Caption contest guide.
Link to the game: http://www.neopets.com/games/new_caption.phtml
About the Caption Contest.
A new Caption Contest is announced 2-3 times a week, depending on TNT. The winners are announced when the new contest starts.
Captions must be approved before they will show up on the site. Every time you hit submit your caption is entered into the contest.
There is no guaranteed way to win the Caption Contest, although being original and funny will definitely help you to get in… However you will need people to vote for you in order to win once TNT aproves your caption.
Usually captions starts every monday, wednesday and friday.
How to get in? The guide!
There is no big secret in here… But getting a caption accepted with the page in english, is very hard. You will need to increase your chances just by using a translator and sending it in multiple languages. Yes. It works. In other languages, not many people plays this game so you have big chances ofyour caption getting accepted without it being really -checked-. Sad but true, I have seen lot of lame things in there, even bad words.
I use the google translator tool, you can find it here: http://translate.google.com.ar/
Other tips:
Well, now that you know this… You only need to start writting. I usually make crappy captions (around 10-20) and translate them all. Sometimes you can make multiple captions just by changing a few words on a single idea. Believe me, this helps a lot. I have sent nice and funny ones and got horrible ones accepted in the same competition.
Try not to use overused jokes, be original and funny.
Before you writte your caption, you might also want to go through the old captions to get ideas and inspiration… Just don’t steal ideas since you can get in trouble for that.
Keep track and save every caption you submit, you can use notepad or office… And don’t forget to submit them all once a day.
In order to get in the english contest, grammar does matter, but not in the other languagues. Keep that in mind.
Good / Bad captions.
Bad examples (According to TNT):
* Typing insults, profanity or anything completely boring.
* Overused jokes.
* I see dead anything.
* Where’s the cream filling?
* Get ready to rumble.
* Credit card parodies (please we have heard the priceless one tooooo much!).
* Any reference to the game Marco Polo.
* Any mention of letting the dogs out.
* Anything having to do with not being in Kansas anymore.
* Dude, where’s my ______?.
* Houston, we have a problem.
* Any Neopet saying Waaaaaaazzzzzzzuuuuuuppppp!!!!!
Good examples (According to what I have seen):
* Make inanimate objects talk.
* Short captions (Don’t make all of the characters say something, only include one or two).
* Use irony.
*Do a second look to every caption image. Don’t writte the obvious.
* Do at least 10 different captions, even though they are not good.
* Check out the past winners for more: http://www.neopets.com/games/caption…_archive.phtml
Gaining votes.
Congratulations! If you are reading this, it probably means that your caption has made it’s way to the top! Here comes the boring and hard part… Let all your friends know about the caption and remind them to vote once every 4 hours… You can vote yourself too.
You can also try on the neoboards, it shouldn’t be hard but just make sure you don’t spam… You could lend items on the avatar board or make boards on the beauty contest asking for people to show you their art. People will vote for your caption hoping for you to vote for their pets too.
(But do not sell or buy or trade votes, that will get you in trouble… Do not say voting if you vote for me or anything like that )
Possible prizes:
The trophies!
Big prizes including r99s petpets, petpet paint brushes, paint brushes, codestones, sometimes special prizes or if you are unlucky random junk .
You also get 10k or 5k depending on your position.
I have won quite a few times already, the people you usually see with lot of Caption Contest wins it’s because they do this… Goodluck!!!
I know someone who made over 10m already with this just by doing this as a daily.
