Food Club

Food Club is a betting establishment located in the corner of Warf Wharf in Krawk Island. Once a day, twenty (hungry) pirates compete against each other. There are five eating arenas with four pirates in each arena. Choose the correct winner from each arena, and you could win big! On October 5th, 2026, the Food Club was revamped and became mobile-friendly. Entering the Food Club will show a series of tabs from placing bets to seeing all pirates and their courses.

How to Play

Overview

The Overview is the homepage of the Food Club. In the Overview tab, you will find the Previous Round Winners, and a glimpse into the next round. The Previous Round Winners is simple and will display each arena and what Pirate won for that day.

Below that will be the next round. It will display five arenas and which Pirates are in each arena. Additionally, each arena has a series of foods, or courses, that Pirates of that arena will partake in.

To learn more about each pirate, you can either head on over to the Pirate & Courses tab, or you can hover over each Pirate to find their individual statistics. Each Pirate will display their strengths, weight, losses, and their percentage that corresponds to how often they win. Note: A Pirate's strength is related to how well they perform in each round while the Pirate's weight has little to do with their performance.

Though the statistics are nice to know, they by no means guarantee who will win every day. It is still useful to keep in mind which Pirates win more frequently and which Pirates tend to lose often.

Place a Bet

Every day you are dealt different arena scenarios with Pirates and their courses. Once you've looked at each arena, examined each Pirate and the foods available, you will be ready to place a bet. Just like any bet, you're putting down Neopoints to (hopefully) earn more Neopoints. You are only able to bet 50 + 2 for every day you have been playing Neopets. This, unfortunately, limits how much you are able to bet, and therefore, how much you are able to win. This does give older players a well-deserved advantage. You may only make a total of 10 bets per round.

For each arena, select a Pirate. Next to each Pirate, there are ratio numbers such as 13:1 or 2:1. These ratio numbers tells you how likely a Pirate will win, with a 2:1 odd being the most likely a Pirate will win, and a 13:1 odd being the least likely. It can also tell you by what factor your bet will be multiplied in your winnings. For example, if you bet 1,000 NP on Peg Leg Percival with 13:1 odds and he wins, you win a total of 13,000 NP.

If you need to remind yourself what courses are relevant within an arena, you can click details for more information and the arena's statistical information will pop up.

New to the conversion is having the ratio odds calculated for you. The minute you choose your Pirate within an arena, a Winnings Calculator will appear on the bottom of the page. It will also share with you the amount of Neopoints you can use to bet, the total odds, total payoff, and a potential return (difference from the bet done).

Making Your Own Bets

Most Neopians follow other Food Club bets, however, if you choose to make your own bets, there's a lot of calculations to consider.

First off, you can make your own bets without calculating food adjustments. The odds for each Pirate are already provided for you. Pirates with odds 10:1 and higher aren't really worth betting on. But Pirates with 2:1 or 3:1 odds are fairly likely to win and you can use them in most of your bets. A good way to cover as many combinations as possible is to stick with three arenas, ideally the ones with two bad Pirates and two decent Pirates, and just mix up which good Pirates you're using from each arena.

Each bet should have a total odds of greater than 10:1 (like 24:1) so that you come out positive. After all, you did make ten bets overall. Often you'll see a bunch of 8:1 bets and one or two 4:1 bets in a set of 10 bets. The 8:1 bet will come from three 2:1 Pirates together, and the 4:1 bet will be only two of those 2:1 Pirates. This is so that if all the 2:1 Pirates were to win, you'd still come out positive with a total end result of 12:10.

More advanced players use food adjustments. If the food matches the favorites of a Pirate, then it is a +1 and if there are allergies in their arena courses, then it is a -1. Just like algebra, the more +1, the more adjustments are made for that Pirate. This is helpful when you have two Pirates with the same odds and wanting to put together your bets accordingly.

Following Bets

It can be a lot of work calculating and creating your own bets. We recommend checking out Neocord or even the Help NeoBoards for more information in finding recommended bettors. There are some bettors who are moderate in their bets and always win, and some bettors who take more risks and win the most amount of Neopoints every so often. It's up to you on who to follow.

Current Bets

If you have no placed any bets during the current round, the Current Bets tab will state, "You do not have any bets placed for this round!" If you do have placed bets, the page will look like the image below. It will summarize how much you placed on each bet, the total odds for that bet, and the possible winnings for that bet. At the bottom, you'll find the Possible Winings Calculator that will provide the number for the most you could possibly win. However, this number is more or less meaningless considering that most people bet all their 10 bets so that only one or two bets will actually win.

Collect Winnings

Typically, around the afternoon of NST, you can check to see if your bets won by going over to the Collect Winnings tab. If you did not win anything, it is considered a bust. If you did, then you can collect your winnings to receive the Neopoints earned.

You have a total of eight rounds before the winnings expire, at which point the winnings will disappear from the page and you will not be able to collect those Neopoints earned. If you are trying to win the trophy, people try to wait out their earnings eight days before the change of the month, so that when collected altogether, the winnings are maximized.

Pirates & Courses

Going to the Pirates & Courses tab will give you all information regarding each Pirate. It will be the hub of their statistics, including all information about what courses are allergic to and what courses are their favourite.

Pirates

The statistics will state each Pirate's favourite foods and their allergies to help consider calculating the food adjustment for a Pirate. If a Pirate is eating something they like, they are likely to do better in that round; if they are eating something they are allergic to, they are more likely to do poorly in that round. We've condensed a list of each Pirate's percentage win, along with their favourite foods and their allergies.

Pirate	Win %	Favourites	Allergies
Gooblah the Grarrl	65%	meats	slushies
Scurvy Dan the Blade	48%	salty foods, meats	candy
Buck Cutlass	44%	candy	vegetables
Franchisco Corvallio	35%	spicy foods, meats	candy
Federismo Corvallio	35%	gross foods, pizza	smoothies
The Tailhook Kid	31%	vegetables	neggs
Lucky McKyriggan	28%	gross foods	pizza
Sir Edmund Ogletree	27%	dairy	breads
Bonnie Pip Culliford	24%	candy, smoothies	spicy foods
Ned the Skipper	23%	meats	dairy
Ol' Stripey	20%	meats, slushies	breads
Young Sproggie	20%	meats, neggs	gross foods
Fairfax the Deckhand	19%	vegetables, fruits	salty foods
Admiral Blackbeard	18%	vegetables, fruits	dairy
Peg Leg Percival	15%	spicy foods	smoothies
Puffo the Waister	13%	candy, smoothies, slushies	meats
Captain Crossblades	12%	slushies, pizza	salty foods
Orvinn the First Mate	11%	candy, slushies, pizza	fruits
Squire Venable	6%	breads	fruits
Stuff-A-Roo	6%	pizza	neggs

Courses

Every food has its own category which will correlate with a Pirate's favourite foods and foods they are allergic to. To help categorize such foods, we've put together a list below.

Food	Category	Food	Category
Hotfish	salty foods, meats	Broccoli	vegetables
Wriggling Grub	gross foods	Joint of Ham	meats
Rainbow Negg	neggs	Streaky Bacon	meats
Ultimate Burger	meats	Bacon Muffin	meats, breads
Hot Cakes	breads	Spicy Wings	spicy foods, meats
Apple Onion Rings	fruits, gross foods	Sushi	salty foods, meats
Negg Stew	neggs	Ice Chocolate Cake	candy
Strochal	candy	Mallowicious Bar	candy
Fungi Pizza	gross foods, pizza	Broccoli and Cheese Pizza	vegetables, dairy, pizza
Bubbling Blueberry Pizza	fruits, pizza	Grapity Slush	slushies
Rainborific Slush	slushies	Tangy Tropic Slush	slushies
Blueberry Tomato Blend	fruits, dairy, smoothies	Lemon Blitz	fruits, dairy, smoothies
Fresh Seaweed Pie	salty foods, gross foods	Flaming Burnumup	spicy foods, vegetables
Hot Tyrannian Pepper	spicy foods, vegetables	Eye Candy	candy, gross foods
Cheese and Tomato Sub	fruits, breads, dairy	Asparagus Pie	vegetables
Wild Chocomato	dairy, smoothies	Cinnamon Swirl	candy, breads
Anchovies	salty foods, meats	Flaming Fire Faerie Pizza	spicy foods, vegetables, pizza
Orange Negg	neggs	Fish Negg	neggs
Super Lemon Grape Slush	slushies	Rasmelon	dairy, smoothies
Mustard Ice Cream	dairy, gross foods	Worm and Leech Pizza	gross foods, pizza

Bet History

The more you participate in the Food Club, the more your statistics will show the progress of your bets throughout. The Bet History tab will share how many times you've played the Food Club, how many Neopoints you've put into the game, and then how much you've made from your bets. If how much you made is green, it means you profited from the Food Club. If it is red, then you've lost money when playing the Food Club.

You cannot check your Bet History when in the progress of a round. It will show the Pirate Kacheek in a closed booth and it will say, "The gates are closed while today's matches are played out. Betting reopens shortly -- check back soon to place bets for the next round."

High Scores & Trophies

Just like any other game on Neopets, the Food Club has its very own high score list. Unfortunately, not just anybody can make it onto the list. If your account is young, you realistically do not have much of a chance getting a trophy as younger accounts cannot bet as much as older accounts, and trophies are based on how many Neopoints you win. There are times where older account players will wait before collecting (or just do not try for the trophy at all, and collect their winnings daily instead) to give younger players a chance, but if you account is only a year old, it may be awhile before receiving that trophy.

Gold Trophy

Silver Trophy

Bronze Trophy

The High Score list is refreshed on the first of every month. In order to have a chance at the trophy, it is recommended to hold your bets for the 8 rounds prior to the end of the month. This is so that you can collect your 8th round of bets on the first of the month. Note: The longest amount of time you can hold your bets for is 8 rounds; anytime after that your Neopoints will disappear. Counting the days and rounds can be challenging, so we've created a table below to help when to start holding your bets and when to collect to be in the running of a trophy:

Hold Now...	For Trophy Here
December 25	January 1
January 25	February 1
February 22*	March 1
March 25	April 1
April 24	May 1
May 25	June 1
June 24	July 1
July 25	August 1
August 25	September 1
September 24	October 1
October 25	November 1
November 24	December 1

^{In the case of a leap year, start holding on February 23rd.}