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Wizard 101

Ditto’s December Wizard101 Contests!!

Here we are in December and once again Ditto has LOTS of prize codes to give away – it’s like Ditto’s own crazy Code-A-Palooza!!  I’ve got multiple codes for the Epic Bundle, Mega Bundle, Hawkrider Bundle, Majestic Bundle, Pagoda Bundle, Dino Bundle, and Prehistoric Bundle, as well as a bunch of codes for crowns!  It’s like KingsIsle just said ‘Ditto is so cute and fuzzy, he should have all the codes this month…’    and now I get to give them all to you!!

Ditto's Exclusive Contest Prize - The Warpwood Wand!

Ditto’s Exclusive Contest Prize – The Warpwood Wand!

In addition to the bundle codes and crowns, Ditto also has a lot of codes for an exclusive item, the Warpwood Wand!  It’s a cool life wand that looks great, and it’s exclusive to DittoMonster.com – I’ll be giving these away in lots of different ways, including lots of new Twitter giveaways, so if you’re not following Ditto on Twitter you should start!

So how can you start winning these great prizes?  Well, I’m going to try to run a contest a week, and for the first contest I’m going to give away one of each bundle that’s listed above, so that’s seven great prizes to give away to seven lucky wizards.  To win a bundle, send an email to dittocontest@gmail.com with the subject “I want a [your choice] Bundle” and tell me which bundle you want, and tell me why you want it, as well as your wizard name.  Be creative, too – have fun with it. You have until Saturday, December 8th at Midnight(ish) to enter, and I”ll choose and announce all the winners on Sunday December 9th.

All the usual rules apply – please only one contest entry per email address, I filter out all multiple entries, and don’t forget how I choose and announce winners and how that applies to your wizard name.   There are lots of contests coming and that means lots of winners, so stay tuned to DittoMonster.com and good luck!!!


A clarification on Ditto’s contests and winners

First, congratulations to all my November winners!  In the month of November I gave away nearly 50 prizes, the most ever, and I had a LOT of fun doing it!  I love doing contests, and I’m very thankful to KingsIsle for getting me so many codes to give away to my readers and fans!

Have Fun and Play Safe

Have Fun and Play Safe

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What’s Up with Ditto’s Daring Adventures?

As many of my readers and fans know, Ditto and Miss Narrator have been doing a segment on the Ravenwood Radio and Pieces of Eight radio podcasts for… a very long time.  We have missed a few episodes lately, and it looks like we’re not going to finish tomorrow’s Tales of The Sea episode on time, either.  I just wanted to say sorry about that – nothing is wrong, Ditto is not leaving Ravenwood Radio or Pieces of Eight Radio or anything like that, it’s just some poorly timed technical issues, which are finally fixed, and busy holiday stuff.  I am working on new episodes now – we were hoping to get this Tales of the Sea out on time, but it will definitely be ready for next time…

Anyway – sorry for not getting it out this week, but we’ll be back up and adventuring very soon!  We love doing the podcasts, and can’t wait for the next one!
Ditto


Ditto finishes the Muti for Queen Tanei in Zafaria

Ditto continues to gather the ingredients for the special potion to cure the Ghostmane Tribe water hole, and returns to Queen Tanei when he’s successfully brewed the muti.  In the middle of all this Ditto accidentally gets into a street mob fight, which is usually fine, but in this fight someone ported to me and pulled in another enemy, then immediately quit the fight, which didn’t end well for me.  As a matter of etiquette, if you accidentally get pulled into a fight or accidentally port in and pull in more enemies, try to help out as much as you can, don’t just quit – sometimes that one extra enemy can push a fight from a win to a loss without a little extra help.


Ditto brews a strong Muti potion in The Savanna

After defeating and curing Queen Tanei of the GhostMane tribe, Ditto needs to brew up a stronger Muti that will fix the contaminated watering hole and cure the whole tribe.  Ditto needs to gather a bunch of exotic ingredients and brew them all together with a bunch of strong Savanna magic.  Of course, knowing this game as well as I do, of course, gathering all these exotic materials must require lots of battles and jumping through all kind of crazy hoops, right?  Well, Ditto gets to the bottom of it…


Ditto and Paige MoonShade versus Queen Tanei

After Ditto’s rather embarrassing defeat against Queen Tanei, he gets help from the one and only Queen of the Wizard101 housing and decorating scene, Miss Paige Moonshade.  With Paige’s help Ditto makes short work of Queen Tanei and saves the day once again!! This is a great battle and Paige is great help, she’s an amazing wizard!


Ditto Versus Queen Tanei – Take 1

Ditto is back and still in the Savanna, with a cure for the GhostMane Queen – unfortunately she’s not really into taking medicine (maybe she’s more into homeopathic remedies?)  and there is quite a fight.  Unfortunately for Ditto, she REALLY doesn’t want to take her medicine, and Ditto doesn’t fare particularly well.  I probably had too many cards in my deck, as I didn’t get the fire prism I needed until pretty late.  It’s a good battle, and like they say – you can’t win all the time.

Ditto versus Queen Tanei

The next video has a special guest star as Ditto looks for help to finally defeat the GhostMane Queen!


Ditto is Picking Fruit Now – Will he Make Pie?

So yes, after defeating giant bugs, Ditto now has to collect fruit and cook it, in order to make medicine to cure those pesky Firemane lions!  Ditto is a little nervous having to go into another hut to cook the medicine, since every time he enters a hut he gets attacked by giant bugs.. Lets hope it doesn’t happen this time!


Ditto is Catching Up on Stuff in Wizard101 and Pirate101

Ditto has had a VERY busy couple of weeks where I was not able to do much in game or even post a lot, but there are some important things that are happening in the worlds of Wizard101 and Pirate101 and Ditto wanted to make sure they were covered.

Wizard101 –

First, there is the awesome Prehistoric Bundle, and Ditto has a great contest going on with that.  It has the most amazing two person mount, an adorable pet, powerful new outfit and wand thingy, and a cool magic treehouse with magic eggs!

Next is the new Keeper’s Lore card pack, with chances to get three new armor sets, special banner weapons, a great new pet, new spells, and more!  There are some pretty cool things in there, and Ditto really likes the banner weapons, they look neat.

And finally, the amazing Tower Defense game Grub Guardian has been updated and released on multiple platforms – I love tower defense games so Ditto is very excited for this one!  And I love that I can play with Madame Jasmine!

Pirate101 –

First off we have the very FIRST monthly newsletter from Pirate101, with all kinds of great news and pictures from the Pirate101 team.

Sadly, since all good things must end, the amazing Boochbeard pre-sale bundle will be leaving soon.  Sunday, November 11th will be the last day you can buy this great bundle – and I can tell you, it’s definitely worth it!!

Also in Pirate 101, the test realm opened for the first time!!  It’s closed now – sorry about that, I missed it too – but this just means that there are already cool new things on the horizon, and I can’t wait to see them!!

That’s my big update for now, but Ditto will have lots of new videos and fun coming very soon – probably tomorrow, really… until then, have fun and play safe!!
Ditto P. Monster


Ditto Wizard, Savanna Exterminator?

Ditto finally collects all the staffs from the Ghostmane Tribe – boy did THAT take a while – and gives them to Tik Tik, who tells Ditto to go into his hut to see some evidence about the missing students.  Unfortunately, Tik Tik’s hut is infested with bugs.  Great big bugs. Something smells a bit fishy about this one…


Ditto’s Prehistoric Party!! Contest Fun!!

So Ditto has some prehistoric prizes to promote, and he’s positively… um… purple?  No that doesn’t work, purple clashes something terrible with Orange…  Anyway, Ditto has some great prizes to give away throughout November, including scaradactyl pets and mounts, magic treehouses, and a couple full prehistoric bundles! So how am I going to give them away?  How does a daily giveaway sound?  Sounds pretty exhausting to me, but for you, my fans, it’s totally worth it!  And how do you take part in this daily giveaway?  Send Ditto an email at dittocontest@gmail.com with the subject ‘Daily Giveaway’ with your wizard name, and every day I’ll choose a random winner and a random prize – you only have to send one email and you’re entered, you don’t need to enter every day.  It’s that simple (because I am a simple monster).

I’ll probably do some Twitter giveaways, too – we’ll see what happens!

Play Safe and Have Fun!!


More Help from Friends in The Savanna

Ditto has more help from Duncan, Lindsey Goldengrove and Seth Ghostsmith, taking on the Ghostmane tribe, hunting for tribal staffs. I did finally get all the staffs collected (It was over 25 fights!) and will have that posted soon!


Ditto gets Some Help in The Savanna

Trying to get through The Savanna and find the eight staffs to finish the quest, Ditto got some help from his twitter friends Duncan, Lindsey Goldengrove and Seth Ghostsmith – we had a great time and fought a few good battles.  It’s great playing with friends!


Ditto is Searching for Lion Staffs on the Savanna…

There are so many glowing lions around here Ditto feels like he’s in every season of Voltron all at the same time…   So Ditto is once again fighting the Fire Lion Ravagers out on the savanna, looking for guide staffs.  Ditto needs to find eight guide staffs, for some reason, and these guys drop the staffs about one in five times, so I’ll have to fight a LOT of them…This is one of those times where Ditto would certainly pay crowns to dramatically increase the % chance of the required quest item dropping.


Ditto Builds a Better Mousetrap!

Ditto is again begin helpful in the Savanna, making a mousetrap out of whistling torn trees to catch little squeaky mice!  It’s very cute – wonder if Oni are afraid of mice 🙂


Ditto’s Week 4 Spooky Contest Winners!!!

Here they are, the final three grand prize winners of Ditto’s Spooky Halloween contest!!  For this contest, I asked you to tell me what your favorite part of Halloween was, and I got some GREAT answers!!  I love doing the contests because I love all the fun and creative entries!!

Winner 1 – Connor Stormblade  – I like eating Halloween Candy.

Winner 2 – Scarlet Redgem – My favorite part of Halloween is decorating. My parents say I’m too young to go trick-or-treating, but I help out with all the decorating cause its exciting. I help put up cobwebs and spiders,ghost, little  gravestones. Our house always ends up looking the scariest.

Winner 3 – Paige DreamRider  –  She likes a little bit of everything – Quests! Jack O Lanterns!  Spooky decorations!  TREATS AND TRICKS 🙂  Ditto P. Monsters halloween surprises!

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who entered, it was lots of fun reading through all your entries!  As always, have fun and play safe!!


Reminder, Ditto’s Spooky Halloween contest ends TOMORROW!

I just wanted to remind everyone that I will be picking the last three grand prize winners for my Spooky decorating contest tomorrow (Sunday, October 28th) and there is still time to enter!!  Just check out the rules to the contest and send me your entry!  I can’t wait to see what you send me – I love these contests, people are so creative!!

Spooky Halloween Ditto

Spooky Halloween Ditto!


New Video – Ditto fights the Ghost Mane Tribe Again… #wizard101 #zafaria

In searching for the students, it turns out Ditto needed to fight the Ghose Mane tribe yet again to find some clues – he could have done this earlier, of course, but his guide tik tik whatever just didn’t think of it, apparently.  He’s really not very helpful as a guide.  He kind of just stands there and makes odd comments.


Ditto’s Spooky Decorating Contest, Week 4!

Here it is, the final week of my Spooky Halloween contest for Wizard 101!  This week there will be three Grand Prize winners chosen, and each will win a Death house, One of each of the three spooky Halloween decorator packs (Spider, Graveyard, and Spooky), and 5,000 crowns!

Ditto in a Ghost costume

So far we’ve done Scary Movies, fun costumes, and looked at what was Spooky in The Spiral… This week, I want to know what YOU like – what’s your favorite part of Halloween?  Is it dressing up?  Candy?  Bobbing for Apples?  Watching ‘It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown’ over and over again?  Send your favorite thing to me at dittocontest@gmail.com with the subject ‘Favorite Thing’, and be sure to include your wizard name!  I’ll draw the final three contest winners next Sunday, October 28th.

As with my other contests, only one entry per person, please.  Let’s play fair 🙂

Good luck to all who enter, and have fun with it!!


Ditto’s Week 3 Spooky Contest Winners Announced!

Ditto got a TON of great entries for this contest – there sure are a LOT of spooky places in The Spiral!!  Here are the three Grand Prize winners – all have been notified by email already.  Congratulations to the winners!  I’ll post the Week 4 Contest some time tomorrow.

Grand Prize Winners:

Ian DrakeHaven  –  Nightside where death school is at is the spookiest place in the spiral because each time I go there for something I always feel that im going to be eaten by the death tree. its so dark and with sharp teeth gives my the creeps.

Brandon Sandcloud –  I think the spookiest place in the spiral is that gated cave right outside of stormdrain tower in the haunted cave (pic attached for reference). The way the fog creeps out of it and the way it flows into the basin below is just eerie. The spookiest thing though is that I have no idea what is in that cave. The fog itself is creepy but imagination knows no bounds so it really could be anything in that cave, and that is the spookiest thought of all. Myth is the magic of the shadows, and sometimes the creatures it summons are terrifying and as a Myth wizard, I find this at times unsettling.
Ashley Rosetamer – Hands down, it’s definitely the Well of Spirits. I always get the chillies whenever I see the ghosts floating up there.The whole color atmosphere too, purple, green, and black. SPOOKY.
Congratulations to the winners – Thanks everyone, have fun and play safe!!!
Ditto P. Monster

Another New Contest – Celebrating 1000 Twitter Followers!!

Ditto Celebrates 1000!!

So as most people who follow Ditto know, I love my Twitter followers, and when I started out I had a very modest goal of gaining 500 followers.  I have been way more successful than that, and as of right now I have 983 followers!!   Thanks to the great folks at KingsIsle, in celebration of my passing 1000 followers any time now, I’m having a contest, and ten lucky people will be getting 10,000 crowns each!!

So what do you have to do to win?  If you already follow me on Twitter, nothing at all – you’re already entered!!  If you’re not following me, then just follow Dittowizard on Twitter and you’ll be entered to win.  It’s as easy as that!

Once I hit 1000 followers, I’ll do a random drawing via a ‘random twitter follower selector’ service and select ten winners from all of my current followers.  I’ll send the codes to the winners via DM and I’ll announce the winners here on the site.  Since sometimes it takes Twitter a little while to really update the numbers, please allow for 24-48 hours after me hitting 1000 followers for me to announce the winners.

I’d really like to thank all my fans and followers and especially the awesome folks at KingsIsle for supporting my site – Wizard101 and Pirate101 are fantastic games, and they really do have the best fans out there!


Ditto plants a Garden in The Savanna

In continuing his ‘Ditto, Handyman of the Savanna’ theme, Ditto is now doing some amateur gardening.  He gets seed from Narley the mole-guy and helps Eden, one of the students, to plant a nice little garden so the Darkmane tribe has food to eat.  It’s good to feel helpful – though I do hope I don’t forget how to use my wand after all of this handyman stuff…


Handyman Ditto builds a Spear!

Still adventuring in the Savanna, Ditto has apparently gotten quite a reputation as a handyman! He has fixed fences and towers, and now Ditto is helping an Ikea warrior build a spear. Anything to help, right? It would be nice to get back to magic, though…


Ditto’s Spooky October Contest Week 3! The Spooky Spiral!!

Here is my Week 3 Spooky Halloween contest for Wizard 101!  This week there will be three Grand Prize winners chosen, and each will win a Death house, One of each of the three spooky Halloween decorator packs, and 5,000 crowns!

Haunted House

For this week’s contest, I want to get spooky with Wizard 101 itself.  What do you think the spookiest/scariest place in The Spiral is?  Is it the haunted cave?  The lava filled streets of Dragonspyre?  Maybe it’s a spooky dungeon deep in the heart of Krokotopia?  Or even your dorm room!  It’s up to you – all you have to do is send me an email at DittoContest@gmail.com with the subject ‘Spooky Spiral’ (that part is important).  Tell me what place in The Spiral you think is the spookiest and why, and make sure you tell me your wizard’s name.

I’ll be announcing winners next Saturday, so get your entries in!  I will also be having a few mini-contests on Twitter, so be sure to follow Ditto on Twitter for a chance to win more codes!  Have fun with it, and good luck!

Ditto P. Monster