# So I've found the most addicting game that exists on the internet. No, seriously **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 21, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356 "2013-09-21T00:39:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/181 "2013-09-25T17:18:10Z")
> [@BleizDu](#): > > I’m happy to say that I have beaten this addiction. I played non stop for four days, did two soft resets, and was able to finally get 100 condensers and get all upgrades and achievements. That was enough for me to lost interest, thanks god! Same here. Almost exactly the same way too. Two resets, all upgrades and achievements (except the shadow ones). And I’m done! Finally free of it! And just about 4 days straight of playing too, I think 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/182 "2013-09-25T17:24:45Z")
> [@](#): > > For some reason, the achievement for 100 upgrades hasn’t been awarded though I have over 100 of everything (including 243 cursors, 215 grandmothers, etc.) Those are buildings, not upgrades. Upgrades are the square icons above the buildings, things like “Grandmas are twice as efficient”, or “The cursors and mouse gain 10 cookies for every building you own”. There are 103 of them total, so you need to get almost all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/183 "2013-09-25T17:26:17Z")
Have you sold a Grandma yet? They don’t like that. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/184 "2013-09-25T17:45:58Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Same here. Almost exactly the same way too. Two resets, all upgrades and achievements (except the shadow ones). And I’m done! Finally free of it! And just about 4 days straight of playing too, I think 😃 I just did the same thing, and I can say that the higher chance of a cookie chain from red cookies really helps with the Leprechaun achievement, but there seems to be a bug with the achievements. I have 89/89 and only get 352% Milk. Shouldn’t it be 356%? ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/185 "2013-09-25T17:52:52Z")
Nevermind, I just counted them and apparently the Neverclick shadow achievement is included but doesn’t provide a bonus. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/186 "2013-09-25T18:39:01Z")
I’ve sold grandma’s… some of them are black (like they’ve been burned black, not that they are of African descent), if that means anything. As far as upgrades, I have 20 cookie upgrades plus 68 grandma/building/etc upgrades for 88 of them. Fuck it. Gonna reset. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/187 "2013-09-25T19:02:59Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Have you sold a Grandma yet? They don’t like that. Ooh, thanks. I hadn’t done that yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/188 "2013-09-25T19:49:34Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve sold grandma’s… some of them are black (like they’ve been burned black, not that they are of African descent), if that means anything. Those aren’t burnt-black, they’re space-black. They’re antigrandmas. Whenever you get 15 of a building above grandmas, you get the option of a new upgrade for your grandmas corresponding to that building: Farmer grandmas, worker grandmas, miner grandmas, etc. When you buy those upgrades, some of your grandmas change appearance to match the new version. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/189 "2013-09-25T20:18:50Z")
So my new plan is to not reset, and see how long it takes me to get 100 antimatter condensers without resetting. I have everything else I need (all the upgrades and all the buildings I need for achievements) as well as both a golden/red cookie auto-clicker and a big cookie auto-clicker (at five clicks a second; I tried 10 but I think my poor crappy processor didn’t like that), so I don’t really need to do anything but let it run and occasionally pop back in to buy another condenser when I have the funds. I’m at 89 now, with the next one costing about a quadrillion cookies. I’m cooking along at about 22 billion CpS plus what I get from the big cookie clicks, so with golden/red cookie effects I figure it should just take a few days, maybe a week. Then I’ll reset for the final four achievements and probably stop (unless I want to go for the shadow achievements). Mainly, I’m just curious. ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/190 "2013-09-25T21:48:38Z")
So I got the True Neverclick. Takes about 45 minutes with 70 HCs, and a good deal of that is waiting for a couple of Lucky! Golden Cookies to get you past 15. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/191 "2013-09-25T22:18:09Z")
What is the challenge? I am not quite cottoning on to what’s going on here. I mean, I get that various manners of clicking will change how often I get cookies in various ways. I am not sure what I am being challenged to do though. ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/192 "2013-09-25T22:21:38Z")
When do these golden cookies start showing up? I’ve never seen one ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/193 "2013-09-25T22:24:22Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > What is the challenge? I am not quite cottoning on to what’s going on here. I mean, I get that various manners of clicking will change how often I get cookies in various ways. I am not sure what I am being challenged to do though. Increase your cookies per second so that you get more cookies, to buy more stuff that increases your cookies per second. Duh.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/194 "2013-09-25T22:32:20Z")
Are the GMO cookies safe? ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/195 "2013-09-25T22:33:38Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > I am not sure what I am being challenged to do though. Well… > [@fachverwirrt](#): > > so I don’t really need to do anything but let it run I would love to read what some sort of expert would say about this behaviour. Its a game where you don’t really achieve anything, the game doesn’t really change at all, and where people actually make it so that they don’t even have to play the game itself, instead just let a program run and do it for them. And people will “play” it for days and even weeks. Its utterly insane. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/196 "2013-09-25T22:36:34Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > Increase your cookies per second so that you get more cookies, to buy more stuff that increases your cookies per second. > Duh.😃 But even when you increase your cookies per second, the prices rise accordingly, so your spending power never actually increases. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/197 "2013-09-26T00:04:23Z")
**BrianJ** : Golden cookies can show up at any time, randomly. They’re about half the size of the Big Cookie, and show up in a random spot in the window (if you want to look for them, shrink the window to the size of one cookie, and leave it in the corner of your screen). They stay on the screen for a couple of seconds, and if you click on one before it disappears, it gives you a bonus of some sort. They’re worth a lot more in the late game, and there are a couple of upgrades eventually to make them show up more often. After a certain point, you’ll start getting red cookies instead of golden cookies. These work the same way, but they’ll sometimes hurt you instead of helping. They’re still good on average, though. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/198 "2013-09-26T00:34:07Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > Increase your cookies per second so that you get more cookies, to buy more stuff that increases your cookies per second. > Duh.😃 Not my kind of game at all then. Alright see you later gonna play a few hours of Diablo 3. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/199 "2013-09-26T00:36:35Z")
I want to reset, but I’ve got 93/103 upgrades, and 505 golden cookie clicks. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356/200 "2013-09-26T00:56:55Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Well… > I would love to read what some sort of expert would say about this behaviour. Its a game where you don’t really achieve anything, the game doesn’t really change at all, and where people actually make it so that they don’t even have to play the game itself, instead just let a program run and do it for them. > > And people will “play” it for days and even weeks. Its utterly insane. Well, I’m not an expert, but you seem to be basically describing any RPG here. 🙂 But that is basically what we have here. A very simple RPG. It hits all the basic achievement and upgrade buttons deep in our brains. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-ive-found-the-most-addicting-game-that-exists-on-the-internet-no-seriously/669356.md?page=11)