white hair and a short white beard in a slightly tattered robe. He doesn't look very godlike to me. Rainouts may be tied to how many times you've played. Chris reports that you will get a rainout for your second attempt in the same day. I haven't confirmed this. D) Awards Local Fisherman -- Title for working more than 5 times Weekend Fisherman -- Title for getting paid $10.00 Expert Fisherman -- Title for getting paid $50.00 Hard Core Fisherman -- Title for getting paid $100.00 Good-For-Nothing Fisherman -- Title for being late more than 10 times Legendary -- Title for landing all stuff to be seined (*1) E) Comments My best: $434.27 Better paychecks are available, I just haven't gotten them. ---------------------------------------- 7) William Hell [WMHL] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Shoot the apple off the head of the troll. You get three shots per game. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for each miss that doesn't hit a troll. -$0.10 for hitting a Troll. $0.50 for each apple hit. $5.00 bonus for making two consecutive apple hits in one game. $5.00 additional bonus for making all three shots. Your paycheck will never go below $0.00. The penalty for hitting a Troll only matters if you hit at least one Apple during the game as well. C) Tips/Tactics I previously swore I wouldn't compile a chart for this game. I have changed my mind. Here is a table for use with this game. -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Troll Vs Dist| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Tall / -3 |6 O1|6 O4|6 R2|6 R4|4 O1|5 O4|4 O4|4 R1|4 R2|4 R3|4 R5|4 R5|4 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Tall / -2 |6 Y5|6 O3|6 R1|6 R3|4 Y5|5 O3|4 O3|4 O5|4 R1|4 R2|4 R4|4 R5|4 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Tall / -1 |6 Y4|6 O2|6 O5|6 R2|6 R5|5 O2|5 O4|4 O4|4 O5|4 R1|5 R5|4 R4|4 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Tall / -0 |6 Y3|6 O1|6 O4|6 R1|6 R4|5 O1|5 O3|4 O3|5 R1|4 O5|5 R4|5 R5|4 R4| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Tall / +1 |6 Y2|6 Y5|6 O3|6 O5|6 R3|5 Y5|5 O2|4 O2|4 O3|4 O4|5 R3|5 R4|4 R3| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Tall / +2 |6 Y1|6 Y4|6 O2|6 O4|6 R2|5 Y4|5 O1|4 O1|4 O2|4 O3|5 R2|5 R3|4 R2| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Tall / +3 |6 W5|6 Y3|6 O1|6 O3|6 R1|5 Y3|5 Y5|4 Y5|4 O1|4 O2|5 R1|5 R2|4 R1| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Troll Vs Dist| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Medium / -3 |6 Y5|6 O4|6 R1|6 R4|5 O2|5 O4|5 O5|5 R2|4 R1|5 R5|4 R4|4 R5|4 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Medium / -2 |6 Y4|6 O3|6 O5|6 R3|5 O1|5 O3|5 O4|5 R1|4 O5|5 R4|4 R3|4 R4|4 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Medium / -1 |6 Y3|6 O2|6 O4|6 R2|5 Y5|5 O2|5 O3|5 O5|4 O4|5 R3|4 R2|4 R3|4 R4| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Medium / 0 |6 Y2|6 O1|6 O3|6 R1|5 Y4|5 O1|5 O2|5 O4|4 O3|5 R2|4 R1|5 R5|4 R3| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Medium / +1 |6 Y1|6 Y5|6 O2|6 O5|5 Y3|6 R5|5 O1|5 O3|4 O2|5 R1|4 O5|5 R4|5 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Medium / +2 |6 W5|6 Y4|6 O1|6 O4|5 Y2|6 R4|5 Y5|5 O2|4 O1|5 O5|4 O4|5 R3|5 R4| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Medium / +3 |6 W4|6 Y3|6 Y5|6 O3|5 Y1|6 R3|6 R5|5 O1|4 Y5|5 O4|4 O3|5 R2|5 R3| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Troll Vs Dist| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Short / -3 |6 Y5|6 O3|6 R1|6 R4|5 O1|5 O3|5 O5|4 O4|5 R3|3 R4| |4 R4|4 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Short / -2 |6 Y4|6 O2|6 O5|6 R3|6 R5|5 O2|5 O4|4 O3|5 R2|3 R3|5 R5|4 R3|4 R4| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Short / -1 |6 Y3|6 O1|6 O4|6 R2|6 R4|5 O1|5 O3|4 O2|5 R1|3 R2|5 R4|5 R5|4 R3| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Short / 0 |6 Y2|6 Y5|6 O3|6 R1|6 R3|5 Y5|5 O2|4 O1|5 O5|3 R1|5 R3|5 R4|3 R5| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Short / +1 |6 Y1|6 Y4|6 O2|6 O5|6 R2|5 Y4|5 O1|4 Y5|5 O4|3 O5|5 R2|5 R3|3 R4| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Short / +2 |6 W5|6 Y3|6 O1|6 O4|6 R1|5 Y3|5 Y5|4 Y4|5 O3|3 O4|5 R1|5 R2|3 R3| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Short / +3 |6 W4|6 Y2|6 Y5|6 O3|6 O5|5 Y2|6 R5|4 Y3|5 O2|3 O3|5 O5|5 R1|3 R2| -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ Troll Vs Dist| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | -------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+ A negative Wind indicates a wind that is blowing back at you. A positive wind is blowing towards the Troll. The first number in each entry indicates how many notches of elevation you will need. 6 is the maximum available. For all Short and Medium height trolls, I calculated the highest possible elevation that could still hit the apple. I did this to give the best possibilities of getting over a troll blocking the target Troll and hitting the apple. Note however that in some cases it is impossible to hit the apple when there is a blocking troll. Some targets are literally impossible to hit, regardless of your aim. You simply have to knock down the blocking Troll, then go after the apple. It sucks, but that's the way it is. The second letter/number combination indicates how much power is needed. The letter indicates which color and the number indicates how far into that color is needed. W=White, Y=Yellow, O=Orange and R=Red. For example, O1 means you need to launch the arrow precisely at the first tick into the Orange while R5 means you need to launch with all 5 ticks of the Red. A Tall Troll at 16 meters with a wind of 2 or 3 against you should not be possible to hit, but the game cheats and gives the arrow the extra power needed to reach them. You must launch a full power shot at elevation 4 in order to get that boost though. The same is true for Tall at 15 with 3 against and Medium at 16 with 3 against. When there is a blocking Troll that cannot be avoided, be sure to knock the Troll down with a shot that would have hit the apple. Doing that, I've rarely had another blocking Troll come up that couldn't be avoided. Knocking the Troll down with any other shot more frequently results in another blocking Troll that cannot be avoided. At short ranges, it is possible to hit the apple with a variety of powers if you overpower and hit the apple on the upwards flight of the arrow. Feel free to try to find out viable ranges if you want. I built the chart only looking for values that worked on the downward flight of the arrow. D) Awards William Will-Come Tell -- Title for working more than 10 times William Story Tell -- Title for hitting the apple 3 times in a row William Legendary Tell -- Title for hitting the apple 30 times in a row (*1) William Not To Tell -- Title for missing more than 50 times William Ogre Tell -- Title for hitting the ogre 3 times in a row William the Ogre Hunter -- ~ hitting the ogre more than 10 times in a row E) Comments 7 meters is an interesting distance. If you look at the chart, you will see that the height of the Troll is irrelevant at that distance. They all use the exact same power at an elevation of 6. Some of the Tall Troll entries show that either 4 or 5 elevation can be used. Specifically, distances of 10 or 12 meters can use either 4 or 5 elevation. Just adjust by one power for each meter of wind if you prefer to use one elevation over another. I'm unsure whether you can do this with 14 and/or 15 as well, but I don't believe so. It's probably best to just use the chart. Using the chart is never wrong. An interesting thing happens with Short Trolls at distances of 13 or 16 meters. At those distances, use the chart where it says to use an elevation of 3. Don't deviate even if there is a Blocking Troll. Elevations of 4 or higher absolutely cannot hit the apple. Your shot will either be just short, or just long if you try at elevations 4 or 5 with what seems like it should be the proper power. A Short Troll with a -3 wind at 14 meters is an unknown. I believe it will be a 4 elevation with Red 3 power, but have not confirmed this yet. It is the only shot of which I am unsure. My best: 16 consecutive apple hits. ---------------------------------------- 8) Mad Dribblin [DRBL] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Remember Hacky-Sack? Keep a soccer ball in the air by bouncing it repeatedly off of various parts of your body. Play enough and you can get oversized tennis balls, basketballs and other types of balls to bounce. B) Pay Scale Your paycheck is displayed while you play. You get $0.01 for each bounce, plus a bonus for any moves you complete successfully. C) Tips/Tactics This game is pretty obvious. Just practice to get the timing down, then start trying out the "special" moves. The ball will bounce off the side of the screen. It won't disappear or "wrap" around to the opposite side. You can use this sometimes as an aid. If you hold a direction down while contacting the ball, you will hit the ball in that direction. Some tricks require this in order to pull them off. For example, in order to perform an arch, you must hit outside with one leg, over to another outside with teh other leg. The only way to do this is to direct the ball on impact. D) Awards Dribbling Elementary Student -- Title for working more than 10 times Dribbling Junior High Student -- Title for dribbling 50 times in one play Dribbling High School Student -- Title for dribbling 100 times in one play Dribbling College Student -- Title for dribbling 150 times in one play Dribbling Delegate of the US -- Title for dribbling 300 times in one play Dribbling World Class -- Title for dribbling 500 times in one play Dribbling Legend -- Title for dribbling 1,000 times in one play Opposition Party of Dribbling World -- Title for dribbling 239 times with the Prime Minister Ruling Party of Dribbling World -- Title for dribbling 480 times with the Prime Minister Variety Show of Dribbling World -- ~ dribbling with all types of balls available Show-Off of Dribbling World -- Title for making an appeal 10 times in one play Star of Dribbling World -- Title for performing all combos (*1) Area 51 of Dribbling World -- Title for shooting down 20 UFOs in one play (*1) E) Comments I suspect that the Area 51 Award is nearly impossible. I don't think I've ever seen more than 2 actual UFOs in one game, let alone 20! But I have knocked down over 20 other objects with a single ball and still haven't gotten the award. So it does appear that you need to knock down 20 actual UFOs. "One play" for the awards means one full game, not one ball within a game. My best: $10.41 (Another game I probably should play and practice more.) ---------------------------------------- 9) RPS World Championship [RPSC] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Play in a series of single elimination Rock, Paper, Scissors tournaments. B) Pay Scale Wins - Paycheck 0 - $0.00 1 - $0.01 2 - $0.02 3 - $0.04 4 - $0.20 (win Asia First Qualifier) 5 - $0.30 6 - $0.40 7 - $0.50 8 - $1.00 (win Asia Final Qualifier) 9 - $2.00 10 - $3.00 11 - $4.00 12 - $5.00 (win World League Qualifier) 13 - $5.50 14 - $6.00 (win World Finals Quarterfinal) 15 - $7.00 (win World Finals Semifinal) 16 - $10.00 (win World Finals Tournament and get a nifty trophy) 17 - $100.00 (Beat Corona Alien. Game ends.) C) Tips/Tactics If you win the World Championship more than once, you will go to a Galactic Championship against Corona. (Originally submitted by Namahage4649, paycheck originally found by RichPlaystation) Opponents - Asia Preliminaries: Rock 05%, Scissors 78%, Paper 15% - Chada Bibuthi Rock 11%, Scissors 74%, Paper 13% - Pipi Chalom Rock 00%, Scissors 11%, Paper 88% - Chungmu Park Rock 00%, Scissors 00%, Paper100% - Dadon Gilgit Rock 10%, Scissors 03%, Paper 85% - Emma Mukherjee Rock 03%, Scissors 01%, Paper 95% - Powerful Lee Rock 00%, Scissors 09%, Paper 90% - Ahbura Tempuhra Rock 18%, Scissors 66%, Paper 15% - Colocan (always throws same after draw) Rock100%, Scissors 00%, Paper 00% - Shah Bunagl Rock 56%, Scissors 11%, Paper 32% - Old Man Chen (always throws same after draw) Rock 00%, Scissors100%, Paper 00% - Lily Chhorvin Rock100%, Scissors 00%, Paper 00% - Peipo Parr Rock 01%, Scissors 98%, Paper 00% - Sue Akayev Rock 21%, Scissors 51%, Paper 26% - Tam Tam Tam Rock 00%, Scissors 20%, Paper 80% - Mokhtar Saptra Rock100%, Scissors 00%, Paper 00% - Rock Paper Wong Opponents - World Championship Rock 31%, Scissors 12%, Paper 56% - Alan Clouseau Rock 17%, Scissors 56%, Paper 26% - Popolo Godardo Rock 10%, Scissors 60%, Paper 30% - Victoria Potter Rock 45%, Scissors 29%, Paper 24% - Micah Ahonnen Rock 60%, Scissors 10%, Paper 30% - Dodo Yovk Rock 11%, Scissors 17%, Paper 70% - Mayor Dracula Rock 36%, Scissors 54%, Paper 09% - George Spielberg Rock ??%, Scissors ??%, Paper ??% - Big Z Rock 31%, Scissors 63%, Paper 05% - Dorothy Sinclaire Rock 33%, Scissors 48%, Paper 18% - Sexy Mil Rock 00%, Scissors 30%, Paper 70% - Candy Adamson Rock 42%, Scissors 42%, Paper 14% - Michael Rummenigge Rock 50%, Scissors 25%, Paper 25% - Luigi Scorsese Rock 08%, Scissors 58%, Paper 33% - Dan Johnson Rock 25%, Scissors 50%, Paper 25% - Professor Poseidon Rock 20%, Scissors 60%, Paper 20% - Carmen Banderas Opponent - Galactic Final Corona Alien - You WILL lose the first time you face him, regardless of what you throw. He cheats the first time. After that, he throws whatever would beat his highest percentage. In the case of a tie for his highest, I'm not sure how he decides which to throw. Against me, he was at 50%-50%-0% and threw Rock at me, not Paper. The next time I faced him, with 66%-33%-0% he did throw Paper. Earlier, during the second time I faced him, with 0%-100%-0%, he threw Rock. Big Z, the smiling killer, won't show you your percentages. He has thrown each type, but strongly prefers Scissors. I'd guess it to be about 80% of the time that he throws scissors with 10% each for Rock and Paper. Percentages were taken from around the 150th tournament. The Asia players all have around 50 battles worth of data for their percentages. The World Champ players vary a lot, but are taken from only about 10 to 15 battles for many of them. This means that there is still plenty of room for their percentages to be off due to unlucky streaks that aren't indicative of their normal percentages. So keep that in mind when basing your decisions on the percentages I've listed. D) Awards R. P. S. Asian Division Champion -- ~ qualifying in the Asia preliminaries R. P. S. World Champion -- Title for winning the R.P.S. World Championship R. P. S. Galactic Champion -- Title for winning the R.P.S. Galactic Championship R. P. S. Round-The-World -- Title for facing all opponents in R.P.S R. P. S. Set-On Dog -- Title for losing to the first opponent 10 times in a row E) Comments My best: 32 consecutive wins (beat Corona and got back to the World finals) ---------------------------------------- 10) Elf King [ELFK] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Your son is being possessed by demons. Hurry and ride to the Elf King for help. Luckily, your horse is apparently bionic as it can run at speeds up to 80 mph! B) Pay Scale $0.00 for not even making it half way. $0.05 for each coin you collect. Up to $5.00 health bonus. Up to $3.00 speed bonus. $10.00 bonus for reaching the elf King. C) Tips/Tactics You only earn a paycheck at the halfway point or by reaching the end. Any score you earn during the second half won't add to your paycheck unless you reach the Elf King. The best thing to do is to memorize the path so that you know what to expect and when. There are some things which are random, like the leaves and ghosts, but the obstacles on the ground always appear in the same places. Learn where the medkits are and how to safely get them. The bridges with holes in the middle can be crossed on either the right or left edges, though it is easier on the right. The first half can be done while running full tilt constantly. You CAN get the medkits even while running full tilt. Not all coins can be gotten while running full tilt, but if you plan ahead, you can earn $9.80 for a "perfect" run over the first half. If you slow down (barely), you can get 1 more coin while still getting the full speed bonus for a total of $9.85. I've tried and tried, but I can't get 2 of the coins you have to slow slightly for and still manage the full speed bonus. So I believe that $9.85 is the maximum possible for the first half of the game. D) Awards Little Satan -- Title for reaching the goal with at least 30% of your life Middle-Class Satan -- Title for reaching the goal with at least 40% of your life Great Satan -- Title for reaching the goal with at least 50% of your life Legendary Satan -- Title for reaching the goal with at least 70% of your life Rich Satan -- Title for obtaining 100 coins Soaking Satan -- Title for falling in a river 10 times E) Comments My best: $9.85 for the first half. $23.80 for the full game. 80% health left, though that was on a paycheck of $23.55 thanks to a $4.80 first half! :( ---------------------------------------- 11) Run Like Heck [RLHK] ---------------------------------------- A) Description We're feeling suicidal today. Let's try entering the cage and tossing a snack to a vicious beast, then running for our life before the beast catches up and devours us too. We'll even get more money for getting closer to the beast before we toss the snack. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for being eaten. $0.47 - $10.00 for escaping, based on how far away you dropped in. C) Tips/Tactics If you let the bird carry you all the way across, it will drop you right into the middle of the beast. Start running! Escaping from here earns the full $10.00 paycheck. Fear the mushroom. If you jump right, and clip the right side of it, it will shoot you forward. More often though, you'll screw up and it'll throw you backwards... right into the jaws of the beast. I actually turn my PSP over when I play this. I prefer to run with my left hand and jump/duck with the right. It looks like $0.50 is supposed to be the smallest you can earn for a successful escape, though by spamming X, you can actually drop in early enough to only get $0.47 for escaping. D) Awards Mineral Rich Beast Keeper -- Title for being eaten by the beast 10 times Genius Beast Keeper -- Title for escaping from the furthest distance Full-Fledged Beast Keeper -- Title for getting away clean 50 times (*1) Expert Beast Keeper -- Title for getting away clean 100 times (*1) Iron Beast Keeper -- Title for getting away clean more than 300 times (*1) Legendary Beast Keeper -- ~ getting paid the max payment 5 times in a row (*1) E) Comments My best: I've escaped, for the full $10.00 multiple times. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Jobs, $10.00 [JB10] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the section for jobs you get from the $10.00 Vending Machines. ---------------------------------------- 1) Caddy's Quest [CADY] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Gather Golf Balls (and certain other treasures) off of a never ending golf course. B) Pay Scale $0.03 per normal golf ball. $0.50 for each bucket of 10 normal golf balls collected. $0.00 for things like pinecones, tweezers, socks, dog poo, chestnuts, gum, etc. $10.00 for an undamaged Sea Turtle egg (found in sand only) $0.03 - $10.00 for special golf balls. These balls do NOT count towards filling a bucket. Things like a golf ball with a bear stamped on it are only worth $0.03 each. A tiger stamped ball is worth $0.10. The Hole-in-one ball is worth $0.50. I've even gotten the Star Ball, worth a whopping $10.00! C) Tips/Tactics Not much to this. Switch screens with the d-pad and go back for any balls you overshoot. You can go back for other things, like pinecones, if you want, but there's really no reason to. Also, if you pass the dog poo, when you come back to it, it will be squashed by a shoe and you can't pick it up anymore. Why you'd want to in the first place is your own problem. The game only remembers an area covering 12 screens wide/high. If you go more than 12 screens in any one direction, the row/column 13 back will be forgotten. It is well worth it to slow down when you find a sand trap. You will occasionally find what looks like a smooth golf ball. If you overshoot it and come back, you'll have a smashed egg which is worth $0.00. If you stop and pick it up, without overshooting and squashing it, you'll find a sea turtle egg that is worth $10.00! These are only ever found in the sand though. D) Awards Golf Ball Pickup Fellow -- Title for working more than 10 times Golf Ball Pickup Hermit -- Title for gathering 10,000 total golf balls (*1) Golf Ball Pickup Deity -- Title for gathering 20,000 total golf balls (*1) Golf Ball Pickup Legend -- Title for gathering 30,000 total golf balls (*1) Golf Ball Pickup Maniac -- Title for gathering all golf ball types Golf Ball Pickup Pro -- Title for gathering only golf balls in one play Golf Ball Pickup Heedless Man -- ~ stepping on 5 turtle eggs in one play Golf Ball Pickup Flies Attractor -- ~ stepping on 10 feces in one play Golf Ball Pickup Swiper -- Title for gathering only coins in one play (*1) Golf Ball Pickup Eco -- Title for gathering anything but golf balls in one play E) Comments I have no idea what the Swiper award is for. As far as I can tell, there aren't any coins in the game at all. My Best: $110.36 - I went after the Heedless Man and Flies Attractor titles and ended up with this paycheck at the end. ---------------------------------------- 2) Bouncer Bash [BASH] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Protect the band from raving sociopaths masquerading as fans. Rescue the occasional damsel in distress. You lose if the sociopathic murderers kill all 3 band members. B) Pay Scale Your paycheck is equal to your score (shown in the lower left during the game) divided by 1,000. For example, a score of 2,427 will net $2.42. During the first 2 bands, when you hit sociopaths with a single throw, you get 0 points for the first person hit, 10 for the second, then 20, 40 and 80 points for the next three. Each person hit after that is worth an additional 80 points. The third band starts with 20 points and tops out at 320. Rescuing a girl nets 500 points on the first band, 2,000 during the second and a whopping 5,000 (or $5.00 to your paycheck) during the final band. Completing a concert nets you 1,000 for the first, then 3,000 and 6,000 points for the second and third. C) Tips/Tactics You can't throw rescued damsels to knock out sociopaths, but rescue them anyway. Each one you rescue and throw off screen is worth solid money that incrases with each band. Each concert consists of 5 waves of fans. If you survive all 5 waves, the next band comes out and the game continues. The new band will have all three members even if you lost one or two members of the previous band. The first band is AC/DShe. Band 2 is Judo Priest. The last band is Pistols. Strategy for each concert: Concert #1 - Stay near the top and try to nail as many maniacs at once as you can with each throw. If you see a soda can, grab it to maximize your points even more. Try not to miss any of the girls that need rescuing. You can afford to let the occasional maniac get by as they often won't even attack the band anyway, but don't let too many by at once or any by if you've already lost 2 members of the band. At the end of the concert you should have around 9,000 points for an average run. Concert #2 - You need to be extremely mobile and stop thinking about maximizing your score. That was the hardest thing for me. I had to recognize that the score will come, there's no need to try to maximize it and very good reasons not too. I usually try to stay near the top when I can, but will quickly move downward when I start to get overrun. Try to avoid the soda cans if there's any maniacs already on the field, especially on the other side of the field. You'll need to move from side to side in order to adequately cover everything. Don't pick a spot and root yourself there. Rescuing the girls is worth a lot of points, but it's not worth losing a band member over. I try to rescue the girls whenever I can, but I also ignore them completely when there's a lot of maniacs on the field. A typical score at the end of the second band is 30-36K. Yes, that high. I usually have 10-11K starting the second concert. 13K end of wave 1. 15-17K end of wave 2. 21-23K end of wave 3. 27-30K end of wave 4. Concert #3 - I'm going to discuss this one wave by wave since the waves are much more distinct than with the previous concerts. Wave 1 - Every maniac is fast. There are no slow ones on this wave. They all use a crossing pattern to their movements as well. Sit in the middle of the field. Just sit there. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the maniacs will come right to you if you just sit there and wait for them. Just grab the first 2 maniacs. Then every 2 maniacs that come out, throw one of the 2 in your hand at the first (for 20 points) and grab the second. You won't make any combo hits this way, but so what. It really is NOT worth it to try to grab a soda can to make combos. Not on this wave. When the girl comes out, go get her. Toss the maniacs in hand at the next ones coming as you move up the screen to get the girl. Then move back to the middle of the field and continue until the wave ends. You shouldn't ever lose a band member on this wave! Wave 2 - This is almost identical to Wave 1. The only difference will be the spacing of the maniacs. Now your throws can sometimes hit 2 or even 3 of the maniacs instead of only 1 like in the first wave. Stay in the middle still and play this the same way you played wave 1. Wave 3 - You now have 2 types of maniacs to deal with. In addition to the crossing ones, you'll have some that angle more directly towards the stage. You need to be more mobile on this wave. Try to stay just to the side (left or right) but near the middle (top to bottom). You'll need to be mobile and swing from side to side. A soda can here is dangerous, but sometimes worth it. Don't go out of your way to grab one, but if one is handy, it can yield some pretty decent combos. Just be sure to run behind and towards the bottom after throwing a spiral maniac. You'll need to pick up any that the spiral misses (and there likely will be some at least occasionally). Rescue the girl if you can, but it's better to let her go than risk losing band members. Once you get used to it, this wave is not too difficult to survive. You may occasionally lose a band member, but if you're playing well, you shouldn't ever lose more than one here. Wave 4 - Now they get tougher. You'll now have the occasional slow maniac to deal with. For the most part, ignore them and focus on the fast guys. Almost all of the slow maniacs will get picked off by one of your throws at the fast guys. A soda can here can really net some big points... It can also get the band killed really quickly too. I usually try to avoid the soda cans here. I usually can't afford to rescue more than one of the girls either. It's just too hectic of a round. This is where the game really starts getting tough. Wave 5 - Now you're in hell. They pull out all the stops. You'll have maniacs running at all different speeds, in all different directions, and usually a lot more and a lot faster than any previous wave of any of the concerts. It's nothing but pure chaos. Forget about the girls. Forget about the soda cans. Forget about everything except trying like hell to contain the chaos and protect the band members. This single wave is the only reason I haven't yet completed the game. I've even managed to get here without losing a single band member. But this wave kicks my butt almost every time. Still, you can rapidly increase your score here, even if you don't rescue any girls or survive the wave. D) Awards Rubber Arm Security Guard -- Title for convoying 10 fans at once Expert Security Guard -- Title for messing up a total of 3,000 crazy fans Well-Known Security Guard -- ~ messing up a total of 7,000 crazy fans Security Guard Legend -- Title for messing up a total of 10,000 crazy fans Gentle Security Guard -- Title for saving all the gals in one game E) Comments My best: $97.16 ---------------------------------------- 3) Pollinator [POLL] ---------------------------------------- A) Description A version of Lunar Lander. Land your "rock" (it's really a plant seed, I think) on one of the platforms with a value before you crash or run out of fuel. B) Pay Scale Your pay is shown on the platform you land on, in cents. You can get a bonus of twice the normal pay by landing softly in the center of the platform with little side to side drift. Some platforms the "center" is actually a little to one side or the other. You'll have to experiment to find each one. C) Tips/Tactics This is a pretty obvious game. Not sure what kind of tips you want. One thing that may help... STOP HOLDING THE THRUSTER DOWN! Tap X rapidly rather than using long, sustained bursts. You'll get much better control that way. Sometimes a long burn is needed, but when moving in tight places, stutter thrust is much better. If you play enough, the game will eventually give you different maps. It looks like the screens may become available based on total earnings, regardless of how many mistakes you had on getting there. There are 4 different maps. The second map is a series of vertical shafts with most of the landing areas on the tops of the "stems" and most of the starting places near the bottom of the map. The third map is a spiky variant of the first map. The fourth map looks like a tree with spirals on either side of the trunk. Each map "unlocks" at approximately each $200 of total earnings. This is another game where using replay is necessary. If you only ever play the game once and then exit each time, you may never reach the second layout no matter how much you play and earn. D) Awards Rich Harvest Apple Grower -- Title for earning more than $10.00 in one job Silver Titled Apple Grower -- Title for pollinating softly 50 times Gold Titled Apple Grower -- Title for pollinating softly 100 times (*1) Legendary Apple Grower -- Title for pollinating softly 500 times (*1) Expert Apple Grower -- Title for completing 1,000 pollinations (*1) Failure Breeds Success Apple Grower -- Title for failing 1,000 pollinations (*1) E) Comments My best: $16.00 from a perfect landing on an 800 point platform (found only on the fourth map) ---------------------------------------- 4) Candy Shop [CNDY] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Make sticks of candy for the kiddies. Only sticks with 3 pieces of candy that match count (unless you happen to have a golden skewer). B) Pay Scale $0.10 for each normal skewer completed. $0.10 for each completed golden skewer with mixed candy. $3.00 for each completed golden skewer with only 1 type of candy. C) Tips/Tactics Not much to say here. This game is fairly straight forward. I usually use one skewer as a holding spot for loose candy and the other 2 for candies I expect to be completing soon. At higher levels, waves start to appear. The game gets really fast for a while then slows back down. You can't survive by spamming the pieces through as the waves are based on the number of skewers completed, not how long you've been playing. If you can survive the wave at 150, the game doesn't get any faster than that. At around 250 the game throws all 7 types of candy at you at the same time during the waves. If you can survive that, you can survive everything the game has. D) Awards Candy Maker with a Magazine Appearance -- Title for making 50 sticks of candy Candy Maker Presented on TV -- Title for making 100 sticks of candy Cinematized Candy Maker -- Title for making 200 sticks of candy (*1) Legendary Candy Maker -- Title for making 400 sticks of candy (*1) E) Comments My best: $21.80 ---------------------------------------- 5) Private Number Deluxe [PNDX] ---------------------------------------- A) Description This is similar to the game Mastermind. You try to guess the last 4 digits of the girl's phone number. She tells you how many numbers you got right and how many of them are also in the correct spot. B) Pay Scale The chart below lists your paycheck according to who the girl is and how many guesses it took you to get her number correct. Several of the girls will pay beyond 9 guesses, but you shouldn't ever need to go there. Take a logic class if you can't solve any of these in 9 or fewer guesses! Name |Range| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kayo Katajima | 2-5 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00| Shinko Hoshi | 3-6 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00| Midori Suzuki | 4-7 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$1.50|$1.50|$1.50|$1.50|$1.50| Maki Tanaka | 1-5 |$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00|$2.00| Harumi Miyazato | 1-6 | | |$3.00|$2.50|$2.50|$2.50|$2.50|$2.50|$2.50| Naoko Higuchi | 1-7 | | | |$6.00|$6.00|$4.00|$4.00|$4.00|$4.00| Any blank entry simply means I haven't completed that girl at that number of tries yet. C) Tips/Tactics I'm not going to teach you a course in Logic. If you can't figure this game out, try reading a textbook on logic. I will however give a couple of tips. Unlike Mastermind, which can have repeats, there are never any repeats within the number in this game. You can use that info to your advantage. Pay attention to the bio of the girl when you start the game, the bio tells you exactly what range the digits of her phone number can be in. I've also listed them in the pay scale section above. So, for example, Kayo Katajima says 2-5. That means the digits of her number will be 2, 3, 4 and 5 in some order. You can still guess other numbers, but they will never be correct. Use dead numbers as fillers when you want/need to identify a portion of the number without possibly confusing things with the other digits. If you want to know if it starts with 1-2-X-X, put in dead numbers for the X's rather than numbers which might confuse your results. You'll rarely need anything like this if you're really good at logic, but it can help those that are just learning or just want to make it easier even if it might cost them some money due to extra guesses. It makes no difference whether or not you call her. Regardless of what you hear or even whether you call, you get paid the same. One of the girls usually only appears at night and another only on the weekend, though I was playing at night when I built the chart, so I'm not currently sure which is the night girl. But, if you're trying for a certain girl and she just isn't appearing, it may be because you need to play at night or on the weekend to get her. D) Awards Rookie Number Guesser DX -- Title for guessing 50 cell-phone numbers Veteran Number Guesser DX -- Title for guessing 100 cell-phone numbers Pro Number Guesser DX -- Title for guessing 500 cell-phone numbers (*1) Legendary Number Guesser DX -- Title for guessing 1,000 cell-phone numbers (*1) Private Number Miracle Capturer DX -- ~ guessing correctly on the first attempt Private Number Night Capturer DX -- Title for working 15 times at night Ultimate Number Guesser DX -- ~ collecting over $5,000 in Private Number DX (*1) E) Comments There's no point in reporting a best here. The best is getting Naoko's number on the first try. But since that's pure luck and not skill, why bother to track it? ---------------------------------------- 6) Happy Bullet [HPBT] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Shoot one sad soul with a happy bullet and spread the love. You have 30 seconds to do this. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for a miss, a wrong target or failing to shoot in time. $5.00 for a hit right away (within the first few seconds). $3.50 and decreasing the longer you take to find and hit the correct target. At 25 seconds left, it has already dropped to this level. $5.00 for a hit with 0 or 1 second left. C) Tips/Tactics Pay attention to the characteristics you're looking for. If you forget, you can pull them up again by pressing Triangle during the game, though your clock will still run at that point. So take the time beforehand, while the clock hasn't started yet, to memorize your objective. Other than that, you'll have to decide for yourself whether it's easier for you to be zoomed in and searching, or if you prefer to hunt zoomed out, then zoom in and out to examine possible targets. Different methods will work better for different people and you'll have to discover for yourself which suits you best. You can try for speed, but it's usually better to just wait for the last second before you shoot. Getting the $5.00 at 1 second left is a lot easier than trying to earn it at the beginning of the game. D) Awards Professional Sniper -- Title for 10 successful missions Eagle Eye Sniper -- Title for sniping more than 10 times without zooming in Legendary Sniper -- Title for completing 20 missions in a row successfully (*1) Sunk Punk Sniper -- Title for 30 unsuccessful missions in a row E) Comments My best: 6 consecutive successful hits. (I don't play much) ---------------------------------------- 7) Perfect Nanny [NANY] ---------------------------------------- A) Description You are the troll nanny. Keep the babies from crying. If they start to cry, you can yell at them to quiet them down some. B) Pay Scale $0.20 for clearing the stage. (This increases at later stages.) $0.20 bonus. (I have no idea what this is for, but I've always gotten it.) $0.30 for each bomb you have. $0.05 for each candy you gather beyond 3 bombs. Those are per round amounts. C) Tips/Tactics Each round is only 1 minute long. It'll seem like 5, but it's only 1. Keep an eye on the clock. Sometimes you can let some babies cry for a bit if the time is almost up. Gather three pieces of candy to earn an extra bomb. The bugs can be swatted, but beware. They'll go away for 5 seconds, but when they come back, they are invulnerable for about 25 seconds. I often swat a couple of the bugs right away, then swat the rest later. I find this helps keep me from getting overwhelmed early on. Once you have 3 bombs, any candy you pick up will count towards a bonus for that round. There are 10 stages to this game. You will know you are on the last stage when they throw five bugs at you! D) Awards Substitute Teacher Ogre Nanny -- ~ working as Nanny for the first time ever Kindergarten Teacher Ogre Nanny -- ~ completing the game for the first time Legendary Ogre Nanny -- ~ completing the game more than 30 times (*1) Insect Killer Ogre Nanny -- Title for shooting down over 30 bugs Hungry Ogre Nanny -- Title for completing by picking up a snack Soothing Ogre Nanny -- Title for completing without using a bomb for the first time ever (*1) E) Comments I suspect the description for the Hungry Ogre Nanny award is incorrect. When I got it, I had picked up a snack on the last level, though I'm not convinced that had anything to do with it. Still, I used no bombs afterwards and I did get the award, so maybe it did have something to do with it. My best: $15.60 on a complete game. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Jobs, $50.00 [JB50] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the section for jobs you get from the $50.00 Vending Machines. ---------------------------------------- 1) Space Blaster [BLST] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Take out 3 large enemies with your one puny spaceship. Thankfully, you do have unlimited time and ammo to do this with. B) Pay Scale Your pay is shown in pennies in the top left corner as you play. Up to $1.66 is available for shooting up the first ship with no time bonus. You can get a bonus when you defeat the ship, if you were fast enough. C) Tips/Tactics For the first level, there are only really 2 things you need to know. First, only the captain matters. You can shoot up the ship for some money, but killing the captain is how you defeat the ship. Second, the top left corner is a safe spot. If you are all the way in the top left, you can't be hit. The first enemy will cycle through 7 different forms of attack, starting again with the first if necessary. The second enemy is reminiscent of one of the big bosses from the arcade game R-Type. To defeat him, pound the snot out of the three green domes that pop up from time to time. This enemy has 4 different attacks, each with a different safe spot. For the first attack, be at the very top, just to the right of your score. The second attack has a safe spot directly over the green dome at the top of the screen. For the third attack, be at the bottom, diagonally left of the green dome. The final attack's safe spot is directly under the bottom green dome. (You can actually reverse the second and fourth safe spots as they both work for both attacks.) For the final enemy, there is a single safe spot for all its attacks. Be below and to the right of wherever he is launching his attack from. You want to be close to him, but not too close. He can be beaten in as little as 11 seconds. If you want to get all of the awards for this game, you will need to rapid fire manually rather than holding the button down for the autofire. As fast as the autofire seems, you can manually fire even faster. You are limited to 3 shots on the screen at once, but you can launch those three shots faster than the autofire does. D) Awards Rookie Shooter -- Title for taking down all bosses in 5 minutes Expert Shooter -- Title for taking down all bosses in 3 minutes (*1) Legendary Shooter -- Title for taking down all bosses in 2 minutes (*1) Charged Shooter -- Title for getting 10 speed-up capsules E) Comments My best: 227 seconds. I can beat the first enemy in 44 seconds. I've beaten the third enemy in 14 seconds (not 11 and I still need more practice to get more consistent against him). But it's the second enemy that does me in. I usually take between 2 and 3 minutes just for him. ---------------------------------------- 2) Drunken Mayor [DRNK] ---------------------------------------- A) Description You're the mayor (with keys to the nuclear weapons no less), so what do you do all day? Why, drink of course! The first six levels you have to attend ribbon cutting ceremonies where the fools expect you to cut the ribbon, despite your weaving, staggering and general unsteadiness. The seventh level, all hell has broken loose and its up to you to prevent global nuclear war. All you have to do is press one button. So, with martini in hand, you take the elevator down to the command center and stagger up to the button console. Now, just press the button and save the world. The catch? You only get one shot or the world goes boom. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for failing to cut the first ribbon. $0.05 if you make the first, but miss round 2. $0.15 for missing at round 3. $0.35 for missing at round 4. $0.85 for missing at round 5. $1.85 for missing at round 6. $0.00 for missing at round 7. No pay for drunks that blow up the world! $9.35 for preventing war (completing round 7). C) Tips/Tactics This isn't nearly as hard as it seems at first. The first thing to realize is that the Mayor's hand follows a pattern on each level. There is an invisible track which his hand traces. The track is different on each level, but there is a track to each level. (They even form figures if you were to draw a line along the entire track!) With that in mind, it's just a matter of finding a place in the track where the track turns sharply near the ribbon, either above or below. Use the stick to stuff his hand solidly into the bend, then slowly adjust the stick until his hand starts moving towards the ribbon. Some places he'll be too unsteady for this to work well. But on each of the first 6 levels there is at least one position on the track which you can use as an anchor and slowly shift from. As the scissors cross the ribbon, cut. The other thing to note is that the game is a little bit off here. Where the scissors are and where the ribbon is don't quite line up properly. They are off by about half the width of the scissors. Aim high. If you try to cut the ribbon while it is in the scissor opening, but near the top of the opening, you will miss. On the other hand, the scissors can actually be just above the ribbon and still cut the ribbon just fine. It's bad programming, but at least it is consistent. Now that you know about it, it shouldn't cause any more problems for you. For the last level, you need a slightly different approach. Done the way you might think you should, you'll probably have war every time. Instead, follow the track until you find the place where instead of zipping across the buttons from top to bottom (or vice versa), it goes from bottom, up across the buttons and then back down to the bottom. Move his hand to the right side of the track. Swing his hand up and across the buttons and down to the left. Get the feel for how it moves and how fast it moves. Set up back on the right and start another pass. Hit the buttons right smack in the middle. There's a green button on the left and a red button on the right. Don't aim for either of them. Aim right for the middle. I think, but am not certain and don't really care to test it out further, that you will always fail if you try to hit the buttons on one of the top/bottom passes along the track. I play this at full speed. Here's my method that I use every time on each level: 1) Hold the stick down-right and just cut as the scissors pass the ribbon. 2) Hold center (i.e., no direction) and cut as the scissors pass. 3) Hold center and cut as the scissors pass. 4) Hold down-right and cut as the scissors pass (anywhere between the two center people will work) 5) Hold down-right and cut as the scissors pass. 6) Hold up-right, then shift the stick to follow the path from top-right to bottom-left and cut as the scissors pass. 7) Hold down-left and force his hand to reverse track. Trace up, down and over the hill (across the buttons). Reverse course again and press as his hand crosses the buttons. Aim for the exact center, between the buttons. D) Awards Mayor the Deliverer -- Title for completing all the stages for the first time Expert Mayor -- Title for working more than 10 times Big-Name Mayor -- Title for working more than 10 times again Dud Mayor -- Title for failing to cut over 50 ribbons Armageddon Mayor -- Title for causing global destruction 7 times Legendary Mayor -- Title for completing all the stages more than 30 times (*1) E) Comments My best: 50 wins (7 complete games and finally lost on stage 2 of game 8) ---------------------------------------- 3) Ghost Psychic [GHST] ---------------------------------------- A) Description You will be shown a series of 3 pictures, each with a ghost in it. Decide whether each ghost is real or fake. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for each ghost you claim is fake. $1.50 for each ghost you claim is real. C) Tips/Tactics Simply claim each ghost is real. Even if you see no ghost, call it real. There's no point in doing anything other than calling them all real and getting the full $4.50 for playing. Unlike other games, you cannot choose to play this one again. When you finish the game, the only choice is to exit. Retry doesn't appear. D) Awards Rookie Ghost Photography Analyst -- ~ analyzing 10 sets of ghost photography Veteran Ghost Photography Analyst -- ~ analyzing 30 sets of ghost photography Pro Ghost Photography Analyst -- ~ analyzing 100 sets of ghost photography Nocturnal Ghost Photography Analyst -- Title for analyzing ghost photos in the dead of night E) Comments What's to say? I've gotten $4.50 just like everyone else. ---------------------------------------- 4) Buddha's Quest [BUDA] ---------------------------------------- A) Description It's kind of a miniature RPG. Your task is to defeat 100 Buddhas of various types. You have hit points, armor, weapons, healing herbs, stats like strength and agility, levels and experience points. B) Pay Scale Each Buddha you defeat will add a fixed amount of money to your paycheck based on which specific Buddha it was that you defeated. If you are defeated at any point, you lose half of your earnings, but you do get a paycheck for the other half. Alternatively, if you think you are in dire straits, you start the game with a return scroll which will transport you safely out of the game and award your full Paycheck to that point. Or you could just beat all 100 Buddha's for the full paycheck as well. C) Tips/Tactics This is going to be a LONG section. I'll start with some general tips, follow with a list of known Items and what they do, then finish with a list of each type of Buddha you can face, along with a lot of stats and comments about each. C1) General Tips: Know what types of enemies you are likely to face. If you are expecting fast enemies, pay more attention to keeping your health up. It's better to use up a healing herb earlier than you might need to than to encounter a fast enemy and get killed before you get a chance to heal. Don't keep extra weapons and armor. Throw them away first if your inventory is full, followed by antidote herbs. There's little chance you will need any of them. Much more often you'll need the extra healing herb than you would that extra shield. Like anything, there's going to be exceptions. There will be times you wish you had the extra shield instead. But their frequency is MUCH smaller than the times you'll wish you had the extra healing herb. Be sure to equip any weapons or armor you find. They go into your inventory, but are not automatically equipped. They aren't one use items either, they'll stay with you until they are stolen, you toss them, or the game ends. Learn the fine art of running away. There are many reasons to run away, and there is no shame in doing so. In fact, use the pattern below to start the game instead of taking things as they come. Your first fight will always be a Stone Buddha. You can't change that. But the next three fights can be either Stone or Bronze Buddhas. Run away from those Stone Buddhas until you get Bronze Buddhas to start. This will make fight #2 more difficult than it needs to be since you haven't yet gained a level and the Bronze Buddha will almost always be faster than you, meaning they swing first each round. Since you only have 17 hit points to start, and have probably lost some in the first round, this can be a difficult fight. Don't worry about using up your starting herbs right here. You're very likely to earn more than you can carry later anyway. After the fourth fight, you can encounter either Gold or Viper Buddhas. Run away from the Gold and only fight the Viper Buddhas. This is likely to fill your inventory with useless antidote herbs, but the Vipers are worth more experience than the Golds are. If you do all of that, you'll go up levels a little faster, which can help. In fact, you'll go up a level right after fight 9, just in time for fight number 10 and the B Buddha. You'll get another level after fight #11. For fight number 11, I generally fight whichever Buddha appears. But from fight 12 to 19, flee from the B Buddhas and only fight the Gal Buddhas. Gal Buddhas can be nasty when they want to throw fire at you every time, but it's well worth it to try to get Fire Scrolls from them for use during fights 21 to 39. Use those Fire Scrolls on Ruby Buddhas (other than fight 20, which you are usually faster during) and on Guard Buddhas. Ruby Buddhas are almost always faster than you are, they hit hard, and it's hard to flee from them. If you can kill them with a 1 shot fire spell, so much the better. Guard Buddhas are just hard to do damage to. They have a high armor rating, but are weak to magic. If you have extra fire scrolls, use them before using any scrolls of attack. The scrolls of attack are useful at any level of the game, but the fire scrolls will never do more than 30 points of damage. You start hitting for 30 or more before too much longer anyway. Poison causes the game to show your level as being one lower. This does not appear to have any actual effect on the game though. You still have the same XP you had before and will still go up levels at the same pace. Your Max HP is the same and you seem to do the same amount of damage. If there is any actual effect from being poisoned (other than losing 3 HP each turn), it is subtle, has no lasting effect and isn't worth worrying about. Beyond that, read the item and Buddha lists for a few more helpful hints. C2) Items Note that these lists are unlikely to be complete. I still occasionally find a new item that I hadn't seen before, though usually only when I reach the higher levels. Armor improves your defense. Weapons improve your attack. You can have one of each equipped at any given time. Also, it does not take an action to change weapons or armor. Using most other items will be your action for the turn, but you can freely change weapons and armor. Armor: 1) Veneer Shield (+2 defense) 2) Plastic Shield (+4 defense) 3) Iron Shield (+10 defense) 4) Antidote Shield (+16, prevents, but doesn't cure, poison) 5) Anticrime shield (+20, prevents theft) 6) Magical Shield (+24 defense, prevents spells) 7) Dragon Shield (+24 defense, halves damage from special attacks. For example the Punk Buddha's Spew Fiery Breath does 13 instead of the normal 27) 8) Demon Shield (+40 defense) Weapons: 1) Club (+2 attack) 2) Bronze Sword (+4 attack) 3) Metal Bat (+10 attack) 4) Ceramic Sword (+15 attack, increases your speed so you are faster than most, but not all, opponents) 5) Crowbar (+20 attack) 6) Accurate Sword (+20 attack, never miss) 7) Iceman's Sword (+25 attack) 8) Stainless Sword (+30 attack) 9) Demon's Rod (+35 attack) Other Items: 1) Recover scroll - Exits the game and awards your full paycheck to that point. You start the game with 1 and on extremely rare occasions may find another during the game. I usually discard this item. I'm in it to win, not to run away and the extra inventory slot could hold a Great Herb instead. 2) Herb - This heals 30 hit points, up to your current max. You start with 2. 3) Good Herb - Heals 50 hit points, up to your current max. 4) Great Herb - Fully heals you to your maximum hit points. 5) Life Seed - This is a rare item which will permanently increase your max hit points by 5. Well, permanent for the current game anyway. 6) Antidote Herb - Cures poison. Poison does 3 damage to you each round on top of whatever damage the enemy is doing. Only a few enemies can cause poison, poison WILL wear off on its own (eventually), and the enemies that can cause poison can all also be carrying an antidote herb. For this reason, I always jettison these in favor of healing herbs or other items whenever my inventory fills up. 7) Fire Scroll - Does 20 damage when used by an enemy. Does 30 damage when used by you. 8) Hell Fire Scroll - Does 40 damage when used by an enemy. Does 60 damage when used by you. 9) Scroll of Attack - Doubles your attack power for the fight. Using these on any enemy you can kill in 2 or fewer hits is a complete waste. Save them for the enemies that are harder to kill. 10) Guard Scroll - Doubles your defense for the fight. If you can manage to keep these, they are excellent against the Graffiti Buddhas you find in the 80s. But since you usually get them from Guard Buddhas in the 30s, it's reasonable for you to toss them in favor of other items. What good is a Guard Scroll if you aren't even making it to the 80s anyway? 11) Sleep Scroll - Puts the enemy to sleep for three rounds, allowing you to get in free attacks, heal, or do whatever else you want to. If you can, and think you'll get there, save a Sleep Scroll for the Holy Moly Buddha at fight 90. 12) Blind Scroll - Causes blindness, which makes it much harder to hit the opp. C3) The Buddhas First, some notes about how these are laid out. Each type of Buddha has a fixed amount of hit points that is the same for every Buddha of that type. Where I list the hit points, you will often see (at the higher levels) a range for their hit points. This doesn't mean that their hit points can vary. It means I have hit them for 1 less than the lower number and they survived and I have hit them for the upper number and they died. So I know that their hit points are within that range, though I don't know exactly where. 1) Stone Buddha Found on fights: 1 - 4 Hit Points: 5 Experience Points: 5 Paycheck Value: $0.04 Attack Strength: 5 (This is how much damage they will do if they crit hit you) Comments: If you follow my advice, fight this guy on fight 1, then run away and fight Bronze instead for the extra Experience Points. 5 XP might seem like nothing, especially when you get to fights with hundreds or thousands of XP on the line. But the game seems to be balanced such that taking the fights with the maximum possible XP puts you just ahead on the levels. Missing 5 XP now, once you get to fights in the 50s, with 2,184 XP for each fight, could mean that you are 5 XP short of going up a level. The game really does seem to be balanced this way. I know for certain it is at lower levels. 2) Bronze Buddha Found on fights: 2 - 4 Hit Points: 7 Experience Points: 10 Paycheck Value: $0.12 Attack Strength: 7 Comments: Only trouble for fight 2, where he will likely be faster than you. But it is worth it to struggle through fight 2 rather than take on a Stone. 3) Gold Buddha Found on fights: 5 - 9 Hit Points: 10 Experience Points: 20 Paycheck Value: $0.32 Attack Strength: 11 Comments: Worth more cash than a Viper, but less XP. Go with the higher XP and run away from these guys instead. 4) Viper Buddha Found on fights: 5 - 9 Hit Points: 8 Experience Points: 31 Paycheck Value: $0.20 Attack Strength: 9 Comments: Can cause poison, which drains 3 hp from you each round. Often has an antidote herb for you afterwards. Fight these guys instead of Gold for the extra XP. It'll pay off in the long run. 5) B Buddha Found on fights: 10 - 19 Hit Points: 15 Experience Points: 126 Paycheck Value: $0.28 Attack Strength: 14 Comments: I have no idea why it is B and not Boy. Much safer to fight than the Gal Buddha and her Fiery death, but also can't give you a Fire Scroll. Still, these guys often "Charge Up" which gives you extra time to kill them. Beware though, if you don't kill them, their next swing will be more powerful. 6) Gal Buddha Found on fights: 11 - 19 Hit Points: 13 Experience Points: 126 Paycheck Value: $0.28 Attack Strength: 11 Comments: Beware their Fire Scroll attack, which will ALWAYS hit you for 20 damage. You can end up using a lot of herbs against these pains. But the reward is that you can get Fire Scrolls from defeating them. On fight 11, it may be worth it to fight whichever Buddha shows up. But if you've followed my suggestions, you'll gain a level after fight 11 and have a max hp of 42. From fight 12 onward, I run away from the B Buddhas so I can fight these and try to get as many Fire Scrolls as I can. 7) Ruby Buddha Found on fights: 20 - 29 Hit Points: 28 Experience Points: 420 Paycheck Value: $0.40 Attack Strength: 24 Comments: On fight 20, you'll usually be faster. On any fight from 21-29, they will usually be faster. It's also very difficult to flee from them. Be sure to keep your health high enough at the end of each fight so that you can survive at least one hit at the start of the next fight. At other areas you can often push your life and herbs because you know that you will get the first move in the next fight 99% of the time (always a random chance of bad luck). But don't try that where these guys are around. This goes for any other ranges where fast enemies are found too. These guys are the primary reason to take on all those Gal Buddhas. One Fire Scroll will kill these guys instantly. I don't recommend wasting a Fire Scroll on Fight 20, where you have the speed advantage. But I use them on all other encounters with these guys. These guys will often drop Scrolls of Attack. Try to save those for as long as you can. 8) Big Hair Buddha Found on fights: 21 - 29 Hit Points: 28 Experience Points: 420 Paycheck Value: $0.40 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: These guys can cast healing on themselves and fully restore their hp. So what. Fight them anyway. They're not especially hard to kill, even when they do heal themselves just before you would've killed them. And they have great items. They will usually drop a Great Herb and will on rare occasions drop a Life Seed. 9) Barmaid Buddha Found on fights: 21 - 29 Hit Points: 20 Experience Points: 273 Paycheck Value: $0.36 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: Run from these. They're worth less XP, they can cast fire at you for 20 damage, and they don't often drop a Fire Scroll. They just aren't worth fighting. 10) Guard Buddha Found on fights: 30 -39 Hit Points: 30 Experience Points: 840 Paycheck Value: $0.48 Attack Strength: 36 Comments: Has a very high defense. You can hit him, but won't usually do much damage. Use any Fire Scrolls you have left. Otherwise, try not to use other items (except healing) unless you really have to. Fire Scrolls aren't worth much beyond this level, but the other Items are. They often drop Guard Scrolls, which aren't all that great right now, but can be a huge help if you survive into the 80s. It's up to you to decide whether to keep them or toss them in favor of healing herbs or other items. 11) B Buddha 2 Found on fights: 31 - 39 Hit Points: 34 Experience Points: 840 Paycheck Value: $0.48 Attack Strength: 40 Comments: Like the B Buddha from the teens, this guy will often "Charge Up" to a more powerful attack... which usually just means extra turns for you to kill him without taking any damage. 12) Micro Buddha Found on fights: 31 - 39 Hit Points: 1 - 10 Experience Points: 840 Paycheck Value: $0.48 Attack Strength: 20 Comments: These guys are almost always faster than you, and they can be hard to hit, but I've never yet managed to hit them and have them survive, no matter how little I've hit for. 13) Shaolin Buddha Found on fights: 40 - 49 Hit Points: 32 Experience Points: 1,260 Paycheck Value: $0.56 Attack Strength: 35 Comments: Their big deal is that they often critical hit you. You can have a great game going, get surprise attacked, critical hit, have them be faster than you, and have them critical hit you again before you can do anything. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, you lose. Period. Nothing you can do about it either. Thankfully, it really is uncommon for that to happen. They do often crit hit you, but you are usually faster and aren't often "suddenly attacked". Also, by this point you can probably kill them in 2 swings most of the time, especially if you've found a Bronze Sword or Metal Bat along the way. Add in the fact that they often miss when they swing and these guys, while potentially deadly, are often easy to kill without taking any damage. 14) Bio Buddha Found on fights: 41 - 49 Hit Points: 36 Experience Points: 1,260 Paycheck Value: $0.56 Attack Strength: 40 Comments: Like the Viper Buddha, these guys can poison you. It's an annoyance if you don't have an antidote herb, but it's far less deadly at this point when your max hp is so much higher. These guys are pretty easy to kill. 15) Spring Buddha Found on fights: 41 - 49 Hit Points: 45 - 46 Experience Points: 1,260 Paycheck Value: $0.56 Attack Strength: 44 Comments: These guys have more hit points than others at this level. It usually takes you three hits to kill them. That is offset by their frequent decision to curse you. Which is great. All it does is prevents you from casting spells. You can still use herbs, and while they're wasting their attack cursing you, you can happily pound the snot out of them. 16) Barmaid Buddha 2 Found on fights: 50 - 59 Hit Points: 30 Experience Points: 2,184 Paycheck Value: $0.64 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: This nasty piece of work can cast sleep on you, then follow that up with a couple of Hell Fire Scrolls. You can easily be dead before you can do anything about it. Come into fight 50 with as much health as possible and use a Sleep Scroll of your own if you have one. I often run away from these on fights 51 - 60. They're just not worth trying to get a Hell Fire Scroll from. If you do fight them though, you can often get a Hell Fire Scroll from them afterwards. 17) Yakuza Buddha Found on fights: 51 - 59 Hit Points: 60 - 62 Experience Points: 2,184 Paycheck Value: $0.64 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: These guys will often reach into your bag and try to steal from you. They also love to run away, often taking your items with them. And they're usually faster than you, meaning they get the first action each round. If they do steal something from you, and you manage to kill them before they flee, you will get your Item back. If they stole more than one Item, you'll only get the last one they took back. Thankfully, they're not very good thieves and will fail more often than they succeed. Also, they only steal unequipped weapons or shields, nothing else and not the weapon or shield you are using. 18) Sapphire Buddha Found on fights: 51 - 59 Hit Points: 32 - 44 Experience Points: 2,184 Paycheck Value: $0.64 Attack Strength: 51 Comments: These guys are very similar to the Ruby Buddhas of the 20s. Luckily, they're also fairly uncommon. You'll rarely see more than 2 of them in a given game, often not even that many. They're fast and hard to run from though, so be careful with them. 19) Family Buddha Found on fights: 51 - 59 and 61 - 69 Hit Points: 37 - 47 Experience Points: 2,184 Paycheck Value: $0.64 Attack Strength: 35 Comments: These guys are the first to span two sections. They are similar to the Big Hair Buddhas in that they often drop Great Herbs. It may be worth it to run away from other enemies on levels 51 - 59 just to try to build up your store of Great Herbs. You'll be glad you did later. In the 61 - 69 range, don't fight these guys unless you need to replenish your herbs. They aren't worth as much xp as the other enemies at those levels, but it's better to earn less xp than it is to die! 20) Punk Buddha Found on fights: 60 - 69 Hit Points: 64 - 67 Experience Points: 3,528 Paycheck Value: $0.72 Attack Strength: 55 Comments: They have a special attack of spewing fiery breath which will always hit for exactly 27 damage, which isn't too bad at this level. Could be a lot worse. Heck, we've already faced Hell Fire Scrolls for 40 damage. Furthermore, these guys can drop Dragon Shields, which cut the special attack from 27 damage to only 13. 21) Warrior Buddha Found on fights: 61 - 69 Hit Points: 70 - 72 Experience Points: 3,528 Paycheck Value: $0.72 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: Lots of Hit Points for these guys, but thankfully they'll sometimes Guard, which is the equivalent of giving you a free shot at them. If they are Guarding when you cast a Hell Fire at them, the damage gets cut in half. 22) Graffiti Buddha Found on fights: 70 - 79 Hit Points: 117 - 120 Experience Points: 4,872 Paycheck Value: $0.80 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: Did I say Warrior Buddhas had a lot of hit points? Oops. These guys are why I told you to save all those Guard Scrolls and Scroll of Attacks. Heck, if you've got some Sleep Scrolls, they won't go amiss either, though those I'd hang on to if you can. It's going to take you a while to take these guys down. Expect to use up healing herbs faster than you get them if you end up facing a lot of these guys. You're usually faster than they are, but being walls, they will often surround you if you try to run. I really hope you saved those Guard Scrolls and/or Scrolls of Attack. 23) Scam Buddha Found on fights: 71 - 79 and 81 - 89 Hit Points: 87 - 100 Experience Points: 5,544 Paycheck Value: $0.84 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: Like the Yakuza Buddha from before, only even harder to kill before they flee. Also, like the Family Buddhas, these guys span two sections. 24) Shaolin Buddha 2 Found on fights: 71 - 79 Hit Points: 59 - 61 Experience Points: 4,872 Paycheck Value: $0.80 Attack Strength: 60 Comments: Improved version of the Shaolin Buddha... sort of. These guys also like to crit hit... when they actually connect. But while they're stronger than the original Shaolin Buddhas, so are you at this point. More so than they are in fact. Of the enemies available here, I prefer to fight these guys. They're easy to kill and often will get you a good or great herb without even hitting you during the fight. 25) Gigantic Buddha Found on fights: 80 - 89 Hit Points: 89 - 132 Experience Points: 6,216 Paycheck Value: $0.88 Attack Strength: 70 Comments: Looks scary, but isn't really all that tough. They can heal back to full health though, which can be annoying. But they also have a tendency to drop Great Herbs, which is nice. They don't always fully heal. Watch the wording of their healing and sometimes it will simply say they healed. I think that they are just using herbs the same as you can. So they can heal for 30, 50 or fully. 26) Nano Buddha Found on fights: 81 - 89 Hit Points: 1 - 25 Experience Points: 6,216 Paycheck Value: $0.86 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: Finally, after struggling through the 60s and 70s, here's a chance to recover some. These guys are similar to the Micro Buddhas. One hit and they drop dead, though it's sometimes difficult to actually connect with them. Also like the Micros, these guys will usually be faster than you. On the plus side, they frequently drop the Demon's Rod, which is the best weapon I've found in the game so far with it's whopping +35 to your attack. 27) Holy Moly Buddha Found on fights: 90 - 99 Hit Points: 90 - 93 Experience Points: 8,232 Paycheck Value: $1.00 Attack Strength: 95 Comments: These guys are nasty. They are faster than you and they aren't afraid to crit hit you. If I get this far, I usually die to a surprise attack coupled with a crit hit. When that happens, you die. Period. No way to avoid it. So just hope you get lucky and can actually swing. I strongly recommend saving every Sleep Scroll you ever get to use against these guys. I've been known to carry a Sleep Scroll for over 60 fights just to have it for these guys. 28) Tuna Head Buddha Found on fights: 91 - 99 Hit Points: 70 - 106 Experience Points: 7,560 Paycheck Value: $0.96 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: One of the strangest Buddhas in the game. It looks just like its name implies, a severed fish head. Similar to the Punk Buddha, these guys have a special attack. They have a Blizzard attack that hits for 45 damage every time. Overall, these guys aren't too hard. 29) Big Wall Buddha Found on fights: 91 - 99 Hit Points: 137 - 182 Experience Points: 7,560 Paycheck Value: $0.96 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: These guys are very similar to the Graffiti Buddha. Beat them up, move on to the next fight. 30) Winter Buddha Found on fights: 91 - 99 Hit Points: 74 - 109 Experience Points: 7,560 Paycheck Value: $0.96 Attack Strength: 80 Comments: Casts Silence. Rare 1) Mt. Poop Buddha Found on fights: 11, 21, 31 Hit Points: 5 Experience Points: 6,300 Paycheck Value: $1.00 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: This guy looks just like his name, a big pile of poop. He can cast fire at you for 20. His defense is incredible and you'll typically only hit him for 1 damage. He will flee after just a few rounds, sometimes on round 2. Use a Fire Scroll on him if you have one. He'll die instantly. Rare 2) Bald CEO Buddha Found on fights: 21, 31, 41 Hit Points: 97 - 104 (pretty sure it is exactly 100) Experience Points: 924 Paycheck Value: $2.00 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: He hits for about 12-14 (with no shield). He sometimes has a Ceramic Sword if you beat him. Rare 3) Tech CEO Buddha Found on fight: 51, 61, 71 Hit Points: 165 - 204 Experience Points: 5,544 Paycheck Value: $5.00 Attack Strength: ?? Comments: Nothing special here. Just beat him up. You might want to use a Scroll of Attack if the high hit points are a problem. Rare 4) Compost Buddha Found on fight: 61 Hit Points: ?? Experience Points: ?? Paycheck Value: ?? Attack Strength: ?? Comments: He fled before I could even swing at him the only time I met him. He looks very similar to Mt. Poop, but with some flowers growing on him. The Rare Buddhas seem to have some flexibility as to where they will show up, but it is always on a fight ending with a 1. You CAN run from the enemy you get and occasionally get a Rare Buddha to show up (assuming you are on a fight where they can show up, like 21 or 51). C4) XP needed per Level Lvl| Min XP| Max XP| Typically earned after fight # ---+-------+-------+------------------------------- 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 2 | 10 | 10 | 2 3 | 30 | 30 | 4 4 | 71 | 90 | 6 - 7 5 | 190 | 190 | 9 - 10 6 | 394 | 437 | 11 - 12 7 | 821 | 897 | 15 8 | 1450 | 1821 | 20 9 | 2794 | 3130 | 23 - 24 10 | 4895 | 5230 | 28 - 29 11 | 7835 | 8170 | 32 - 33 12 | 11531 | 12027 | 36 13 | 17075 | 17487 | 42 14 | 24635 | 25047 | 48 15 | 33707 | 35043 | 53 16 | 46811 | 48147 | 59 17 | 63100 | 65290 | 64 - 65 18 | 84268 | 87802 | 70 - 71 Min/Max indicate the range in which the level is gained. For the early levels, the exact XP needed can be known. But for higher levels, it is much harder to narrow down the exact point at which the level is gained. You will never gain the level if you have less than the Min XP and you will always gain the level once you've reached the Max XP. If you manage to land somewhere in between, you may or may not get the level right then. It's not random. It's just that I don't know exactly where the level cutoff is for higher levels. I've tried to narrow the range down by choosing which enemies to fight or run from, but there is still a gap. The typical fight number is just that. If you kill a Mt. Poop buddha, then you will obviously be well ahead of the curve, at least on the early levels. If you fight a lot of Barmaids, you may find yourself needing extra fights before you get your level up. There are more levels beyond what I have listed. Getting to them to track the XP needed is difficult though and I simply don't have the information needed to post anything beyond level 18. D) Awards Regular Brave -- Title for working more than 10 times Runaway Brave -- Title for running away more than 50 times The Brave -- Title for completing the game for the first time ever (*1) Legendary Brave -- Title for completing the game more than 30 times (*1) Collector Brave -- Title for obtaining all items (*1) Discovering Brave -- Title for encountering all monsters (*1) Drop All Brave -- Title for defeating the last boss without any equipment (*1) E) Comments My best: 93 Buddha's defeated and a paycheck of $29.26. I never use the Return Scroll so my paycheck is always half what it could be. ---------------------------------------- 5) Private Number Executive [PNEX] ---------------------------------------- A) Description This is similar to the game Mastermind. You try to guess the last 4 digits of the girl's phone number. She tells you how many numbers you got right and how many of them are also in the correct spot. B) Pay Scale The chart below lists your paycheck according to who the girl is and how many guesses it took you to get her number correct. Several of the girls will pay beyond 9 guesses, but you shouldn't ever need to go there. Take a logic class if you can't solve any of these in 9 or fewer guesses! Name |Range| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chisato Kaeda | 4-7 |$4.00|$4.00|$4.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$0.50| Satoko Kyoda | 4-7 | |$4.00|$4.00|$2.50|$2.50|$2.50|$2.50|$2.50|$1.00| Yuhka Ando | 1-5 | | |$4.00|$4.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$3.00|$1.00| Masako Saito | 1-7 | |$6.00|$6.00|$6.00|$6.00|$3.00|$3.00|$1.00|$1.00| Jun Koizumi | 1-8 | | | |10.00|10.00|$6.00|$6.00|$3.00|$3.00| Hitomi Matsu | 1-9 | | |$100!|$0.00|You lose after 3 wrong guesses. Any blank entry simply means I haven't completed that girl at that number of tries yet. C) Tips/Tactics I'm not going to teach you a course in Logic. If you can't figure this game out, try reading a textbook on logic. I will however give a couple of tips. Unlike Mastermind, which can have repeats, there are never any repeats within the number in this game. You can use that info to your advantage. Pay attention to the bio of the girl when you start the game, the bio tells you exactly what range the digits of her phone number can be in. I've also listed them in the pay scale section above. So, for example, Satoko Kyoda says 4-7. That means the digits of her number will be 4, 5, 6 and 7 in some order. You can still guess other numbers, but they will never be correct. Use dead numbers as fillers when you want/need to identify a portion of the number without possibly confusing things with the other digits. If you want to know if it starts with 5-6-X-X, put in dead numbers for the X's rather than numbers which might confuse your results. You'll rarely need anything like this if you're really good at logic, but it can help those that are just learning or just want to make it easier even if it might cost them some money due to extra guesses. It makes no difference whether or not you call her. Regardless of what you hear or even whether you call, you get paid the same. One of the girls usually only appears at night and another only on the weekend, though I was playing on the weekend, at night when I built the chart, so I'm not currently sure which is which. But, if you're trying for a certain girl and she just isn't appearing, it may be because you need to play at night or on the weekend to get her. D) Awards Rookie Number Guesser EX -- Title for guessing 50 cell-phone numbers Veteran Number Guesser EX -- Title for guessing 100 cell-phone numbers Pro Number Guesser EX -- Title for guessing 500 cell-phone numbers (*1) Legendary Number Guesser EX -- Title for guessing 1,000 cell-phone numbers (*1) Private Number Miracle Capturer EX -- ~ guessing correctly on the first attempt Private Number Night Capturer EX -- Title for working 15 times at night Ultimate Number Guesser EX -- ~ collecting over $5,000 in Private Number EX (*1) E) Comments There's no point in reporting a best here. The best is getting Hitomi Matsu's number on the first try. But since that's pure luck and not skill, why bother to track it? If you're curious, you have about a 1 in 3,000 chance of correctly guessing the number of Hitomi Matsu on the first try, assuming you entered a valid possibility. ---------------------------------------- 6) Hand Bell Delight [HDBL] ---------------------------------------- A) Description Ring a bell at specific points during a song. There are 3 different songs, one of which will be picked for each game. B) Pay Scale $0.00 for failing to complete the song. $1.00 or $3.00 for completing the easy song, depending on how accurate you were. $2.00 or $5.00 for completing the medium song, depending on accuracy. $3.00 or $7.00 for completing the hard song, depending on accuracy. C) Tips/Tactics Hard to give advice here. Either you've got rhythm, or you don't. Not much I can do to help you if you can't keep the beat. I certainly don't have it. There are two types of "successfully" ringing a bell. An acceptable ringing will clear the star. A well timed ringing will clear the star with a little flair added. You earn better paychecks by clearing more stars with flair. You get "Alright" from the girls for a passable performance. You get "Wow" if your accuracy was good enough to make the girls happy. For that you earn the larger paycheck. The way the game works is, the better you perform, the happier the girls are. Having them extremely happy can allow you to miss without losing. A friend once missed 4 times, but still did so well that he recovered for the good paycheck. Not all misses are the same. How much you miss by matters too. Being just a hair late can have so little effect that you might not even notice it and the girls won't mind much. Missing by a lot on the other hand... D) Awards Popular Hand Bell Player -- Title for completing more than 10 songs Quite Popular Hand Bell Player -- Title for completing 10 songs perfectly Legendary Popular Hand Bell Player -- Title for completing 30 songs perfectly Useless Hand Bell Player -- Title for failing to complete the song 50 times E) Comments Namahage4649 has reported an award of "Morning Practicing Player" for playing 10 times in the morning. I have not gotten this award and it is not listed on the d3publisher's list. It is unconfirmed at this time, though most of the rest of the information he reported to me has since been confirmed. My best: I can complete the Easy and Medium songs for the good paycheck on a fairly consistent basis. I have a littel more trouble with the Hard song, though I typically get the good paycheck when I do complete it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. Jobs, Two-Player [JB2P] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll give a description of each job, and list which vending machine it can be found in, but I'm not going to duplicate the format of the single player games. Several of these games are just 2 player versions of the single player game. Look at the instructions for the single player game for tips, tactics and payout information. ---------------------------------------- 1) Lumberjack Challenge ($1.00) [LJCH] ---------------------------------------- You and a friend play the Lumberjack game. Instead of brown logs, there will be red and blue logs. Each of you has a color and you are required to cut your logs and only your logs. When one of you fails to cut your log, or you cut something other than your log, the game ends. The exception? There are occasional golden logs which are worth bonus money and either of you can cut. (And you BOTH lose if neither of you cuts it!) The player that caused the game to end doesn't get paid for any golden logs they cut. The other player gets a $0.30 bonus for each golden log they cut. Golden logs don't count towards the total logs cut. Only the red and blue logs count. Beware the color changes. Some of the animals can show up blue, red or even gold in an effort to trick you. Don't fall for it. Only cut wood. If you need some help, you can track the colors of logs and occasionally know whether the next log can possibly be your color. In the first 10 logs, there will be exactly 5 red and 5 blue logs. This is true from 11-20, 21-30 and 31-40 as well. From 41-50 there will be 6 red and 4 blue. That is reversed from 51-60. Beyond that, you get some strange distributions, but you should be able to handle it without needing to count by that point. And remember, golden logs don't add to the total, so they don't affect any of this. Awards: Legendary Lumberjack Brothers-- Title for splitting 999 logs (*1) Lumberjack Brothers with 50 wins -- Title for winning more than 50 times Lumberjack Brothers with 100 wins -- Title for winning more than 100 times Golden Lumberjack Brothers -- Title for splitting 100 golden logs Super Golden Lumberjack Brothers -- ~ splitting a total of 500 golden logs (*1) Ultimate Golden Lumberjack Brothers -- Title for splitting a total of 1,000 golden logs (*1) Comments: My Best: 115 logs chopped. I was controlling both PSPs at the time. ---------------------------------------- 2) Seance ($5.00) [SNCE] ---------------------------------------- A strange game where two (or more) of you are attempting to summon a spirit. You have to be in sync with whatever the current pattern is in order for the spirit to appear. The game is pretty self explanatory once you read the rules. Just tap in rhythm to the pulse of the crystal ball. It really helps if you have the sound turned on so that you can also hear when you are supposed to hit the button. Beware of changes in the rhythm. Periodically the rhythm will change. This can be even more fun with more players. Up to 8 in fact. Also, having more than 2 players increases the odds of getting better paychecks. With 4 PSPs playing, we never got Beethoven at all and only saw Edison twice. Payouts: $1.00 for summoning Thomas Edison $1.50 for summoning Beethoven $3.00 for summoning Cleopatra $3.50 for summoning Napoleon $4.00 for summoning Ieyasu Tokugawa $4.50 for summoning King Tut $4.70 for summoning Goemon $4.80 for summoning Miyamoto Musashi $5.00 for summoning Marie Antoinette There is at least one more spirit, possibly more than one. Awards: L-Necromancer -- Title for raising more than 4 spirits Master Necromancer -- Title for raising all the spirits (*1) Nocturnal Necromancer -- Title for working at night more than 10 times Necromancer in the Ghostly Hour -- Title for playing the game more than 10 times in the dead of night (*1) ---------------------------------------- 3) 3 Legged Challenge ($5.00) [3LEG] ---------------------------------------- You and a friend are tied together along one leg. You have to take steps in fairly close rhythm or you fall down. There doesn't seem to be any real time limit, but you also won't earn any money by going slow. I cannot confirm whether there is any bonus for completing a stage quickly though. I do know that you will need to jump and hit the items overhead if you want to earn some cash. You get paid according to how many of those items you collected. Here's the scary part. The first stage/level can take a while to complete, especially if the two of you are inexperienced at the game... and there's 43 more levels to reach the Ise Shrine! When playing, you must decide whether you are after a fast time or a large paycheck. The fastest times come from riding the dragon (which allows you to skip straight to the next shrine). But skipping stages means that you aren't collecting any items either. Riding the Skateboard is another trade-off. It is much easier to complete the stage when using the skateboard, but you can't collect any items. Furthermore, you can actually run faster on foot than by riding the skateboard, though you can't make any mistakes or you won't be faster than the skateboard overall. To ride the skateboard, simply jump into it as it passes overhead. Jump about a half skateboard length in front of the rocks that appear. When running on foot, jump to collect rice bowls and coins. Jump to avoid the escaped beast from Run Like Heck. Jump to get the skateboard. And jump to grab the dragon's talons as it passes overhead. Awards: 3 Legged Racer of the 21st Century -- Title for completing the 3-legged race Express 3-Legged Racer -- Title for completing the 3-legged race in 90 minutes Legendary 3-Legged Racer -- Title for obtaining the largest Japanese Lobster(*1) My Best: A friend and I completed the game in 78 minutes. We earned a paycheck a little over $136 and got an 18 inch Lobster. This was our first serious attempt at the game after having played only a handful of stages previously. (I have since improved this to a $150.30 paycheck, with faster time and larger lobster.) ---------------------------------------- 4) Copycat2 ($10.00) [CAT2] ---------------------------------------- You and an opponent take turns on a game of Copycat. When one of you misses, the other gets paid according to the level that was reached. The loser gets nothing. I assume you both get paid if you complete the game without a mistake, but I cannot confirm that at this time. Awards: Perfect Copy Cat 50 -- Title for winning 50 times (*1) Perfect Copy Cat 100 -- Title for winning 100 times (*1) Perfect Copy Cat 150 -- Title for winning 150 times (*1) Perfect Copy Cat 200 -- Title for winning 200 times (*1) Lousy Copy Cat 50 -- Title for losing 50 times (*1) Lousy Copy Cat 100 -- Title for losing 100 times (*1) Lousy Copy Cat 150 -- Title for losing 150 times (*1) Lousy Copy Cat 200 -- Title for losing 200 times (*1) ---------------------------------------- 5) Cliff Race 2000 VS ($5.00) [CR2P] ---------------------------------------- This is simply a two player version of Cliff Race. The loser of the previous race is in the front, so your position can change from race to race. If you want to be cheesy, you and a friend can take turns letting the other win all three races for the $5.00 paycheck. But, it's only $5.00, wouldn't you rather race and try to beat them honestly? Awards: Winning Racer 50 -- Title for winning 50 times (*1) Winning Racer 100 -- Title for winning 100 times (*1) Winning Racer 150 -- Title for winning 150 times (*1) Winning Racer 200 -- Title for winning 200 times (*1) Winning Racer 250 -- Title for winning 250 times (*1) Winning Racer 300 -- Title for winning 300 times (*1) Winning Racer 350 -- Title for winning 350 times (*1) Winning Racer 400 -- Title for winning 400 times (*1) Winning Racer 450 -- Title for winning 450 times (*1) Winning Racer 500 -- Title for winning 500 times (*1) Losing Racer 50 -- Title for losing 50 times (*1) Losing Racer 100 -- Title for losing 100 times (*1) Losing Racer 150 -- Title for losing 150 times (*1) Losing Racer 200 -- Title for losing 200 times (*1) Losing Racer 250 -- Title for losing 250 times (*1) Losing Racer 300 -- Title for losing 300 times (*1) Losing Racer 350 -- Title for losing 350 times (*1) Losing Racer 400 -- Title for losing 400 times (*1) Losing Racer 450 -- Title for losing 450 times (*1) Losing Racer 500 -- Title for losing 500 times (*1) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Tools [TOOL] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are just items you can use for various purposes. You get no money for using them, and there's no reason you need to use them. But they are there if you want to mess around with them. I do recommend trying the ramen timer at least once for each sex. ;-) 1) Eye Spy ($1.00) [ISPY] Walk around with this held up like a mask. Might be good for Halloween, but pretty much useless otherwise. You can choose from different sets of eyes, if you really want to. 2) Ramen Timer ($1.00) [TIMR] Try it out. I'm not gonna spoil the surprise. 3) Handy Light ($1.00) [LGHT] Acts like a flashlight, sort of. What it really does is turns the PSP screen all white and as bright as it can. You can also have it shine in different colors or have it strobe. 4) Restaurant Bill Splitter ($1.00) [SPLT] Pretty self explanatory. 5) Counter ($5.00) [CNTR] Can convert from one type of unit to another, like from decimal to binary. 6) Chinese Astrologer ($1.00) [CHNS] Put in an age and birthday and it will tell you what Chinese sign you were born under along with some typical Horoscope predictions/warnings. There are some amusing quirks in this, like the year of the chicken showing up as a bucket of KFC, or the dog that's actually a robot. Play around with it some if you're curious. A silly little way to pass some time. 7) King of the Castle ($5.00) [KOTC] Party game for those without anything better to do. It will randomly tell different people to do different things, though sometimes it can be a bit disturbing in its commands. Like telling player 3 to sniff player 2's armpit... three times! Here's a better description of how to properly play the game, submitted by Namahage4649: What you need: Players (about 5-10 ideal, mixed groups boys/girls, young/old, etc.) Slips of paper (or cards, etc.) One for each player. One slip is marked "King," the others are numbered from 1 to the number of players minus one. Drinks and snacks (optional). Obviously, don't drink alcohol if you're underage. How to play: 1. Each player draws a slip, but does not show it to anyone. 2. When everyone has picked, everyone asks, "Who's--the--King?" Whoever has the "King" slip identifies themself as the King. 3. The King must then decide on an "order" or "penalty." Said order can involve one or two people, and can be as tame or as outrageous as is legal or practical. This is probably where you'd use the WTF tool. Examples (using the WTF tool): (1 "servant", mild): "Servant 1, do not blink for 3 minutes." (2 servants, "hard") "Servant 1, describe your sexiest body part. Servant 2, take a picture of it." IMPORTANT--The "King" should NOT know at this point who has what number slip. 4. Once the order is decided, everybody then asks, "Who's--number--(X)?" The designated servant(s) must identify themselves, and then perform the task. 5. Collect and reshuffle the slips. 8) Matchmaker ($1.00) [MTCH] Ask questions of someone and see how well you match up as potential mates. 9) Bingo ($5.00) [BNGO] Got a bunch of Bingo cards and no Bingo machine? Never fear, this will act as the Bingo machine for you. Kind of useless if you don't have any Bingo cards though. 10) World Clock ($10.00) [WRLD] Need to know what time it is in Bangkok? This could help. Otherwise, pretty useless, imo. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IX. Trinkets [TNKT] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have worked on a Trinket FAQ, but have not completed it at this time. It will never be added here, though I may submit it to GameFAQs at some future time. I will mention that you can't get many of the trinkets unless you've played the game that they are associated with. So, if you're trying to get them all, and you seem to be missing a section, make sure there aren't any games you've gotten but never played. Worse, some trinkets are only available if you've done well in the game. Like the stickers related to the girls from Private Number. If you haven't gotten at least 50 phone numbers from the game, you can't get the sticker trinkets for that game from the machines! As of version 1.11, I have all but 3 trinkets. I need the Golden Axe from Lumberjack. I need the School Clock which I believe belongs to Perfect Nanny. The last is a "photogenic picture" which I have no clue what game it is from. I would have thought Ghost Psychic except I'm fairly positive I have everything from there. Perhaps it is a bonus which is unlocked by obtaining every other Trinket first? Trinkets you have earned show up with a blue background. If you trade for any Trinkets, the Trinket will show with a purple background instead, even if you have others of that same Trinket which you earned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X. Frequently Asked Questions [FAQS] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) I've been playing a lot of the games and I don't get any Paycheck from them. What gives? Stop playing in practice mode. You only get paid if you play one of the four games that the demon offers to you. 2) I was looking at the back of the box and I don't recognize all of the pictures. What games are they all from? In order from left to right and top to bottom, they are: Lumberjack - Perfect Nanny - RPS World Championship Chick Sorting - Mad Dribblin' - Matchmaker (Tool, not a game) 4 Fingers - William Hell - Karate Superstar Eye Spy (Tool, not a game) - Animal Investigation Corps - Three Count -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XI. Miscellaneous [MISC] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Emails [EMLS] Most emails are harmless, but you should beware of a few. Specifically, some emails from Hariyama Black are dangerous. They are usually advertisements for some stupid product and they will deduct the money straight from your account. So either delete these emails without opening them, or make sure you've spent all your money already. Thanks to both Chris and Namahage4649 for pointing out that not all Hariyama-Black emails are bad (some actually give you money) and that not all Hariyama-Mart emails are safe. In general though, it's best to just delete emails from either of them without reading them. Your mailbox can only hold 50 emails. After that, it will delete older ones as new ones come in. Ken and WTFNet are the only emails actually worth reading for content. Emails from the others can be entertaining, but aren't really useful. Ken's emails will often hold useful tips. WTFNet's emails contain game info, awards and the occasional cash bonus for playing so long. Make sure to read ALL WTFNet emails. If you delete them, or they fall off the bottom without your having read them, you may miss some awards and never be able to get them without resetting the save data and starting over. Emails from Lai will show you exactly how apt his name is. Vernon is very rich, which somewhat explains her activities. Mr. College is slightly insane. 2. Anniversary Gifts [ANIV] If you play long enough, WTF Net will send you an Email with an Anniversary gift. The amount of the gift depends on how long you have played. The chart below lists the amounts you get at the various times. 10 Hour - $5.00 20 Hour - $5.00 30 Hour - $5.00 40 Hour - $5.00 50 Hour - $5.00 100 Hour - $10.00 200 Hour - $10.00 300 Hour - $90.00 You can also get occasional gifts for things like playing on your birthday, New Years day, or various other times. 3. Version Info [VERS] 1.0 - 2/26/08 - Initial version. All games and Tools. Still needs more Awards. Some games lacking some minor info. Complete enough to be a full 1.0 version. 1.01 - 3/2/08 - Added a bunch of Awards. Updated a few games with more info. Added a better description for how to use the King of the Castle Tool. 1.02 - 4/7/08 - Added all missing awards as listed on the d3publisher website. Updated some info for a few games. 1.03 - 4/21/08 - Added a few Awards that got missed in the last update. Updated my records and Awards achieved. Added a few more notes here and there. 1.04 - 5/6/08 - Updated several games. Removed (*1) and corrected the wording of several more Awards. 1.05 - 5/28/08 - A few new awards and high scores. Major overhaul to William Hell, including corrected Paycheck info and a new chart for all targets. 1.06 - 7/8/08 - Updated some awards and high scores. Updated Buddha's Quest with new info, including 2 new enemies. Reworked Baseball Superstars and Karate Superstar some. 1.10 - 12/2/08 - Added Anniversary Gift list. Updated many scores and titles. Updated several games with new info. This is likely the final version. 1.11 - 1/23/09 - Updated some awards and scores. Finally beat Karate Superstar. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XII. Credits and Contact Info [CRDT] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can send email to me at: Ahlyishotmail.com Thanks to CJayC and Gamefaqs for providing the opportunity to share this info with fellow gamers. Chris - Thanks for getting me started on this stupid game again after I'd managed to quit it and move on. Grrr. ;-) Thanks too for the many tips and all the help you've provided throughout my compiling this FAQ. Namahage4649 - Thanks for providing a lot of Awards and a few corrections/tips. Thanks for the description of how to play King of the Castle properly. RichPlaystation - Thanks for the R.P.S. info and suggestions. Thanks for being the first to let me know of a 3rd and 4th map in Pollinator. Carl Julio - Thanks for some minor info on The Net. Gavin Parsons - Thanks for help with Bouncer Bash. Between us I think we've nailed that mini-game completely. Kreationz - Some work on the bonus payouts of Pendemonium.