There are a few games to play on Powerpets and this is the easist way of making money.  I am going to concentrate on the Flash games as they are the easiest and quickest games to play to make money.  These are:-

• Mini Catcher
• Mini Match
• Full Metal Revenge
• Gekkie's Water Wheel

Mini Catcher is a quite simple game you are the zoo keeper and the minis have escaped so you must catch the minis avoiding the mutarats (in red).  You can score up to 10,000 in this game although I have never done this my highest score has been just over 1200.

Mini Match is also relatively easy.  You have to match up the minis in a group of three in a straight line to blow them out of Padams back yard in order to rescue them.  You will receive an amount of tokens depending on your score.  Its 200 tokens for every thousand that you score.

Full Metal Revenge is a bit harder it is a shoot em up.  In order to score points you must shoot the Staff Members with your tennis ball gun when they come out from their hiding places.  They will either pop up from behind a tree, swing across the trees or run across the front or back of the screen.  I have only ever scored 50 points once as it is very hard to get the maximum score.  This is my favourite of all the PP games.

Gekkies Water Wheel is just that a wheel that you must shoot water at with your hosepipe in order to fill up the tube. The easy level is very easy as is the hard level (so I find), but the insane level is quite impossible as it is extremely hard to line up your hosepipe with Gekkies mouth on the wheel.  I have not been able to do the insane level at all, although I have scored the maximum on the hard level.

With the Flash games you can submit your scores 5 times a day so make sure that you have scored your very best scores before submitting them.

Mini Catcher & Gekkies Water Wheel

Mini Match

The NBIC is Powerpets bank, its full name is New Barkstons Investment Center.  Opening an account there really is a must if you want to keep all your PBs and not hae them stolen by Gekkie's sticky fingers.

There are two savings plans:

• Short Term Savings Account
• Long Term Savings Bond Account

The short term savings account allows you access to your Powerbucks immediately and with no penalties if you withdraw on a daily basis.  The interest rate is 5% and  you can cash out your interest every 24 hours.  Just make sure you cash it out before you make any withdrawals or deposits otherwise the 24 hour counter starts all over again and you lose your interest for that 24 hour period.

The long term Savings Bonds vary in time from 1 week to 24 weeks.  You can buy them in blocks of either $100,000PBs, $500,000PBs, $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.

The long term interest rates are as follows:-

Time	Percentage
1 week	8 %
2 weeks	10 %
3 weeks	14 %
8 weeks	21 %
24 weeks	24 %

If you want to make some serious money an absolute must is to open a shop.  You can do this by going to the personals section of your tool bar  which is the blue face on the far right (see below). 

You will then be taken to a page which has the option to open a shop.  You can open up to four shops, although I recommend only opening one as it is hard enough to keep one stocked.  It will cost you from $500 PBs to open a  shop depending on the area that you open it and you will pay various amounts of tax in your chosen area when you cash out your PBs.  This is explained in the table below:-

Area	Increase Cost	Tax
Industrial Zone	$100	6 %
Silent Suburbs	$150	5 %
Corner Market	$200	4 %
Lakeshore Shopping Center	$500	3 %
Downtown Shopping Center	$1000	2 %

Although Tax may be low in the Downtown Shopping Center ($2 PBs tax for every $100 PBs made) every time you upgrade your shop it will cost you $1000PBs, so to get to a size 100 shop will cost you an awful lot of Powerbucks.

Your Shop

Once you have opened your shop you need to buy stock.  The best place to do this from is the Power Mall.  In here you can buy all Powerpets items at a wholesale price and then sell at quite a big profit in your shop.

There are six wholesale stores in the Power Mall:-

• Weapons Store
• Simply Delicious
• The Playpen
• Hardware
• Mister Medic
• All Things Stuffed
• Hydration Station

You can buy toys, food, drinks, stuffys, medicines, hardware and weapons from these stores.

There are also four book stores one in each city which sell the books that are written by Powerpets players:-

• Book Haven
• Buy-The-Book
• Xiang Book Store
• Kimberroo Book Store

You can only buy 100 items per day, wholesale, so be careful what you buy, you want to make as much profit as possible so go for the good stuff.  Weapons, rare or new foods, new or rare toys. When buying from other players shops you aren't limited as to the amount you can buy.

To help you price your stock there is a handy little gadget called the item pricer it tells you the lowest or highest estimated price that the item could sell for, although not everybody uses it or prices their items according to the price range t gives you.  To use this you must have java based windows allowed on your toolbar.  When using the item pricer it is best, if you want to sell quickly, to price your items towards the lowest estimated price, then when somebody does a shop check your shop will hopefully be one of the lowest prices for that item.

Happy Shopkeeping!!

Thats enough for now about money lets get onto the next page, Advancing.

If you aren't already signed up to Powerpets do so by clicking on the banner below.  You will receive 5000 Powerbucks to start you off.