The Oregon Trail Cheats

First, start the game you usually do in naming yourself and your companions, choosing your occupation, and deciding when to set out. Once all that is done, you'll be able to start buying goods from the fort. Buy 1 pound of food and as many oxen as possible (this should be 20, unless you're the teacher, in which case, 19). DON'T BUY ANYTHING ELSE!!! Once you click "buy," you'll be in town. Click trade and select "money." Type in "55" for the amount. One of 3 events will happen: no trade, trade for 1 oxen, or trade for 2 oxen. Only say "trade" for 1 oxen. If one of the others comes up, just try to trade again. If you do get to trade, repeat until you only have 1 ox. When this happens, go back to the first buying screen and buy 19 more oxen. Repeat the trading process. The reason this works is that the game randomly chooses the event that will happen for the trade. By a minimum, you must have 1 pound of food and 1 ox. The game must therefore allow you to only trade oxen for the money. As they are the most expensive commodity, you will get the most profit from them. From repeated testing, 55 is the best rate for ease in typing, probability of only having to trade 1 ox, and still make a decent profit ($35 per ox... after a 175% markup from the price you pay). One round of selling 19 oxen this way lands in a total profit of over $600. Best used at the very start of the game. Handy for raising your score too (Way to go teacher! 3.5 multiplier on a massive score already!). Repeat as desired.