1) Each Piñata can perform two tricks. To get them to perform each trick, you need to find the food item that triggers the trick and feed it to them. Tap the Piñata with the Trick Stick when it’s doing the trick, and you’ll be able to use that Trick Stick to make any Piñata of the same species perform on demand!

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2) Not only are Bispottis some of the easiest Piñatas to raise, they’re also a delicious treat for several other Piñata types, including Newtgat, Jameleon, Parmadillo, Hoghurt, Galagoogoo, Sparrowmint, Robean, Sour Profitamole, and Arocknid.

3) Raise Buzzlegums to produce Honey on the cheap! You can feed the Honey to other Piñatas that love it, including Badgesickle, Fizzlybear, Mousemallow, and Raisant. You can also sell the Honey for a few extra chocolate coins!
4) Some Piñatas are rivals and will fight each other on sight, like Lickatoad and Newtgat. This can injure the Piñatas and reduce their happiness and value. To discourage Piñata fights, separate rival Piñatas with a sturdy fence.
5) Sour Piñatas begin to invade your garden as you become a more experienced gardener. But like any visiting Piñata, they have residence requirements, and if you complete them, the Sour Piñata will change into a tame and helpful version of itself, instead of a pest!

6) If a Lickatoad eats a Nightshade Berry, it evolves into the poisonous Lackatoad, an entirely new species of Piñata!

7) Every Piñata has at least three variant versions that it transforms into when it eats certain foods. These variant Piñatas are identical to the normal versions, except for the fact that they’re worth more when you sell them!

8) If you tame a Sour Mallowolf, the resident Mallowolf that it becomes will scare Ruffians away from your garden and let you raise your Piñatas in peace!

9) To keep Death out of your garden and away from your Piñatas, tame a Sour Crowla and a Sour Sherbat. Crowlas hassle Death during the daytime, and Sherbats take over for them when the sun goes down!

10) To find the extremely elusive Dragonache egg, you need to at least have one Mine and one Diggerling to search for it. But you can improve your odds of finding it by hiring four Diggerlings, giving them 300 coins at a time to keep them happy, putting a Helper House near the Mine entrance, placing a Lantern of Loot in the garden, and sending a Candary wearing a Gas Mask over to the Mine.

Click here to download part of the Pinata Prospectus!

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All eGuides are 25% off!  So you can get anynew guide for about $14.99 over the normal $19.99.

Spore Features Page with an Exclusive Contest!

Sign up on the new Spore Feature Page for the Prima Games Spore Newsletter between August 21st, 2008 and September 9th, 2008 to be automatically entered to win a one-of-a-kind 3D resin early development model signed by Will Wright! The winner will be notified Friday, September 12th, 2008 via email.

Click here for all the rules and details as well as information on all the upcoming Prima Spore Guides and exclusive limited edition making-of book.  Time’s running out, so get over there quick!

Sims 2 Features Page showcasing Apartment Life Launched!

You’ve seen the tips here on the blog, now imagine a whole page devoted to Sims 2 Apartment Life including a free preview of Chapter 3: Apartments.  Fantastic, I know.

The guide helps you find and maintain your new apartment as well as your new roommates. Learn the ins and outs of Sims Witchcraft and everything you’ll ever need to know about all new objects, socials, kids and toddlers with exhaustive tables and expert tips.

Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise Previews

Get a part of the Pinata Prospectus for purely pleasurable and possible poignant information!  (Yeah, say that three times fast).  It includes information about Notes (animal type, level, base value, etc), Requirements, Variants Romance Maze paths, and more!

The Warhammer Online Quiz:

Yet I’m still utterly baffled as to how anyone in this world thought up the premise for the game. I mean, how did they pitch it?

“OK, here’s the idea…living pinatas.”

Would you have green-lighted such an enterprise? I would’ve given it some seriously raised eyebrows. It sounds ludicrious. I have trouble explaining it to my friends and family. (”No, you don’t build pinatas, you raise them…yes, like a farm animal.”).

And yet, here we are and the game is a great time. I’m not one for the cutsey, cartoon spawning, collection games but I was enthralled for hours upon hours. Apparently, when it comes to the animate pinatas, I’m a 12 year old girl, delighted when I attracted a Chewnicorn.

The next installment that we’re doing a guide for now is Trouble in Paradise. New animals, funny names, new Garden items and textures. Good times. Pinata times…