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5th Mar '13 9:38:21 PM Peteman

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Avert Word Cruft.

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8th Dec '12 1:41:58 PM xie323

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I got jilted THREE CONSERCUTIVE TIMES on three consercutive games, so it could be a bug on the 1.2 version(not bothering to try 1.2.1 through as I downladed this for free and it cost too much on the app store)

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** Blessings: [[spoiler: Getting born with an random event that gives you $1000 extra starting cash, getting born with an random event where your father buys a baseball glove that increases your physical traits, throwing a brick across the window without breaking anything in childhood, defeating the bully in childhood without him taking out the knife(or in the female game, getting her friends to jump on you), winning the cereal and comic book contests and getting money from it, learning something from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career and attaining resources from it, seeing that Mr. Harry(the candy seller) did not get cancer and moving to Florida(most cases where the event is experienced he contacts cancer and dies shortly after you visit him), taking much of the town with him to his new home, and having your secret recipe sold to a food company.]]
** Curses: [[spoiler: Getting born with either or BOTH the milk and the breathing defect, Getting unlucky enough to have [[NonstandardGameOver some of the events in infancy and childhood that would normally decrease your stats or end up in a bad choice resulting in your death]], getting scarred in any manner while your father is ironing the shirt, having the bully who stole your toy truck in infancy come back to face you when you go back to retrieve it after running from him, failing the "in car scenario" in infancy despite your intellect(the one where you have to answer if it's a tiger or Zebra), getting caught and killed by the molester in Childhood DESPITE making the right choice, getting an event about an emotionally troubled relative or family member attempting suicide that causes your social status to take a significant PLUNGE in the adolescence stage, not being crowned king & queen at the senior prom with a steady girlfriend, getting events in young adulthood having your father die from a traffic accident via drunkenness or a heart attack or your mother dying from cancer(which closes off many events that require both parents to be alive AND living together), learning nothing from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career, getting random events about your parents divorcing and your father coming back and killing you, failing to sell your secret recipe, failing to sell well from your book if you succeed in writing it due to financial and publishing difficulties, getting an event where you find out that your date is married and [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin getting caught by his/her husband/wife after trying to have an affair with them, thus ending the relationship]], and finally, getting jilted on wedding day and abandoned at the altar by your fiancee(this even happens if he/she has an honest personality)]]

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** Blessings: [[spoiler: Getting born with an random event that gives you $1000 extra starting cash(may be a margin of error of $1 through), getting born with an random event where your father buys a baseball glove that increases your physical traits, throwing a brick across the window without breaking anything in childhood, defeating the bully in childhood without him taking out the knife(or in the female game, getting her friends to jump on you), winning the cereal and comic book contests and getting money from it, learning something from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career and attaining resources from it, seeing that Mr. Harry(the candy seller) did not get cancer and moving to Florida(most cases where the event is experienced he contacts cancer and dies shortly after you visit him), taking much of the town with him to his new home, and having your secret recipe sold to a food company.]]
** Curses: [[spoiler: Getting born with either or BOTH the milk and the breathing defect, Getting unlucky enough to have [[NonstandardGameOver some of the events in infancy and childhood that would normally decrease your stats or end up in a bad choice resulting in your death]], getting scarred in any manner while your father is ironing the shirt, having the bully who stole your toy truck in infancy come back to face you when you go back to retrieve it after running from him, failing the "in car scenario" in infancy despite your intellect(the one where you have to answer if it's a tiger or Zebra), getting caught and killed by the molester in Childhood DESPITE making the right choice, getting an event about an emotionally troubled relative or family member attempting suicide that causes your social status to take a significant PLUNGE in the adolescence stage, not being crowned king & queen at the senior prom with a steady girlfriend, getting events in young adulthood having your father die from a traffic accident via drunkenness or a heart attack or your mother dying from cancer(which closes off many events that require both parents to be alive AND living together), learning nothing from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career, getting random events about your parents divorcing and your father coming back and killing you, failing to sell your secret recipe, failing to sell well from your book if you succeed in writing it due to financial and publishing difficulties, getting an event where you find out that your date is married and [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin getting caught by his/her husband/wife after trying to have an affair with them, thus ending the relationship]](similarly there is one where you refuse to talk about marriage in adulthood and he/she leaves you as a result), and finally, getting jilted on wedding day and abandoned at the altar by your fiancee(this even happens if he/she has an honest personality, through, for the iphone version, the frequency of this could have been an occasional bug)]]

5th Dec '12 11:51:06 AM xie323

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5th Dec '12 11:49:37 AM xie323

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5th Dec '12 11:43:39 AM xie323

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5th Dec '12 11:43:25 AM xie323

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not sure if this is a blessing

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5th Dec '12 11:41:31 AM xie323

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** Curses: [[spoiler: Getting born with either or BOTH the milk and the breathing defect, Getting unlucky enough to have [[NonstandardGameOver some of the events in infancy and childhood that would normally decrease your stats or end up in a bad choice ''killing you outright'']] Getting scarred in any manner while your father is ironing the shirt, having the bully who stole your toy truck in infancy come back to face you when you go back to retrieve it after running from him, failing the "in car scenario" in infancy despite your intellect(the one where you have to answer if it's a tiger or Zebra), getting caught and killed by the molester in Childhood DESPITE making the right choice, getting an event about an emotionally troubled relative or family member attempting suicide that causes your social status to take a significant PLUNGE in the adolescence stage, not being crowned king & queen at the senior prom with a steady girlfriend, getting events in young adulthood having your father die from a traffic accident via drunkenness or a heart attack or your mother dying from cancer(which closes off many events that require both parents to be alive AND living together), learning nothing from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career, getting random events about your parents divorcing and your father coming back and killing you, failing to sell your secret recipe, failing to sell well from your book if you succeed in writing it due to financial and publishing difficulties, getting an event where you find out that your date is married and [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin getting caught by his/her husband/wife after trying to have an affair with them, thus ending the relationship]], and finally, getting jilted on wedding day and abandoned at the altar by your fiancee(this even happens if he/she has an honest personality)]]

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** Curses: [[spoiler: Getting born with either or BOTH the milk and the breathing defect, Getting unlucky enough to have [[NonstandardGameOver some of the events in infancy and childhood that would normally decrease your stats or end up in a bad choice resulting in your death]], getting scarred in any manner while your father is ironing the shirt, having the bully who stole your toy truck in infancy come back to face you when you go back to retrieve it after running from him, failing the "in car scenario" in infancy despite your intellect(the one where you have to answer if it's a tiger or Zebra), getting caught and killed by the molester in Childhood DESPITE making the right choice, getting an event about an emotionally troubled relative or family member attempting suicide that causes your social status to take a significant PLUNGE in the adolescence stage, not being crowned king & queen at the senior prom with a steady girlfriend, getting events in young adulthood having your father die from a traffic accident via drunkenness or a heart attack or your mother dying from cancer(which closes off many events that require both parents to be alive AND living together), learning nothing from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career, getting random events about your parents divorcing and your father coming back and killing you, failing to sell your secret recipe, failing to sell well from your book if you succeed in writing it due to financial and publishing difficulties, getting an event where you find out that your date is married and [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin getting caught by his/her husband/wife after trying to have an affair with them, thus ending the relationship]], and finally, getting jilted on wedding day and abandoned at the altar by your fiancee(this even happens if he/she has an honest personality)]]

5th Dec '12 11:40:55 AM xie323

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some of those are reported by others that played this game, others I experienced myself

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* RandomNumberGod: While most of the outcomes and scenarios are decided by your choices and your traits, some of the outcomes fall into this with some being blessings and other being curses or bad results whatever choices you make.  As seen below, there are more curses than blessings, through many of these have a very slim chance of happening and some may be removed from the 1985 edition in the web and iphone editions:
** Blessings: [[spoiler: Getting born with an random event that gives you $1000 extra starting cash, getting born with an random event where your father buys a baseball glove that increases your physical traits, throwing a brick across the window without breaking anything in childhood, defeating the bully in childhood without him taking out the knife, winning the cereal and comic book contests and getting money from it, learning something from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career and attaining resources from it, and having your secret recipe sold to a food company.]]
** Curses: [[spoiler: Getting born with either or BOTH the milk and the breathing defect, Getting unlucky enough to have [[NonstandardGameOver some of the events in infancy and childhood that would normally decrease your stats or end up in a bad choice ''killing you outright'']] Getting scarred in any manner while your father is ironing the shirt, having the bully who stole your toy truck in infancy come back to face you when you go back to retrieve it after running from him, failing the "in car scenario" in infancy despite your intellect(the one where you have to answer if it's a tiger or Zebra), getting caught and killed by the molester in Childhood DESPITE making the right choice, getting an event about an emotionally troubled relative or family member attempting suicide that causes your social status to take a significant PLUNGE in the adolescence stage, not being crowned king & queen at the senior prom with a steady girlfriend, getting events in young adulthood having your father die from a traffic accident via drunkenness or a heart attack or your mother dying from cancer(which closes off many events that require both parents to be alive AND living together), learning nothing from the vocational meeting in young adulthood if you have a career, getting random events about your parents divorcing and your father coming back and killing you, failing to sell your secret recipe, failing to sell well from your book if you succeed in writing it due to financial and publishing difficulties, getting an event where you find out that your date is married and [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin getting caught by his/her husband/wife after trying to have an affair with them, thus ending the relationship]], and finally, getting jilted on wedding day and abandoned at the altar by your fiancee(this even happens if he/she has an honest personality)]]

5th Dec '12 7:15:03 AM ZinfandelZT

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It's actually in the source files - you have an easier time getting away if you're playing as a female.

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17th Nov '12 1:48:57 PM Aiguille

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