CityVille Halloween Sweet Tooth Goal: Everything you need to know

If the three Acts of Halloween Monsters goals in CityVille aren't enough to keep you busy until the end of the month, take a look at this new set of goals that deal with one of the side-effects of consuming so much Halloween candy - bad teeth! The Halloween Dentist goal is called "Sweet Tooth," or "By the Skin of My Teeth," if you prefer the menu name.

To complete this goal, you'll need to complete three tasks:

    Place Demented Dentist
    Complete Demented Dentist
    Build Spooky House


As we've told you recently, the Demented Dentist is a new Community Building in the game that adds 1,500 Monsters to your town's maximum population cap. Here's a complete guide to constructing the building, with its basic item collection tasks (yes, unfortunately, this isn't a staff Community Building, as that would have made things a bit quicker, all things considered).

As for the Spooky House, this is a home that costs 18,500 coins to purchase from the store. If you use the "Show Me" button within the goal to be taken to the game's store, please keep in mind that you might need to scroll through a few pages of Halloween-themed items to actually find the house in question. While this goal technically wants you to build the Spooky House so your new demented dentist has a place to live, this one functions normally, giving you 130-250 Monsters when placed, and allowing you to collect 382 coins in rent every 3.2 days.

Once you complete this goal, you'll receive the Grooving Mummies decoration. This one is a 2x2 square decoration that offers a 15% payout bonus to surrounding businesses and homes, and a bonus 15% payout if placed next to other Halloween themed items. While this goal itself doesn't come stamped with a time limit, make sure to complete this goal sooner, rather than later, as it's likely that it won't stick around (at least for very long) after Halloween, if at all.

Check out the rest of our Halloween coverage right here.

What do you think of this Halloween Sweet Tooth goal? Have we been given too much to work on in CityVille for Halloween, or is it "the more, the merrier" in your opinion?

FarmVille Mystery Game (10/02/11): Horse theme leads to a free Halloween Tower

If you're a FarmVille Horse collector that still hasn't had your fill of adding Horses to your collection with the release of Mystery Boxes and return of plenty of past Horses to the store, why not take a look at this week's Mystery Game? That's right, this week's theme is primarily Horses, while this week's bonus prize is a bit... odd.

First things first, this week's game costs 20 Farm Cash to play per dart. While you don't have a guarantee of receiving a different animal with every dart you throw, if you do win, you'll walk away with one of the following:

    * Black Arabian
    * Brumby Horse
    * Peruvian Horse
    * Tennessee Horse
    * Trakehner Horse
    * Trotter Stallion


If you win all six (again, this might not happen on your first six darts, and can turn into a very expensive prospect depending on your luck), you'll walk away with a bonus prize, this time in the new Halloween limited edition item theme. The item specifically is the Halloween Tower, as seen at right in TritonHelper's picture from the FarmVille forums.

Interestingly, it looks like these Horses are scaled down a bit, as looking at the Foal in the background shows that they aren't as big as other Horses you may already have in your collection. Not that this is the first time animals have been oddly scaled in the game, but I digress.

Whether you're going for the full set, or just one or two of these Horses, make sure to throw those darts within the next week, while they're still available. Good luck!

Will you play this week's Mystery Game? Which Horses did you want to win? Which ones did you actually end up with? Sound off in the comments!

Zynga has launched a new cross-promotional event in FarmVille this evening, teaming the game up with video game retailer GameStop to offer "exclusive mystery goods" to users that purchase and redeem Zynga Game Cards from GameStop. That is, in addition to simply earning the appropriate amount of Farm Cash based on the card value you redeemed (whether that be $10, $25 or $50), you'll also receive a free gift.

So far, it looks like you'll receive one of four items all wrapped up in a red and white box. All of these items are themed for Halloween, with three being re-releases. Specifically, there's a Wizard Gnome and Spooky Bush from last year's Halloween theme, while a Plant Monster from both Halloween 2009 and 2010 is also available. In terms of new goodies, you have a chance to earn the Candy Corn Chicken, although the loading screen above doesn't detail whether or not we'll be able to choose our prize, or if we'll just need to get lucky. For someone that already has the three previously released items, that's definitely something to keep in mind. On the other hand, there's also the slight possibility that a single card will guarantee you all four items, but again, that wasn't detailed either.

We'll be able to learn more about this promotion by visiting GameStop's website, but as of this writing, the promotion link doesn't work (it instead redirects to GameStop's downloads page). We'll make sure to keep checking on things and will let you know when the link goes live, along with exactly what you'll find there (hopefully answers to our questions). Either way, we do know one thing: this promotion will end November 6.

Will you purchase a Zynga Game Card for a chance at these Halloween-themed items in FarmVille? Sound off in the comments.