Hints for winning Best Game room?

[qruthie]

I'm looking for hints for winning the Best Game room award. One of my characters has an awesome game room that has been open a lot during the past 10 days or so. Any time I open it, I end up keeping it open for the entire night (4 to 5 hours) due to its popularity. When the room is open, it almost always has three red Mickey heads and about a half hour wait to get in. This game is very popular and has many repeat customers! It didn't win the Best Game room award this week so I am wondering how I can make sure it gets considered for the award.

Here are my main questions:

Does a staff member actually visit your room? and if so, how can you attract their attention so they will visit your room?

My room is themed for Villains month which is done now. Will it still have a chance of winning the Best Game room award now?

Thank you so much for any help you can offer!

qruthie (the 'q' is silent)

 

[BriarRosie]

Well, the odd part for me was that my room had to have been judged when I saw Host Babs when I was testing it on Friends Only. She appeared out of
nowhere, and my room wasn't even at capacity, I think.

I had opened the game "officially" after that, open to the general public, and
I had not seen a single staff member. I figured I had been judged the day
Babs visited.

I know a few others who had games open for as many hours as you last week
as well, and they didn't have staff members visit their rooms, either. I
really don't know how else to get it judged. I thought getting the room on
the popular list would help, but I have no idea how they "find" the rooms they
want to judge.

 

[robynbird]

I am also wondering about hints. I had a room and I filled it up with people for two nights and staff came in (vmk_hula) but I didn't win either. Any ideas?

 

[Nanoer]

send blank checks

 

[qruthie]

send blank checks

Good one!

I'm tempted to send out a call for help or maybe report my own room!

I'll just keep plugging away at it. I suspect the staff were busy getting Tomorrowland ready and didn't have much time to go exploring. I will say, I have a new respect for staff members based on how much energy it takes to run a popular game.

FYI, the game is "Chernabog's Fire Game - Prizes" and is owned by TimidVicky. The room is quite warm due to the abundance of fire. The object of the game is to spin the three generators and get three of a kind. Spinning three of a kind wins a Fireworks Magic pin (anyone who would like to donate extras? my stable of mules is rather full ). Spinning two of a kind wins a prize of my choice, almost always furniture worth 100 to 300 credits or more. I also reward people who have been extra nice while waiting, who help shout out the numbers, who play a lot but don't win and whatever other reasons I think up. I let them know why they are being rewarded with the hope that they will continue to demonstrate their good behavior. You climb "Chernabog's Mountain" as you spin each generator and climb to the peak to claim your prize. Then you descend the other side of the mountain and exit through a coffin teleporter. The coffin teleporter leads to another representation of "Chernabog's Mountain" and you exit through a valley while avoiding the fire.

Some of the guests said they have asked staff to visit the room but I haven't seen any green ears. This game is very popular with the younger set, TimidVicky has received several requests to be taken or to be someone's mummy! TimidVicky also gets tons of offers to help so she started allowing helpers to sit with her. However, some of the helpers have been disruptive to the game so she is going to rethink the helper idea.

qruthie (the 'q' is silent but ruthie isn't!)

 

[Dagny]

I wish I knew qruthie... I had my game open for 5 nights in a row and I thought my idea was fairly original and "never been done"... my room was at the top of the popular list for a majority of the time each night.. no staff ever showed I did have fun running the game and I met some very nice kids.... that was the best prize for me... even though I would have liked to win the pin

 

[qruthie]

I wish I knew qruthie... I had my game open for 5 nights in a row and I thought my idea was fairly original and "never been done"... my room was at the top of the popular list for a majority of the time each night.. no staff ever showed I did have fun running the game and I met some very nice kids.... that was the best prize for me... even though I would have liked to win the pin

I agree 100% with the rewards. TimidVicky is something like a celebrity in VMK now! I met a lot of new people, the majority being kids or at least acting like them. Them waiting in line was like kids on Christmas Eve, they were soooo excited. And when I told them they could come back as many times as they wanted - no limit on prizes unlike with staff games - they were so thrilled. Many assumed the game was over when someone won Fireworks Magic so they were really thrilled when I told them I had more. I had each winner demonstrate their new magic too! Oh, I did allow dancing and magic in the room and didn't have any problems with getting disconnected or crashing the room.

I'd also like to comment about the behavior of the kids. Almost all of them were wonderful, patient and very well mannered! A few even refused prizes and/or gave me items to use as prizes!!! It was a very uplifting experience after dealing with beggars and surly guest in other parts of VMK.

I'm going to do my best to continue to run this game room! I may have to create a record setting number of mules to win the fireworks magic pins but it's worth it in the end.

qruthie (the 'q' is silent)