Calm Lands Attractions

Lupine Dash is essentially greyhound racing but in a Final Fantasy game. Bet on a dog that you think will come in first. It’s entirely random, except you can place bets that shift the odds in your favor.

• A “Win Bet” involves picking a winner, while a “Double Bet” involves picking both first and second in any order (a “Quinella”).
• The payout includes your initial stake; for example, a 5-credit bet at 1.67 returns 8, so your profit is 3.
• The favorite to win tends to finish in the top two nearly 90% of the time, so your best bet is a “Double Bet” that involves the lupine with the best odds.
• If you look at the dog’s stats, try to focus on Flux, then Rally, then Speed.

Sky Slots is a slot machine-style game where you can increase your odds by taking your time and pressing the button at the exact right moment.

• Practice your timing and memorize the easy-to-spot fiends (such as the bright red Death Daubers).
• The reels will sometimes continue a little further beyond when you press the button, so aim to press it early if anything.
• This is the one mini-game where, if you get consistently better at it, you can tilt the odds in your favor and rack up credits without spending Gil.

Reptile Run is a Frogger-style mini-game where you have to run a gecko from the bottom of the screen to the top while dodging fiends in your way.

• You have three movement options: left, right, or middle; the gecko always moves forward. You can’t move sideways or backwards, and you can’t take too long or the timer will expire.
• The Level 4 map you start on is always the same, so you can memorize a clear path to the end to make things easier. Take your winnings after you reach the end, then start again.
• Just like the Chocobo Training mini-games in the Calm Lands in Final Fantasy X, the controls are a bit janky in this game, so be prepared to be frustrated.

Feed the Monkey is only available if Argent, Inc. won the Publicity Campaign. Keep the monkey in the air by feeding it fruit from one of five chests, without letting its weight drop to 5 or climb to 100.

• The fruits in play are shown at the top of the screen, so check whether any of them could push the monkey’s weight out of range before you open a chest.
• If a bad fruit is possible, call Rikku for heavier fruit or Paine for lighter fruit, or quit and take your payout.
• Your payout depends on how many fruits the monkey eats: 10 fruits returns your stake, and 20 returns just over seven times it.
• Opening the same chest three times in a row brings out the Forbidden Fruit (+150 weight), so switch to a different chest on the third turn.

Gull Force is only available if Open Air, Inc. won the Publicity Campaign. It’s a shooting gallery where you fly a gull and shoot the real targets out of each wave of five.

• You get one shot per wave, and each round has a minimum number of hits. Fall short of that minimum and you lose your whole bet.
• The real targets spin. In Stage 3 the fakes spin too, but in the opposite direction.
• You can bet up to 1,000 credits, and the payout climbs to 10 times your bet by round 2-4 and 200 times by round 3-4.
• Pausing the game just as the targets start to spin makes it much easier to spot the real ones in Stage 3.