Student FAQ

Can a student play more than one time?

• A student may play as many times as they wish, either at school or independently. All of the clams they earn in Bioplex and PlaneWorks games during the competition period accumulate toward the class competition totals. In addition, the student can spend the clams in Whyville!

Can a student play under more than one competition code?

• Generally speaking, students should compete for one class only. Students may enter a new competition code if they enter an initial code in error. Clams accumulate to classes every 24 hours, and all clams from a 24 hour period accumulate to the class the student is associated with at the end of the 24 hour period.

Are there any tricks to accumulating clams for the competition?

• In life, one of the tricks to accumulating wealth is to show up every day and to do the work. This also applies in the Whyville Texas Challenge. Some of the games (eg. Make-A-Virus) earn the student 'salary' clams. That means that the next day – and for every day thereafter – that that they log in, they will automatically receive that many clams. So one of the strategies for building clams is to earn lots of salary clams, and then log in every day. (Games that earn salary clams will state that in the game instructions.)
• Another strategy is to gain speed on the non-salary games, because those clams are credited to the account as they are earned.
• Some activities earn a lot more clams than others, for example, being an airplane Baron builder earns more than being an assembler in WingFling.