[Event] Great Challenge and Water Battle

By AmOwzing, 16th July 2025 12:41:25
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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

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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
 
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By jsniper, 29th July 2025 19:43:32
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Two arrows, a beluga pet, and a HoP in this round default smiley ^)

Was really dumb and forgot to do the last day to get the Scale in the great challenge :')
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By breakawayfromme, 29th July 2025 19:57:39
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Spirit, wand, dail, arrow, ap, and a whale

I did end up trading to 60.000e on the last balloon which i dont normally do but think what I got easily covers that
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By gollygee, 29th July 2025 20:30:01
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I got tears, HoP, fertlity wand and 2* western saddle cloth. I decided to get points instead of keeping 5000equus and a lyre. Not a bad start!
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By Sissy Long Stockings, 30th July 2025 02:16:07
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I've gotten a heel, 4 wands, and a Athena's Medal so far. Love this event!
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By jsniper, 30th July 2025 07:17:31
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4 Arrows, equus, and aps this round default smiley (lol)
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By Bell_z, 30th July 2025 08:13:36
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Why does paying for new UFOs not count towards the battle trophy? It doesn't matter how many times I trade and get a new one, the counter only counts the 6 UFOs per session default smiley (o)
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By Argorok, 30th July 2025 08:48:39
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Because it only counts if you keep or send it. When you trade, you aren't doing that. If it was 'catch' it probably would count.
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By SeoLeo, 30th July 2025 09:14:55
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3xChronos, wand, spirit and arrow

I'm shocked, amazing
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By AmOwzing, 30th July 2025 10:23:50
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Hello everyone,

BlueCornMoon wrote:

why is the great challenge over? it was supposed to be another hour! we woke up really early to fill our meters less than 100 for the star and scale items but the event is done now default smiley :(default smiley :'(

The Great Challenge ended at the time it was announced on the event pages and this topic.


Argorok wrote:

The event ended at the usual time. The time on the banner is the time you should go off, as the written time in the forum isn't based on your timezone

The time on this topic is based on the players' accounts' timezone, so you should see the same time on the event banner and this topic.default smiley (ow)


cnildwarf wrote:

Am with what seems like the majority...
Not going to bother trying to climb up the ranking. As pointed out, you rarely can end above the first or second level and tends just to be an equus sinkhole.
Have enough equus to trade out the many things I don' have a use for.
Using the bonuses I have (one per item, as the bonus value drops SIGNIFICANTLY the more you use) and not requesting any myself, but checking in on any friends that request them.
Sadly, when the time comes to do the survey I suspect it will again not differentiate between the Objectives and the Water Battle portion, which, to me, is SO wrong because I actually like the Objectives and would be very happy to never see this form of the Water Battle again!
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If you check this forum, you will see the [Survey] Great Challenge topic, where you can give your feedback about the Great Challenge part. We will post another survey for the Water Battle part.default smiley (ow)

Have fun throwing water balloons, everyone!
AmOwzing
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By pallaadium, 30th July 2025 10:24:27
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So far I have got - 2x F.Wand, 1x Kairos Dial, x2 AP, 4x A. Arrow, 1x Fortune and 2x Mash.. default smiley :( I hope I can stock up on Arrows instead then, as I don't have much hope for better prices. Would really like few Harmony Packs or HoPs..
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By Argorok, 30th July 2025 11:19:36
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AmOwzing wrote:

The time on this topic is based on the players' accounts' timezone, so you should see the same time on the event banner and this topic.default smiley (ow)


That's good to know. default smiley (y)
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By Hiram Farmer, 30th July 2025 12:26:27
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so far I've gotten:
HOP
tears
wanderers spirit
wand
heel
2 dial
5 ap
4 arrows
beluga
25000e
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By breakawayfromme, 30th July 2025 13:06:31
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2 seas sprirts won so far and no dupes

I only need 2 more to complete the set so hopefully I get some more luck this week
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By Strawbz, 30th July 2025 15:40:49
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Round 2

2 x Croesus’ Fortune
1 x Kairos Dial
1 x 50 Mash
2 X Beluga

Round 3

1 x 5,000e
3 x Beluga
1 x Croesus Fortune
1 x Kairos Dial (Lyre trade x 1)

I’m thinking I will start to trade those belugas… although given the frequency they are appearing I’ll probably end up with another exactly the same default smiley (m)
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By Ravenknight, 30th July 2025 16:31:40
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I finally won a harmony pack so i got the cute star donkey twilight gold.
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By Crookedstar915, 30th July 2025 20:37:39
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I'm only missing one Wanderer's Spirit, so hoping with these prizes I can complete the set. default smiley <:o)
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By Bohemian Anna, 30th July 2025 22:45:41
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I've been travelling so have only caught 3 balloons in the spare time I've had. Pretty sad to have effectively missed a whole day.
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By Veren, 30th July 2025 23:27:55
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Is anyone else being told that they are losing points even when you spend enough bonuses that you should gain points instead of losing them when you keep an object? It's happened multiple times already.

For instance, I just kept a 2** saddle cloth but I used 4 bonuses so I went from negative to positive points, but still got the message "you kept... and lost 10 points."
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By Ruffian, 31st July 2025 00:24:34
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I am glad I got the lactation divine default smiley (lol)
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By maaik.x, 31st July 2025 00:35:40
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I was skeptical, but to be honest so far I love these prizes! Only haven’t seen the medal, timer or horn pass by, but already picked up 2 wanderer’s spirits, 2 dials, 5!!! heels, 1 harmony pack etc. great haul already!!

I trade the prizes I don’t want a bit every round up to a few hundred/few thousand equus, max 10k, which so far had been totally worth it seeing as i got harmony pack, spirits, heels etc in trades that i wouldn’t have gotten, instead of lyres and saddle blankets!
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By jsniper, 31st July 2025 06:06:03
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Reaaally wishing the odds for H Pack and HoP were greater but at least I'm drowning in arrows default smiley (lol)
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By Strawbz, 31st July 2025 06:54:27
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Latest round.

1 x Croesus' Fortune
1 x 5,000e (Lyre trade)
3 x 5,000e
1 x 5,000e (Beluga trade)

And the equus kept rolling in default smiley :-))
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By minkthepink, 31st July 2025 07:14:15
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Glad others are getting prizes that are valuable to them. I've been trading quite a bit or giving things away but the best I've got so far is Kairos dials. I keep getting aging points and Croesus Fortunes. I want the Howrse gods to let me have a Harmony Pack or maybe the odd HOP but I don't think they're paying attention default smiley :(
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By pallaadium, 31st July 2025 10:02:12
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minkthepink wrote:

Glad others are getting prizes that are valuable to them. I've been trading quite a bit or giving things away but the best I've got so far is Kairos dials. I keep getting aging points and Croesus Fortunes. I want the Howrse gods to let me have a Harmony Pack or maybe the odd HOP but I don't think they're paying attention default smiley :(


Glad to know I'm not the only one. I haven't got ANY top row gifts so far default smiley (lol)
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By Strawbz, 31st July 2025 12:41:56
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1 x Harmony pack default smiley :d My first ‘decent’ prize
1 x 5 AP
2 x 50 mash (1 from a Lyre trade)
1 x 2** blue and white Western saddle cloth
1 x Croesus' Fortune
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