How to Play Food Club and Play it Well

by isssac

Today, I am going to touch on a game that will be able to turn you into a millionaire overnight! YES OVERNIGHT!!! This game can earn you an easy few hundred thousands in one night alone! Right, this game is called the Food Club!

Rules of the game (Extract from the rules of Food Club):

What Is It: At Food Club, the objective of this game is to place bets on the pirate(s) that you think will win in an eating competition.

Who Is Competing: There are twenty pirates that compete in each round. Each round consists of five matches with four pirates each, which are held in one of the five arenas.

When Is It: The Food Club matches are held once per day at the designated time.

Placing Bets: When placing a bet, you have the option to bet on single or multiple matches. Single matches are straightforward. If your pirate wins the match, then you win your bet! In order to win on multiple matches, you must correctly choose the winning pirate for each match that you bet on. For example, if you were to place a multiple bet on the matches that are being held at Shipwreck and Lagoon, you must choose the winning pirate for both of those matches in order to win the bet. There are no partial winners for multiple match bets, but your winnings are much higher if you are successful!

Odds: Your winnings will be based on the odds for the pirate(s) you have chosen to win. The current odds are next to the pirate's name, although they may fluctuate throughout the day.

Collecting Your Bets: To collect your winnings bets, simply go the Collect Winnings page. REMEMBER: You must collect your winning bets within 7 days of the match, or your winnings may be forfeited!

Betting Strategies: When you are placing bets, you need to remember that there are many different things to take into consideration. If you are simply using their win/loss record, you are bound to lose a lot of Neopoints. First thing to do is to take a look at each pirate in the match. You should do some comparisons between their strength (stamina) and their weights. Also, more importantly, look at the foods that could possibly be served for the match. If you place a bet on a strong pirate, but he happens to be allergic to many of the foods that could be served for his match, you are almost guaranteed to lose! To research the possible food courses for a match, simply click on the Next Round link and choose which match you want to look up.

And no, I don't play it everyday and I don't really look at the courses that the pirates like and dislike. WHY? That's because I always look at the odds for each pirates before I place my bets. The smaller the odds the better the chances of winning! Sometimes the odds are good sometimes they are bad.

Example of a GOOD odd:

Pirates	Winning Odds
Gooblah the Grarrl	2:1
Peg Leg Percival	13:1
Young Sproggie	13:1
Stuff-A-Roo	13:1

In this scenario, by just looking at the odds, Gooblah the Grarrl will almost have 100% chance of winning.

Example of a BAD odd:

Pirates	Winning Odds
Gooblah the Grarrl	2:1
Peg Leg Percival	2:1
Young Sproggie	3:1
Stuff-A-Roo	5:1

Both Gooblah the Grarrl and Peg Leg Percival have a chance of winning too. Captain Crossblades has an outside chance of winning and Stuff-A-Roo is the dark horse of this competition. I would suggest not to place any bet on this one. :)

I have sum up all the 20 pirates in the table below:

I have sum up all the 40 courses in the table below:

In this game, you can place up to 10 bets in 5 arenas(Not more than 2 bets per arena):
Shipwreck, Lagoon, Treasure Island, Hidden Cove & Harpoon Harry's

You might want to ask me, "How to earn a few hundred thousands in one night?". The answer is simple. I would suggest you to place multiple bets. All you have to do is to predict the winning pirate of each arena. Do remember you can only place 10 bets and you will have to use them wisely! I will illustrate a scenario in the following tables below:

The amount you can bet is 50 NP + 2 * (every day you have been playing NeoPets) NP. For me, I can place 1000 NP per bet. By looking at the odds alone, you can assure that both Gooblah the Grarrl and Puffo the Waister have almost 100% chance of winning in their own arena. So, I place 1000 NP for both of them and place a multiple bet on them too.
Possible Earnings:(1000*2)+(1000*2)+(1000*2*2)=8000 NP(3 bets so far)

Next up is a more tricky. In Treasure Island, Buck Cutlass is not guaranteed to win. So, I have to place "safety" bets. So, I placed multiple bets (add with Shipwreck and Lagoon) of 1000 NP to Buck Cutlass and The Tailhook Kid.
Possible Earnings:8000+(1000*2*2*2)=16000 NP or
Possible Earnings:8000+(1000*2*2*5)=28000 NP (5 bets so far)

As for Hidden Cove, I also placed "safety" multiple-bets on Scurvy Dan the Blade and Sir Edmund Ogletree.
Possible Earnings:16000+(1000*2*2*2*2)=32000 NP or
Possible Earnings:16000+(1000*2*2*2*7)=72000 NP or
Possible Earnings:28000+(1000*2*2*5*2)=68000 NP or
Possible Earnings:28000+(1000*2*2*5*7)=168000 NP (9 bets so far)

As for Harpoon Harry's, you only have 1 bet available and it is a bad odd given, as all of them have a chance of winning! I would suggest not to bet on this one.

In conclusion, you can earn up to from a range of 32k-168k NP in one single night alone (provided with the generous odds given)! One of main tricks is to place "safety" bets on the pirates that have close odds between them and of course, you don't have to place all your 10 bets on those 5 arenas! This is isssac signing off and have fun betting!

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