[Event] The Great Challenge and the Treats Battle



The Great Challenge

and Festivities



The Great Challenge is back, and this time it will be followed by the Treats Battle.


How to play?


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As usual, this contest takes place in two parts:

The Great Challenge phase: Collect horseshoes by completing in-game objectives.

The Festivities (Treats Battle) phase: Catch UFOs and decide to keep the gift (and lose points), send it to another player (and gain points), or spend Equus for a chance at a different UFO.

Note: there are no divine fragments in the daily objectives during this contest.


Part 1: The Great Challenge

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Collect Horseshoes: Every day, perform various actions to collect up to 100 horseshoes. 120 if you have bought the Premium Key.

Unlock Gifts: As you gather horseshoes, you'll unlock awesome gifts at certain thresholds, like game items, fragments and more.

Special Jackpots: Keep an eye out for the free Jackpot and other bonuses that await.

Community Goals: When you claim a gift, you also contribute to a community goal. Achieving this goal means more UFOs for everyone in the upcoming Battle!


Premium Key

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Buy the Premium Key with Passes to access:

Marvelous Premium Gifts: Gain access to exclusive gifts.

Extra Horseshoes: Increase your daily horseshoe limit to 120, helping you to catch up or to get ahead faster.

Buy the Premium Key early for maximum benefit, but remember, it's never too late!

The gifts that have been unlocked but not claimed during the Great Challenge part are automatically given when the Festivities start.




Jackpots



Free - Hermes' Winged

Staff


It allows you to use the Black Market's item of your choice for free, regardless of its value in passes.



Premium - Raven


Companions wake up during your horse's first action of the day. And they fall asleep when your horse ages. Raven gives a bonus of +14 in Trot.


New divine:

Romanticism


Throughout the contest, you can find fragments of the new divine horse Romanticism from the Art History Horses series.



Part 2: The Treats Battle


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The Festivities will start right after the Great Challenge ends.

Catch UFOs: During the festivities, your task is to catch UFOs in three daily sessions, with the number of UFOs based on your horseshoe collection.

Make Choices: After catching a UFO, decide to keep the gift (and lose points), send it to another player (and gain points), or spend Equus for a chance at a different UFO.

The value of the UFO's content affects the points you win or lose. You can wait to decide but can't catch new UFOs until you choose.

Bonus Items: Win bonus points by using items earned from horse competitions, friends' help, or your participation in the Great Challenge.

Climb the Ranks: Accumulate points to rise in the rankings, unlocking gifts associated with your rank and those below.


Mobile version


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The mobile version is available for this contest.

To avoid compatibility issues, we recommend you play on the mobile version (if you want to play on a mobile device).

We wish you good luck in both phases!
The Howrse Team
 
AmOwzing
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I fully disagree with the comments of removing Grand Prix - people it is only 2 days that you have to figure out where you are going to get additional points, my goodness, rides move you along and aging points - well, find the horse that gives them.

putting in breeding your mare - no comment
mymare01
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I completed today. Got to Waite two days for the second part to playout. I am just going for good bmi because I never had luck getting to the top.
SusanG
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mymare01 wrote:

I fully disagree with the comments of removing Grand Prix - people it is only 2 days that you have to figure out where you are going to get additional points, my goodness, rides move you along and aging points - well, find the horse that gives them.

putting in breeding your mare - no comment
exactly. and if you think about it. there's much better ways to get use 5.5 or 9 hours of your horses day to get MORE than 5 points.
Hiram Farmer
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SusanG wrote:

I completed today. Got to Waite two days for the second part to playout. I am just going for good bmi because I never had luck getting to the top.
i NEVeR go for the top. you have to be willing to spend a fortune to keep trading. i cap my trades at 3 per UFO cycle and keep EVERYTHING. I look at the prizes and decide what i will definitely keep what i definitely will trade and there's some in the middle that if i have to keep them it's not a big deal. last couple rounds i ended up with less than 5 of the should be trading. and the only reason i didn't trade them is i wasn't spending more on trades.
Hiram Farmer
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i hate seeing players who have NO chance what soever to get a top prize in the treat battle (for ex very little money or never going to get all of the UFOs) trying so hard to get it and then being frustrated that they can't. People please realize if you don't have a TON of equus or are going to miss a lot (even ONE) ufo cycle the chance of getting anything better than the bottom 2 prizes is slim to none. Do reasonable trades and keep EVERYTHING. trust me you are going to get stuff way better than the 2 bottom prizes (bottom is usually a medusa's blood). remember if you go for a top prize and give everything up all you will get is the prizes you qualify for on the list
Hiram Farmer
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Well I’m at 1050 out of 1200. Looks like I’m going to not get the Scale which is a bummer. I started bright and early in the morning on the day this event started and haven’t missed a day so I dunno how I’m behind.. oh well
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OH! Does the Great Challenge end on Tuesday? Maybe I will get the Scale after all
westernewilde
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Ok I definitely mathed wrongdefault smiley xd my apologies everyonedefault smiley (lol)
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westernewilde wrote:

OH! Does the Great Challenge end on Tuesday? Maybe I will get the Scale after all
you'll be good. just to note if it did end on Mon you would have had like 5 hours after the update to get the last 50 points. to have 50 instead of 100 you must have not gotten all of the points one day
Hiram Farmer
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does anyone have a list of the UFOs that will be in the Treat Battle and what the list of prizes you get if you are in the top? thanks
Hiram Farmer
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StarscourgeRadahn wrote:

Why is "enter the Grand Prix" an objective for this every day when it doesn't run on weekends? default smiley (n)


Yeah, I kinda wish they would change that objective on the weekends...something still worth the 25 points.
CharlieA
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Hiram Farmer wrote:

does anyone have a list of the UFOs that will be in the Treat Battle and what the list of prizes you get if you are in the top? thanks


If posted, it would be in the spoiler topic. We likely aren't permitted to post them outside of it yet because it isn't live until the 12th.
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Finished today, and got the raven.

Pretty satisfied with the prizes on this one.
CharlieA
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CharlieA wrote:

Yeah, I kinda wish they would change that objective on the weekends...something still worth the 25 points.
it's only worth 5. and 1 comp and 4 1/2 hour rides will give you the same points and only take 3 hours vs 5.5 or 9 if you don't have the bonus. or in 5.5 hours do 11 1/2 trainings and get 22 points. there's no need to replace the goal that gives such a small amount of points. and it's only not available 1 day a week
Hiram Farmer
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Oathkeeper wrote:

If posted, it would be in the spoiler topic. We likely aren't permitted to post them outside of it yet because it isn't live until the 12th.
thanks didn't even think about that
Hiram Farmer
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mymare01 wrote:

putting in breeding your mare - no comment


It was just a suggestion. You can cover more mares in a day than you can enter the Prix, and it's more accessible to most players since the game lets you cover horses from the beginning. They're not going to do anything about it anyway since Howrse quite literally NEVER changes events no matter what players say, but I don't see what the issue is with putting it out there as an alternative.
Crookedstar915
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how does breeding mares help with the great challenge
Hiram Farmer
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I am happy to say that they have finally removed the "donate a horse" button if you wouldn't have got the horseshoes for the day, even when finished. I remember having to avoid it in previous versions until I got the horseshoes, so it's much appreciated.
Oathkeeper
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To be honest I've rarely engaged in this event because I've never had much luck with it. I don't like donating my horses, but that's one of the best ways to get horseshoes. All in all, not really my favorite event
Angwen777
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I have 148+++ of Needed 168000. Is there ANY way to collect points after reaching Crow/Hermes staff?
marmca
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marmca wrote:

I have 148+++ of Needed 168000. Is there ANY way to collect points after reaching Crow/Hermes staff?
That number at the bottom is the amount of prizes collected by the community, not a single player. It's based on the number of prizes collected, rather than horseshoes. Once you've earned every prize from the Challenge, there's no way for you to continue to add to it
Legacy Ann
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Got the Raven and I'm so happy. The prizes this round where a solid 9/10. Would change it to a 10, but I'm still a bit salty on the hestia gift no longer being offered with this promo default smiley (n)
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Crookedstar915 wrote:


It was just a suggestion. You can cover more mares in a day than you can enter the Prix
but what does is do to HELP finish the GC?
Hiram Farmer
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Oathkeeper wrote:

I am happy to say that they have finally removed the "donate a horse" button if you wouldn't have got the horseshoes for the day, even when finished
i wish they'd take it away completely. there's always a bunch of new players every time they do this promo that donate most of their horses not realizing the horses are gone and that they don't need to do it. all the other obj are helpful and don't make you lose something you won't get back.
Hiram Farmer
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Hiram Farmer wrote:

but what does is do to HELP finish the GC?
From what I understood, "Cover a mare" was suggested as an alternative/additional objective, as you could get more points for it than the Grand Prix, since there's no limit on covering mares like there is Grand Prix entries.
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