Here's a challenge for you:

Take a freshly-made CAS Sim (any age, any aspiration, any personality) and try to get him/her to permaplat status with the lowest possible Aspiration Point Score. The A.P.S. is defined as the number of Aspiration points he/she has left on achieving Permaplat status, plus any points he/she has already spent on Aspiration rewards.

I think we've just found the ultimate strategy for the Scorched Earth Challenge. 

All three of my dogs love rice.

And, for preference, skilling in a room full of snapdragons. That way they don't have to waste valuable skilling time on such time-consuming activities as eating and excreting.

Since all of you have given me the same suggestion, I shall follow it. Thank you, everyone.

Is there any way to relock the Career Rewards once I've activated this cheat?

That sounds like the way real cats and dogs act. Or to be specific, the dogs choose whichever beds the cats deign to leave for them.

Yes, but there are things growing in my garden that would do a better job of it than the actual nannies.

If I have two Sims in a household whose relationship with each other I want to build, I find that ordering them both to Skillinate Logic tends to work a treat.

You'd get more feedback on the rules if it were easier to find them.

Ah yes, Daily Doubles. I like those. There's at least one career track (Science) where you can do a "Daily Treble" - Science Teacher -> Project Leader -> Inventor -> Scholar.

Well, quite. Denise Jacquet regularly rolls up the fear of catching her husband cheating. That's her DEAD husband, ladies and gentlemen.

This restriction in the Natural Science block:

"-Sims may not buy or use the flower-arranging bench, nor any of the flowers it produces."

Does this bar them from visiting Community Lots that already had snapdragons placed?

I think we should have a Libyan flag. The economy of design would seem to fit the principles of the site.

Wait a minute - there are people who count a normal sim lifespan as not including Elixir Of Life?

For extra Crazy Challenge goodness, combine Apocalypse with Sleeping Through College.

Quite. It's just Legacy with a Sim who already has friendships, and may already have skill points.

I usually skill Charisma first (up to 8 ranks) and then Creativity. I don't bother with Logic in toddlerhood because playing chess is such a useful interaction.

In your situation, I'd follow the rule of bathroom design that says "don't put objects in the bathroom unless they have interactions that increase Bladder or Hygiene". Works a treat.

This is the sort of challenge that makes me wish TS2 had some sort of proper scenario-creation facility; I'd like to play this challenge, but would probably forget the rules at some point and do something illegal without realizing it. It'd be great if you could set the game up so that it actually prevented you from breaking the challenge rules.

I don't think Necromancy applies to the Challenges forum - the Challenges are designed to be available and commentable on at any time.

The bin? 

And additionally, if they both die before the adoptee goes to university, he/she gets a little more in scholarships.

In my game, I've moved them in with the Pleasants.