We have reached 5k nerkmids submitted! Thank you everyone that has submitted or referenced the site! We still have more to learn! With that milestone I can take a look and see how everything has done so far and will hopefully soon have a synopsis of some kind. Jan 02, 2004 Your score on the high score table is equal to the amount of Neopoints you receive from the machine using a single Nerkmid (which, of course, is based on luck). Using additional Nerkmids only changes your high score if the Neopoints you receive is higher than your previous highest trial. (In other words, it is not accumulative.). Basic Golden Nerkmid 69,500 NP; Basic Platinum Nerkmid 70,000 NP; Chocolate Chip Nerkmid Biscuit 100,000 NP; Copper Nerkmid 68,500 NP; Golden Nerkmid X 69,500 NP; Golden Nerkmid XX 69,000 NP; Good Nerkmid 69,000 NP; Good Nerkmid Eraser 20 NP; Good Nerkmid Plushie 2,800 NP; Iced Nerkmid Biscuit 24,800 NP; Lesser Nerkmid 68,500 NP; Lesser Nerkmid.
What is the Alien Aisha Vending Machine?
The Alien Aisha Vending Machine is a game you can play (in the sense that there is a high score table) by entering a nerkmid into the machine and pressing some buttons. Prizes are awarded randomly and are typically gross food items. Those who are lucky, can get a paint brush or another nerkmid!
What are Nerkmids?
Nerkmids are a sort of token that can only be used with the vending machine. There are twenty in total. You can get them from random events, the Wheel of Extravagance and the Battledome. Of course they are also available from user shops, trades, and auctions. The table below lists the twenty nerkmids in order of rarity; prices fluctuate often, though due to the Wheel of Extravagance and the Battledome giving them out, all nerkmids are now buyable (meaning they cost less than 100,000 NP). There's no evidence to confirm that a rarer one will get you better prizes, so if you're buying one, it's best to just go with the cheapest one you can find at the time.
| Nerkmids | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rarity 100 | |||
Average Nerkmid | Good Nerkmid | Lesser Nerkmid | Super Nerkmid |
Ultimate Nerkmid | Ultra Nerkmid | ||
| Rarity 101 | |||
Aluminium Nerkmid | Basic Golden Nerkmid | Copper Nerkmid | Magical Golden Nerkmid |
Normal Golden Nerkmid | Ultra Golden Nerkmid | ||
| Rarity 103 | Rarity 104 | ||
Golden Nerkmid X | Golden Nerkmid XX | ||
| Rarity 105 | |||
Basic Platinum Nerkmid | Normal Platinum Nerkmid | Ultra Platinum Nerkmid | Platinum Nerkmid X |
Platinum Nerkmid XX | |||
| Rarity 115 | |||
Magical Platinum Nerkmid | |||
Using the Machine
When you arrive at the Vending Machine, you will be greated by an Alien Aisha. Press the button to continue.
The Alien Aisha says, 'My great machine will give you the loveliest foods in the world' Put a Nerkmid in the machine, and it will dispense rare and exotic foods for your pet. Press the buttons and push the levers for a chance to get a rarer treat. The better the Nerkmid, the better your prize! (click here for the hi-scores!) |
Assuming you have a nerkmid, you will now be able to select which nerkmid to use. In addition to that, you will be able to choose how you would like to operate the machine. The choices you make will not affect the prizes you get. Listed below are the options you can choose from.
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| Put a Nerkmid in the machine, and it will dispense rare and exotic foods for your pet. Press the buttonsand push the levers for a chance to get a rarer treat! Your Nerkmids Select a Nerkmid |
If you don't have any nerkmids in your inventory, you will get a message saying you cannot play.
| Your NerkmidsSorry! You don't have any Nerkmids so you can't play :( You can find these hidden around the site, and also in the Marketplace. |
Prizes
Thankfully, you're guaranteed to walk away with something. The Vending Machine always awards a random amount of neopoints (this ranges from 1 to over 50,000 NP) and an item prize.
Peanut Seaweed Gum Mmmmm mmmm I hope you enjoy your tasty treat! |
Neopets Nerkmid Guide
The types of item prizes are listed below:The most common item awarded is a gross food. The majority of these are hardly worth anything, but every once in a while they're a gourmet food and/or sell for quite a bit. |
Sometimes, the machine will give out fading bottled faeries. Just like Tombola and other dailies, the vending machine has not switched over to the weak bottled faeries. If you receive a weak bottled faerie, please neomail coolitiger25. |
Periodically, a nerkmid will fall out of the machine as a prize. Yay try again! |
If you're lucky, you can get a paint brush! The machine will give out literally any kind of paint brush, so you really could get lucky here. Unfortunately, the machine recognizes all items with 'paint brush' in the name as prizes, even if they're not actually paint brushes; for example, Yellow Paint Brush (TCG) is known to have been given out. It should also be noted that even starter paint brushes (those ones you get in your newbie pack when you join) are available as prizes, even though they are no-trade items. |
Avatar
If it is your first time using the machine, you will get the Alien Aisha avatar.
Alien Aisha
Use a Nerkmid in the Vending Machine.
Tip: Read SunnyNeo's Alien Aisha Vending Machine guide for more info!
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Making the High Score Table
Just as with every game, on the first of the month the high score table is cleared. At this time, it will be easier to get a trophy, as the scores that qualify for a trophy will be lower. The score that shows up on the table corresponds to the neopoint prize you were awarded on ONE nerkmid use -- it is not the total combined number of neopoints you have been awarded from all of your nerkmids that month. If you get enough Neopoints, you could get a trophy! If you're looking to get the trophy, make sure to stock up on nerkmids (or at the very least, be able to buy quite a few when you decide to try for the trophy). It could take any number of nerkmids to get a neopoint reward high enough for the table. You should also note that your rewards might not make up for the cost of all the nerkmids, so be prepared to lose Neopoints.
The Alien Aisha Vending Machine is a fun gambling game, located either at its home in the Neopian Plaza, or found under the Luck and Chance section of the Games Room. Like many games, the Alien Aisha Vending Machine gives you the opportunity to earn Neopoints, an avatar, trophies, and items for your account! However, unlike most games in the Games Room, the Alien Aisha Vending Machine requires an sort of entrance fee for each activation. In order to test your luck at the Vending Machine, you will need to come prepared with one of the twenty kinds of Nerkmids that can be found across Neopia.
NERKMIDS
Nerkmids are small, star-shaped tokens made of various materials. There are twenty different types of Nerkmids, of varying rarity. These tokens can be found in a few places within Neopia: they can be found through random events, earned as prizes from Battledome combat, or won from the Wheel of Extravagance.
Photo courtesy of SunnyNeo
Neopets Alien Vending Machine
In addition to obtaining Nerkmids by your own luck of the draw, they can be purchased and bartered for through user-owned Shops and the Trading Post, and bid on in Auctions. Prices can fluctuate depending on how many Nerkmids are entering the market, but expect to spend anywhere from 55,000 to 65,000 Neopoints per Nerkmid.
There is a wide range of rarities across the twenty different types of Nerkmids. Although the Alien Aisha Vending Machine states that higher rarities of Nerkmid will produce better prizes, there is no data to corroborate this. It seems that any Nerkmid of any rarity will produce similar results. As such, use the cheapest Nerkmids you can find in order to play!
For your convenience, what follows is a chart of the twenty existing Nerkmids, in order of rarity:
| Average Nerkmid (r100) | Good Nerkmid (r100) |
| Lesser Nerkmid (r100) | Super Nerkmid (r100) |
| Ultimate Nerkmid (r100) | Ultra Nerkmid (r100) |
| Aluminium Nerkmid (r101) | Basic Golden Nerkmid (Rr101) |
| Copper Nerkmid (r101) | Magical Golden Nerkmid (r101) |
| Normal Golden Nerkmid (r101) | Ultra Golden Nerkmid (r101) |
| Golden Nerkmid X (r103) | Golden Nerkmid XX (r104) |
| Basic Platinum Nerkmid (r105) | Normal Platinum Nerkmid (r105) |
| Ultra Platinum Nerkmid (r105) | Platinum Nerkmid X (r105) |
| Platinum Nerkmid XX (r105) | Magical Platinum Nerkmid (r115) |
THE MACHINE
The Alien Aisha Vending Machine takes one Nerkmid per activation. Once you’ve obtained a Nerkmid, simply visit the machine and click the ‘Press me to Continue!’ button. If for some reason you are out of Nerkmids when you click this button, you will receive an error message prompting you to get more. Otherwise, you will see a visual display of the Nerkmids you have on hand, and a series of drop-down menus below that:
Select the Nerkmid you wish to use from the menu, and then try your hand at some lucky guessing! Each of the remaining drop-down menus gives you several ways to influence how the vending machine will operate after you insert your Nerkmid. The choices you make here appear to have no direct bearing on the prize you will get, but the options are as follows:
| Which large button do you press? | 1, 2, or 3 |
| Which small button do you press? | left green, left red, left pink, right red, right blue, or right purple |
| How many times do you press it? | 1, 2, 3, or 4 |
| How many levers do you pull? | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 |
Make your selections, then hit go!
PRIZES AND MORE
Each activation of the Alien Aisha Vending Machine will award you with a token amount of Neopoints (ranging from 1 to 50,000+), and one random item. The item prizes are roughly divided into four groups:
GROSS FOOD
The most common prize you will receive is a random ‘gross’ food item. These are essentially booby-prizes, but every once and a while you will instead receive a ‘gourmet’ food (easily identified by their R89+ rarity) that is worth significantly more.
FADING BOTTLED FAERIES
A remnant of the old Battledome abilities system, these Fading Bottled Faeries can be used at the Cooking Pot to upgrade them into the newer Weak Bottled Faeries for buying abilities at Aethia’s Shop.
NERKMIDS
Essentially a free spin, sometimes you will get a Nerkmid as a reward!
PAINTBRUSHES
The real reason we all play Alien Aisha Vending Machine! The machine has the ability to dispense any paintbrush in the game as a rare prize, including starter paintbrushes.
TROPHIES
As a game, the Alien Aisha Vending Machine has a high-score table. Points are awarded based on the value of the highest amount of Neopoints you earn in a given activation of the machine for that month. For example, if you play the Vending Machine three times and receive 4,873, 15,278, and 23,459 NP as your rewards, 23,4599 will be your entry on the high-score tables until you get an even bigger payout. Trophies are awarded in Gold, Silver, and Bronze categories depending on your placement in the top-scoring tables. Best of luck!
AVATAR – ALIEN AISHA
This avatar is awarded when you use a Nerkmid in the Alien Aisha Vending Machine for the first time.
NOTES
- Although the Battledome awards Aluminium Nerkmids and Super Nerkmids as prizes in the Central Arena and Neocola Centre, respectively, they do so at a very low chance. The majority of Battledome Nerkmids are awarded as prizes for victories in the Cosmic Dome, which is available only to Premium-account holders. Happy Hunting!
Author: Sarah