[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 maryannmaryann, 31st July 2025 13:09:14
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I have gotten 6 blue and white western saddle cloths in a row. Is there a re-set button?
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By LanttuChan, 31st July 2025 13:16:04
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I've been really enjoying the prizes so far! Somehow have managed to get one of every top row gift so far even with minimal rerolls. I imagine my good luck won't continue much longer lol
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By bearvalley, 31st July 2025 14:14:15
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I've been online since the balloons started at least a couple of hours and haven't seen even one balloon!
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By AmOwzing, 31st July 2025 14:33:55
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bearvalley wrote:

I've been online since the balloons started at least a couple of hours and haven't seen even one balloon!

Hello,

I've been finding them without issues until now.

Please try these steps:
- Log out of your account and log back in.
- Clear your browser's cache/cookies.

If you are unable to find Balloon UFOs after that, please contact Support.

Thank you!
AmOwzing
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By phillipparoby22, 31st July 2025 19:08:32
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Since when can you not get the titans challenge in the Themis scale? You used to be able to get them but I’ve just gone on it and it’s not in the list?!
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By glolite, 31st July 2025 22:21:51
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phillipparoby22 wrote:

Since when can you not get the titans challenge in the Themis scale? You used to be able to get them but I’ve just gone on it and it’s not in the list?!

I traded my scale in for TCs. Maybe there has to be a TC promo going on to swap?
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By Crookedstar915, 31st July 2025 22:53:17
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maryannmaryann wrote:

I have gotten 6 blue and white western saddle cloths in a row. Is there a re-set button?


There's a trade option; it's the option on the right when you go to make a selection. It costs some equus but when you use it you'll get a different balloon (typically with a new prize)
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By Ravenknight, 1st August 2025 00:36:50
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I try to retrade until i run out of equus. I won one harmony pack and a hop that i traded for a golden apple. I got the two high use donkeys i wanted.
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By sofizzy, 1st August 2025 02:29:11
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phillipparoby22 wrote:

Since when can you not get the titans challenge in the Themis scale? You used to be able to get them but I’ve just gone on it and it’s not in the list?!


I am pretty sure you can only trade them when they are actually able to be bought which is usually when there is a promo going on that uses them. (You all can correct me if I am wrong on this.)
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By sofizzy, 1st August 2025 02:39:02
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Just did some testing on this theory and I guess you can't anymore. Since there is a Titans Challenge promo going on right now it would stand to reason that you should be able to trade for it? I know I have used them in the past to get Golden Fleeces? Is this a new change?
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By Bohemian Anna, 1st August 2025 03:52:09
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sofizzy wrote:

Since there is a Titans Challenge promo going on right now


There's no Titan's Challenge atm, they're typically available during weekend offers.
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By Azalie, 1st August 2025 06:33:49
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Keep trading and trading to keep getting the same or lesser things over and over. Like trading an ATears for a western saddle cloth smh. The only reason I even have points on the leaderboard is because I don't want 17 million Lyres sitting in my inventory not getting used, but I also don't want to spend thousands just to inevitably trade it for mash.
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By maaik.x, 1st August 2025 06:39:56
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if your goal isn’t points, it might help to trade only things that don’t really have value such as mash or the croesus fortune, but keep all bmi’s. you can always exchange them later! the risk of getting a lower value balloon is lower that way, since it doesn’t really matter to lose stuff like mash anyway…
for example the tears are highly popular so they’ll be easy to get rid off in the exchanges default smiley :)
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By pallaadium, 1st August 2025 12:19:51
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I still havent got any top row gifts.. I'm really hating this promo rn default smiley (d)

Don't know if I'm having a really really bad luck - i keep getting only mash, 5000eq and 5AP and basically all my second row gifts are from trading the balloons. Very very disappointed.
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By COCOCOCO, 1st August 2025 12:22:31
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I don't use my bonuses for the water battle, so if anyone needs any just shoot me a friend request and I'm happy to share (:
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By Azalie, 1st August 2025 13:01:55
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COCOCOCO wrote:

I don't use my bonuses for the water battle, so if anyone needs any just shoot me a friend request and I'm happy to share (:

That's not how that works. You can send others bonuses whether you have any or not, it won't change how many you have. You'll still have them.
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By deimos, 1st August 2025 13:46:53
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I wish we could set the bonuses up as UFOs on our pages. I have 84 I don't want and that number will go up because I'm just taking anything I get in each balloon
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By Capella, 1st August 2025 15:40:26
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2 harmony packs, 3 hops, 3 tears, 4 f wands, 7 heels, 2 timers and a bit of other low grade stuff

I exchange till I hit 20 something k in cost

Very happy so far
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By Ravenknight, 1st August 2025 16:13:51
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I click for friends bonus but saving my equus to make a better exchange. Keeping aging points, wands, tears, equus, heels, dials and won a harmony pack and hops. Keeping arrows to if i dont think im going to make a better trade.
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By לולו1, 1st August 2025 20:23:18
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I love this event! default smiley (l)default smiley (l)default smiley (l)



My goal is to be the last in the ranking

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By Ravenknight, 1st August 2025 20:53:37
Im currently at 7254
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By ilikebiscuits, 2nd August 2025 03:13:13
bearvalley wrote:

I've been online since the balloons started at least a couple of hours and haven't seen even one balloon!


Me either.
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By Crispcrisis, 2nd August 2025 03:48:26
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If you aren't seeing balloons, double check that you don't have one currently waiting for you to make a choice, or that the counter doesn't say you have caught 6/6 for the current round.
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By StarLegacy, 2nd August 2025 14:06:51
I really wish we didn't have to lose points if we wanted to keep a prize. Sure, we can use the bonuses, but the big prizes likes Horns of Plenty will affect our score badly. This needs to be changed.
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By jsniper, 2nd August 2025 15:58:49
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All I want is one Harmony Pack, it seems like too much to ask for default smiley xd
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