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* LosingYourHead: In the second game, Garfield can open the fridge to see the decapitated head of Orson Pig. In spite of just being a severed head, Orson is still able to warn Garfield to watch out for sneaky mice.



* OffWithHisHead: What became of Lyman and Orson Pig in the second game.

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* OffWithHisHead: What became of Lyman and Orson Pig in the The second game.game reveals Lyman's decapitated head if the player chooses to open the oven.

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* OrwellianRetcon: Since 2015, in the second game, all copyrighted images of Perfection Pastries have been removed so that almost everything you collect in the game simply doesn't have any pictures of pastry and just the words or names on it[[note]]compare [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_07_11_at_62952_pm.png the original Mini Cinnamon donuts]] and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_07_11_at_64244_pm.png the updated art]][[/note]], or if there are pictures of pastry on the boxes, then there's no Garfield or Odie or Perfection Pastries logo on it. The "Assorted Donuts" shell game is an exception because you can see the Garfield, Odie and Perfection Pastries images on the donuts box when you click the correct cup but not when there's a close-up on the box right before the game begins.

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* OrwellianRetcon: Since 2015, in the second game, all copyrighted images of Perfection Pastries have been removed so that almost everything you collect in the game simply doesn't have any pictures of pastry and just the words or names on it[[note]]compare [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_07_11_at_62952_pm.png the original Mini Cinnamon donuts]] and with [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_07_11_at_64244_pm.png the updated art]][[/note]], or if there are pictures of pastry on the boxes, then there's no Garfield or Odie or Perfection Pastries logo on it. The "Assorted Donuts" shell game is an exception because you can see the Garfield, Odie and Perfection Pastries images on the donuts box when you click the correct cup but not when there's a close-up on the box right before the game begins.

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* OrwellianRetcon: Since 2015, in the second game, ALL copyrighted images of Perfection Pastries have been removed so that almost everything you collect in the game simply doesn't have any pictures of pastry and just the words or names on it OR if there are pictures of pastry on the boxes, then there's no Garfield or Odie or Perfection Pastries logo on it. The "Assorted Donuts" shell game is an exception because you can see the Garfield, Odie and Perfection Pastries images on the donuts box when you click the correct cup but not when there's a close-up on the box right before the game begins.

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* OrwellianRetcon: Since 2015, in the second game, ALL all copyrighted images of Perfection Pastries have been removed so that almost everything you collect in the game simply doesn't have any pictures of pastry and just the words or names on it OR it[[note]]compare [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_07_11_at_62952_pm.png the original Mini Cinnamon donuts]] and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screen_shot_2018_07_11_at_64244_pm.png the updated art]][[/note]], or if there are pictures of pastry on the boxes, then there's no Garfield or Odie or Perfection Pastries logo on it. The "Assorted Donuts" shell game is an exception because you can see the Garfield, Odie and Perfection Pastries images on the donuts box when you click the correct cup but not when there's a close-up on the box right before the game begins.

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* DigitalDestruction: Because of an unknown cause, at the end of the first game you cannot see Garfield happily zipping off-camera to go eat the donuts. Instead, when you finish the last puzzle the screen immediately pans to Garfield lying down on the ground satisfied and full from eating them all.


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* OrwellianRetcon: Since 2015, in the second game, ALL copyrighted images of Perfection Pastries have been removed so that almost everything you collect in the game simply doesn't have any pictures of pastry and just the words or names on it OR if there are pictures of pastry on the boxes, then there's no Garfield or Odie or Perfection Pastries logo on it. The "Assorted Donuts" shell game is an exception because you can see the Garfield, Odie and Perfection Pastries images on the donuts box when you click the correct cup but not when there's a close-up on the box right before the game begins.
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* TheMaze: In the second game, you have to find your way through a hedge maze before you can exit the house.
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* BestOutOfInfinity: In the ShellGame, you have to win 3 out of 5 rounds. Once you do, the skeleton you're playing against asks to go for 5 out of 7. You can either decline and get the donuts right then, or accept. Winning 5 out of 7 gets you the donuts.

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* HammerSpace: In the second game, Garfield can actually walk through tiny mouse-holes in the wall and teleport into another room, but that's not the weirdest part yet. [[OffscreenTeleportation What is is that Garfield can actually teleport into a room when he entered a mouse-hole in a room on the opposite side of the house]]!
** By the way, just how did Garfield carry all those pastry on him without a need for a backpack or cart?

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In the second game, Garfield can actually walk through tiny mouse-holes in the wall and teleport into another room, but that's not the weirdest part yet. [[OffscreenTeleportation What is is that Garfield can actually teleport into a room when he entered a mouse-hole in a room on the opposite side of the house]]!
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** By the way, just Just how did Garfield carry all those pastry pastries on him without a need for a backpack or cart? cart?

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* LevelAte: The games are all about sweetening foods that Americans love eating for breakfast and dessert after dinner.
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* ScreamerPrank: In the second game, clicking on one painting in the hall will zoom in on it and tell you to examine it closely. After a while, it will startle the player.
* ShellGame: In the second game, there are some donuts on a serving platter under a lid. Before you can get it, you have to win a mini-game where the platter is swapped around with two others and you have to keep track of where it is.
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* AmbiguousSituation: ''Who'' put Lyman in the basement??


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* WhamShot:
** Lyman is alive, chained up in the basement and starving. Garfield is very surprised to see him, since he didn't appear in the comics for decades.
** In game two, Garfield finds Lyman's head in the oven.

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'''Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt''' is a series of 2 online games found on Garfield's official website that involves the player controlling Garfield to find sugary sweet snacks (all of them being pastry) in a haunted mansion filled with monsters. There is no time limit, but Garfield does have a maximum of how many times he can be scared before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he runs off and quits the game]].


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'''Garfield's
''Garfield's
Scary Scavenger Hunt''' Hunt'' is a series of 2 two online games found on Garfield's official website that involves the player controlling Garfield to find sugary sweet snacks (all of them being pastry) in a haunted mansion filled with monsters. There is no time limit, but Garfield does have a maximum of how many times he can be scared before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he runs off and quits the game]].

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the first game, Lyman suddenly vanishes once you (Garfield) are informed by him you should check the fireplace and then you exit his cell.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the first game, Lyman suddenly vanishes once you (Garfield) are informed by him you should check the fireplace and then you exit his cell.cell.
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** Lyman, who last regularly appeared in the comics in 1983, plays a critical role in the first game because you (Garfield) need him to find the Blueberry Muffins. In the second game, he's a decapitated head.

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** Lyman, who last regularly appeared in the comics in 1983, plays a critical role in the first game because you (Garfield) need him to find the Blueberry Muffins. In the second game, [[OffWithHisHead he's a decapitated head.head]].

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* CreepyBasement: Lyman was found to be chained as a starving prisoner here. We never know how chained and put him there, or why he was chained there.
* HammerSpace: In the second game, Garfield can actually walk through tiny mouse-holes in the wall and teleport into another room, but that's not the weirdest part yet. What is is that Garfield can actually teleport into a room when he entered a mouse-hole in a room on the opposite side of the house!

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* CreepyBasement: Lyman was found to be chained as a starving prisoner here. We never know how who chained and put him there, or why he was chained there.taken prisoner.
* CreepyChangingPainting: In the second game, a painting of a man sitting in a chair keeps changing off-screen so that the man disappears from the picture altogether or the picture is flipped upside down.

* HammerSpace: In the second game, Garfield can actually walk through tiny mouse-holes in the wall and teleport into another room, but that's not the weirdest part yet. [[OffscreenTeleportation What is is that Garfield can actually teleport into a room when he entered a mouse-hole in a room on the opposite side of the house! house]]!
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* HarmlessVillain: The "horror movie" monsters in the games don't seem too interested in attacking Garfield, they just want to give him a good scare and the worst physical harm they can inflict on Garfield is a heart attack. Who knows why they won't attack him - maybe it's because he's just a cat and the victims they go after are usually human.

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* HarmlessVillain: In spite of the game featuring a werewolf, a vampire, a mummy, a Frankenstein's monster, ghosts and all - there really is no graphic violence most likely because these games are intended for children. The "horror movie" monsters in the games don't seem too interested in attacking Garfield, they just want to give him a good scare and the worst physical harm they can inflict on Garfield is a heart attack. Who knows why they won't attack him - maybe it's because he's just a cat and the victims they go after are usually human.
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'''SPOILERS BELOW!''' Read at your own risk if you haven't played (and completed) the games yet.
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** In the first game, all the library's books are named after real-life ''Garfield'' books - some are

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** In the first game, all the library's books are named after real-life ''Garfield'' books - some most are comic compilations, while the others are joke books ("Never Accept" and "Insults").

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** Binky the Clown appears in toy form in the first game and bubblehead form in the second game.

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** Binky the Clown appears in toy form in the first game and bubblehead bobblehead form in the second game.


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** In the first game, all the library's books are named after real-life ''Garfield'' books - some are


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* ReversePsychology: Jon telling the player (Garfield) to stop giving mice to cheese.
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* ShoutOut: In the second game, there's a nod to ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.

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* ShoutOut: In the second game, there's a nod to ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''. However, you might not want to click on it cause it'll make your Scare-o-meter go up.
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** In the memory music puzzle in the first game, the trumpet makes a composition that you frequently hear on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''. It goes like Do Do Do Me Sol Me Sol Me Do.
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* BigEater: Garfield as usual, devouring all the donuts he found when the player wins the game.


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** By the way, just how did Garfield carry all those pastry on him without a need for a backpack or cart?
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* OffWithHisHead: What came of Lyman and Orson Pig in the second game.

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* OffWithHisHead: What came became of Lyman and Orson Pig in the second game.
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* OffWitHisHead: What came of Lyman and Orson Pig in the second game.

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* OffWitHisHead: OffWithHisHead: What came of Lyman and Orson Pig in the second game.

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** Lyman appearing in the game, who last regularly appeared in the comics in 1983.

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** Lyman appearing in the game, Lyman, who last regularly appeared in the comics in 1983. 1983, plays a critical role in the first game because you (Garfield) need him to find the Blueberry Muffins. In the second game, he's a decapitated head.



* OffWitHisHead: What came of Lyman and Orson Pig in the second game.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lyman suddenly vanishes once you (Garfield) are informed by him you should check the fireplace and then you exit his cell.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the first game, Lyman suddenly vanishes once you (Garfield) are informed by him you should check the fireplace and then you exit his cell.
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** Odie is in the second game, but also he does is scare Garfield by showing him he's been webbed up by spiders.

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** Odie is in the second game, but also all he does is scare Garfield by showing him he's been webbed up by spiders.
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The second game was released in 2003 and can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt-2 here]].

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The second game [[AlliterativeName Donuts of Doom]] was released in 2003 and can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt-2 here]].

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* HarmlessVillain: The "horror movie" monsters in the games don't seem too interested in attacking Garfield, they just want to give him a good scare and the worst physical harm they can inflict on Garfield is a heart attack. Who knows why they won't attack him - maybe it's because he's just a cat and the victims they go after are usually human.



* ShoutOut: In the second game, there's a nod to Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon.

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* RodentsOfUnusualSize: In the first game, if you (Garfield) don't give cheese to the mouse guarding the donuts, he'll turn into a giant bloodcurdling mouse.
* ShoutOut: In the second game, there's a nod to Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon.''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''.

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** Liz appears as a voodoo head in the second game.



* HauntedHouse: In the first game, Garfield went inside it reluctantly to find donuts. In the second game, he suddenly found himself in the basement and was brought back to the house against his own will. We never know how he got back in, other than there's a chance that the monster(s) living in the house snatched him back.



** Binky the Clown is in the first game.

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** Binky the Clown is appears in toy form in the first game and bubblehead form in the second game.


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* ShoutOut: In the second game, there's a nod to Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Image from the first game]]
'''Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt''' is a series of 2 online games found on Garfield's official website that involves the player controlling Garfield to find sugary sweet snacks (all of them being pastry) in a haunted house filled with monsters. There is no time limit, but Garfield does have a maximum of how many times he can be scared before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he runs off and quits the game]].


The first game can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt here]].\\
The second game can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt-2 here]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:Image from [[caption-width-right:350: Guess what lured Garfield into the first game]]
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'''Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt''' is a series of 2 online games found on Garfield's official website that involves the player controlling Garfield to find sugary sweet snacks (all of them being pastry) in a haunted house mansion filled with monsters. There is no time limit, but Garfield does have a maximum of how many times he can be scared before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he runs off and quits the game]].


The first game was released in 2002 and can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt here]].\\
The second game was released in 2003 and can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt-2 here]].



* AndYourRewardIsEdible: The main goal and rewards for this game are sweet foods usually eaten for breakfast or dessert.

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* AndYourRewardIsEdible: The main goal and rewards for this game are sweet foods usually eaten for breakfast or dessert.dessert.
* TheCameo:
** Jon is in the first game refusing to help Garfield and join him on the scavenger hunt but does give him some helpful tips. In the second game, he makes a woman's scream while taking a bath naked in the upstairs bedroom as the famous ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' shower music plays.
** Odie is in the second game, but also he does is scare Garfield by showing him he's been webbed up by spiders.
* CreepyBasement: Lyman was found to be chained as a starving prisoner here. We never know how chained and put him there, or why he was chained there.
* HammerSpace: In the second game, Garfield can actually walk through tiny mouse-holes in the wall and teleport into another room, but that's not the weirdest part yet. What is is that Garfield can actually teleport into a room when he entered a mouse-hole in a room on the opposite side of the house!
* LevelAte: The games are all about sweetening foods that Americans love eating for breakfast and dessert after dinner.
* MythologyGag:
** Binky the Clown is in the first game.
** Lyman appearing in the game, who last regularly appeared in the comics in 1983.
** Orson Pig and Wade Duck from Jim Davis's lesser-known ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' are in the second game. Fans who watched ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' would know who they are.
* ProductPlacement: The games promotes Perfection Pastries, a bakery that used ''Garfield'' for promotional purposes. Perfection Pastries put [[MascotsLoveSugar Garfield and Odie]] smiling and happy on their boxes.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lyman suddenly vanishes once you (Garfield) are informed by him you should check the fireplace and then you exit his cell.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Image from the first game]]
'''Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt''' is a series of 2 online games found on Garfield's official website that involves the player controlling Garfield to find sugary sweet snacks (all of them being pastry) in a haunted house filled with monsters. There is no time limit, but Garfield does have a maximum of how many times he can be scared before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he runs off and quits the game]].


The first game can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt here]].\\
The second game can be played [[https://garfield.com/games/scary-scavenger-hunt-2 here]].

!!The ''Scary Scavenger Hunt'' series of online games features examples of:
* AndYourRewardIsEdible: The main goal and rewards for this game are sweet foods usually eaten for breakfast or dessert.

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