Aurilis Mini-Games

In the last few days of the November 2023 NaNo event, a Gala was hosted by Headmaster Amidala and the four first year Professors as a celebration for successfully completing our first year at Aurilis Magic Academy.

As part of the Gala, four mini-games were also released, one for each Professor/class. These games rewarded Aurilis Mini-Game Tickets, which could then be redeemed at the Mini-Game Prizes Market. There was also an option to redeem Aurilis Tokens for Mini-Game Tickets, for those who couldn't or didn't want to play the mini-games.

Each game costs one Aurilis Token to play.

The 4 games are:

* Professor Aylin’s Memory Game - match pairs of cards in a set time. Perfect practice for learning star constellations.

* Professor Perenne’s Carrot Shooting Practice - shoot carrots at a target. Practice for hitting fast moving monsters in the Enchanted Forest.

* Professor Bartholemus’ Wordle - guess the correct word. A fun way to practice spells using complicated words from ancient tongues.

* Professor Wynncott’s Typing Practice - a mix of speed typing with spell casting. Practice typing under pressure for when the dungeons get dangerous.

On mobile, mini-games may not work, or may be ill sized for comfortably playing.

The Memory Game and Carrot Shooting Practice were very similar to the original mini-games introduced in Winter Wonderland 2021.

## Professor Aylin’s Memory Game

In this game, Dust Warriors are given 2 minutes total to complete three rounds of matching cards containing images of Aurilis creatures. This is done by clicking on two cards at a time to reveal them.

Clicking two matching cards locks them face up.

Each matched pair awards 15 points. This means that completing the first round, with 6 matches, awards 90 points. Matching the 12 pairs in the second round awards another 180 points, for a total of 270 points. Matching the 18 pairs in the third round awards 270 points, for a maximum of 540 points from the game.

**Warning: This game *does* use images of the four Aurilis spiders. Anyone using the extension developed to substitute these images should find that the substitutions carry through to the matching game.**

## Professor Perenne’s Carrot Shooting Practice

In this game, Dust Warriors are given 5 carrots and must attempt to hit the center of the target. The cursor moves across the target randomly and at varying speeds, and clicking the mouse drops a carrot.

Carrots dropped in the centermost ring award 50 points and provide an extra carrot. Carrots dropped in the brown ring around the center award 13 points, while the other rings give no points.

Because it is possible (with a lot of patience) to get unlimited carrots by repeatedly hitting the center target, there is no maximum point amount per game.

**Head's Up**: Trial and error from Dust Warriors shows that the registered target is smaller than the visual target (roughly only the bottom half of the blue shape). This needs to be taken into account when working out tactics for this game.

## Professor Bartholemus’ Wordle

In this game, Dust Warriors have 6 chances to guess a word. For the most part the 4thewords version follows the standard Wordle rules, save for a few tweaks:

* Submissions *do not* have to be valid words, but can simply be keysmashes
* Once a letter has been excluded, it cannot be used again when trying another word

Additionally, this version comes with four modes:

* Easy (4 letters)
* Medium (5 letters)
* Hard (6 letters)
* Extreme (7+ letters)

While typing, before submitting, letters are shown as purple. When proposing a word, letters in gray are not in the solution, letters in green are placed correctly, and letters in pink are in the solution, but misplaced.

Additionally, if a proposed word uses a letter twice, but it only appears in the solution once, then it will appear as green or pink once, and the second usage will be purple, to indicate that it should not be repeated.

Points are awarded based on difficulty level, not the number of tries it takes to work out the solution:

* Easy (100 points)
* Medium (250 points)
* Hard (500 points)
* Extreme (750 points)

## Professor Wynncott’s Typing Practice / Word Shooting Dungeon

In this game, Dust Warriors type the words that appear on the screen before the words can slide down to the bottom. The game gives 10 health points, meaning that 10 words can hit the bottom before the game ends. As the player levels up, more and more words will appear, and they will fall faster.

There is no penalty for typing the wrong letter, but Dust Warriors who type quickly should beware; keys typed too closely together can confuse it and make it think that the second one didn't happen.

When there are more than one words on the screen, the game automatically selects a word based on the first letter typed. Other words cannot be selected until that word is completed.

**Head's Up**: if a word hits the bottom while mid-type, the next "free" letter will register as the start of a new word. This word might be at the top of the screen, not another word towards the bottom that the player might wish to focus on first.