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BitLife Woeful Wednesday Challenge: A Comprehensive Guide

Last Updated: November 12, 2025

BitLife character completing the Woeful Wednesday Challenge.

The world of BitLife is constantly testing players with its unique and often hilarious weekly challenges. One classic fan-favorite is the Woeful Wednesday Challenge, a quest that pays homage to pop culture's most beloved gothic daughter. This challenge tasks players with embracing the darker side of life, from their high school social circle to their final career choice.

Whether you're tackling this challenge during a re-run or simply want to try the themed playthrough for fun, this comprehensive guide will walk you through every objective to achieve woeful glory.

All Woeful Wednesday Challenge Objectives

To successfully complete the challenge, you must fulfill these five requirements within a single life:

  • Be born a female in New Jersey.
  • Join the Goth clique in high school.
  • Have 50+ friends.
  • Own a pet tarantula.
  • Become a Mortician.

Let's break down the optimal strategy for each step.

Step 1: Starting Your Woeful Life

The foundation of this challenge is set at birth, and the requirements are non-negotiable. When starting a new custom life, you must set the following parameters:

  • Gender: Female
  • Country: United States
  • Place: New Jersey

Once your character is born, you can begin aging up and preparing for your teenage years, where the next major objective awaits.

Step 2: Embracing the Darkness - Joining the Goth Clique

A core component of the challenge is fully immersing yourself in the goth subculture. This means you must successfully join the Goth clique while in high school.

  1. Attend School: Age up your character until they enter high school.
  2. Find the Cliques: Once in high school, navigate to the "School" tab. You will see a list of various social cliques, such as the Mean Girls, Brains, and Goths.
  3. Interact and Join: Locate the clique explicitly labeled "Goths." Click on it and select the option to join. To increase your chances of being accepted, try interacting with a clique member first by giving a compliment or starting a conversation. Sometimes, having slightly lower happiness can even help you fit in with this particular group.
  4. Be Persistent: If the Goth clique isn't available in your first year or if they reject you, don't worry. Check the "School" tab again each year as you age up. New cliques can form, and your social standing can change. Patience is key.

Step 3: An Unlikely Socialite - Gaining 50+ Friends

Despite the gloomy theme, this challenge requires you to be surprisingly popular. You need to accumulate 50 or more friends over your character's lifetime.

  • Start Early: Begin making friends as soon as you enter elementary school. Go to your "Class" tab each year and interact with every single classmate. The "Compliment," "Conversation," and "Befriend" options are your best tools.
  • Be Consistent: Repeat this process every year through middle and high school. The relationships you build with classmates are the fastest way to rack up friends.
  • Join Extracurriculars: Joining school clubs and teams provides another pool of potential friends to interact with.
  • Use the Workplace: Once you get a job, befriend your co-workers by interacting with them positively.
  • Maintain Relationships: Periodically check your "Relationships" tab. If a friendship bar is getting low, use the "Spend Time" or "Call" options to maintain the bond.

With consistent effort, you can easily reach the 50-friend milestone by the time you're a young adult.

Step 4: An Eight-Legged Companion - Finding a Pet Tarantula

No gothic life is complete without a suitably creepy companion. For this task, you need to adopt a pet tarantula.

  1. Visit the Pet Shops: Go to the "Activities" tab, select "Pets," and you will find options for the "Pet Store," "Animal Shelter," and "Exotic Pet Dealer."
  2. Check the Exotic Pet Dealer: A tarantula is considered an exotic pet, making the Exotic Pet Dealer your most likely source. Check their inventory.
  3. Age Up and Re-Check: The inventory of all pet suppliers is random and refreshes each year. If you don't see a tarantula, simply age up one year and check all the options again. This can sometimes take several years of checking, so be patient.
  4. Make the Purchase: Ensure you have enough money saved up. Once a tarantula appears, select it and complete the adoption process.

Step 5: A Career in the Macabre - How to Become a Mortician

The final task is to secure a career that perfectly matches the challenge's theme: you must become a Mortician.

  1. Graduate High School: Focus on your studies and make sure you graduate from high school. Good grades will help with university acceptance.
  2. Go to University: After high school, you must enroll in a university and earn a degree. While there is no "Mortuary Science" major in BitLife, pursuing a degree in a related field like Biology or Chemistry is a good thematic fit. However, any university degree will qualify you for the job.
  3. Search for the Job: After graduating from university, go to the "Occupation" tab and browse the full-time job listings.
  4. Find the Mortician Job: Scroll through the list looking for the "Mortician" position. It will have a coffin icon next to it.
  5. Refresh the Listings: Job listings refresh annually. If you don't find the Mortician job right away, close the menu, age up one year, and search the listings again. Repeat this process until the position appears.
  6. Apply and Interview: Once you find the opening, apply for it. You will have to pass a simple interview question. Answer professionally to secure the job.

Once you are officially employed as a Mortician, the final objective will be complete, and you will have conquered the Woeful Wednesday Challenge!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q: Can I complete the Woeful Wednesday Challenge with a character I'm already playing?
    • A: No. Like all BitLife challenges, you must start a brand new life that meets the specific starting criteria (female, born in New Jersey) for your progress to count.
  • Q: What's the fastest way to get 50 friends?
    • A: Start in elementary school. Go to your class list and interact positively with every single classmate each year. This is the most efficient method and will get you to 50 friends long before you finish university.
  • Q: The Mortician job won't show up. What should I do?
    • A: Keep aging up one year at a time and checking the full-time job listings. The job's appearance is based on random chance, so it may take several years to appear. You can take a part-time job while you wait to earn some money.
  • Q: Do I need a specific university degree to be a Mortician?
    • A: No, any university degree will qualify you. Simply completing higher education is the only prerequisite for the job to appear in the listings.