FarmVille Mystery Game item of the day: Southwestern animals

Every day this week, FarmVille is updating its Mystery game with a slew of new prizes. Play today (Wednesday), to win a menagerie of animals imported from the American Southwest. Each of these critters are limited edition items and the only way to get them (for now) is by shelling out 20 Farm Cash to play the FarmVille mini-game.

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FarmVille Mystery Game LE SouthWestern Prizes (Released August 11, 2010):

* Appaloosa Horse (Rare)
* Bobcat (Rare)
* Roadrunner (Uncommon)
* Longhorn Cow (Uncommon)
* Jackrabbit (Common)
* Woody's Cactus (Common)

[Via FarmVille Freak]

FarmVille Bug Report: French Unicorn goes missing after completing Mystery Game

As we told you just last night, this week's FarmVille Mystery Game brings about a new element to the feature, as we're given a chance to earn a seventh prize, for free, if we can earn all six of the game's "regular" prizes in a single week. This week, the game itself contains French-themed animals, and the final prize for earning all six is a free French Unicorn. At least, that's how this works in theory.

In practice, this feature is apparently bugged, as users have begun reporting that after spending all of the Farm Cash necessary to win the Mystery Game's six animals, the French Unicorn is then nowhere to be found. For now, Zynga has labeled the issue as "known" but doesn't offer any work-around other than contacting Zynga Customer Support if you're one of the unlucky players to lose your French Unicorn after investing so much to receive it. It's likely that they'll be able to manually generate a French Unicorn in your Gift Box for you, so don't count that option out.

That all being said, right now we're all just left to sit tight until this issue can be resolved, hopefully with plenty of time left to spare to play the game. We haven't been told if contacting Zynga Customer Support is actually mandatory, so if you don't feel like bugging them (or have had rocky experiences in the past), I suppose you could hold out until the issue has been fixed and see if the game recognizes to give you a French Unicorn anyway. Whether or not you want to take that risk, though, will be up to you.

Did you receive your French Unicorn as promised for earning the six other animals, or are you waiting for Zynga to resolve this issue before you even play? Was Customer Support able to resolve your missing French Unicorn problem?

FarmVille Mystery Game (10/23/11): Halloween Animals and Decorations up for grabs

It's Sunday night, farmers, which means that the FarmVille Mystery Game has once again cycled out its prizes in favor of seven new goodies that you can win (of course, one is far more expensive than the rest). This week, we see the Halloween theme continue in the Mystery Game, as has been the case for the past few weeks. However, here we see decorations and animals being given equal treatment, so if you're not an animal collector, there might be something here for you after all... if you get lucky.

This week's game costs 16 Farm Cash for a single dart (that's cheaper than the 20 Farm Cash price we often see when animals are available), and when thrown, you'll have a chance to win one of the following:

Dragon Fountain
Haunted Theater
Nightmare Duck
Nightmare Pegasus
Scuba Chicken
Witch House

Remember, if you're going for all six of these items, you'll also receive a special prize "for free" at the end. This week's bonus prize is the the Spooky Carriage, a decorative pumpkin carriage carried by two nightmare horses, but also remember that earning it could be a very Farm Cash-intensive process, depending on your luck.

As usual, this week's Mystery Game will be around for only a week, with next Sunday seeing the items update yet again. I expect that next week's game will also contain Halloween-themed items, but there's no guarantee that we'll see these particular items come around again. Play now while you know you can, and good luck in earning the item(s) that you want most!

Check out the rest of our Halloween coverage right here.

What do you think of this week's Mystery Game prizes? Will you try to win all six? If you do, how many Farm Cash did you end up having to spend to get it done?

FarmVille Mystery Game (09/18/11): Livestock animals come to the farm

In tonight's FarmVille update, we see a new round of animals hit the Mystery Game, with this week's theme (understandably) revolving around the new Livestock Pen released just last week. That means that for the price of 20 Farm Cash per dart, you can play this week's game to walk away with six (potentially seven) animals that can be stored, and subsequently bred (if you're lucky) inside that very Livestock Pen.

Here's the rundown of this week's animals:

Arapawa Island Pig
Barbados Sheep
Berkshire Pig
Dutch Landrace Goat
Girgentana Goat
Valais Goat

While you're not guaranteed to receive all six of these animals in the first six darts you throw, keep in mind that if you can manage to "win" all six during this week's game (again, that will be an incredibly pricey endeavor, even if you're really lucky), you'll walk away with a seventh, free prize: the Clun Forest Sheep.

Remember, these animals will only be around a single week. Whether or not they'll ever be re-released is anyone's guess (although, I will admit the possibility is likely), so if you don't want to wait to see if that possibility comes true, make sure to try your hand at this week's Mystery Game while you can.

Which of these prizes would you most want to win by playing this week's Mystery Game? What animals did you actually win? Share with us in the comments!