The Genie

''This article is about the Genie that came with The Sims: Livin' Large. For the article on the genie that came with The Sims 2: FreeTime, see Genie.''

The Genie is an NPC that Sims can summon by cleaning a magic lamp. The Genie will give a Sim two choices for a wish, and these wishes can have good or bad consequences. The lamp can be cleaned once a day (by only one Sim), and every day after for as long as the lamp is on the lot, however you can sell a lamp after wishing (but not for full price) and buy a new one, with another wish, for as many wishes as you want with no waiting. This does sound good however in The Sims 1 the genie's wishes were almost always a failure and therefore not very practical and more of a nuisance. Everytime a wish was made it almost always ended with piles of bills or the pool table suffering spontaneous combustion. Not only this but the choice of wishes presented each day were only two to choose from and with names like "Air" and "Fire" the player rarley had any idea just what they were wishing for in the first place. This was set right however in The Sims 2 Free Time with a better user interface and a much better and badly needed success rate of wishes.