We all know from experience that there are hundreds of ways in which our Sims games can go wrong. A simple recipe can result in disaster, a new TV could attract the neighbourhood burglar, and aliens may abduct your wife from Don Lothario’s patio.

Cinemablend has compiled a list of 5 mistakes that you should not make while playing The Sims! Do you agree?

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1. Smoke Detectors

This is probably the number one most important item on this list: don’t forget to put a smoke detector in every single room. More importantly, put several smoke detectors in the kitchen. I’ve made the mistake countless times of only putting a smoke detector on a random wall in the kitchen and when my new Sim just began their journey into becoming a sous chef, they lit their kitchen on fire. Needless to say, the smoke detector wasn’t close enough to the stove to sound an alarm, so the fire department never came. I had to watch my Sim tirelessly work to try to put out the fire herself, killing herself in the process. Of course it’s harder to die this way nowadays, but in earlier Sim games, I always seemed to lose a Sim this way. If you’re smart, you’ll put three smoke detectors above your stove and one in every room just in case another fire breaks out somewhere else.

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