[Event] The Great Challenge and the Lottery





The Great Challenge

and Festivities



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

There are no divine fragments in the daily objectives during this event. The amount of fragments in the Tyche's Crown was adjusted accordingly.

Please be aware that the community goal was removed and replaced with two time-fixed draws per day during the Lottery.


How to play?


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As usual, this contest takes place in two parts:

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

The Festivities part (Lottery): Collect and buy lottery tickets to participate in Lottery Draws.


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.


Premium Key

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Buy the Premium Key with Passes to access:

Marvelous Premium Gifts: Gain access to more gifts, a premium Jackpot, and 1 golden lottery ticket for each draw.

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

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

If you unlock gifts but forget to claim them during the Great Challenge, they will be automatically given to you when the Festivities start.


Jackpots



FREE: Zebra with new markings: Boarlet.

PREMIUM: Jenny with at least one chance for a unicorn variation.




New divine: Lava


You can find fragments for the new divine Lava in the Tyche's Crown, throughout the event, and the horse itself as a Lottery jackpot.



Part 2: The Lottery


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Get Lottery Tickets by:


Purchasing them with Equus.

Participating in the Great Challenge.

Winning competitions with your horses.

Catching them in UFO's.

Being helped by your friends.

Green tickets are for regular draws, and Golden tickets come from the Premium Key.


Decide on Gifts:


After each draw, you can decide what to do with them.

You can choose to receive the gifts.

You can choose to exchange them for new tickets for the next draw.


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).

The Great Challenge will end on 2025-03-25 13:00 and the Lottery will start at this time. The Lottery will run until 2025-03-31 14:00.

We wish you good luck!
The Howrse Team
 
AmOwzing
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aster
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I can honestly say that I miss the days of the old lottery. Did I ever win a divine? No. Did I get some really really nice BMI? Yes. The lottery was worth it back then. It used to be such a fun promo.


I have yet to keep any of my winnings. Nothing worth keeping honestly. My "best" winnings have been lyres, Artemis Arrows, some useless companions, equus, and clover. Yippee default smiley (d)
Nemesis.
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I'm only here for the Hestia's Gifts, which I need to breed my Iris draft unis with (I've only got one divine that drops them every two months or so right now so it's nice to have more), so I do want the millions of clovers. I guess others don't need H. Gifts so much, though, which is perfectly fine. But I basically disappeared from few of the previous events and I don't think I missed anything because of there being no H. Gifts. default smiley :p

If I don't have enough for two, I'll buy some M. Bloods, maybe. Afterwards a few colored tack. Then lots and lots of droppings for my plant divines! default smiley :p
Maybegirl
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70 tickets and not one could get me anything over a whip?? Nice default smiley xd
jsniper
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310 x clover
100 x manure
Asfridur
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My only issue with the lottery is that we always reached 3 draws, yet we got left with 2. As nice as the slightly cheaper tickets and extra from the challenge are, they don't make up for losing the draw we always reached. After the first day, that cheap ticket and extra were already considered "reached", so now we are losing out on about 10-12 tickets per day. I wouldn't have minded at all had they have gone down the middle and given us 3 draws per day.
Oathkeeper
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Please bring back the 3rd draw. At least Medusa blood is a prize. Vintage apples are ok but golden apples would be better. I only like some of the vintage apple breeds thoroughbred, Arabian vanner, shetland, friesien and somewhat akhal teke and trotter. The rest are ok. Not my favorite. I have all the Arabians coat colors and not in hurry to collect vintage apples.
Ravenknight
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I am keeping my tickets until I get a Jenny as price. default smiley (lol) This morning the game tried to trick me in giving it up by offering 1 Golden Fleece, but those things are a scam. Last 3 I opened from promos where all low quality items. Apples, 1* saddle and 1* polo wraps. Not gonna open those anymore Howrse. default smiley (lol)
I am going for that Jenny. default smiley 8-)
Vaporeon.01
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I finally kept my prizes. I got 2 Fantasy Sharks from last night's draw. There were also 2200 clovers in the winnings, which was nice, and 10k equus to pay back some of my ticket expenses.
Legacy Ann
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So if I’m understanding this correctly… any divine is possible as a reward??
Thunder123
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Thunder123 wrote:

So if I’m understanding this correctly… any divine is possible as a reward??
No, just the ones shown on the Jackpot page (you have to switch to classic to access it). Only Lava and Jenny are possible
Legacy Ann
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I couldnt find the prize list on classic mode. Not the one we turn in clovers for. So far game ok i exchanged hera pack for a golden apple, got a Medusa blood and a black orchid so i could buy the nordica coat so i can get it without her passing on me. Now to put her in black orchid breeding farm with retired horses.
Ravenknight
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This is a request towards Owlient, and I think many people are with me when I say:
Please bring back the old version of the Lottery. We win/buy tickets and when the draw starts you always instantly get the price but you can also win tickets for the next draw again. Which AUTOMATICALLY lets you take part in the next lottery. If you think we need clovers, sure then, give us clovers as well. But right now you can never take part in the next draw anymore before you decide what to do. And if I am not online, I wont even get the chance to win stuff. And I get the idea of 2 draws a day but better stuff, but if you stick to those low value prices, we really need our 3 or 4 draws back.

I took part with more than 90 tickets last round and the best thing was a Sparrow and a Wand. I will post this again after the event ends and they ask for the survey.
DieBestän
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This has to be a seriously bad joke.
It's not what I expected it to when it was supposed to be "improved" - on the contrary, it's a let down.
It's good for stocking up on things but really, it's disappointing
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
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3x Z Bolts in my last draw, which would be nice if I didn't have 4 divines that drop them, so I traded in anyway cause the rest of the prizes were meh. I really just want a Fleece or two default smiley (lol)
jsniper
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Oathkeeper wrote:

My only issue with the lottery is that we always reached 3 draws, yet we got left with 2. As nice as the slightly cheaper tickets and extra from the challenge are, they don't make up for losing the draw we always reached. After the first day, that cheap ticket and extra were already considered "reached", so now we are losing out on about 10-12 tickets per day. I wouldn't have minded at all had they have gone down the middle and given us 3 draws per day.


Very much agree! Why didn't we receive 3 draws this time? We have missed many opportunites without the 3rd draw.

The contests/events the past 3 years have become more contrived and are not in favor of the players.
carlaz84
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Feels like I have spent a fortune on tickets, and gotten nothing, yes this is my first lottery but darn was hoping for more.
Kxrider2020
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So far, I'm pretty disappointed. Feels like buying the key didn't really give players a bonus. 1 extra ticket per draw.... Man, it would be better if it actually got us a jackpot from the top row, in each hand. Make it a little bit harder to trade each hand in. Or maybe if it was a bonus that equals 5 normal lottery cards.

So far the only really exciting thing is the fantasy shark, and the Hestia's gift and timer we can get with the clovers. Based off what folks were saying in the spoiler chat it sounded like this was going to be a little more exciting gift wise.

Oh well, more 'free' stuff. Can't complain too much, but still not the most exciting
amn127
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As with any event, it's nice to win items (especially when they are free). I'm finding the ticket price (for equus) can get quite expensive, considering you need to gather the clover for the items and the equus amount will add up over time! Well over 150k equus spent already!



I just found out that the "golden ticket" from the Great Challenge 600 pass buy is worth absolutely nothing - it's just another standard ticket for the draw.
This is gutting. I thought being "golden" that it had a chance for you to win something more "special". This is a slight misconception, why adorn it with gold and call it "golden" if nothing is special about it.


Bring back the lottery from the good old days. It's been about 10 years since I last played the lottery, but I remember how awesome it was! I saw a post from someone that Howrse had said next time the lottery comes around, it'll be better.
If this is better, what on earth did it used to be like? default smiley (8)
Zephyrus23
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I'm just rolling over all of my tickets until the last one. I don't really care about any of the prizes, so I'm just seeing what happens. I said that I'd do that last time, but I got a Titan's Challenge so I was like well I gotta take it. Saw a golden Fleece this morning, but they're about the same level of meh for me as the Crowns. HoPs are obviously still the best.
Artistia
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Only decent prize I had offered last draw was a fertility wand... with 90 tickets. At what point am I going to get something decent? Aside from the first draw, I haven't had any draws worth claiming.
Oathkeeper
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My Zonkeys got born today, they look good. default smiley (b)
Vaporeon.01
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I'm surprised I've already had a couple of draws I was happy to keep. So far, I'm actually quite enjoying this, especially compared to some previous lotteries where I've had nothing good even saving everything to the last draw. It's also really nice to not have to remember to log in at ridiculous time. This is much more manageable for me.
nlriver
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Two whips. Man we are blessed default smiley (lol)

I only had 29 tickets so I expected it, but I am still disappointed default smiley xd
Nalu93
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Accepted one that had a Fleece in it and a few for lightning bolts since I'm running low, but otherwise draws have been very underwhelming. Have enough clovers for a Hestia's Gift and some other stuff, which is nice. Overalll feeling pretty meh about it so far, far from dreadful but certainly not filled with the excitement of the old lottery.
wishuwell74
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