Is anyone else addicted to "Pack Rat" on Facebook?

[TinysMom]

Oh my....I only discovered it the day before yesterday (thanks to my daughter Robin) and I'm sadly very very addicted to it....(although at least I've completed two collections so far).

Or as I told her this morning at 3 am...."I can quit anytime I want...I just don't want to quit ... yet..."

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Ah -HA It is YOU who linked me to the vile timewasting creation!

The pictures are really cute

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

Great now i am going onto my facebook and checking it out,i will probably be hooked, thanks alot,lol

 

[TinysMom]

NorthernAutumn wrote:

Ah -HA It is YOU who linked me to the vile timewasting creation!

The pictures are really cute

Have you figured out yet how to play it?

Basically - you want to vault different collections to complete them...sometimes you need three cards from that collection to complete a recipe to make a higher value card in the collection.

Yeah...its really really REALLY addicting.

Oh - you earn extra credits to spend by using "steal" and clicking on cards in other people's packs...the more cards you click on - the more credits you'll be able to claim...

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Touch my cards and DIE, Peg!
Just test me...

(j/k)
I'm still learning how to play.. you can steal my cards after I learn

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

just found it now i have to figure it out

 

[TinysMom]

NorthernAutumn wrote:

Touch my cards and DIE, Peg!
Just test me...

(j/k)
I'm still learning how to play.. you can steal my cards after I learn

I think I was stealing your cards last night anyway....

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

ok so where are the directions to this one?

 

[TinysMom]

Ok - here is how to play it.

You automatically get credits to "buy" cards with at the stores. As you search other people's packs (to steal or trade cards) - you will also get chances to earn extra free credits when the credit thingy comes up. You may also get a "free draw" card...which I'll explain in a bit.

Pick a color family or a collection within a color family to work on collecting. Collect five UNIQUE cards in the same color (or same collection) and use "VAULT" to store them. Once they're stored in the vault - they're safe...but you can't use them in recipes to make higher value cards.

If you want to hold onto a card and not have it stolen...then you buy a lock and use the "gadget" button to the right in your pack. You hit gadget...then the item you're locking...then the lock...then "use gadget" above the items in your pack. Your card will now be safe.

It sometimes helps to work with two collections in the same color family...so you can vault some in one collection and some in another collection whenever you want to clean out your pack...since you can only vault the same colors at one time.

 

[TinysMom]

By the way - if you can "make" an additional card (higher value) with the ones you have in your pack...the button to the side that says "make" will have a number beside it (1, etc) - to say you can make 1 (or more?) items with what is in your pack.

 

[TinysMom]

Autumn - I saw you had a number of the brown "Pangea Patrol" cards - so I stole one that wasn't brown and dropped a higher value brown one in your pack...

See - I'm not totally mean...

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

ha ha ha ha i am confused,lol. how do you tell when a card is unique?

 

[TinysMom]

Luvmyzoocrew wrote:

ha ha ha ha i am confused,lol. how do you tell when a card is unique?

basically - you can't vault two of the same card (a hat or snow cones or whatever) at the same time.

Let's say you have two hats...vault one the first time with four other cards...then vault it again the next time with four other cards.

You get points when you get 10 of an item (the same item) vaulted too...

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

hhhmmm so that is why my vault wasnt working them cause i had a few of the same thing. Now is there a point , like getting as many of the same or as many different things as you can?

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

how do you make cards?

 

[BethM]

So I tried this game after reading about it here. My question is, is there a way to get credits, other than by flipping cards in other people's packs? I'm sitting on just a few cards, not many credits to buy cards, and it won't let me draw. Going through other packs is very tedious to get just a few credits.

I won't pay real money for facebook games, so how do I get more credits? And how do I get more draws?

 

[NorthernAutumn]

^^^ Yeah that, Peg?

Thanks for the dino, by the way
Sent you a tomato for your food collection