I'm a big fan of tower defense games and my current obsession is called Spice Bandits. I'm playing it on the iPad, bit it is also available on the iPhone and iPod Touch. One of the things that makes it so addictive is the achievements system which includes three levels: "Battle Medals", "Trip Medals", and "Secret Spice Foundaries". (By the way, this incorrect spelling is what they use in the game - it should be foundries, not foundaries.) You can see and work towards the first two levels of achievements - they are described in the game. For example, building 300 missile launchers wins you a gold medal. There are 68 medals to be won in the first two categories. In the third category, the Secret Spice Foundaries, there are only ten achievements... But the game does not give you any clues or hints as to what you need to do to achieve them. Only once you have (most likely accidentally) done something particular does one of the Secret Spice Foundaries unlock... And give you a bunch of Spice which is quite valuable in the game. Here are the Secret Spice Foundaries I have unlocked so far (I will update this list with more as I discover them):
1. Win a sudden death game running all waves before time
2. Complete The Wall Sudden Death using only machine guns
3. Complete Buenos Aires Airport Normal using only level 1 towers
4. Complete Dangerous Valley Normal with a star
5. Complete Desert Freighter sudden death with only one tower
6. Complete Sahara Desert Sudden Death without building machine guns
7. Build Duke Nuke in Berlin Wall Normal
8. Build three Gatling Superguns in Moscow Normal
9. Build 5 freeze towers in Athens Normal
10. Win French Castle Air Attack without building AA towers
Since I'm not going to play this game forever, if anyone out there knows any of the other Secret Spice Foundaries, please let me know in the comments. (And, of course, feel free to read my other blog entries which are about more serious stuff.)
(UPDATE: June. 27th... finally got around to reading the comments... now all the Secret Spice Foundaries are in my list although I haven't done them all yet. - Thanks dear readers!!!)
