This was started on-screen after the Dream Home Decorator pack came out, and I had a lot of fun playing around with it. However, being that it was a save made just to explore a new pack’s potential, I doubt I will be bringing this save back into the rotation. Unless something drastic changes, count this challenge as “retired”.

I came up with this challenge from a Random wheel challenge I found online as a way to involve chat in the sims’ lives. I wasn’t 100% happy with all the things on the wheel, though, so the wheels will need re-writing before I continue or restart this challenge. Strangely, this was also very low on the voting scale of a challenge people wanted to see come back, so it may get stuffed into the “retired” category.

I found this challenge from a twitter post, and have never been sorry I found it. It is hands-down the hardest challenge I’ve ever done, and I am extremely proud of myself for actually completing it. I have half a mind to find another fixer-upper home and have the heir to this challenge start in on refurbishing another house sometime, but we’ll see. This challenge starts with a DISASTER of a home that is completely locked, and you make a couple of sims, a pet, and a toddler… this family must then live on the lawn while desperately trying to work on skills to unlock each room in their house in order. Three skills are required for each room, and you only have to get them to level 5 to unlock the room, which sounds easy.. But with pet(s) and a toddler, and living on the lawn – it is not easy at ALL. Add into that that the house is HAUNTED and comes with a ghost (that I decided should remain unplayed).. And you have one very crazy, very difficult challenge. Highly recommended. Rules, if you’re interested, are here. See “more” (or below) for the youtube playlist.

Amazingly, I did finish this challenge, although it is not all uploaded to youtube (yet). It was SUPER fun, and I honestly might resurrect this family eventually and have the heir start on another house.

Even though I’ve only been streaming since fall of 2020, I already have some challenges that I’ve either completed (Hoarders, I’m looking at you here..) or retired. Any of these has a chance of being resurrected at any time, so I figured writing a little bit about each of them was probably a good idea.

I am including this challenge in the list because it has, indeed, been played largely on camera. This is a challenge I am currently writing by request from a community member, who is helping me test and brainstorm rules (the current rules are here). Basically, it’s a challenge based on the Cottage Living pack, and farming. You start your Sim with the bare minimum to survive, and – through maxing skills, making money, and doing errands (among other things) – you slowly unlock new things. Unlockables include crops, the ability to build an outhouse, then a cabin, and eventually turning it into a luxurious mansion. I would not call this an easy challenge by any means, but it’s a fun one, none-the-less. I do not play this one in the rotation of challenges: rather, I play this when I need a break from the other challenges, or I am at a point in the writing where I need help.

This is a challenge I have always wanted to play (as far back as Sims 2!), but have never had the guts to try. So, after the Chaos Wheel Challenge and having so much fun involving chat into the game play, I decided that – for my halloween 2021 stream, I would create an interactive version of the Asylum Challenge and play it on screen. It was SO much fun that it became a channel staple and is played every Wednesday night. I will be creating a solo version of this challenge for everyone else to play, as well, so keep your eye out for that to happen fairly soon. 

The above shot is the Asylum I originally built for this challenge in particular, but it turned out it was laggy and had all sorts of “zooming” camera issues due to the ward being on the third floor. I have since built a new one. I have also built a “Halfway House” for Phase two of the challenge, and will be building a starter home for the Sims to move to for phase 3 (which will be played differently from the rest of the challenge). More info on that once we finish testing and writing the Phase Two rules.

This is a challenge I had been looking at for quite a while, and had originally intended to play it off-camera on my own. It’s by faerie tempest, and you can find the rules here. However, I started it on-screen on a lark after Cottage Living came out, and I feel obligated to continue it in the same way because so many of my viewers got truly attached to this little family. After a vote, where this challenge was voted the challenge everyone wanted to see come back the most, I will be adding this into the rotation. It will come in after the Not So Berry Challenge.

Basically, this is a Decades Challenge with slightly different rules, and a different perspective on the history. It also starts farther back in history, so we are currently in 1876. I really love this family, however, so it will most definitely be a challenge I look forward to playing whenever it comes up in the rotation!

This was originally started because I needed a different sort of challenge to play on Wednesday nights. This is a challenge based on the seven deadly sins, and is all about your sims misbehaving. You can find the rules by Daisy Dezem here. For instance, in the first generation, your sim cannot EVER use a “friendly” interaction. And for each generation, you must get at least one negative Parenthood teen trait. This makes gameplay extremely interesting to me. My son originally found this challenge for me, and I started a playthrough of it at his apartment while I was keeping him company after his car accident last year. I liked it so much that I then brought the challenge home, and decided to restart it on stream. Being that I now do an interactive Asylum challenge on Wednesday nights, however, I need to find another time to play this. In all likelihood, I will be incorporating it into the rotation on Thursdays and Fridays.

For a long time, I had been opposed to starting a challenge like Not So Berry, and I don’t know why. After starting this one on my channel, I discovered that I found it a bit too easy.. And I have ended up adding goals to the 10 original generations in the challenge rules, and adding 20+ generations after those to include the rest of the packs that the original rules don’t cover. See my version of the challenge here to check it out. 

I have had a lot of fun with this challenge despite being reluctant to start it. We have flown through the generations, and are currently in between gen five (Plum) and gen six (Orange). This challenge is in the rotation right after Timeline Adventure.

This was the second challenge I started on stream. It coincided with me writing my updated “Hard Mode” Decades Challenge, and is using that rule set. So there are a lot of rolls, and dying sims for various reasons. I’m also 100% using MC Command Center to its full potential, and I allowed the family to grow quite a bit past that 8 Sim limit. This challenge started with Jesse marrying Sarah (with both of them having full families in the save), and starting their family and farm from scratch. Sarah ended up dying in childbirth (due to a roll), so Jesse hired a local woman to help with the children while he looked for a new wife. (per rules). There was a chat vote, and Jesse ended up marrying Annabella – a local widow with two children of her own. Jesse and Annabella had quite a number of more kids, and Jesse did his best to help raise Annabella’s two older children. The eldest moved out and got married, and now has children of her own. I also do rolls and makeovers for all extended family in the save, which is complicated and requires a full spreadsheet to keep track of, but it’s been fun. I only actually PLAY the main family, but I am present for all Try for Babies, Births, and weddings in the family.