Three Color Training

Three Color Training
Sublevels	1	Ultra-bitter sprays	0/1
Red Pikmin	0	Ultra-spicy sprays	2/1
Yellow Pikmin	30
Blue Pikmin	0
White Pikmin	15
Purple Pikmin	15
Bulbmin	0

The following article or section contains guides. The strategies shown are just suggestions.

Three Color Training is the seventeenth level in Pikmin 2's Challenge Mode. It is named after the fact that there are three different colors of Pikmin: Yellow Pikmin, Purple Pikmin, and White Pikmin.

Sublevel 1

• Theme: Toybox
• Music: Grass
• Time: 230 (460 seconds)
• Starting Pikmin:
  •  Yellow Pikmin × 30 (leaf)
  •  Purple Pikmin × 15 (leaf)
  •  White Pikmin × 15 (leaf)
• Treasures:
  •  Flame Tiller × 1 (fully buried)
  •  Fossilized Ursidae × 1
  •  Regal Diamond × 1 (fully buried)
  •  Sulking Antenna × 1
  •  The Key × 1 (inside Gatling Groink)
  •  Unknown Merit × 9 (inside Anode Beetles)
• Enemies:
  •  Anode Beetle × 9
  •  Gatling Groink (pedestal) × 1
  •  Mitite (group of 10) × 1 (from the ground)
  •  Mitite (group of 10) × 0 - 2 (from eggs)
• Obstacles:
  •  Poison emitter × 6
• Vegetation:
  • None
• Others:
  •  Egg × 2

The Gatling Groink has The Key, and it is at the top of a tower. You should try to place one of your leaders as close to the tower as possible; the Gatling Groink will try to fire at that leader, but the shot will be stopped by the tower. There are a few wooden blocks on one side of the tower that you can use to throw your Yellow Pikmin onto the platform of the Gatling Groink. Take caution when calling your Pikmin back; if you whistle for too long, the leader you left as bait will come back to your side, which will waste time. After defeating the Groink, collect The Key it drops (and the corpse, if you want to collect the other treasures), and either collect more treasures or just escape.

If you are just going for the pink flower, use this strategy: send one leader without any Pikmin to the Gatling Groink and find a spot where it can fire at you without hitting you. Now, take the other leader with all the Yellow Pikmin and attack the Gatling Groink until it dies. Now, quickly carry back the Gatling Groink (before it comes back to life) and the Key. With luck, the exit will appear somewhere easy.

Another strategy is to use the bitter spray on the Groink and throw Yellow Pikmin onto it. If you do it quickly, the Groink will be killed just before it returns to normal.

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Technical sublevel information
Internal cave name			ch_MAT_yellow_purple_white
"Main" object maximum (?)			16
"Treasure" object maximum (?)			4
"Gate" object maximum (?)			0
Dead end unit probability (?)			0
Number of rooms (?)			1
Corridor-to-room ratio (?)			0
Escape geyser (?)			Yes
Clogged hole (?)			No
Cave units file (?)			1_MAT_tower2_toy.txt
Lighting file (?)			hiroba_toy_light_cha.ini
Background (?)			hiroba ( garden)
Cave units (?)
Dead end with item	Three-way crossing	Four-way crossing	Turning corridor	Corridor	Long corridor
Room with tower and 8 exits

Detailed object list
The game spawns these "main" objects:
ID	Object	Amount	Fall method	Spawn location
1	Gatling Groink (pedestal)	1	None	"Special" enemy spots
-	The Key	Carried inside entry with ID 1
2	Anode Beetle	5	None	"Easy" enemy spots
-	Unknown Merit	Carried inside entry with ID 2
3	Anode Beetle	4	None	"Hard" enemy spots
-	Unknown Merit	Carried inside entry with ID 3
4	Poison emitter	6	None	Cave unit seams
Then it spawns these "treasure" objects:
ID	Object	Amount	Fall method	Spawn location
5	Fossilized Ursidae	1	None	Treasure spots
6	Sulking Antenna	1	None	Treasure spots
7	Flame Tiller	1	None	Treasure spots
8	Regal Diamond	1	None	Treasure spots
Then it spawns these "dead end" objects:
ID	Object	Amount	Fall method	Spawn location
9	Mitite (group of 10)	1	None	Dead ends
10	Egg	2	None	Dead ends

For details on how objects are spawned, and how some may fail to spawn, see here.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	三色試験場?	3-colored Camp
French (NoA)	Camp tricolore	Three-colored camp
French (NoE)	Camp Tricolore	Three-colored Camp
German	Drei Farben	Three Colors
Italian	Esercizi a tre colori	Three Color Exercises
Spanish (NoA)	Circuito Tricolor	Tricolored Circuit