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Snow Roller Game Deactivated

Posted by Kenny on January 22, 2026, 12:01 pm NST

UPDATE, January 29th: Snow Roller has returned to the games room and is playable again!


Sad news: the Flash game Snow Roller has been deactivated from the site as of some time yesterday.

We have received confirmation from a Community Ambassador that TNT took it down intentionally to investigate a botting issue, and that TNT is discussing potential solutions.


Unfortunately, this means the game's trophies, avatar, and unique item prizes are no longer newly obtainable, though remain for those who already earned them.
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Darn, I didn't get the avatar before they took down the game really hope they bring the game back up but I don't really have high hopes...
by nyrine on January 22, 2026 12:16 PM NST
Why is the Wishing Well still available, talk about bot issue. I have the avatar and all the unique prizes except the one I really want the petpet Xampher. I still did my 4 games a day with the slim hope of getting super lucky.
by bearden61 on January 22, 2026 12:19 PM NST
Nooo there can be botting on a flash game like this?!?! Ugh I hope my strategy on the guide didn't contribute somehow
by reckless4romance on January 22, 2026 12:24 PM NST
Noooooooo I still haven’t managed to get the avatar. The game is so hard on modern devices.
by alltimemarr on January 22, 2026 12:49 PM NST
Dang I didn't get the avatar either and it's not coming back, is it
by bonju on January 22, 2026 1:03 PM NST
TNT actually taking something down because of bots? And investigating it? That's.. new.
I agree about the Wishing Well, HOW is that still live as it's been nothing but bots for months, if not longer. But it's something. Hopefully they'll actually keep their word and do something about the bots for real this time.
by biediep on January 22, 2026 1:04 PM NST
this is how i find out you can get items from this game... wow...i never even tried to get the avatar for this one now it's gone for god knows how long
by bya on January 22, 2026 1:07 PM NST
The items are easy enough to add elsewhere (easiest would be as Snowager awards). But the Avatar, not so much.

If they plan on adding the game back, then there would be no need to change the Avatar requirements (nor put the items elsewhere).

If they don't (or figure it'll take a long time too), maybe do another "Play with this Toy to get the Avatar" method. Maybe could bring back several non-major plot Avatars back this way.
by pikachu315111 on January 22, 2026 1:10 PM NST
RIP 2009-2026
by kacheekfan96 on January 22, 2026 2:09 PM NST
*cry* I was taking a bit of a break after continually falling just too short for the avatar.
Also I was planning to try for a silver trophy, and probably could have got it if I’d had a bit more time earlier this month.

The scores had seemed notably higher last time I looked, so maybe there is something to bots as opposed to increased interest.
Maybe this is a good sign for other areas of the site, especially if they are able to bring it back sooner than not…
by elvenfaery on January 22, 2026 2:12 PM NST
Why do the bots ruin everything? No doubt trying for Xampher since there is a lot of demand for it right now. I have the avatar, but had just started working on trophies, and I still need one for this game. *sigh* I hope TNT does fix the problem and bring it back...
by firefoxtails on January 22, 2026 2:25 PM NST
why would you remove this? Bots still exist elsewhere right?
by ryssandra on January 22, 2026 2:33 PM NST
The Xampher demands to be in the Neopies prize pool.
by pancake on January 22, 2026 2:36 PM NST
How sad.. I hope the anti-botters taskforce can resolve this issue swiftly!

In other game news: It appears there is another Neopets tabletop game in the works that will become available through GameFound, made by Ghostfire Gaming. Is this the same as the other game, or something new?
by apophis324 on January 22, 2026 3:03 PM NST
Today I learned it gives out prizes aha. Hopefully they fix it! I still need that av!
by coryldork on January 22, 2026 3:29 PM NST
I thought they were fixing it so you can actually get the avatar
by tcgtcgtcg on January 22, 2026 5:20 PM NST
Sure, take down this but do nothing about the Food Club and Wishing Well botters. -_-
by pinkshinymuffin on January 22, 2026 5:43 PM NST
Not like I could care about the game. It was absurdly hard the further you went. It was possible to finish, but score was too low... (the game's difficulty easily morphed Into those old console games when you reach an unexpected difficulty and everything Is cracked fast)

Also, for the like 6 months I was aware the game had prizes I only ever gotten It to drop 2 Items. Some icicle that has nearly no value and much less any use......

(Oh, and also, oh no! That means the petpet prize that Is already expensive according to Jellyneo and Is featured In that game will Inflate like mad. If I remember correctly It was last priced at 40m. Now Imagine, It might even reach Cove capsule price, If not further T_T)
by maninshi on January 22, 2026 6:42 PM NST
Once again, I am here to complain about the Wishing Well. Any support ticket I have done it just says, 'Thanks. We will transfer this to the correct department.', basically. Bots everywhere and they care about this? What about the Fruit Machine high scores? Food Club? Restocking?
by zenopeltis on January 22, 2026 6:53 PM NST
SOBS! the only game av I need, right before I was going to try again this weekend.
by quailbat on January 22, 2026 9:29 PM NST JN Staff
I hope if/when they bring the game back, they can fix up its bugginess.
by goalkeeper50 on January 22, 2026 9:32 PM NST
They might sell a new cookie and let people get those retired avatar soon hahaha
by blue82182001 on January 22, 2026 10:55 PM NST
Shame, though with how inconsistent the flash games play on modern browsers, this unfortunately was one of the avatars I didn't have the luxury of getting Maybe it will return again (hopefully not next years anniversary wheel though)
by beezebeora on January 23, 2026 3:02 AM NST
aw man, besides the avatar i dont have yet i quite enjoyed playing it ;__; hope we get it back somewhen
by iloveeevee on January 23, 2026 4:11 AM NST
I genuinely have no idea how people got this avatar in the first place, haha. I tried for weeks when I was a teen, and the snowball always got too slow to dodge rows of obstacles, and if I had to jump, I'd always hit another obstacle right after it because of the jump cooldown(?).
by sakaarson on January 23, 2026 9:04 AM NST
It's weird how some of the bots' user lookups say they've been playing for 15-20 years or even longer. Have they been staying undetected for that long, or did they use to be real players whose accounts somehow became bot accounts? I don't really know much about how that all works tbh
by gamergirl33119 on January 23, 2026 10:28 AM NST
aw man this is one of my faves too! Shame I was so bad at it I never got the avie.
by kaimactrash on January 23, 2026 10:35 AM NST
Maybe I'm stubborn, but I don't want a game avatar from a Wheel, RE, or anything similar. Frustrating or even impossible as some may be to attain, I'd know I didn't "earn" them when I very well could have. Even if "earning" involved some form of luck.

I say that even as I know there are *some* avatars I wouldn't personally complain about getting in that way, so I'm definitely applying inconsistent reasoning, and I don't fault others for feeling differently. This is one I know I could get on my own, so I don't want it just handed to me. I'd never want to use it because it would remind me of the effort I put in, the anticipation of real success being so close, before just getting the prize anyway as if the effort never mattered. I'd feel like a fraud, even if I don't care how other people got it.

Again though, I'm stubborn.
by elvenfaery on January 23, 2026 11:49 AM NST
I do like the various suggestions about adding the items, especially the Xampher, elsewhere. The Snowager, the Neopies, etc.
Assuming that's the main driver behind any bots on this game. Take away the incentive, they can hopefully bring the game back. Ideally, they figure out how to stop the cheating altogether, though, and can apply it elsewhere. Maybe this felt like a more doable thing to tackle than something like the Wishing Well...
by elvenfaery on January 23, 2026 11:58 AM NST
@gamergirl33119 Neopets had a big password/birthdate leak some years back, so peoples' passwords ended up on a list that anyone could access. If people didn't see the notices about it or otherwise didn't log back in to change their password, someone could've used the leaked list to access their account, because the password would've been the same as the leak. I imagine a lot of the old botted accounts were grabbed like that.
by sakaarson on January 23, 2026 2:54 PM NST
AI is going to make the botting situation much worse. This guy used an AI agent to get the avatar in Destruct-o-match. https://www.alexirpan.com/2025/01/09/destruct-o-match.html
by maralinn on January 24, 2026 6:06 AM NST
@sakaarson That makes sense. I think I remember hearing about that when it first happened
by gamergirl33119 on January 24, 2026 9:20 AM NST
There are so many parts of that AI blog post to rage over and there's something even more disgusting about the lack of awareness required to write a blog about it.
by surferboard_girl on January 24, 2026 10:27 AM NST
Sad, but if they're trying to combat bots, it has to be done.

sometimes, its better to amputate the arm, rather than losing the body.
by pigfish99 on January 24, 2026 9:31 PM NST
Nooo this was my favorite game

Why couldn't they just turn off the item drops and leave the game up? :')
by aneon on January 25, 2026 3:41 PM NST
The game has returned as of some time this morning!

It’s unclear if anything has changed, especially regarding items. The high scores look the same as what I remember, though I wasn’t tracking it carefully.
by elvenfaery on January 29, 2026 12:58 PM NST

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