Congratulations to the following winners of Luck of the Draw, winning $100,000 PB :
Azeara
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Azeara
Azeara
Debowski

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Luck of the Draw - Available at the House of Luck in Badgeria!

• A new Mystery Picture has arrived, so don't forget to submit your best guess for a chance to win a piece of the next prize pool!

  

• NC MALL NEWS: Winter dyeworks has returned, and with it comes fantastic new color options for some of Neopia's favorite items such as the Maraquan White Beaded Gown and Winter Lights Effect. Swing by Loic's Dyeworks studio before January 1st to check them out!

  

• MORE NC MALL NEWS: Last call Neopians! Today is your last chance to get your hands on the Shenanigifts Retired Mystery Capsule. Swing by the NC Mall quick before it's gone for good!

  

Another chilling winter is about to howl across the realm and dragons everywhere are taking advantage of an unusually bountiful fishing season!

The Frigidfin Expedition, one of Flight Rising's quarterly "micro-holidays", is in full swing! From Thursday, December 10th (06:00 Server Time) to Monday, December 14th (06:00 Server Time), all players will experience a couple of battle-related boosts!


Bountiful Battles

For the duration of the Frigidfin Expedition, all all Coliseum enemies will have the chance to drop seafood items in addition to their normal loot. Dragon clans everywhere are taking this time to stock up on fishes, clams, sharks, sponges, corals, snails, shrimp and more to feed them through the winter.

Battle EXP Boost

During the event, all battles will yield 50% additional EXP, so now is a perfect time for dragons to train. Grab your newest team and head out into battle!


Furry Fishers

Dragonkind are not the only ones taking advantage of the prosperous fishing season. As the oceans, lakes, and rivers teem with life, enterprising critters rush the shores. A few unique species of beaver capitalize on this seafood surge, catching fish not only for themselves, but as currency in a primitive barter system with waterfaring dragon clans. For the duration of the Frigidfin Expedition, these toothy familiars will drop fairly commonly in the Coliseum and rarely during Fishing. Once the expedition has concluded, they'll go back into hiding, but may run into one or two while Fishing.

NOTICE: Experimental Item

As we continue to improve the backend functionality of the site and refactor its codebase, we're also taking the time to improve some of the tools we use to implement content.

Recently, we did a major overhaul to our item system to include better support for containers that have the potential to drop a random assortment of a defined pool of items. We plan to use this system for the Strange Chest that drops during Night of the Nocturne, and for other items with similar functionality which takes a few more fairly engineer-heavy processes and places them into the hands of our content creation team.

(NOTE: Right now, we're building this system to replicate/replace the functionality of items that exist and behave that way already, and provide support for similar items in the future should we need it. There is no current plan to make random contents chests a huge focus going forward.)

To test-drive this new chest functionality, you may see the following item during Frigidfin Expedition:

This item will rarely drop during Frigidfin and has a chance to drop a small, randomized set of common seafood items that already exist. We want to stress that this is our public way of testing a system and there isn't inherently anything special about this item, but it will allow us to make sure the system works in a fairly low-risk environment.

If everything works out, great! If it doesn't, then we gained some valuable information ahead of Night of the Nocturne and can make sure everything works before then. We haven't yet made the decision of whether or not we'll add similar items into subsequent micro-holidays (like the upcoming Springswarm 2021).

Should you encounter any issues with this item after finding it and trying to open it, please let us know in the Bug Report Forums.


Seasons Come, Seasons Go

Right on schedule, the seasons are here to usher us into a new phase of the year. Right after rollover on December 21, autumn-themed items will cycle out of the Marketplace and winter-themed items will cycle in!

December 20 - January 3

The mischievous Nocturne dragons return for their annual fortnight of mayhem. Strange and whimsical creatures and items will start appearing all over Sornieth. Get your hands on apparel, vistas, and familiars specifically unique to this event!

It's also the only part of the year where you can obtain Breed Change: Nocturne and Unhatched Nocturne Egg!

The Crafting Store now carries some Scratching Post pieces. You can build your own scratching post for your cats or other critters. Currently only grey for color but if you're making crafts you can tweak the colors there :D I may add more colors later but I promised I would get some posted today over on our YouTube live stream last night. Hope you enjoy! ~ Zestu

Last week's round of What Am I has ended.

The item description was: Green Ghost Jelly Time!
The answer was: Ghost Jelly.

15 out of 16 Ichuans answered correctly.

A new round of What Am I has started. Good luck!

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: Akkrenskarin


If you want to have a chance to win next week, make sure to keep your Snapz! updated and current for the season.

Today's winning Mega Money Madness number is: 6422

There were NO winners.

If you want to be a winner next time, check out the Mega Money Madness under the GAMES icon.

While taking a relaxing sleigh ride through the fresh fallen snow, admiring winters wonderland, we came to a sudden halt!
Our eyes opened wide, dancing in delight, we snuck between trees, to have a closer look.
It was a magical snowscape created by Romulus10242001. Making this player todays snowscape winner!

CONGRATS! This player has won a FESTIVE TROPHY for their profile and a FREE ACCOUNT UPGRADE!

Sign up here for your chance to win tomorrow!

Yesterday's correct answer was Carol of the Bells.


Guess what Christmas song this image represents! Once you have figured out what the answer is, send it via pmail (with the name of the song in the Subject line) before midnight to SWEETFIRE (DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER IN COMMENTS). You may only submit ONE answer. For each correct answer you will receive 5 points which will be added to your total Sweet tally.

Make sure to try and get into the top 10 of the appointed games for bonus points!

Good luck!

• HAPPY HOLIDAYS: The Holiday Dream Neopets Giveaway has returned! To celebrate the season, we will be granting forty lucky Neopians the Neopet of their dreams! Simply select one of your Neopets and their dream species/colour combination on the Holiday Dream Neopet Giveaway page by 11:59 PM NST on Monday, December 21st. If you are one of the winners, you will wake up to your dream Neopet on Day of Giving morning (December 25th). Good luck!

  

• NEOPIAN TIMES NEWS: Just a quick heads up, the Neopian Times will be taking this week off. However, the holiday issue is set to be published Friday the 18th, so please continue to send in any holiday themed submissions you have been working on!

  

• Think you can help out Gwyl in this week's challenge game - Gwyl's Great Escape? A new Better Than You contest has begun. Go there now to submit your best score!

  

• The Petpet Protection League is back for another weekly surprise as we announce our winner for Week 783 - Snow Gypmu!

  

As you gaze up at the night sky, you just might see a blaze of green light illuminating the darkness. This can only mean one thing -- the first of the three Auroras has awakened!



Generosity is a being of light who resides in the sky with the other two Auroras. However, when Terrafrostians are in need, she presents herself as a strong, yet gentle creature with many hands that she uses to reach out. When you see those beautiful green lights in the winter sky, you can be certain that Generosity is near.

To those who took part in last week's tasks, Generosity is immensely grateful!



If you weren't able to help awaken Generosity last week, don't worry -- the event isn't over! The next Aurora is Prosperity. Like his partners, he needs the help of Terrafrostians to awaken and illuminate the night sky with his red light!

To take part in this week's awakening, users should fulfill these tasks as many times as they can before December 15th, 23:59:59 IcePets Time:

-Purchase items at any store in Terrafrost.
-Take part in Quests (daily Quests will be doubled this week!)
-Play games and send in your scores

Once you fulfill these tasks, you will be awarded Event Points! Once again, these can be spent at a new store that opens at the end of December!

Hey Everyone! The next batch of customs that are being released are these guys: I also have a few polls up if you wouldnt mind checking them out and casting a vote! :D Thank you so much ~ Zestu

Congratulations to cheepy_chip, who has just won the Ichu Lottery! The jackpot was worth 46,000 iP and the item prize was Holo Tectowl Stamp!

This week's item prize will be Demon Skoilo Plushie! Lottery is drawn every Wednesday.

Congratulations to our Snapz! of the week winner: Diosa


If you want to have a chance to win next week, make sure to keep your Snapz! updated and current for the season.

Yesterday's correct answer was Rockin Around the Christmas Tree.


Guess what Christmas song this image represents! Once you have figured out what the answer is, send it via pmail (with the name of the song in the Subject line) before midnight to SWEETFIRE (DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER IN COMMENTS). You may only submit ONE answer. For each correct answer you will receive 5 points which will be added to your total Sweet tally.

Make sure to try and get into the top 10 of the appointed games for bonus points!

Good luck!