[Event] Great Challenge and Water Battle





The Great Challenge

and Water Battle



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

The Great Challenge part will end on 2025-07-29 12:00 and then the Water Battle will start.

The Water Battle part will end on 2025-08-04 14:00.

Lactarius will be available until 2025-08-05 14:00.

As a reminder, the community goal was removed and replaced with two fixed-time UFO sessions per day during the Battle.

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


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 Water Battle: Collect UFO’s and trade them for prizes or get up in rankings.


Part 1: The Great Challenge

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Collect Horseshoes: Every day, complete multiple objectives to collect up to 100 horseshoes. 120 if you buy the Premium Key.

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

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!

The gifts that have been unlocked but not claimed during the Great Challenge are automatically given when the Battle starts.


Jackpots


Free Jackpot: Themis Scale


Complete the event to get the Themis Scale. It allows you to exchange a Black Market item that you no longer use for one or more items with a similar or lower value.



Premium Jackpot: Māori

starry aura


With the Māori starry aura, you can turn your horse into a Star and win fragments of the divine horses from the Māori series.


New Divine: Lactarius


You can find fragments of the new divine Lactarius in the event, and in the Tyche’s Crown. If you reach the top of the leaderboard in the Battle, you will win the horse.




Part 2: The Water Battle

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Catch UFOs


During the festivities, your task is to catch UFOs in 2 daily sessions. Each session will give you the chance to catch up to 6 UFOs.

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 you can't catch new UFOs until you make a choice.

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 event.

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

We wish you the best of luck!
The Howrse Team
 
AmOwzing
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There will be a link at the bottom right of the horse's page saying you can donate this horse to Ow to achieve the objective.
deimos
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grrr. Why is it that when forget to copy the question it's always the time to start a new page default smiley (lol)

Emma_Dorgan wrote:

How do you donate horses


Answer in post above
deimos
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Artemis wrote:

I collect horseshoes by donating horses, which means I'll regret it later because I need APs.default smiley (b)

Key isn't worth it so I'll just save.
you do realize that you don't have to donate. you can get the same points by entering comps, training, rides, etc. stuff that won't cost horses.
Hiram Farmer
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That takes too much time. Donating horses only take 5 clicks.
Artemis
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Artemis wrote:

That takes too much time. Donating horses only take 5 clicks.
A matter of perspective. It costs me about 10 mins in total to up 120 points from competitions only. So no, it doesn't take too much time. Not to everyone.
PrimeHellix
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The beauty of getting the points from comps is that if you choose your horses carefully you can go for their wins for blupping, add to their skills and get the equus from the comps as well. It doesn't take long but its all useful time spent
deimos
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I have a bazillion divines I have to work daily, and I get the points from their usual comp entries.

I'm rather tired of the Great Challenge, but I do appreciate I can get the horseshoes during my personal dailies. Grant it, the auto-comp definitely helps.
Legacy Ann
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If you don't have VIP it can take a while, I always struggle to get the 100 points because entering 100 comps is a slog. Sometimes I just end up bailing and not maxing out the meter, so I can understand donating if you're strapped for time.
Crookedstar915
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you can use autocomp on mobile as a non-VIP or pegasus player as well!
maaik.x
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Nope, now on mobile, the auto comp is gone, for me at least…
Artemis
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Artemis wrote:

Nope, now on mobile, the auto comp is gone, for me at least…

You have to tap the little cog wheel above the comp options to activate it. But it is available for non-VIPs on mobile
Legacy Ann
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Looks like I’ll be able to complete the great challenge tomorrowdefault smiley :d I bought the key this time around and I’m excited to get the new Starry Aura. Now gotta find a good horse to put it on…
I don’t love the great challenge event but I don’t hate it either. It’s an easy way to collect good BM items. I’m not a fan of the next phase of the event with the water balloon fight… seems impossible to get a high level ranking… I’ll just take whatever I can get from it and not spend any eqqus.
I hope everyone is doing well with the event!! Happy Friday default smiley (l)
love_tricia
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I look at black market and which event gives you 25 points if you win. Mine today was bonus and tried to complete two horses tack sets knight tack and dragon samurai
Ravenknight
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All done. default smiley (y) Honestly, I forgot about it the majority of the time because of the lack of a goal, but I still quite like the challenge. The scale is a great prize to get for free.
Argorok
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Still wish they'd swap out the "enter the grand prix" for something else just over the weekend
Ariinator
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What exactly does the starry aura give you. Do you actually get a divine horse or just one hundred points n 5 days
RockHardTen
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RockHardTen wrote:

What exactly does the starry aura give you. Do you actually get a divine horse or just one hundred points n 5 days


You do not get a Divine, just 1000 fragments spread over 25-fragment intervals (every 5 days). The fragments are evenly distributed for the whole series, so you will not fill the meter or win a Divine unless you're very close to having a full meter for one already, but you *do* get to permanently keep the fragments.

Basically it gives you a discount on every Divine in the series.
Crookedstar915
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Hello,

The Great Challenge part ends tomorrow. How many of you have already collected all the horseshoes?default smiley (ow)

Have fun playing!
AmOwzing
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Just finished, some days were much faster than others. Happy with the prizes for the most part.
Jo702
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Finished yesterday. Got the key because I thought the BM items were worth it (and because I always get the key). So being able to get 120 shoes a day is helpful. I got this mostly from my daily activities. default smiley (7)
gollygee
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I've finished. No key. About 95% of my horseshoes came from doing comps which I would do anyway so no real effort required.
deimos
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could anyone explain to me what the battle is exactly? I read the second post by Hiram not to go for the rank prizes, but as I don’t remember how this second part of the event works I don’t understand what the advice means, haha
maaik.x
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maaik.x wrote:

could anyone explain to me what the battle is exactly? I read the second post by Hiram not to go for the rank prizes, but as I don’t remember how this second part of the event works I don’t understand what the advice means, haha
You catch UFOs with e certain value (best are BMIs), and you decide to either keep the reward for yourself, or throw them at someone else; trowing the UFO at someone else is giving you points for the ranking. According to your ranking, at the end of the UFO battle you receive a gift (gifts).

All this is explained in current topic, in section "Part 2: The Water Battle", if you care to read it. What players mean is that it will cost you quite a lot of equus if you try to score a higher rank, because you can exchange a UFO you caught if you decide it's not that valuable (the more value the UFO has, the more points you will receive if you throw it away) and this requires you to pay equus. The catch here is, the new value could be (and very often is) less than the one you originally had in the UFO. Usually only players with a substantial equus reserve can rank higher in the battle events, simply because they can afford exchanging the UFO value as many times as they want until they get a value that suits their needs for higher points gained.
PrimeHellix
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Hello,

Glad to hear that you were all able to fill your horseshoe meter.default smiley (ow)

Now it's time to get ready for the Water Battle in a few hours!

Good luck!
AmOwzing
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please note with the water battle. if you aren't going to get all the balloons or don't have a large fortune to spend on trading you are NOT going to get top prizes in the ranks. trust me NO way NO how. don't even bother trying. best you will do is bottom 1 or 2 prizes. Keep everything you get or do a few trades to get slightly better prizes then keep it. if you try for the rank prizes the stuff you give up will be worth way more than what you get.
Hiram Farmer
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