Great Challenge


Changes since last time:


The layout has changed--

There’s no more puzzle and you win the gifts directly when you reach certain levels of collected horseshoes

Lottery Phase:


The layout has changed

Tickets for/from friends: Now you have to make requests to get your lottery tickets from friends (same as water requests or help for the piñatas), up to 5 per draw. Each help request costs 200 equus.
It’s much simpler and less frustrating than the previous system, especially for players with a lot of friends.

A player can help as many players as she wants.

You can now win clovers in the Lottery (older players might remember it from a few years ago). You can exchange them against gifts in the Lottery shop (same as what we had for the Derby). The price doubles every time you buy an item.

The divine can also be bought in the shop. Golden Fleece

Lottery tickets for spending passes: to rebalance the odds among players, the number of tickets you get from spending passes has been reduced. You now get 1 ticket for each spent pass.

The mobile version was freshened up as well

Haumia-Tiketike is a divine from the brand new Maori series.

Once a day, you can scratch off three turtle’s nests to win either baby turtles or shells.

Baby turtles award Mana points to fill the Tiki gauge.

Once the Tiki gauge is full, you will receive a Water element item. This horse cannot be sold

Hearts Fight!


The principle is still the same as last year: Hearts UFOs are flying around. A player must catch them and throw them to friends to win the gift they contain. The best throwers win gifts.


The 5 players who send the most hearts will win 2 divine horses Ich Liebe Dich and Te Quiero

The next 5 players will win Ich Liebe Dich + 1 x Horn of Plenty

The next 5 players will win Te Quiero + 1 x Horn of Plenty

The next gifts are Horn of Plenty, Golden Apple, Achilles’ Heel, Medusa’s blood, Apollo’s Lyre.

Te Quiero
The principle is the same as Je t’aime and I love you: each one offers 2 diamonds on the 14th of every month (if you connected at least once in the past 3 days) and can be offered to a friend in February.

In the maze, how there are specific obstacles that need the specific horses, are we now able to change horses throughout the maze, or do we need to select the correct horse at the start of the maze? If that makes sense?

If you have any of the seasonal divines you do not need to change. Just select the correct seasonal divine for each maze. If you are using a normal horse, you can change it at any time you wish. You can pull it out to work it and put it back. You just need to put a substitute in there. When you get to any of the obstacles you will be ok if you have a seasonal divine, otherwise you will need to switch to one on the list I provided. After the obstacle is passed you can switch back to your original horse.

I mentioned the divine perk as being a water element but it is in fact a Hera Pack.

I think you win a heras pack from the divine, not a water element

You get the option of open 2 get one free and while not confirmed I am assuming there will be a limit like we usually have on this promo. So it works done to 5 passes.

Yes, exactly, that's why I'm wrapped it's a Divine with a decent BMI reward. That offer,
if I remember correctly, usually comes thru using HoPs, which I've saved up a bundle,
so it shouldn't cost me a single pass to snag

You may have to rethink a few things. The GC lottery divine will be in the Golden Fleece, not HOPs. I believe the Love divine will be in HOPs but nothing is confirmed.

oh well, might pick up some MA & more HoPs out of the GF's

This is a completely revamped version of the Excavations contests we had a few years ago. So much has changed that it’s almost a brand new contest.


Concept

The player is in an Ice Palace and has to break through ice doors with the help of a cute robot (Roby) to progress from room to room and finally get the divine horse Ràn.

How does it work?


You’re in a room with 4 ice-doors in front of you, and have to break one open with Roby's help to go through it to reach the next room, and so on. Once a door has been opened you have to click on the arrow to progress to the next room. (It is also possible to open several doors in the same room, for example if there is more than 1 interesting gift.

The doors are made of ice of a certain thickness and require a certain amount of clicks. Some doors are obstructed by rocks and cannot be opened.

Some doors contain:
Gifts

Wargs (wolf-like creatures) that serve as obstacles. You either wait or complete the proposed objective to go further

Tools to upgrade Roby

Roby:

Roby is a little foraging robot, your companion on this mission to get Ràn. Roby digs and forages on the ice doors to break them. Roby uses energy when digging through doors.

Once the energy gauge is empty, you either wait some time or pay for a refill for 1 pass. The battery refills point by point starting with one every 4h, and can be upgraded to reach one every 30 minutes.

Roby upgrades:

In some doors you can collect tools to upgrade Roby.

Once you have five tools you can upgrade Roby.
There are 3 types of upgrade, depending on the player’s strategy/preferred way of playing. You have to choose among:

Upgrade A: increases the battery’s capacity (convenient if you log in less often)

Upgrade B: accelerates the battery regeneration

Upgrade C: increases the power of each drill (clicks)


Roby can be upgraded 3 times. Each time you upgrade again, you can choose among the 3 offered upgrade types.


Dynamite:


If Roby doesn’t have any energy left, you can also buy dynamite to break the doors. 1 Dynamite counts as 5 clicks.

Ràn

She belongs to the Nordic divines.
Her gift is a foal from a breed/color the player doesn’t have.

If the player has them all already, they’ll get a random one (breed and color).

Wind Divine horses

On the page of a wind divine horse, in the block with the wind direction, you can now see how many points will be gained with one hour of riding. ( this is an additional bit of text to tell you what the point gain will be without having to actually click on the bar.)

Ow's Helios Ray

2 new backgrounds are being added to Ow's Helios Ray collection!

New Wandering horse will visit you.

The latest Wandering Horses (Environments) have been added to the Wandering Spirit.