March 31, 2010: Crazy Cakes and Lottso

Crazy Cakes Badge Challenge
Upside Down Cake Badge
Meet the Goal for 25 rounds without losing any customers this week!
Win this badge plus 3000 Tokens!

Play Buddy didn't have an auto for this game so I went solo on the challenge. That said, I played - and recommend you play - on "Beginner" or "Easy" since we puny humans can complete the badge much easier and faster on these levels. Even though it took exactly 1 hour (and 2,286 additional tokens), I found this game to be engaging and fun; it was non-stop clicking and action until VOILA! up pops the badge.

Helpful Hint: If you're like me and never played before, when a customer is asking for a piece of fruit (i.e. a cherry), they don't want the actual piece of fruit (you can try and give it to them but it won't work, as I discovered), but they want any PASTRY that is flavored with that kind of fruit. So for example, customer shows a cherry. Click on the cherry AND a cookie, cake, or whatever pastry.


Lottso! Badge Challenge
Lottso Lava Badge
Activate 30 silver-bordered cards this week!
Win this badge plus 2000 Tokens!

First of all, the majority of cards SEEM silver-bordered but are actually black. An example of a black border is the "Team Lottso" cards which are always black. The silver cards look more like the color white (at least on my comp). That said, play in the "COMPETITIVE" rooms because then you have greater odds of getting more silver-bordered cards (no team lottso cards means less black bordered cards). ALSO when I joined a room, I personally made sure I had at least 1 silver-bordered card... if there are none it's going to take that much time to clear some cards to get a silver card to drop.

So, there are a couple of options in getting this badge - a slower option and a faster option; one involves working with Lotso Buddy, the other involves letting the Buddy do all the work. :)

Option 1: Team work
So since the bot doesn't have a setting for this particular badge, I'd click on all the numbers in any silver bordered cards I had at the beginning of every round. Then I'd press "autoplay" and let it fill in the rest of the spaces and scratch any scratch cards. BUT REMEMBER to stop it again before the next round if you want to place any more balls on any new silver cards. Using this strategy took me and the Buddy 1 hour 55 minutes and granted us an extra 5,770 tokens.

Option 2: Let 'er ride!
This one is definitely the easier choice, albeit slower. BUT if you have other things to do, just hit autoplay and walk away. :-)