How to Have Twins on The Sims 2

Co-authored by Alex Keller

Last Updated: May 6, 2021

Have you always wanted your little Sim family to have a pair of twins? If so, you are in luck! There are three different ways to have twins in The Sims 2 besides waiting for fate to kick in. You will need the Open For Business or FreeTime expansions for this to work.

Method 1

Method 1 of 3:

Using Cheesecake (Open for Business)

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Raise a Sim's Cooking skill. In order to bake a cheesecake, a Sim needs to have at least seven Cooking skill points. You can raise their skill level by having them study Cooking from a bookshelf, watching The Yummy Channel on TV, preparing meals, and using the chocolate-maker Career Reward from the Culinary career track.
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Get a Sim pregnant. In most cases, Sims will get pregnant through Try For Baby; after the Sims have finished the action, a lullaby chime will play if the Sim is now pregnant. In more rare cases, adult male Sims who were abducted by aliens will return pregnant.

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3
Have the Sim with high Cooking skill bake a cheesecake.
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Direct the pregnant Sim to eat cheesecake. A pregnant Sim who has eaten cheesecake will give birth to twins.
- Your Sim only needs to eat cheesecake once to have twins.

Method 2

Method 2 of 3:

Using a Cheat (Open for Business)

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Get a Sim pregnant. Sims most commonly get pregnant through Try For Baby, though in rare cases, adult male Sims will return from alien abduction pregnant.
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Select the pregnant Sim. The cheat won't work if another Sim is active.
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Open the cheat console. Hit Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C.
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Type in forcetwins and hit ↵ Enter. This will guarantee your Sim will have twins.

Method 3

Method 3 of 3:

Using Aspiration Benefits (FreeTime)

The Sim does not have to be pregnant for this method.

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Make sure the Sim's primary aspiration is Family. This will not work if the Sim's secondary aspiration is Family - it must be their primary aspiration.
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Go to your Sim's inventory and rewards panel. Click on the treasure chest icon in the last section of the Sim's UI.
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Open the Lifetime Rewards tab. (This is the third tab, and should look like a Family icon and a treasure chest combined.) Then, click on the icon to the left that looks like a child, adult, and treasure chest. This icon is for Lifetime Aspiration Benefits.
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Find the Family column. Click each box until you reach "Super Fertility" at the top of the panel. This costs 4 Aspiration Points.
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Have your Sim have a baby. Super Fertility naturally raises your Sim's chance of conceiving twins, so after you have the reward, you don't need to do anything besides make the Sim have a baby!

Community Q&A

Question

Can I use "forcetwins" without any expansion packs?

Alex

Top Answerer

No. You need Open For Business or Pets to use the forcetwins cheat; otherwise, you'll just get an error dialogue when you press Enter.
Question

Can I get triplets?

Community Answer

Triplets don't naturally exist in The Sims 2. If you want your Sim to have triplets, you'll need to install a third-party hack that allows for triplets (or allows you to adjust the number of children you want born).
Question

I have seen you can eat cheesecake while you're pregnant to have twins. Is it true?

Community Answer

Yes.