The Pryz Manor

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Tip Tuesday: Using Precise Slice

Precise Slice is a power-up that helps you with the final decimal place of your prediction in Slice of Life. When you use Precise Slice, you only have to make your prediction to one decimal place e.g. 23.4% for Coca-Cola versus 76.6% for Pepsi. In this example, if the actual percentage of players who choose Coca-Cola falls anywhere between 23.31% and 24.49%, we’ll update your prediction to match the actual split.

Where can I get Precise Slice?

When you create an account in The Pryz Manor, a Precise Slice power-up (and one of each of the other power-ups) will automatically be added to your account. You can also buy power-ups in the Vault: tap on the door in the top left corner of the main menu screen, highlighted below:

Once you enter the Vault, tap on Power-Ups, select Precise Slice, and tap Buy.

How do I use Precise Slice?

You can use a Slice of Life power-up by tapping on the pepper shaker in the top right corner of the Guess the Split screen, see highlighted below:

When should I use Precise Slice?

You should use Precise Slice when you’re confident that your prediction will be close to the actual results. In these cases, Precise Slice can make all the difference between winning 5,000 ‘bloons and winning a $50 prize. 

Have any other tips for when to use (or not to use) Precise Slice? Let us know in the comments below:

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What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word “work”?

When we asked in the Salon, “money” was the most popular response.

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Tip Tuesday: Buying Prizes

Love winning real-world prizes in our games? Make sure you’re not missing out on the prizes that you’ve already earned. 

While looking through our logs recently, we noticed that a significant percentage of players have never bought a real-world prize, even though they have more than enough ‘bloons to pick one up. Didn’t know you could buy prizes in The Pryz Manor? Here’s how:

Where Can I Buy Prizes?

You’ll find real-world prizes, power-ups and invitations in the Vault (just tap on the door in the top left corner of the main menu):

Once in the Vault, tap on Prizes:

...and then use the right and left arrows to find the prize that you want:

What Can I Buy?

We’re offering eight prizes in the Vault today:

$15 Amazon.com gift card

$15 Target gift card

$15 Walmart gift card

£10 Amazon.co.uk gift card

$10 donation to the World Wide Fund for Nature

$10 donation to Doctors Without Borders

$10 donation to Save the Children

... and last but not least, a t-shirt featuring the hosts of The Pryz Manor

Don’t see anything you like? We’re constantly swapping out older prizes for new ones and adding limited time prizes, so check back soon to see if there’s something that works for you.

What new prizes would you like to see in the Vault? Let us know in the comments below:

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Tip Tuesday: Using Free Skip

Free Skip is a Name Dropper power-up that allows you to swap out your current topic for a replacement. The benefit of using the Free Skip power-up instead of just skipping the topic is that, once you receive the replacement topic, you can still answer five topics correctly, be awarded a time bonus and (hopefully) make it to the high score board.

Where can I get Free Skip?

When you create an account in The Pryz Manor, a Free Skip power-up (and one of each of the other power-ups) will automatically be added to your account. You can also buy power-ups in the Vault: tap on the door in the top left corner of the main menu screen, highlighted below:

Once you enter the Vault, tap on Power-Ups, select Free Skip, and tap Buy.

How do I use Free Skip?

You can use a Name Dropper power-up by tapping on the 'P’ icon in the top right corner of either the clue giver or guesser screen, see highlighted below:

The power-up allowance for Name Dropper is limited to one power-up, per player, per game, so use them wisely…

When should I use Free Skip?

As the clue giver, you should use Free Skip when you don’t know the topic well enough to send good clues or you don’t think your partner will be able to guess the topic. As the guesser, you should use Free Skip when you have no idea what the topic is.

Try to avoid using Free Skip if you or your partner have already skipped one of the topics. In those cases, you’ve already forfeited the chance to guess all five topics correctly and be awarded a time bonus, so you’re better off just skipping the topic and saving your power-up for later.

Have any other tips for when to use (or not to use) Free Skip? Let us know in the comments below:

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Review of the month! Thanks Frank!

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Tip Tuesday: Binning Stamps

Find yourself losing Speed Stampede games even when you’ve found all of your competitors’ stamps? It might be time to review your stamp binning strategy...

Stamp Binning Strategy?

As soon as you’ve found all three of your competitors’ stamps in Speed Stampede, the below message will pop up on screen:

You can then start removing stamps by dragging them to the trash can (a.k.a. bin) that appears at the bottom of the screen:

The point of binning stamps is to make it easier for the other players to find your stamp. 

Do you have trouble deciding which stamps to bin and which stamps to leave? Follow these tips all the way to the high score board:

Only bin stamps that could match your description (in this case, “geeky”).

Don’t bin stamps that could match another player’s description (especially not your distractors—you’ll still earn ‘bloons when other players incorrectly pick these).

Don’t bin too many stamps. Thinning out the playing field too much makes it easy for your competitors to find all of the remaining stamps, not just yours.

Now for the hardest part: patience. 

We know it’s tempting to just keep on binning, but try to play it cool. You can pick up a lot of ‘bloons during this stage as competitors choose your distractors. Also, every distracting stamp that you leave on the board makes it less likely that your competitors can find each other’s stamps before they find yours.

Have some more tips for playing Speed Stampede? Let us know in the comments below.

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Review of the month! Thanks Vincent!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

On The Pryz Manor team, our first love will always be data. 

So, old romantics that we are, we decided to celebrate Valentine’s Day 2015 by looking back over our Salon questions for interesting insights into all things related to love and romance:

Wishing a very Happy Valentine's Day to all of our players (even the 49% who said they think it's corny). We love you guys!

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The Pryz Manor Charts

We asked 500 players to share their favorite songs of 2014 and these were the top 10:

All About That Bass

Happy

Shake It Off

Let It Go

All of Me

Uptown Funk

Chandelier

Black Widow

Blank Space

Take me to Church

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Review of the month! Thanks Kristi!

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Speed Stampede Power-Ups

There are four power-ups included in the initial version of Speed Stampede: Swap, Dictionary, All You Can Eat and Night Vision.

How to Use 'Em

You can use a power-up by tapping on the green 'P' icon in the top right corner of the screen:

When to Use 'Em

If you're having trouble finding a good stamp/description combination in stage one, try using 'Swap' or 'Dictionary'.

Swap lets you switch your stamp for another.

Dictionary lets you switch your list of descriptions for another.

If you think five/more stamps could easily match one of the descriptions or you've already tried every combination that makes sense, try using 'All You Can Eat'.

All You Can Eat lets you make as many incorrect guesses as you like for seven seconds (without triggering the stampede). 

  If your stamp has already been matched by the other players and you want to buy yourself some time to find theirs, try using 'Night Vision'.

Night Vision darkens the screens of your three opponents for 15 seconds.

Got any tips for the best times to use power-ups? Let us know in the comments below:

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Childhood Dreams

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? When we asked in the Salon the most popular dream job was teacher ,followed by doctor and vet. Unfortunately, some players had slightly less realistic career aspirations... you know who you are, Magnum PI ;)

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Review of the month! Thanks Martha!

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Introducing Speed Stampede

Speed Stampede is a four-player competitive game. The game has three stages, all based around matching stamps with appropriate (and sometimes hilariously inappropriate) descriptions.

Stage 1: Pick Your Description

In stage 1, you're given one stamp and 12 possible descriptions.

The objective in stage 1 is to match your stamp with the most appropriate description. The more appropriate the match, the sooner your competitors will find your stamp and the more 'bloons you'll win.

Stage 2: Pick Your Decoys

In stage 2, you're given the three descriptions your competitors have picked and 10 possible decoy stamps.

The objective in stage 2 is to match the most appropriate decoy stamps with your competitors' descriptions. The more appropriate the match, the higher the chances are that people will choose your decoys instead of the real stamps, earning you 'bloons and delaying your competitors from winning.

Stage 3: Make Your Matches

In stage 3, you are shown all of the stamps (your stamps, your decoys, your competitors' stamps, their decoys and some filler stamps) along with four descriptions.

The objective in stage 3 is to match your competitors' stamps with their descriptions. You'll earn 'bloons every time you make a correct match, every time another player matches your stamp correctly and every time another player chooses one of your decoys. The first player to match all three stamps correctly and have their stamp matched by all three competitors wins.

Want to see more before you play? Check out our game trailer here!

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If you could have a vacation home anywhere, where would you choose? When we asked in the Salon, the most popular choice was definitely Hawaii. Some of the less popular (but still charming, we're sure) choices were Duluth, Michigan, and Mars.

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Midnight Feast

What's your favorite midnight snack? When we asked in the Salon, the most popular choice was ice cream, followed by cereal and chips.

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Review of the Month!

Thanks Catherine!

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