Mafia Wars London: Four ways to score more British passports

Mafia Wars London Challenge has arrived, and one of the key resources needed to get through the job is British Passports. Lots of them.

The standard way to get passports is by heading to the Mafia Wars London hub page, where you can pick up a bundle passports every 24 hours. Our best advice is to set a timer and make sure you check back every day -- on the dot. That's a slow way to get all of the passports you need, and if you're a little more enterprising, you can pick up some extras by doing the following:

1. Add new crew members to your Mafia

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If you can find up to seven people to join your mafia, you'll be able to bring in a bunch of passports at once. If you're playing through Chapter 1, you'll be able to recruit three people, two people when Chapter 2 unlocks and two people when Chapter 3 unlocks. Each player you add will come with extra passports, making for a total of 252 passports. It might be annoying to go around and bug friends to join your crew, but it'll be worth it. You can also hit up the official Mafia Wars forums to find people to play with or, alternately, leave a note in the comments below that you're looking for a few new crew members.


2. Do jobs with low energy requirements

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Another way to earn British passports is by doing jobs. However, since these passports drop randomly from jobs, it's a good idea to go back to a job that drops loot and doesn't require much energy to complete. Then, start clicking! We picked the Auto Theft job from New York, which only needs 3 Energy to complete and then started clicking. Not only will you pick up a few passports, but other loot items like auto and weapons parts. Don't get frustrated if you don't hit passport pay dirt -- remember that they're generally hard to come by and getting them by completing a job with a lower level energy requirement increases your chances.

3. Go on a robbing spree and complete the entire board

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When you rob, your goal should be to rob all of the nine properties on the board. Once you're done, you'll receive additional experience points and a bonus item, which might be a British passport or two.

4. Fight (or don't)

Fighting will also drop passports, so keep putting your rival mafiosos to the test. So far, this has been the least effective way to get passports, so we suggest you save those stamina points for robbing instead.

Heard any other tips or tricks on ways to get more British Passports? Looking for new people to join your crew?

Mafia Wars Dish it Out Contest: Cook up the meanest meal to win big

Think you'll still have a little left in you after slaving over Thanksgiving dinner? Then why not use up your last oomph of energy cooking something up to impress your mob? Zynga is holding a cook-off in Mafia Wars titled "Dish it Out." As a way of giving thanks to all the dastardly deeds and reaping of rewards, you've been challenged with cooking up a deviously delicious Mafia Wars dish.

All you need to do is cook the ultimate Mafia Wars-themed dish (though, the dish to the right might be considered offensive), take a picture of it, write up a short description and post it in the contest's forum thread by Nov. 27. Meet those requirements and you'll be entered for a chance at one of three prize packs including 1,000 Reward Points, 25,000 loyalty points and a Mafia Wars jacket. Now, that sounds like a deal just for throwing something together. (That's what they all say.)

The winners will be decided by a community vote on Nov. 28 after every entry is submitted by midnight on Nov. 27. Finally, the winners will be announced on Dec. 3. Check out the contest's official forum thread for more details and read carefully. We don't want to see anyone cook up a delicious dish only to be disqualified because they forgot to include a sign with their forum ID. Besides, it's going to take quite a meal to trump our Mafia Wars-branded Italian sausage links. Yeah, we forged a special brand just for this occasion, bring it.