- Usually, the first day starts off slow. Don’t spend all your money the first day. Save about half for the next day – you won’t be making much.
- The corporate mole is your most valuable upgrade. Once you buy it, use it EVERYDAY. Set your prices around 5-10 beans less than your competition and the customers will soon be all yours. Make it the first thing you do every game day to make sure you don’t miss it.
- Goons aren’t ALWAYS worth their money. They’ll only bring you 2-4 customers, so only hire them if your profit margin is high enough. If you make $50 per potion that day and you have “best” potion makers who can keep up with the flow of customers, hire a goon.
- Flying carpets are pretty slow, so even though they work all the time, they can only bring you say 3 customers a day. They cost $60. Do the math.
- It’s much easier to use the recipe book to order supplies than it is touse the Purchase tab. It’s under Supplies > Recipe Book.
- Having something researched early can be a great way to snag customer royalty away from your competition. Not only do you make more money selling those potions, but the villagers would walk into their store and come out empty handed…and angry.
- Spells are the last thing you should be spending money on.
- A good potion maker is necessary on a good day, so that’s…the second day.
- DO use a loan shark if you have a great forecast, no money, and decent customer royalty.
- Slow days are great days to stock up on ingredients – if you have the warehouse space. Generally, the better the forecast the next day, the more your ingredients are likely to cost. Supply and demand, eh?
- The slower the day, the cheaper the potion and the less you can spend on marketing and more on research.
- Always take on the tales that appear and try to be a good fairy godmother – what goes around comes around.
And while you’re at it, read everything aloud to the baby/toddler/kid that happens to be watching. Game time is play time!
April 5, 2007 at 10:52 am
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May 14, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Nice list of tips, although I have a couple differing suggestions to make. I actually came here in searching the web to see if anyone knew how to make the flying elephant re-stock one’s inventory in a more useful manner, but, I don’t think there is one. That’s the only real PITA there is for me in this game.
Anyway: I think this game completely rocks. I’m not interested in almost all of the sim/tycoon games out there, but this one is hysterical and requires some bit of strategy (although not as much as the usual tycoon game, I’m sure). And the sense of humor is brilliant, IMO… a game that references Arrested Development – one of the best comedy shows on TV ever – has got me.
(Just for example, the above reference is: you can hire a magician named Jhobe as a freelance goon, to make it appear that a competitor’s shop is closed for the day. That is, if he doesn’t take your money and head for Tahiti.)
Anyway – my hints:
I have to disagree on leaving Spells as a last point of purchase. It’s very cheap to get to the second spell, which is the Flying Elephant drop, which lets you re-stock during the day. Except that I have the problem mentioned above, in which Dumbo restocks your inventory always from the top of the list down, which makes it even counter-productive at times if you need to re-stock the ingredients at the bottom of your list (I managed to lose a level for the first time because of this). The next spell, that allows you to change the price of potions during the day, is useless to me. But the last two spells pay for themselves quickly, and make watching the day unfold more fun.
I think the flying carpet is worth it, too, actually. I generally steal more than three customers, and even if it’s three, if that means my profit on each potion they buy is $20, it’s paid for itself. Also, it’s taking customers away from a competitor, and allowing you to build more customer loyalty, etc. I always get it when I can afford it, as well as the two goons – the sandwich dwarf and the guerilla – that build up customer interest over time as well as (a small number) during that day.
Meanwhile, I emphatically agree with you on:
The first updates MUST be
1) the corporate mole and
2) to fire that slacker of a potion maker and hire the trusty old hunchback to put his uh… back into it.
And do your best to never run out of ingredients, and again, one of the ways you can ensure that (especially if you have little cash for ingredients at the start of the day) is to get the elephant spell, even though it has its really annoying complication I mentioned.
Oh, and if you become broke after using up all of the Loan Shark’s money, the Godmother will bail you out… once. But it’s something I abuse every time, to get me back into the black, and just to be able to spend a ton of cash on the right day (as Sally mentions above).
Again, I can’t emphasize how cool I think this game is. I’ve read some “user” reviews on a couple of sites where it’s plain that they just didn’t get it. I’ve played every kind of game for the last… uh, 30 years?, have various favorites in every genre, and
this is one of the best games I’ve played in years.
Play the trial version, go to Big Fish games online, join their little game club, and you can get it and other great games for like $7 each (and no, I’m not affiliated with them at all, I’m just a big fan).
June 16, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Having completed the game twice now, I feel like I might have something to offer, to help others in trying to complete the game.
Firstly, the first day is pretty much where all the action starts. The statergy I have used in the past, and will use in the future, is this:
1. Take out the maximum loan with the loan shark that is available for this level.
2. Upgrade the warehouse and potion maker (1 level only).
3. Put $100 into marketing (non-stop infomercials).
4. Purchase 60 of both Eye-of-Newt & Itsy Bitsy Spider.
5. The price is most important. I have found that on the first level, the pricing scale can be set to this:
1% – 49% = $30 (no less)
50% – 99% = $45 (no more)
6. When you get the fairytale of the 3 pigs, make sure, if you haven’t done so already, that you have purchased the store upgrade to level 2, and when they either offer you an extreme makeover or the money, that you take the money as this will help make your customers a lot happier with you.
7. Don’t lower the marketing for any reason, as this will stop you from getting all the available customers. You won’t get all of them to begin with in the later levels, but it helps to max it out straight away, as this ensures that you get the most right from the very beginning.
8. All goons, apart from the Giant Baby, are a complete waste of time. I have used them all, and found that, as just stated, the Giant Baby is the only worthwile investment.
9. Once you have the Mushroom as your warehouse, and you have the Uninflammable potion at your disposal, have your ingredients set to these levels:
Eye-of-Newt = 30
Itsy Bitsy Spider = 65
Toadstool = 30
10. Spells such as The Mole, & the Elephant Drop are the most crucial when they are available.
11. For later levels, I try to stick to this pricing layout, wherever possible:
1% – 49% = $15 – $20 more than the
lowest average price for
that particular potion
50% – 89% = $20 – $30 more than the
lowest average price for
that particular potion
90% – 99% = $XX (where XX equals the
maximum average price for
that particular potion)
Other things you will have to find out for yourselves, but this should be a helpful starter to those that may be experiencing some difficulties on the earlier to later levels. With a little nouse and some planning skill, you will have the game beat in no time, and be ready to do it all over again.
June 17, 2007 at 12:54 am
Just a quick amendment to my list above of the ingredients used on Level 1. They are as follows:
Eye-of-Newt = 30
Itsy Bitsy Spider = 65
Fish Head = 30
I apologise for inconvienience caused.
October 26, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I have a great tip that helped me out and might be of use for you 😛
Hint:Take all the credit from the loan shark and buy all the upgrades u can,the godmother will pay for the loand and + u’ll get 500 beans.U must have – beans and that u cant restore them by lowering marketing or something like that.
July 24, 2009 at 12:18 am
i’ve tried out this game but i don’t know how you’re supose to get the uninflammable potion.
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