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Ah, the land of Meridell. Where else can you count potatoes, experience near constant states of war, and go berry picking? Yes, that's right, if you mosey on down to Meri Acres Farm you can pick berries to your heart's content, for only a small fee. If you're lucky, you might even stumble across a rare one and be the next Neopian millionaire!

How come no one ever comes on 'Pick Your Own Skeith Day'??

How to Play

If you're willing to cough up 400 NP, it's easy enough to begin picking. To try picking something, simply click anywhere on the map shown. If you want to wander to a new area of the farm, click one of the red arrows that appear on the side of the map.

If you're not happy with the item that you picked, click on it to discard it from your basket. There is no limit to how many times you can discard an item. You are not guaranteed to find something every time you click to pick, though - sometimes you'll come up empty handed. If this happens, try visiting a new map.

The game ends when you either collect six items, when you select 'collect berries and leave farm', or when you've clicked around on the farm (in the map or moving to a new map) 20 times. At this point, whether or not you have six items in your basket, you will have to stop picking for the day.

Quick Tips

You will only pick up one item per map section - to maximize your clicks, be sure to visit each map section (there are 9, see below) once to pick a berry
Be sure to discard items you don't like - the game will automatically end when you reach six items
If you're going for the avatar, discard all Piles of Dung immediately

Prizes

Listed below are the berries you are able to win from Pick Your Own, as well as some of the booby prizes that you may pick up along the way. In addition, if you visit the farm on St. Patrick's Day, you may be so lucky as to pick a clover or two.

Note: all PYO berries are Rarity 101.

Aquaberry	Autumnberry	Benyeroberry	Blue Bomberry
Breenutberry	Brown Broadberry	Burritoberry	Conkerberry
Dorkleberry	Eyeballberry	Fishberry	Gamaberries
Jumbleberry	Loveberry	Mortogberry	Nutritional Blockberry
Orange Graspberry	Orfaberry	Purple Felberry	Pusberry
Red Chiaberry	Sniddberry	Spoogentberry	Strebbleberry
Super Juicy Berry	Unguberry	Voidberry	Yamboberries

Bit of Barbed Wire	Half-eaten Berry	Old Boot
Piece of Wool	Pile of Dung (wearable)	Rotten Berry

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Some of the berries that are supposed to be released by this game have never been discovered. It's likely that they're glitched and will never be released, but for fun we've listed them below!

Acorberry	Bland Berry	Dulaberry	Dung Berry	Meriberry
Sparkle Berry	Tweezleberry	Umnoberry	Variberry

Game Map

The map of Meri Acres Farm is comprised of nine different areas. The map is randomly generated each game, but to show you what the different areas look like, check out our sample map below:

Pick Your Own / Guide

Collect any 6 items that are not a Pile of Dung from Pick Your Own.

Released: March 5, 2004

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This game guide was written by: noileh

This page was last updated on May 8, 2018.

Four-leaf white clover (Trifolium repens)

The four-leaf clover is a rare variation of the common three-leaf clover. According to traditional superstition, such clovers bring good luck,^[1] though it is not clear when or how this superstition began. The earliest mention of 'Fower-leafed or purple grasse' is from 1640 and simply says that it was kept in gardens because it was 'good for the purples in children or others'.^[2] A description from 1869 says that four-leaf clovers were 'gathered at night-time during the full moon by sorceresses, who mixed it with vervain and other ingredients, while young girls in search of a token of perfect happiness made quest of the plant by day'.^[3] The first reference to luck might be from an 11-year-old girl, who wrote in an 1877 letter to St. Nicholas Magazine, 'Did the fairies ever whisper in your ear, that a four-leaf clover brought good luck to the finder?'^[4]

Occurrence[edit]

It is claimed that there are approximately 10,000 three-leaf clovers for every four-leaf clover.^[5] However, an actual survey of over 5 million clovers found the real frequency to be closer to 5,000 to 1, twice the said probability.^[6]

Even so, this probability has not deterred collectors who have reached records as high as 160,000 four-leaf clovers in a lifetime.^[7] The world record for number collected in one hour is 166, set by American Katie Borka on June 23, 2018.^[8]

3 Leaf Clover Clip Art

Clovers can have more than four leaves. Five-leaf clovers are less commonly found naturally than four-leaf clovers;^[9]^[10] however, they, too, have been successfully cultivated.^[11] Some four-leaf clover collectors, particularly in Ireland, regard the five-leaf clover, known as a rose clover, as a particular prize.^[12] In exceptionally rare cases, clovers are able to grow with six leaves and more in nature.^[13] The most leaves ever found on a single clover stem (Trifolium repens L.) is 56 and was discovered by Shigeo Obara of Hanamaki City, Iwate, Japan, on 10 May 2009.^[14]^[15]

Cause[edit]

A four-leaf clover

It is debated whether the fourth leaf is caused genetically or environmentally. Its relative rarity (1 in 5,000 clovers^[6]) suggests a possible recessive gene appearing at a low frequency. Alternatively, four-leaf clovers could be caused by somatic mutation or a developmental error of environmental causes. They could also be caused by the interaction of several genes that happen to segregate in the individual plant. It is possible all four explanations could apply to individual cases. This means that multiple four-leaf clovers could be found in the same clover plant.^[16]

Researchers from the University of Georgia have reported finding the gene that turns ordinary three-leaf clovers into the coveted four-leaf types. Masked by the three-leaf gene and strongly influenced by environmental condition, molecular markers now make it possible to detect the presence of the gene for four-leaves and for breeders to work with it. The results of the study, which also located two other leaf traits in the white-clover genome, were reported in the July/August 2010 edition of Crop Science, published by the Crop Science Society of America.^[17]

The other leaf traits, the red fleck mark and red midrib, a herringbone pattern that streaks down the center of each leaflet in a bold red color, were mapped to nearby locations, resolving a century-old question as to whether these leaf traits were controlled by one gene or two separate genes.

White clover has many genes that affect leaf color and shape, and the three in the study were very rare. These traits can be quite attractive, particularly if combined with others, and can turn clover into an ornamental plant for use in flower beds.^[18]

There are reports of farms in the US which specialize in four-leaf clovers, producing as many as 10,000 a day (to be sealed in plastic as 'lucky charms') by introducing a genetically engineered ingredient to the plants to encourage the aberration (there are, however, widely available cultivars that regularly produce leaves with multiple leaflets – see below).^[19]

Multi-leaved cultivars[edit]

Example of a five-leaf clover

There are some cultivars of white clover (Trifolium repens) which regularly produce more than three leaflets, including purple-leaved T. repens 'Purpurascens Quadrifolium' and green-leaved T. repens 'Quadrifolium'.^[20] Some clovers have more spade shape leaves, rather than the usual rounded ones. This may be another plant, or another genetic mutation. Some genetic mutations in clovers include spade-like shaped leaves or a dotted rusty colour on the leaves.

Trifolium repens 'Good Luck' is a cultivar which has three, four, or five green, dark-centered leaflets per leaf.^[21]

3 Leaf Clover Pattern

Other species[edit]

Other plants may be mistaken for, or misleadingly sold as, 'four-leaf clovers'; for example, Oxalis tetraphylla is a species of wood sorrel with leaves resembling a four-leaf clover.^[22]^[23] Other species that have been sold as 'four-leaf clovers' include Marsilea quadrifolia.^[24]^[25]

Symbolic usage[edit]

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Italian automobile maker Alfa Romeo used to paint a four-leaf clover, or quadrifoglio, on the side of their racing cars. This tradition started in the 1923 Targa Florio race, when driver Ugo Sivocci decorated his car with a green clover on a white background.
Los Angeles-based space exploration company SpaceX includes a four-leaf clover on each space mission embroidered patch as a good luck charm. Inclusion of the clover has become a regular icon on SpaceX's flight patches ever since the company's first successful Falcon 1 rocket launch in 2008, which was the first mission to feature a clover 'for luck' on its patch.^[26]
Celtic Football Club, an association football team from Glasgow, Scotland, have used the four leaf clover as the club's official badge for over 40 years.
Former Japanese game developer studio Clover Studio used a four-leaf clover as their logo.
Several businesses and organisations use a four-leaf clover in their logos to signify Celtic origins.^[27]^[28]^[29]
The global network of youth organizations 4-H uses a green four-leaf clover with a white H on each leaf.^[30]
The logo of the New Jersey Lottery features an outline of the state in white on a green four-leaf clover printed on a lottery draw machine ball.
The English-speaking imageboard 4chan has as its logo the four-leaf clover, deriving from the character Yotsuba Koiwai and her pigtails and the similar pronunciation between 4chan and 'fortune'.
Traditional symbol of agrarian parties popularized by Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, People's Party and International Agrarian Bureau in interwar period. Used until today among others by Polish People's Party, Estonian Centre Party and Nordic agrarian parties.

Meanings[edit]

Some folk traditions assign a different attribute to each leaf of a clover. The first leaf represents hope, the second stands for faith, the third is for love and the fourth leaf brings luck to the finder. A fifth leaf represents money, but there is no meaning as yet for the sixth leaf and above.^[13] Some reports claim six to be fame and seven to be longevity, though the notions' origination is unknown.Others say that four-leaf clovers granted the power to see fairies, or that they are related to St. Patrick's use of the shamrock to explain the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity to the Irish ^[31]

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