New Neopets Game and Challenge: Invasion Blastoids

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Invasion Blastoids.

This is sort of a Luxor style match 3 game.  I found it okay, but it gets frustrating with there being a lot of asteroids that block your path to shooting to match 3.  Also, too much of the area near the head just vaporizes your attempt and does nothing.  It also gets frustrating not knowing the things path and it making sudden turns and not being able to get an angle to get it.  Basically, it got too hard and annoying too fast.  My first attempt I did manage 30,000 something, but after that I could not even get 20,000 again.  Way too frustrating to even care about beating AAA for me.


To get AAA's prize you must score 50,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 7,500. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Blastoids Plushie. The prize for beating AAA is Precarious Placed Pillar of Meteors.

New Game and Challenge: S.M.E.L.T.

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called S.M.E.L.T.

Finally a new game out and of course I miss noticing it since it has been 3 months since last new game and I have not been paying much attention to Neopets lately. After playing, though, I do not feel like I have missed out on much.

Basically you just place the different pieces to be cut from the sheet of metal. It is pretty easy at first, but it gets complicated because of the stupid small time limit pretty fast. This might be fun if there were levels of difficulty or even a zen mode, but as is the time limits make this game too annoying too fast.

I did manage to beat AAA, but it was extremely frustrating. It would be nice if smelting did not cost time and instead cost points. Or even if there was just a key to tap for activating smelt and no time wasted trying to get to the smelt with the mouse. Also, turning seems useless because it takes so long for the things to rotate.

To get AAA's prize you must score 3,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 500. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Toasted Gear Cookies. The prize for beating AAA is Handy Dandy Magnifying Glass (wearable).

New Game and Challenge: Shenkuu Warrior II

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Shenkuu Warrior II.

I am not much into the clicking of the original Shenkuu Warriro and II is pretty much the same thing, so really not that interesting. However, it oddly is kind of relaxing to play sometimes. Although, a lot of times it is just down right frustrating. No the controls are easy, but it is frustrating when you fail, especially if so close to getting to a certain score, such as my 98,229 being so close to beating AAA.

Overall not a bad improvement on the original. However, I am kind of tired of new editions of games, especially when the changes are so minimal and the release of original Neopets games are becoming months and months apart.

To get AAA's prize you must score 100,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 40,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Flying Without Wings - A Warriors Tale (book). The prize for beating AAA is Grappling Hook (wearable).

New Game and Challenge: Wrath of the Snowager

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Wrath of the Snowager.

Finally a new game. I cannot believe it has been three months since the last new game and challenge from Neopets. Overall I kind of like this new game. Basically you move the Snowager around to bump into the thief and then pick up the items he drops. However, you cannot hit anything else and that includes hitting the Snowager's tail, so it can be hard at times. Also, gets a little annoying trying to grab all the items dropped before the thief sucks them back in. It is not too hard to get the hang of it, though. Still frustrating that you do not keep your points until you beat a level and when you die you have to start the current level all over.

To get AAA's prize you must score 650,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 12,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. Prize for beating Abigail is Snowager Cookie.

New Game and Challenge: Hannah and the Kreludor Caves

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Hannah and the Kreludor Caves.

The game kind of reminds me of Faerie Caves. It is not all that interesting to me, especially since it involves an annoyingly hard jump/jet use gap as early as level 4. Totally annoyed me too early, but then again it does not have much depth with 15 levels anyways. I beat Abigail, but do not care to play enough to get good enough to beat AAA. Too boring and frustrating for me to do that.

To get AAA's prize you must score 30,250. To get Abigail's prize you must score 2,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Treasure Chest Cake.

New Game and Challenge: Kookia

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Kookia.

There really is not much to this game. You just move your cursor to get the Kookiths (yellow, fire, etc. depending on specific level) and click on the ghost ones (or at least I think they are ghost ones). By clicking on at least three of the "ghost" Kookiths you make it to the bonus round for that level. The bonus round is the same concept.

There are three difficulty levels (east, medium, and hard) in Kookia. The easy is easier to progress far, but because the Kookias move slow it can be harder to get the chain bonuses if you do not wait for several to come out and then collect them. Hard can make the points go faster, but I found it quickly got too hard to get 80% and pass the level (i.e. I only passed level 1, although I did beat Abigail that way). Note that the point value per Kookith is also higher the harder the difficulty, which is a big reason why they rack up fast on Hard.

Beating Easy I only got like 17,000 points. Medium and Hard I cannot even get past level 2. I do not really care to keep trying either because it just is not that interesting of a game in my opinion. Nice scenery and graphics, though.

To get AAA's prize you must score 300,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 20,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Kookia Playset.

New Game and Challenge: Hannah and the Wardrobe of Adventure

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Hannah and the Wardrobe of Adventure.

This is kind of boring. You just choose the parts to make Hannah's outfit for different missions. I guess I have a horrible fashion sense as I stink at this game. I tried it for half an hour and could only figure out a few perfect outfits despite the missions being very repetitive. The main points seem to come from the Korbat's Lab/brick style bonus round every three missions passed, as if you beat that you easily get 2,000 points. The problem is figuring out enough outfits to get to the bonus round. I am too lazy and it feels almost like cheating to me, but I am sure someone has a guide out there that tells you the outfits.

To get AAA's prize you must score 9,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 350. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Hannahs Chest of Clothes.

New Game and Challenge: Ugga Drop

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Ugga Drop.

Ugga Drop is a parachute jump game. It is not horrible, but it also is not all that interesting. It does not take much to master the timing of when to parachute. It does seem that you have to be totally perfect to beat AAA, though.

To get AAA's prize you must score 37,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 22,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Conquering Heights.

New Game and Challenge: Island Chef Academy

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Island Chef Academy.

This is a diner dash style game where you cook and serve the stuff. It is not exactly hard, but it is fast paced and gets near impossible way to fast. I cannot even beat Abigail and I do not care to keep trying because I usually love these kinds of game and cannot stand this one.

To get AAA's prize you must score 850. To get Abigail's prize you must score 300. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score.

New Game and Challenge: Nova Defender

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Nova Defender. It is about time they release a new Neopets game. I am pretty sure other than sponsor games the last game was released in January. Understandable that they did not release for a while, though, as I would not have wanted a new game to have come out during the Daily Dare. Unfortunately, Nova Defender is really just a slight remake of Nova Battle, which supposedly got taken off Neopets for being too similar to a game from another site. Would be nice to see an all new game.

To get AAA's prize you must score 700,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 50,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Nova Cookie. This game is too frustrating for me to keep trying to beat AAA. I cannot stand the shooting controls being AWSD on my laptop and I do not think it would be any better being the arrow keys on a desktop.

New Game and Challenge: Jumpin' Gem Heist

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Jumpin' Gem Heist. This is an interesting new game, but it gets hard and I keep running out of time. You basically just click and toss a rock up to dump gems. You have to catch the rocks you throw or you will soon run out of ones to use. You also have to watch out for falling stones (this are bigger and darker colored than the one you throw). Basically easy concept, but hard to follow through with fast enough to not run out of time.

To get AAA's prize you must score 70,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 20,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. It did not take me long to beat Abigail. The prize for beating Abigail is Paint Your Own Sandan Set. However, I can barely beat her and give up on going for AAA's score. I just cannot get around the running out of time a little past 20,000. It just is too frustrating and not entertaining.

Update 1/26/10: AAA's score has been changed to 45,000. Still too hard for me, but at least it now seems quite possible for more people.

New Game and Challenge: Nova Battle

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Nova Battle. This is a pretty simple game control wise as you just have to move around the Nova and avoid being hit while also hitting the enemies. There are three difficulty levels. I found them all easy at first, but they all get hard by the end with of course the harder ones getting hard faster. It is not really all that exciting, though.

To get AAA's prize you must score 300,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 40,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. I easily beat Abigail my first try when I played Easy. The prize for beating Abigail is Star Light Hair Gel. It took me a few tries of trying all difficulties to beat AAA. I was finally able to do it by nearly beating all 10 levels on Normal difficulty. I could not last long enough in Hard or score enough in Easy to do it. The prize for beating AAA is Nova Toilet.

New Game and Challenge: Dueling Decks

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Duelng Decks. Basically you get a random card and then choose what category you think it will beat Zenco in. There is also a wild card to use once if you have a bad card. In easy mode you always choose the category. In normal if you lose a round Zenco has a chance to choose the category, but you still also have a chance, although it can be hard to get it to stop where you want. In hard Zenco will choose the category for next round if you lose a round. Overall it is an easy game, but it is somewhat luck based.

To get AAA's prize you must score 25,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 3,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Dueling Decks Box of Cards. I got her score easy on Hard mode, but to beat AAA you have to kind of farm the game. You have to keep the game going and not take Zenco's last card. This can be done in any mode. Points rack up faster in Hard mode, but you have more control over losing by choosing category in Easy mode. Really it is up to you, but it should be achievable with some time by all. By the way the prize for beating AAA is Dueling Decks Mynci Wrist Wrap.

New Game and Challenge: Spellseeker

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Spellseeker. The game has three ways to play. You can either match up tiles of symbols, numbers, or letters.

The symbol version you just make a chain of the same symbol. Definitely the easiest, but not the easiest for high point chains.

In the Number version you make chains by connecting numbers in sequence of plus or minus 1 from current number selected. This is still easy and also the easiest version to make long chains on throughout the levels.

The Letter (i.e. Word) version is the hardest. In the letter version you connect tiles to make words. The oozing tiles are really hard to get rid of at times in the letter version making it harder to go far, as well as to get through levels fast and rack up points fast because it can be hard to make long words at times.

Overall it is a pretty fun game and at least for now easy to get 1,000 Neopoints from.

To get AAA's prize you must score 99,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 20,000. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Magic Cake. For AAA the score reaches the review level, so it did not pop up and say I got the item, but when I went and looked at my inventory I did get credit for beating AAA even though the score is in for review and I have not got the Neopoints for the score send. The item for beating AAA is Magic Ball Table.

New Game and Challenge: Extreme Herder 2

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Extreme Herder 2. This game came out last week, but I have been busy and then my Internet was not letting me get to game sites and some other sites until I reset it for the third time and it finally let me access all sites. Thus finally I got to try Extreme Herder 2 today.

The game has some new power ups, such as x2 that lets you carry 2 petpets at once and an apple that has the petpets all gather in one place. Other than that it is a lot like the original with just improved graphics. Also, Balthazar and the Kacheek do not always start in the same corners like in the original version, which makes this harder. Overall it is about as enjoyable as the original. Not worse, but not really that improved except for the graphics, however I care more about gameplay than graphics.

To get AAA's prize you must score 400. To get Abigail's prize you must score 40. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Wibreth Bouncy Toy. I could not beat AAA today, but I am going to keep trying.

Update - 10/7/09: Finally beat AAA at this game. The prize for beating him is Balthazar Ears.

New Game and Challenge: Extreme Faerie Cloud Racers

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Extreme Faerie Cloud Racers. It seems the biggest positive change from the original Faerie Cloud Racers is the addition of power ups. A yellow tail looking power up is called Meerca Trail and gives you a longer trail. A blue Tonu one allows you to break through other trails. The slorg slows you down. There are also daredevil bonuses based on how close you turn next to a wall and if there is another wall on the inside of that turn.

The positive changes are cool, but there is one major change that makes me really dislike this new version. It gives you a first person type view of the flying. The graphics are cool, but you do not really have a clue where the other paths are and it is not as good as the old overhead perspective. Sure, there is the radar like screen in the bottom left hand corner to give this kind of view, but it is distracting and if I try to use it I just end up doing worse.

Final thoughts are that the new version is not an overall improvement. Not all worse, but the one flaw is worse than the additions. What are your thoughts?

To get AAA's prize you must score 750. To get Abigail's prize you must score 80. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Pink Mashed Potatoes. I can barely ever score more than 10 points, so I am lucky to have beaten Abigail. Too frustrating for me to even care about ever beating AAA.

New Game and Challenge: Chariot Chase

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Chariot Chase. This is basically a figure 8 race track horse (I mean Alabriss, the horse looking PetPet) racing game. The controls are just using the areas to control the Alabriss. I found it a rather frustrating racing game about just avoiding hitting other racers and dung piles. Five hits and your out. The goal is to complete as many laps as you can before time runs out. You get 100 points per lap completed. Honestly Normal and Hard mode both seemed equally hard and frustrating. I love racing games, but this game stinks in my opinion.

To get AAA's prize you must score 2,000. To get Abigail's prize you must score 100. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Alabriss Mirror. By the way I got 100 exactly and did not get the prize. Then I got 300 and got it, so I guess you have to get over 100.

*Update: I beat finally AAA's score on September 11, 2009 and got a Chariot Chair as the reward.

New Game and Challenge: Attack of Slorgs II Slorgs in Space

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Attack of Slorgs II Slorgs in Space. It is an interesting new version of Attack of the Slorgs, which is a game I kind of liked in the first place. It is a pretty simple concept of shooting colored slorgs into the line to make rows of three or more of the same color/pattern disappear. The space background version and improved graphics do make for a better version.

To get AAA's prize you must score 16,500. To get Abigail's prize you must score 3,500. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Slorg Wash. I cannot get anywhere near a good enough score to beat AAA.

New Game and Challenge: Darigan Dodgeball

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Darigan Dodgeball. This is purely a mouse game. You just move around trying to avoid the four balls as long as you can. It is kind of frustration in its fast pacedness. It is okay and at least an interesting concept for a game, but I do not think I will be watching it often.

To get AAA's prize you must score 1,700. To get Abigail's prize you must score 400. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Rocky Ground. I am still working on trying to do good enough to beat AAA, but it is a fun game to play so I am going to keep trying for a while. By the way you get 100 points per second, so you have to last 17 seconds to beat AAA. I have not been able to even last 10 seconds. I never did like dodgeball.

New Game and Challenge: Spinacles

The newest Neopets game has come out along with the new game challenge. The new game is called Spinacles. It is a Faerie Bubbles type game. You basically just match up three of the same color and they disappear. The thing spins depending on where the bubbles hit it. It seems the main trick is to get good at bouncing it off the walls to get them to the right spot.

To get AAA's prize you must score 3,500. To get Abigail's prize you must score 250. As always by default you get Abigail's prize if you have not gotten it yet and first beat AAA's score. The prize for beating Abigail is Sun Ray Picture Frame. I am still working on trying to do good enough to beat AAA, but it is a fun game to play so I am going to keep trying for a while.