No strategy to this, if at least you had to do something which cost you, or forced you to be in a specific room…

arth: Specific rooms…well, you can move ANYTIME…

Yeah, but it seems more wholesome to have one mechanic for each room.

It should at least have some chance at a negative consequence.

I based this partially on the other two, which have no negative consequences.

(unless you count being moved to the bathroom for a couple seconds as a consequence)

per Yoda

Also there’s no time limit; you can skip them when they’re posted, and claim their extra fame much later in the game.

Oh, and the negative consequence of fruit-picking: other people benefit from the fruit too if you’re the one who picked, the picker benefits if enough people eat.

CoV   because ais says so.