How to Play Shopmania?

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About Shopmania

Help Lewis make it through his first day of work at the world's largest department megastore. Stuff each shopper's cart as full as possible before sending them out the door. Can you keep up with the shoppers and make enough cash to finish your shift? Will the browbeating boss, Mr. Willy, give Lewis a break? Will Lewis ever make enough money to save his sick hamster? Check out this original puzzler and find out!




How to Play Shopmania?

1. Fill Shopping Cars and ring them up! Use your mouse to drad products to a shopper's cart. The right Mouse button rotates a product you are holding. When the cart is full enough, ring it up.



2. In lewis' story, you have a limited number of shoppers. Earn enough money to unlock the next level and move through all five departments. In overtime, you have a limited amount of time to earn enough money. At the end of each shift, you deciede how to upgrade your department. Only departments unlocked in lewis' story can be played in Overtime.



3. Every cart you ring up earns you dollars. The bigger the cart, the more dollars you get. You receive a*2 bonus if the cart is completely full. You receive a*3 bonus if the cart is full with all the same color products. You also earn dollars every time you fulfill a shopper request.



4. You need to earn enough dollars to successfull finish a shift. Each shopper that leaves the store of product that falls off the converyor blet is a mistake. If you make three mistakes, the shift ends.



5. The request for Soccer moms, Teens, Suburban dads, Seniors, and J.B. Spendmoore is $3. The request for kids is $2. The request for Upper Crust is $4. The request for Businessmen is $5.



6. For every $5 you earn, you get a thumbs up from Mr. Willy. Use these to purchase goodies during a level.





7. Tips: upgrade cars to make them bigger and you will earn more dollars. fulfill requests to calm down impatient shoppers. upgrade carts so that they are all about the same size. otherwise you get products you can't place. if you make carts too big, they might become to difficult to fill. you don't have to ring up shoppers as soon as they are ready. take your time!



8. Focus on the shoppers that are going to get impatient quickly.



9. Advertisements are a great way to calm down impatient shoppers and also earn dollars. Purchase an aD when you have new shoppers arriving and many products on your belt, so that you can maximize filling any requests. Purchase goodies like GIFTS and SWEETS before you need them, so you can grab thme without having a wait. Use WRAPPPER and SUPER WRAPPPER to get full carts that are all the same color.



System Requirements

- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- 300MHz or faster Processor
- 128MB RAM
- DirectX 7.0 or better (8.0 required for Hardware Acceleration)
- DirectX Compatible 16 or 32-bit Video Card w/16MB VRAM
- DirectSound Compatible Sound Card

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