[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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Not sure about the starry prize, I have a hard time winning with them to get the fragments they give.
SusanG
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please note with the battle. if you can't get all the UFOs or don't have a LOT of money to trade for the best prizes to get the top points. there is NO way you will get top prizes in the ranks. Trust me there is NO way. NOT possible. Keep what you get or trade for better and keep it. keep everything. if you try to go for rank prize most you will get is bottom 1 or maybe bottom 2. trust me what you give up to get those two prizes will be worth way more than those 2 prizes.
Hiram Farmer
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also if you aren't going for rank prizes save your money and don't do the stuff you have to ask friends for.
Hiram Farmer
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Thank you for making some improvements to the key. The harmony pack in particular is a massive improvement. I decided to buy it so that the aura can add more divine fragments to my inventory, so it's slightly easier when they likely end up in ascent. I just wish the automatic training was optional, but I will make it work.
Argorok
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Hiram Farmer wrote:

please note with the battle. if you can't get all the UFOs or don't have a LOT of money to trade for the best prizes to get the top points. there is NO way you will get top prizes in the ranks. Trust me there is NO way. NOT possible. Keep what you get or trade for better and keep it. keep everything. if you try to go for rank prize most you will get is bottom 1 or maybe bottom 2. trust me what you give up to get those two prizes will be worth way more than those 2 prizes.


That has been my experience as well..
Painted Lady
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At least I can save my passes and dont have to buy the premium key. I hate the starry auras now that the horses come fully trained. When my horses are fully trained they go into retirement, not comps. Prizes on the top line are good enough for me default smiley :)
deimos
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No premium key for me. Some of the prizes behind the paywall are nice but the others aren't worth it. The harmony pack, crown and MA are the only interesting prizes on the bottom. Starry Aura isn't worth 600 passes. I have quite a few sitting in my inventory from prior promos that I'll probably never use. I'll be more than happy with a free scale. I actually have a use for that
Nemesis.
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Not really bothering with this event as the prizes don't seem that great for players who don't want to spend money or passes. Disappointing. The last event wasn't great either.
Roselia131
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Is there any extra benefit for the Water Battle in collecting more horseshoes? Cause unless there is a good added bonus for the Battle… it’s not really worth 600p for the few extra gifts… definitely not the starry aura, that’s a ton of effort for a 600 pass buy in…
amn127
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New divine looks a bit fat default smiley xd or is that just my eyes??
diabolo121
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I get to be the biggest loser again. Way harder than ascent to win. I might try to trade for little better prize but will keep everything
Ravenknight
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with all of my Auto purchases I don't have to do anything in the GC. got the 100 points all from auto purchase.. prizes are horrible.
Hiram Farmer
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The scale is easily one of the best prizes out there. If you use it to trade in a nyx for three golden fleece or titan's, you suddenly have three items with a lot of trading value, especially if you hold onto them until a high in demand weekend offer is on. default smiley (y)
Argorok
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I got the key because I LOVE the Solar System Divines and I don’t have any yet. Plus I like the other prizes.

Fully trained horses are great money makers for me so I’m happy to have more.

I did the math and when you can make a maximum of 840 passes a month/5040 passes every six months/10,080 passes a year from the daily objectives, the key isn’t really that expensive.

I think the key for this event is great for the more intermediate players like me who have significant yet limited resources default smiley :)
Nightphoenix
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Sighhhh... great challenge again. I've always hated it.
Bohemian Anna
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Nightphoenix wrote:

I got the key because I LOVE the Solar System Divines and I don’t have any yet.


The Starry Aura is for the Maori series, not the Solar System one, just to be clear. The original one was for the Solar Systems, but every one since has been for a different series.
Crookedstar915
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Oh, thank you! But still, those are all divines I don’t have any fragments for (that I know of) so still worth it for me!
Nightphoenix
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So Howrse changes all the other events so that you do not get daily login prizes/prizes from doing rides etc unless you play the tutorial, but they remain a stickling pain when this event is concerned? I haven't bothered with the tutorial, yet I'm plagued with your annoying, nuisance popups... default smiley (o)

Usually I just boycott the game when this event comes around. I honestly forgot to check what event started yesterday, so I got an irritating surprise from your unwanted popups this morning default smiley (li)

That said... I'm now stuck in a state of decision paralysis because I do remember seeing a scale and a TC on the prizelist - that's 4 free TCs or 3 free GFs and a TC. It takes long to get the equivalent 800p. Well I think the TC was free - it could have been on the key prizelist too. But I think those prizes were particularly lackluster and not worth the passes when I checked. But still, a free scale is 600p worth of tries for sapphire regardless of what item he comes in... that's a very valuable prize. I'll probably end up caving soon which would mean dealing with your game-ruining popups anyway.

Still waiting very impatiently for you to add that "OFF" toggle to get rid of these unwanted pests that ruin my game experience, especially when this irritation of an event comes around default smiley (li)default smiley :k I NEVER look forward to this event and half the reason for that is your unwelcomed popups that plague me to the point where I don't even work my pass droppers anymore just to avoid them default smiley :k They're nothing more than uninvited pests and the only way to get rid of them is to boycott the game. Please add that "OFF" toggle already default smiley (li)default smiley (li)

I suppose the only nice thing I can say here is thank you for not bringing your horrid zonkeys or their fragments back with this event because I'd DEFINITELY be boycotting the game right now if I saw them on the prizelist.
ShadowKokufu
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ShadowKokufu wrote:

I NEVER look forward to this event and half the reason for that is your unwelcomed popups that plague me to the point where I don't even work my pass droppers anymore just to avoid them default smiley :k


If you're just doing pass-gathering tasks with your Divines like grooming Metals (no comps or rides) you won't see the pop-ups, as those don't count for GC tasks. And since only specific rides count, you should be free to work any Divine with non-standard rides like a Nordic or Extraterrestrial.

The ones you'd need to avoid would be things like Solar System divines since comps *do* count and will trigger the pop-ups if you do enough of them.
Crookedstar915
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i don’t understand
the new item star maory only collect points of maori horses or make the horse maori? default smiley :(
Peach
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Key just not worth it this time, I'll be saving my passes and just collecting the freebies.
haffyfan
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Peach wrote:

i don’t understand
the new item star maory only collect points of maori horses or make the horse maori? default smiley :(


The item gives fragments and those fragments are divided between the divines from the series. You horse doesn't actually become one. You only get a divine from the series if the aura is able to make it reach 1000 fragments. (You'll already need an almost full bar for that to happen)
Argorok
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find it very interesting how little activity is in this topic. this is the first post in 2.5 days
Hiram Farmer
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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.
Artemis
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How do you donate horses
Emma_Dorgan
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