In response to my tulip problems, thanks to Balasarius for referring me to Pinata Island, the Viva Pinata wiki. It's still a work in progress in terms of the specifics for Trouble in Paradise, the latest Viva Pinata that just came out yesterday. For instance, a guy like me stuck on how to get tulip seeds won't get much help yet. But these specifics from the previous Viva Pinata will be a good place to start in the meantime.

However, the tulip seeds aren't a good example, because they eventually get rolled out anyway. But then there are things like sandwiches. My ants want sandwiches. But how on earth was I supposed to figure out that giving the alchemist in town a piece of corn will result in a piece of bread, and then giving him a piece of bread will result in a sandwich? By exhaustive trail and error? I like Viva Pinata, but not that much.

A quick search on Pinata Island for "sandwich" circumvents all that. On one hand, this could feel a bit like cheating. But on the other hand, Viva Pinata doesn't suffer when you learn this stuff from extracurricular sources. The business of playing Viva Pinata isn't the figuring out of the sandwiches, it's the serving of them and their result.