This tips are available from Andy’s group dedicated to bowling buddy game. I just made it googleable! Post are as it is without edits. Kudos, to those who made it.

This is by Dave Dixon

Firstly pageup / down still works because i have just done it!!, and its not cheating its just ensuring your mouse isn’t moved and that the bowl goes in a straight line.
what you are doing is very similar because i just carefully position the bowl a and i then took a screen grab that was after 2 days of trial and error to find the most suitable spot for the bowl and to get the greatest of accuracy, i also tried other methods similar to yours of plotting lines to follow or running the mouse along against a ruler, but found pageup/down was the best method, so its no different from what you are doing.

It took me two days of work to achieve so i deserve the credit of achieving my aim to reach 300 and i can now achieve it by several methods including yours, but if you seem to think what i have done is cheating then i am afraid yours is also because in real bowling you cannot exactly pre-positon the bowl and use the same guidelines …unless you intend to paint lines on a real bowling alley and put a x or marker on the lanes where you last achieved a strike and then achieve the same speed every time which is not possible due to human error, so therefore what you are doing is not replicating a true representation of the game of bowling. If you wish to play the game as if you were playing real bowls then i am afraid you should not be drawing lines etc to use as a mouse guide as it too can be conceived as cheating!

Most games are designed in a mathematical way so there are always going to be ways to increase the possibility of getting a higher score etc, and as they say practice makes perfect!, luck can play a part of course, but the games are designed for fun, for me its challenge to increase my odds of winning and by working out solutions, that is the achievement not just getting to the magic 300.

Text based instructions.
Original perfect 300 post by Andy
Theresa’s Laptop tip
KC’s ball alignment screenshot.

The game on video.
The whole perfect 300 bowling game on video.

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Trick 1: Average speed of 40km/hr
Trick 2: Clown award

Bowling went virtual with Bowling Buddies. This game is developed by Playfish and featured stylish 3D graphics, easy controls, tons of achievements, customised characters and challenges against your friends.

This game allows you to toggle between 2D and 3D graphics and caters for fast or slow PC. I was not too into the game until I start winning some award, that where I start to check out the forum and look for the methods to WIN the different awards.

These are the awards available according to playfish support f.a.q. pages. I’ve copied those over for easy reference.

What do the icons mean?

Q: What do the icons in the main menu below my character and below my friends characters in the score chart mean? And how do I achieve them?

A: These are different achievements to be won in the game.

A full list of all achievements and what is required for each is listed below

Awarded for scoring more than 100 Points in one game!
Awarded for scoring more than 200 points in one game!
Awarded for scoring more than 5 strikes in one game!
Awarded for bowling faster than an average speed of 40 km/hr!
Are you a clown? Can you find out how to win this achievement?
Awarded for playing more than 50 games!
Awarded for inviting more than 30 friends!
Awarded for filling the scoreboard with strikes!
Awarded when you have won 25 challenges!
Awarded when scoring all spares in one game!

As this post is fairly long, I am breaking it into different pages depending on which trick you are working on. Self-explanatory awards will not be covered.

Bowling Buddies trick 1: How to get awarded for bowling faster than an average speed of 40km/h!

Bowling Buddies trick 2: How to get the clown award?

Bowling Buddies trick 3: How to get the perfect 300 game?

Bowling Buddies trick 4: How to get the spare saver award?

Fluff Friends

They are virtual pets which you can adopt on facebook. You can own exotic animal as pets. Feed them, pet them, have your pet challenge with other pets. Just simply adopt a pet and you game can prodeed from there.

The commodity of exchange here is known as “Munny”. Here are the few ways where you can grab hold of some.

1. Surveys for munny (100 munny, once a week.)
2. Copy your fluff link It should look something like this (http://apps.facebook.com/fluff/fluffbook.php?id=747863624). Tagged along a few of your friends and post some on other folks fluff page (look for the active ones, you can tell from their fluff post page). Be careful though don’t do it too frequent that you hit the pink screen of Arrrrh (I’m block from Facebook…) I’ve got that once, I’m wiser now LOL…
3. Easiest way, Visit the fluff zoo, to give endless pets. (endless Munny as well) Or you can place them in the Zoos for others to pet… Yes you didn’t hear that wrongly…. “ZOO”. Here’s one to place your pet in: http://fluff.sugar-licious.net/
4. Food items changes price daily so, if it’s an item that your pet likes (e.g.+10fph, +9fph, +8fph) stock up when prices are low.

Special Post: Exclusive interview with Fluff Sugar-licious owner.

Enjoying your game yet?

Packrat is a online digital collectibles game developed by alamofire.

Some tricks that I had used in the course of playing packrat!

1. Buy cheap item from the market and keep on swapping for higher value items from the rats, BTW (they are picture if rats instead of human) ^_^

2. Vault items of the same kind to gain points, increase you level, and open up the markets during the early stages. I go for higher value items like 4000 – 5000 range where possible. Look for items that are available in abundance from the rats pack.

3. A must have…. Recipe link :

• http://packratwiki.com/PackRat
• http://packrat.bluwiki.com/go/Packrat
• http://ministryofgame.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-pack-rat-feats-of-wonder-log.html

Included 2 links here in case anyof the site goes down.

4. Sometimes you could just vault to get vault cards, who knows you may chance upon new cards!

5. If your pack is full, steal a lock from a rat, lock something in your pack but refresh your screen 3 times, return to your pack and your lock will have been used up and you will be left with a space. If your pack is full swap the cards to a friend’s pack, look for those who are not exposed to FFAs. Pass the card that you’ve got to the rats swap with coins to free up space. Why choose a friend who does not really play and there are not many pack raters around, simple so that you have enough time to swap it back when you can.

6. Another way get yourself unstuck from full pack, is to swap for items that can be used to create a recipe. Choose cards that are easy to find in the rats. I normally choose lower value cards that are easy to steal.

7. When vaulting for vault bonuses you will achieve the best results if you vault your pack to empty, vaulting everything in your pack yields you 5 vault bonus cards. (I usually don’t get a chance to do that as there are FFA around me)

Other Post:
Packrat Game Basic
Packrat Hall of Shame!

If you are a regular player of scrabulous, you would have come across this message.

“Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about developments in this matter, please click here.”

The popular application developed by Jayant Agarwalla and Rajat Agarwalla was taken down by Facebook due to legal pressure from Hasbro.

Fret not, the Agarwalla brothers are back with a new improved version under the name Wordscraper. What are the differences? Board is bigger, round tiles instead of square tiles and it’s customizable! Scoring options are different as well.

As of today (01 Aug 2008) the stats read “3,569 daily active users” with a rating of 4.7 out of 5. Will Scrabulous fans support the Agarwalla brother’s new improved game? Well, track their stats for yourself, taking referenced from the stats posted here. :>

What’s next, check out the new game of course! Before you go bookmark this page and come back to track their growth.

Cheers,
KC

Dedicated to the fans of Sliipiigiin’s (fluff)zoo! This exclusive is for YOU!

When I wrote about my experience in playing fluff, I was asking myself what left a deep impression about that game. The fluff “zoo” was the first thing that pops up. The next thing I know, I contacted Alisa and this is post is the outcome of it.

Here goes the interview!

KC: Brief introduction on why I wrote to her……

Start of the interview.

KC: How the idea came about?

Alisa Brown: When I first found the (fluff) friends application through a friend’s Facebook, I went on the associated forum and saw these great little petting zoo sites. The way to excel in the game was to pet others, and the way to find others was these sites. They were nice, but not very user friendly; each (fluff) opened up in a new window. It took such a long time, and it was hard to keep track of where you were. I had basic knowledge of web design, so I decided to make my own “petting zoo.” I thought, “What if you could just access the petting button, and nothing else?” To avoid becoming too cold and impersonal, (I still wanted to see the person’s pet), the wide iframes came about. They were just high enough to see the petting button that you needed. You could scroll and see the person’s whole page also. To keep load time reasonable, I kept three people per page. And BAM, Sliipiingiin’s Zoo was born!

KC: See IT is great isn’t it. When was the site first launch?

Alisa Brown: I posted on the (fluff) forum in the “Zoos and Groups” topic the day that the site went live, although I was still working on the page banner. That was December 11th, 2007. When I say we’re the first iframes (fluff) zoo, I mean it!

KC: How/Who help you to spread the word around?

Alisa Brown: The (fluff) forum was a great help. Many active users found my url there. Although I never thought to ask people to do it, people would post my url in their speech bubble (before the days of habitat captions!) so anyone who visited their page would also visit the zoo. I was really glad that they were so proud, to post the zoo url on their page!
During the egg hunt in March 2008, my url was thrown around the forum as a place to “hunt” for eggs. That’s when traffic really picked up!

KC: Hey, action speaks louder then words you know! What kept you motivated to keep the site running?

Alisa Brown: Motivation is a difficult thing for me. My goal is to never have a maxed out or inactive pet in the zoo. This is really difficult as I have no advanced method for adding people, simply opening up my FTP and editing pages as I see people that need to be replaced. The thing that keeps me from ever closing the site is that it’s self-sufficient, if a pet is inactive it can still earn the visitor munny, and I’ll fix it when I have time for an update. I’m also motivated by the kind words and compliments the zoo has received. It’s a useful site, and pretty cute too, so I’m proud of that.

KC: Any IT geeks who may volunteer your programming skills bringing her site to greater heights? Drop a post please! Any stats on how many pets have been in zoo thus far?

Alisa Brown: I have no idea how many people have been in the zoo total, but I know that only 450 people are members at any given time, and 1632 people have requested to be added since February 15th, 2008. That blows my mind a little; most of those people are active (fluff)ers, patiently waiting for someone else to max out or go inactive so they can get in!

KC: Wow! That’s cool for a self made site. Well done, give yourself a pet for that. Am I right you fans out there? lol.. Right, any instructions for users who want to be added to the Zoo?

Alisa Brown: This is so important, so many people don’t read this on the site. A direct quote from fluff.sugar-licious.net:

“If you’d like to be added to the (fluff) petting zoo, leave your link at our group!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7767679509

Post in the List discussion topic. You will have to join first, read the rules in the topic, then (if you can comply with the rules) post your link. Don’t request to be added if you write something like “No Racing” in your profile…I can’t control this if you are added to the zoo, and we are open to all activity here!”

KC: See! You need to read instructions… Be sure you join the group first. Hmm, since I had an exclusive, er hmm is there any change for me to cut those queues and get myself an honor spot or something to have my pet F1 racing to 5000 pets again Opps just trying my luck…LOL…
Hey, do you know Singapore is making history as well organizing the sport’s first-ever night race! “2008 FORMULA 1™ Singapore Grand Prix on September 28” Wow there’s a lot of first events here in this post isn’t it? First iframe zoo, first-ever F1 night race, My first blog..heehee sorry couldn’t help it. Cool!

Well, this interview is indeed an enjoyable one, any parting words for your fans, before we come to the end of post.

Alisa Brown: This site has been amazing to create, and I hope it retains its popularity even as other zoo sites pop up. Sliipiingiin says he deserves the fame. (o.-)*

KC: Hmm, before we truly sign off, come to think of it “Sliipiingiin” and the spelling looks a little like “Sipping Gin” erm what were you drinking then…was it an unintentional typo ;>

Alisa Brown: Sliipiingiin is actually pronounced “Sleeping In” in my head, although I think I like your pronounciation better! Although my drink of choice wouldn’t be gin, personally, I leave that one to my dad.

KC: LOL, right ok fans that’s all we have for you. Bye fans! This is truly the end of post. KC signing off.

Goto: How to play fluff friends?

With each completed series you will get a feats of wonder card for display… these are my completed set thus far. Don’t you like the Golden rat!

Feats Log with links to recipe (Progressively adding in the older series)

Here you go…

Packrat. What is it? Hmm, have you done cards collection before? Or collect a series of stickers in an album …Ah ha, you’ve got it. It’s an electronic version of the collection game, with a twist… since it’s electronic, you get to “steal”, combine cards to make new ones.

Aim of the game – is to collect items from different cards to complete a collection. When you first added the game you are given a ‘pack’ containing five different items. Each item is from a different ‘collection’ – for example collection series like ‘Oh the Drama’, ‘Jump the shark’ etc, it’s differentiated by a icon at the corner of each packrat card. Once you have either a set of 5 of the same card, or 5 distinct items from the same collection, you can move them to your ‘vault’, where they’re safe.

To get the cards that you need, either steal them from your friends collections, or buy them from the market.

Onward with the game…

Some quick and simple notes for new players of Packrat. Nay, I’m not going to write a bible about it, it’s learn as you play!

Step 1: Get 5 different items from the same series and learn how to vault. Don’t just swap and steal cards, you need to vault! You will receive a new card with each vault.

Step 2: Work towards opening up all the markets so you can buy items and be able to complete your set, least you get bored along the way. Some markets only open up at level 25 I think. (*I’m way above that to remember which level)

Step 3: Choose a set and start completing it. Work with a friend, a group of friends or anybody who can help so you can complete the set faster.

Step 4: Practice the locks to earn some credits. (Edited: 7 Dec 08, The new pack rat do not have locks anymore, there’s now a protected area and a shared stash where your friends/rats can drop items for sharing.)

Step 5: You can get 250 credits daily if you login to the game. (per 24 hr)

Step 6: Sit back, relax and enjoy… or like some who did it, scold those who pretend to be cooperating when they are actually rats! Ha Ha…

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Packrat tricks and tips
Packrat Hall of Shame