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Breaking the Mold: How Legacy Board Games are Revolutionizing the Industry

Legacy games have been with us for a decade, turning board games into a kind of video game in which each decision matters and each game is different from the previous one.

You know how to play a board game, even if it’s Parcheesi or Goose, right? You pick up your chips, roll the dice, move, throw cards, play against your friends or family and, in the end, one of you wins (unless it’s cooperative). The game goes back in the box and the next time everything is repeated in an impossible groundhog day… Or maybe not. Legacy games have been with us for a decade now, turning board games into a sort of video games in which every decision matters and every game is different from the previous one.

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The importance of legacy

In 1998, a board game specialist named Rob Daviau joined Hasbro as a writer of Trivial Pursuit (yes, that job exists) and Taboo questions. A year later he was designing his own games, albeit as simple as ‘Monopoly Looney Tunes’ or ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. One day, while devising new versions of ‘Risk’ he thought of a sort of inside joke about the latter: Why do the ‘Cluedo’ killers keep getting invited back again and again?

Or to put it another way: the players don’t start from scratch, but the game does. If video games can save the game and always keep going until the end, why couldn’t it happen in board games? He soon thought of a complex system of envelopes, surprises, increasing rules and a game that would evolve according to the player’s decisions, which he called “legacy”. And the first one he wanted to try was, paradoxically, ‘Cluedo’. It did not go ahead because Hasbro forbade it.

It was 2008 and he himself tells what happened: “They looked at me like I was crazy, so I thought ‘Well, maybe it’s a crazy idea’ and I put it aside”. However, the concept stayed in the heads of his superiors, and soon after they sent him to make a perpetual version of ‘Risk’ in which players had to do things unthinkable until then: scratch the board, break cards or write on them knowing that they would never use them again after the campaign, as if it were a game of ‘Dungeons & Dragons‘. In 2011, ‘Risk Legacy’ was released after a year and a half of development. It was a smash hit in the gamers’ field, although for Hasbro it was nothing more than a side note.

Pandemic (but without masks)

After leaving Hasbro, his next legacy game was not long in coming, and this one would change the market forever. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1′ is the usual ‘Pandemic’ but with changes after each month. It starts being easy to overcome and little by little it starts to get more complicated with variations of the virus impossible to cure, zombie infections, easier to get infected and cities that are marked for life. Twelve (or 24) games, depending on your skill and luck, will lead you to victory… or disaster.

It was easy for Daviau to choose ‘Pandemic’. When the creators proposed it to him by e-mail, his answer was, at size 150, “YES”. Pandemic Legacy’ is a much more complex game than the original and the decisions you have to make (save one city at the risk of being far away from another when the virus explodes?) will make you sweat. A must-have after which came the madness: everyone wanted their legacy.

From ‘Ultimate Werewolf’ to ‘Machi Koro’, ‘Vampire: The Masquerade’ or the ‘Jurassic Park‘ saga itself, there have been few games that could resist a good legacy version. Obviously, it doesn’t always work well, and some, like Daviau’s own ‘SeaFall’, didn’t quite make the grade. Fortunately, if you are interested in this variation with which you can finally feel that board games have entered a new dynamic, pay attention, because we are going to recommend you the best ones.

Don’t let them pass you by

If you know anything about the world, no matter how little, you know that ‘Gloomhaven’ is a sacred cow. A sacred cow with a box that literally weighs ten kilos, but that contains an exciting campaign that will bring you back to the best role-playing with an easy to understand game style (depending on the attention you are willing to pay) and that assures you dozens of adventures. If you want something even more accessible but equally fabulous, you have ‘Gloomhaven: Maw of the Lion’. You’re welcome.

Another marvel is ‘Clank! Legacy’, in which every game will change and literally every decision will be vital to get to the end. In addition, it has a much more complex story than ‘Pandemic Legacy’ and is more familiar than ‘Gloomhaven‘, making it a perfect start to the adventure.

And what about those with small children? Well, they can also give theirs with a zombie adventure between kids: ‘Zombie kidz evolution’ and ‘Zombie teenz evolution’ will keep the progress from one game to another. Like a role-playing campaign, but without the need for infinite character sheets. This is the future of board games, after all, or did you think it was all going to be ‘Monopoly‘ and ‘Catan’?

The plagiarism lawsuit that rocked the trivia world: Trivial Pursuit’s journey

How was the worlds most famous game for giant brains born? The answer is, when little… surprising.

If we talk to you about the color pink and you think “Shows” and blue and a part of you says “Geography”, you’re one of us. And the fact is that ‘Trivial Pursuit’ has sold more than one hundred million copies around the world. To put it another way, it is as if every inhabitant of Spain had a couple of units at home… And some even three. The figures are dizzying, but how did the world’s most famous game for giant brains come about? The answer is, to say the least… surprising.

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To Scrabble lost, Trivial set

December 15, 1979. Chris Haney, a photographer for the Montreal Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sportswriter for The Canadian Press, get together to play their weekly game of Scrabble. Some say the game was missing pieces, some say they were simply asking each other general cultural questions as they put the letters on the board. It doesn’t matter: in any case, one thing leads to another and soon they are wondering how much money the company that distributes the game will make. The answer: millions.

So they made a decision: to create their own board game. How? Very easy: by cutting out different colored rectangles, using an old game board, writing general culture questions like crazy and dividing them into six categories well known to all: geography, entertainment, history, arts and literature, science and nature, sports and leisure. That same night, Trivial Pursuit was born.

No more and no less than the creators of the game

But of course, it’s one thing to have the idea of the century and another to get the money to manufacture it. They got two partners into the business, did a little crowdfunding of the time (that is, asking for money practically house to house) and managed to raise $40,000 from 32 investors. All or nothing. Success or failure. We’re not going to get more excited about it, because we all know how the story ended.

Few cheeses

Each set cost about $40 to make, so they could only make 1100 copies. In order for them to make a profit, they needed to sell them for $75. They took one more chance: stores would sell it for $40 and buy it for $20. They had already lost money before they started, but it makes sense. After all, what adult in their right mind would buy a board game? 2023, wave your hand wryly, come on.

The creator of the board with his prototype!

On November 10, 1981 the game was registered as a trademark, but it was of little use if they were going bankrupt at full speed and couldn’t even pay back the money to those who lent it to them, right? Luckily, the following year, stores started asking for new units, and they saw a ray of hope: they borrowed $75,000 as a loan from the bank and dared to release 20,000 units that could have been perfectly eaten up.

However, by the end of that same year there were hardly any Trivials left on the shelves. The project had been a success, and the following year Selchow and Righter bought the game to sell it in the U.S. Do you know what Selchow and Righter’s most famous game was? That’s right: ‘Scrabble’. That there hasn’t been a movie made about it is insane. Trivia began to make its way into dinner parties and adult gatherings proving that you’re never too old to stop playing. Or are you? There was still a twist at the end of the road….

Objection, by Colombo!

As much as we may want to believe that the authors of ‘Trivial Pursuit’ had a privileged brain to put 6000 questions of all kinds, the truth is that most of the answers were taken from the typical books of absurd facts, such as ‘Trivia’ (the first one, from 1966) or ‘The complete unabridge super trivia encyclopedia’, created by Fred L. Worth and that became a best seller. The problem? All the other books in the same format clearly copied it.

The author’s solution to not miss a single one and prove that he had been copied was to create a fake one and sit back and wait for someone to screw up. But it wasn’t a fact book that did it, it was… ‘Trivial Pursuit’. Worth went through all the Trivial Pursuit questions one by one until he finally found the one they had taken the bait on. Pink section: “What was Colombo’s first name?”. The false answer, “Phillip.” Worth sued the creators for 300 million dollars with the excuse of having copied his intellectual property.

Indeed, both confessed the truth: they had taken data from his books… And from dozens of others. Matthew Byrne, the judge, dismissed the case and it did not even go to trial. In fact, he thought it convenient to clarify that the board game was nothing like the book, leaving the author humiliated and the authors of Trivial more at ease than ever. Oh, in case you’re curious: Colombo’s name was Frank, and we know it thanks to the box set that compiled seasons 1 to 4 on DVD. Now you can sleep peacefully.

The Spellbinding Story of Monopoly’s Transformation into a Nazi Nemesis

They didn’t want to introduce a new board game that would entertain children during the war, but… get their own out of prison.

The year is 1941: World War II rages in Europe, and British prisoners are falling into Nazi hands by the handful. However, a handful of them seem to be successfully escaping from German prisons. How is this possible? What were the jailers overlooking? They had made sure that they received nothing beyond the bare necessities: clothes, food and a game of ‘Monopoly’ to keep them entertained.

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Get out of jail

“Go to jail. Go directly without passing through the Exit box and without collecting the 20,000 pesetas”. If you had a ‘Monopoly’ in the 90’s you know perfectly well how many hours it could last until someone decided to withdraw from the game or went bankrupt buying hotels. It is the quintessential capitalist game (although it was born with the opposite idea in 1903) and it is difficult to tell something about it that you don’t know.

But there is a period when perhaps the least important thing in the world was ‘Monopoly’: obviously, during World War II. And yet, it became an indispensable ally in helping imprisoned soldiers get out of jail. But how? It all starts with one man, Christopher Clayton Hutton: soldier, escape artist, secret service employee, inventor in the Q style of James Bond movies. It was he who came up with the great idea of teaming up with Waddington’s, the board game company that, among others, first published ‘Cluedo’. But not to introduce a new board game to entertain children during the war, but to… get his own out of prison.

The escape kit that went past the Nazis as if it were humanitarian aid contained a silk map of different European countries on which were marked the safe houses, the places to go, knives, miniature compasses, pieces of metal (all posing as real pieces), rope and, what is even better, real money… placed exactly under the money in the game. But how is it possible that no one noticed?

Hidden in plain sight

As if it were a movie (and oddly enough, no one has made the biopic yet), Waddington’s and Hutton hid the maps and utensils inside the Monopoly boards: being made of silk and not paper, the maps held water well and could easily be hidden in a small place. Also, since they didn’t make any noise, they didn’t attract the attention of the guards. Not that they had to figure all this out on their own: before going on a mission, the British already knew that the fake Monopolys existed.

You may be thinking that it doesn’t make any sense that enemies would allow their prisoners to play board games, but the truth is that the Geneva Convention allowed NGOs to send them to keep their minds active. Besides, the Germans figured that, as long as they played, they wouldn’t make escape plans. Spoiler: it goes wrong.

These games could easily be mistaken for real Monopolys, and the only way prisoners could tell it was their key to freedom was by a red dot in the Free Parking box. Obviously, after using them, the soldiers had to destroy the games so that the Germans would not know how they had managed to escape. It may sound like something out of a ‘Mission Impossible’ movie, but the truth is that thousands of captured soldiers escaped this way. It can be said, yes, that they got a letter to get out of prison.

HeroQuest: How a Beloved Board Game Became the Center of a Crowdfunding Controversy

It may not be the best, but for many it was the first. This is the story of HeroQuest.

If you already have gray hair (or are on your way to it), there is a board game that will bring a smile to your mouth irrepressibly. It is the memory of clashing swords, battles won at the last moment, medieval epics, miniatures and dungeons that unfolded before us: it may not be the best, but, for many, it was the first. This is the story of ‘HeroQuest’.

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Pure dungeon crawling

By the end of the 80’s, ‘Dungeons & Dragons‘ was already more than established in popular culture. With the second edition about to be published, which would introduce the first major changes to the role-playing game, more than a few people tried to capitalize on its success. Among them, Games Workshop, founded in 1975 and which brought Gary Gygax’s work to the United Kingdom as well as creating complex miniatures and games like ‘Warhammer 40K’, which even now continues to receive versions and expansions.

In this scenario, in which medieval fantasy took all the glory, we find Stephen Baker, a game designer who left Games Workshop to go to the friendlier Milton Bradley (better known in Spain as MB). His idea, to create a fantasy game in the style of ‘Warhammer’ but one that could be played by everyone. Said and done: the only requirement was that it be simple enough for the whole family to understand.

Originally, Baker was going to contact his former company exclusively to make the miniatures, but he finally decided to trust them to create and develop the whole game. In 1989 it exploded in sales in Europe and became the gaming craze: ‘HeroQuest’ was a mix between role-playing game, miniatures game and board game that for four years was absolutely everything.

Role for novices

In ‘HeroQuest’, players had to fight against the master (“Morcar” as we know him or “Zargon” as he is known in the United States), who set up dungeons to try to defeat them. Players could choose from four archetypes (barbarian, dwarf, elf and mage), each with their own range of abilities, who fought against all the enemies put in front of them. For an experienced player it was really simple, but the kids of the time felt that finally a game gave them the epic they needed.

The same year of its release, ‘The Tower of Kellar’ allowed players to try to free the Emperor and his army by going through ten new scenarios with 17 different monster miniatures (it would appear in 1991 in the United States). And, at the same time that expansions were appearing like hot cakes (‘Return of the Warlock Lord’, ‘The Wizards of Morcar’), Games Workshop was preparing a special version for the most experienced players.

Advanced HeroQuest’ was the same game but more complicated, to put it simply. The characters acquired new characteristics and the combat was more complex… although at the time the fans didn’t like it very much. In fact, the fame of HeroQuest, in general, was falling over the years. And then came its darkest moment: crowdfunding.

Launch it

They asked for 58,000 euros, but managed to raise 679,927: a small company called Gamezone “accepted the challenge” of releasing a 25th anniversary version of ‘HeroQuest‘ giving it the level it deserved as a game that changed the life of a whole generation. They promised it would see the light of day by Christmas 2014. To this day, no one has seen a single figurine… or their money back. Gamezone didn’t get the rights but nevertheless launched the crowdfunding, convinced that, seeing the success, they would get them.

In 2021 the trial was still going on, and it doesn’t seem that it will end soon because of its “extreme complexity”. Luckily, last year Avalon Quest (Hasbro in Spain) was able to calm things down by releasing ‘HeroQuest’ for sale again with the usual expansions and some new ones trying to take advantage of the current wave of board game success.

HeroQuest’ is a game that has marked many childhoods, defined many lives and changed many minds about what role-playing games are. It may not have had a smooth path and it may have started as “an easy version” of role-playing, but in the end the numbers speak: especially in Spain, it was more than pure nostalgia. It was a mass phenomenon. Grab your axe, open the dungeon and get ready to collaborate to kill all the bugs: Let the battle begin!

From Modest Beginnings to Worldwide Fame: The Story of Cluedo

Between the war and his tedious job, Anthony E. Pratt escaped in the best possible way: creating his first board game.

Year 1942. Birmingham suffers the bombing of the Nazi Luftwaffe every few years. So much so, that it became the third most bombed British city in World War II after 77 attacks in which 2241 people were killed and 12,391 houses were destroyed. And in the midst of that disaster, Anthony E. Pratt worked in a factory creating tank components, a laborious, repetitive job he hated. Between the war and his tedious job, Pratt escaped in the best possible way: by creating his first board game.

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Miss Amapola at the ballroom

Before becoming a tank manufacturer, Pratt was a musician who played in different hotels for rich people where the highlight of those nights in the interwar period was playing murder mystery. Or what amounts to the same thing: discovering who had committed a murder among all those present. Reading the novels of Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler did the rest: on December 1, 1944, the Briton and his wife Elva, who designed the game board, registered a game called ‘Murder! But the story did not end there… And there were still to be a few unexpected twists and turns.

Shortly after registering it, the couple went to Waddingtons, a board game company (which in 1994 would be acquired by Hasbro) and which was already publishing ‘Monopoly’ in the UK. At that time the game was already basically what we know: a country house with different rooms in which a body is found and all the guests are potential murderers. And of course, only by finding the right clues will the mystery be solved. The Pratts immediately convinced Waddingtons, who agreed to distribute it.

It must be said that Waddingtons changed the game slightly to make it more accessible: from ten characters it went down to six and some weapons were removed, such as the hypodermic syringe or the Irish cane. Anyway, the original ideas ended up appearing in some of the many -many, impossible to follow- versions of the board game.

If you think this is a story of how Anthony E. Pratt got rich, think again. When, at last, ‘Cluedo’ was released in 1949, the results in a post-war UK were rather muted. The company told the Pratts that it wasn’t selling very well, especially in America, and they bought the world rights from them for £5,000 (the equivalent of about £100,000 today). Neither of them would ever see any money from ‘Cluedo’ again and their name would become anonymous.

In 1996, to celebrate 150 million units sold, Waddingtons (now part of Hasbro) tried to find Pratt to celebrate with him. He had died two years earlier, at 90. Since receiving the money for ‘Cluedo’ he opened a candy store and worked as a paralegal in complete anonymity. And yet his game has prevailed until now.

Sherlock Clue

In its American release, ‘Cluedo’ (there ‘Clue’) got a deal with Arthur Conan Doyle’s heirs to advertise itself as “the great new Sherlock Holmes game”, even though the detective was neither there nor expected (later, all said and done, he would be the protagonist of several TV commercials in the 70s and 80s, when marketing was in full swing).

Since then, ‘Cluedo’ has been everything. Literally, everything. Starting, of course, with the board game itself with its different meanings: with VHS incorporated in the ‘Atmosfear’ style, in a children’s version where you can find out who hid the lost puppy, card games and even adaptations of ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Friends’, ‘Rick and Morty‘ and ‘Brooklyn 9-9’. Hasbro even came up with a kind of new version that came to replace the classic (‘Cluedo: Discover the secrets’) and was such a failure that two years later they were forced to withdraw it from the market. They should have learned from the history of New Coke.

‘Cluedo’ has had a collection of 18 children’s novels, two comic miniseries, a musical and a play that could end in 216 different ways depending on what the audience decided, a television series, competitions in Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, Italy, Portugal, France and Scandinavia, a dozen video games and, of course, the movie.

Today, ‘The Game of Suspicion’ (the Spanish title of ‘Clue’) is considered a cult classic, but in 1985 it was a resounding box office failure despite its curious way of taking people to the cinema three times: each screening offered one of three different endings (which today have been compiled into the complete film). There was a fourth ending planned, but it seemed to be of poor quality and was never screened.

Ah: in the end, ‘Cluedo’ had its version of Sherlock Holmes when Hasbro decided that there would be no franchise without its version of the game. To sell 150 million copies you have to know how to do it, right? And now, do you know who killed our victim today? Where? and with what weapon?

Beyond dragons and dungeons: Discover new worlds with these RPGs for beginners

Surely more than once, tired of always playing a Catan, a Carcassonne or a Trivial, you have thought about getting started in role-playing games.

Using the magic staff you found in the realm of Folvendat, you make your way through the enemies across all dimensions and stand before the door to Avernus. The door is red and heavy, and from within it comes a stinking stench, pure sulfur. Not even Fertrenn’s enhanced eyesight can see beyond it. When you try to open it you find that it is locked tight, protected by Idilssur’s spell, and the magic staff begins to lose strength and power. What do you do?

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What you need to play role

Surely more than once, tired of always playing a Catan, a Carcassonne or a Trivial, you have thought about getting started in role-playing games. You’ve seen how they played in ‘E.T’ and ‘Stranger things‘, but you have no idea how to start, what game you should buy, you don’t even know what it is! Don’t worry: keep an eye on your inventory, roll the dice and get ready to maximize your powers, because we’re going to tell you what it is and how to role-play.

When it comes down to it, the most basic things you need are friends, pencil, paper and imagination. After all, a role-playing game is a collaborative story in which one person narrates what happens and the rest of the players act as their characters would, varying the story. But of course, said like that it is not very funny. Therefore, and although there are dozens of variants, it is normal that each character has some associated characteristics.

Whether decided by the player or decided by luck with the dice, the characteristics (strength, intelligence, charisma, etc.), usually added to the result of a die, indicate whether what you want to do is going to work out well or whether you are about to screw up and send everything to hell.

Imagine that you are a powerful warrior with enhanced attack and strength attributes and that, when you want to attack an enemy, you roll the maximum possible: you will not only hit that kobold with a sword, but you will do it better than expected (hitting the henchman next to him, for example). Now, imagine that you are a very intelligent gnome but with a very low attack that wants to hit a guard in the back and, on top of that, the stealth roll is low: it is more likely that instead of hitting him you hit yourself in the foot and, with the scream, you alert the whole castle. Things that happen.

But a lot of numbers have no real interest if your character doesn’t have a life: you must think about where he comes from, what his goal is, his friendships, his enemies, his alignment, his tastes. Come on, create a life out of nothing that you can play and evade reality. You can also create a nine-to-six worker who spends his evenings watching TV and sending WhatsApps, but the role may fall into the “boring” category.

The master’s degree

Okay, you already have your character. You know how he talks, you’ve drawn a picture of him and you’ve even imagined what will be his star phrase (“Eat my sword, knave!”), but he won’t do anything without the master. Call him Game Director, Dungeon Master or Narrator, the system is always the same and what differentiates the role from a regular board game: there is someone who knows what can happen, makes the decisions of the enemies and non-playable characters and holds your destiny in his hands.

There is a rule written in the role that indicates that the final decision of the master is the one that counts: if you have fallen down a ravine and a fire monster has devoured you, don’t try to change its mind while the monster is digesting. It’s time for your companions to mourn the fallen warrior and for you to create a new character. When you arrive ready to play, the master will have already spent several hours preparing the game, so the least you can do is, at least, have a little respect for him and bring the supplies. Keep in mind that an average role-playing game usually lasts about three hours!

Although you, as a player, will have to learn some basic rules (how to investigate, attack, etc.), it is the master who will have to learn most of the manuals to decide in the fairest way possible. He is also the person who will know your secrets and will dose them throughout the games. Note: you can also be a master. The problem is that this is the job to which very few are destined. It is not paid. Literally.

Some games to start with

Get a few sets of dice (4, 6, 10, 10, 12 and 20-sided, although there may be more) and decide which game to start with. Surely your head immediately went to ‘Dungeons & Dragons‘, and no wonder: it was the first role-playing game in history 50 years ago and is still the king (as proof, the great ‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ in prime video). But although 5E is much more narrative and simplified, deep down you don’t want to study two manuals of 300 pages each before rolling a single die, do you?

There are other options for simpler games that are no less fun or deep. In fact, D&D itself knows this and that’s why it has a starter box with the simplified manual and a story with which to start rolling dice almost immediately. But why not try other options? ‘Fiasco’, for example, is special because it has no narrator. In it, with very few rules, you can create great stories in a group. Of course, you need a very creative group.

Imagine that you are attracted to the idea of playing role-playing games but set in your own world, only having some basic rules. For that there is ‘FATE Accelerated’, a game with which you can literally play whatever you want. Or, why not, ‘Call of Cthulhu‘, whose rules, once you know them, are not so complex compared to the Lovecraftian mystery adventure it can give you.

There are even role-playing games that only have two pages of rules – you can even make up your own if you have the time! At this point, you can play a game playing practically anything you want, from slashers to soap operas (watch out for ‘Passion of Passions’). If you thought role-playing was just about axe-wielding medieval adventures, you’re very wrong: there’s a whole world out there to play! Don’t get overwhelmed, choose a manual to start with, get your friends together… And let the fun begin.

To finish

Once you have finished your first game, you have a question to solve: Do you intend to end it here or do you want to make a campaign and keep the same characters for years (or days, depending on the expertise and type of game)? If you choose the latter, get ready for adventure, romance, unexpected twists, deaths, friends and battles. Or don’t. You decide, after all, how to spend three hours every week with your friends. Isn’t that the best thing about role-playing?

Step-by-Step Guide: How to Get Free Robux in Roblox

We are going to tell you all the ways to get Robux, the game's currency, for free and without dying in the attempt.

Roblox was born in 2006, but chances are high that if you’re of a certain age you’ll get the impression that it was born yesterday and that you have no idea whether it’s a game, an app or a word that Gen Z has invented to unsettle you. Chances are, if you have kids, you’ve ever been confronted with the question “Can I have the allowance to buy Robux for my Roblox character?” without knowing if they’re getting into shady business. Don’t worry: it’s not like that… And, to your relief, you don’t have to pay. We are going to tell you all the ways to get Robux, the in-game currency, for free and without perishing in the attempt.

A Robuxto game

If you have entered this article expecting a magic code that will give you infinite Robux, we are sorry to disappoint you: there are no real codes that give you coins and, usually, the pages that advertise them are simple scams taking advantage of the innocence (and greed) of the kids. And we are not bad people here. Luckily, there are ways to get these coins for free, but, as in life, you have to work.

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The first is to create a world that other players want to play in. It’s not easy to create an entire game, but if it succeeds it can give you a good handful of Robux if users buy skins or starter packs. The best part is that you don’t have to spend your Robux in the game: there’s a developer program that turns them into hard cash in your checking account. Obviously you have to dedicate time and soul to Roblox for this alternative to be viable, and you may not even achieve your goals, so there are other options.

The second option is simpler and perhaps more lucrative: create clothes and items for other players and offer them for sale. The problem is that it’s not that simple: it’s like creating a T-shirt in the real world, where there are millions of different designs. Yours has to shine if you want to win shiny Robux. Not feeling creative? There’s a third way.

Invite your friends! As if this were a party in your apartment on Saturday night, the Roblox affiliate program will give you a percentage every time that friend affiliated with you makes an in-game purchase. Remember that Robux can be spent on absolutely everything from changing your name to customizing your avatar, but they are also not necessary to play and have fun.

Oh, and yes, you can spend real money to buy Robux if you find all this too much fun or too much work. For example, 23,99 euros will give you 1700 Robux or 2200 per month if you decide to subscribe and always have coins available. Take a look at your current account and decide if it’s worth it – let your imagination (and the money in your wallet) run wild!

Become a Wordle Pro: Secrets to Guessing the Puzzle Every Day

Although we all have our tricks, there are always some ways to improve and guess the hidden word.

Wordle: the crossword puzzle for millennials. For a few months now, getting up, making a cup of coffee and, in the middle of the night, trying to get the Wordle of the day has been part of our routine. However, although we all have our tricks, there are always a few ways to improve and guess the hidden word. If you see the world in yellow and green letters, here’s how to improve your score.

The winning word

If you have never played Wordle, don’t worry: it is incredibly easy to do so (or any of its spin-offs, such as Heardle or Wordle in Spanish). It’s all about guessing a five-letter word: as you come up with possible solutions, the program will indicate in yellow the letters that are in another place and in green the correct ones. Find the secret word in less than seven tries and you win. As simple and addictive as that.

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Wordle: puzzle de palabras gratuito

There are little tricks to win as quickly as possible, although it is not always possible to carry them out: try to avoid repeating letters in gray, neither yellow nor green, even if they fit, as well as yellow letters that are in the same position as in previous words. Remember two things: first, that a letter can appear twice in a word (and often does, in fact). Second, on the first try you should spend as many vowels as you can using words like “audio”, leaving only one vowel to try in the following attempts.

If you play in English (which is great for practicing the language), note that the four most common beginnings are “Tr”, “Th”, “Br” and “St”, and the four endings are “Ck”, “Ng”, “Ty” and “Ry”. No need to know much more: get ready to activate your brain better than Doctor Kawashima would, and start playing Wordle like a champ!