Equestrian hike: London


The Equestrian hike event is back, and this time, we will be venturing through the charming streets of Victorian London!

There have been some adjustments made for this edition, but the core concept of the event remains intact. The changes include:

� No more "Collections" page.
� Addition of the "Hike" trophy.
� A new divine horse can now be won in Tyche's Crown.

How to play?

Move forward across the board by using your cards wisely. Spend tokens to activate your cards, move your pawn, and cross the checkpoint to claim rewards.

There are 4 different types of cards:

Switch - Change the line.

Move - Move forward by 1, 2, or 3 km.

Counter-obstacle - Find the right card to counter the obstacles you face on the way.

Joker - Counter any obstacle blocking your way.

On your way, you can collect useful items during your hike:

Tokens

Gifts from the game

Gifts to send to a friend

Gifts from a friend


To receive them, you have to pass through the square they are laid on.

Pass through successive checkpoints that are more and more distant from each other to progress towards the event's jackpot. Reach the final checkpoint to win the new Sherlock-themed coat!

Keep in mind that upon crossing a checkpoint finish line, you will have the option to choose from various gifts located on squares in each column. To acquire the desired gifts, ensure you are in the correct column.

There are 4 different obstacles that can be countered:

How to get tokens

There are several ways to get tokens:

Connecting every day on the game (6 per day)

Remember that if you connect 5 days in a row, you receive the fidelity bonus (extra 6 Tokens).

Thanks to daily actions

By finding them on the board

By buying them with passes

Jackpot


Inspecteur Lestrade coat, the new unique coat for your horses, straight from the Sherlock Holmes universe.

It grants +7 to all skills of the horse that wears it.

Complete all 8 mazes to earn it.


� The new divine horse


Professor Moriarty is one of the new Sherlock Holmes Adventures horses.

Every day when waking up, Professor Moriarty will ask you to solve a new crime scene.

With a limited number of moves, find where the gift is hidden by using the proximity clues.

You can win 1 x Achilles' Heel or another surprise.

Transformation:
Cat-sith!


Cats return as the main theme for the transformation event!

It's common to say that the time spent with cats is never wasted. We have taken these words to heart, and therefore, this transformation event will be again all about cats.


How to play?

The gameplay loop has not changed compared to the previous event. The only difference is the balancing: we have added an additional ingredient. The total number of ingredients is now 9.

Your goal is to merge ingredients on the board to create more valuable ingredients and get prizes.


Drag basic ingredients from the left side panel (you can access 3 basic types of ingredients) and drop them on your board. Once it is done, you can:

� Merge two equal ingredients to get a more valuable one.

� Merge two different ingredients to get prizes!

� Merge the Level 1 ingredient and Level 2 ingredient to get divine fragments of the new divine horse.

� Merge two Level 9 ingredients to get the new companion!

How to get items?

There are two ways to get ingredients:

You can buy them with passes

You can wait for a refill


Please note that items can only be purchased if all refillable items are empty.

Only the Level 2 and Level 3 ingredients can be bought!


Jackpots


Merge two Level 9 ingredients to get the new Cat Palug item!

Once this cat accompanies your horse, it offers the horse the following bonus: Speed +14.


Win Puss in Boots, a new divine horse from the series of Fairy Tales horses!

Once the horse's plot is complete, you get a prize among:

1 x Cat-sith

1 x Cat

1 x Nekomata

Throughout the event, you can find fragments of this new divine horse in Tyche's Crowns.

Trip: Ancient era


Take a journey back in time with our event, Trip: Ancient Era. Experience ancient times like never before on Howrse. Read more below and join us on this exciting trip!

� How to play?

Complete the 4 territories by unlocking roads with your cards and win gifts!

To unlock and complete a road, you need to:

☛ Unlock the horse related to the map

☛ Possess (and use) the right number of cards indicated on the route (and of the right type of cards)

You can only complete a new road from a route that you have already reached. When you reach a new point on the map, you receive the associated gift.

When you finish a map, you unlock the horse for the next road. This allows you to unlock the next map and take the routes related to that horse.

Complete routes until you get the brand-new customization item: Greek Hiking Journal!

� Card types

There are five available card types:

Plain ~ Unlocked at the beginning of the event.
Forest ~ Available when you unlock the related horse on a dedicated point on the previous map.
Desert ~ Available when you have unlocked the related horse by finishing on the previous map.
Mountain ~ Available when you have unlocked the related horse by finishing on the previous map.
Prize ~ It cannot be used to complete a route. You get a random gift when you click on the card. It can be used whenever you want.


� How to win cards?

You can win cards by:

connecting every day on the game, with a bonus if you come 5 days in-a-row

taking your horses for rides (2x per day)

entering competitions with your horses (2x per day)

buying them with passes

The cards that you receive when you buy them for passes can be of any type, even if you haven't unlocked all horses related yet.

You will always receive cards from a type that you have already unlocked unless you buy them with Passes.

� End of contest


Once you've won all the prizes, you can restart the contest. All the gifts on the map can be won again, but you will have to unlock the horses once more. You keep all the cards that you have already bought or won.

� Jackpots


� Greek Hiking Journal

Give your horse a unique appearance from this event! Turn your horse into a hiking pro.

Ladon

Let's welcome the newest addition to the collection of Dragon horses!

Fight it against other players' dragons to win a prize:

1 x Golden Apple

Throughout the event, you can find fragments of this new divine horse in the Tyche’s Crown.

The 3 Heros - Just as expected, no benefits other than high stats. - Achilles
- Ulysses
- Atlanta
Greek God Athena
I am unsure if all Heroes and Greek Gods will have no perks, but it is said that either these three heroes or heroes AND Athena will have no benefits other than stats. But its all still in the works, fingers crossed they listen to advice given, but I am nervous

A Free Horn of Plenty and a Alebrijow pet!

The Great Challenge and Lottery


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

� How to play

As usual, this contest takes place in two parts:

� The Great Challenge phase: Collect horseshoes by completing in-game objectives.

� Festivities (Lottery): Collect and buy lottery tickets, participate in the draws, and win Clovers that you can exchange in the dedicated shop to get gifts.

� The Great Challenge

Every day, you will have the choice between 9 different objectives you can complete over and over during the day. Complete them to get horseshoes and unlock gifts and bonuses (game items, a special offer, fragments, green tickets for the Lottery, etc.).

You can collect up to 100 horseshoes a day, or even 120 if you have bought the Premium Key.


NEW: The Golden Horseshoes have been removed. You now need to finish the tutorial to enter the end-of-contest Lottery for the divine horse.

� Premium Key


Buy the Premium Key with passes to access additional marvelous rewards:

� Extra gifts

� Fragments of the new divine horse Jenny (with new markings)

� A bonus that enables you to get one golden lottery ticket for each draw

� Another Jackpot during the Great Challenge phase


Besides, the Premium Key allows you to collect up to 120 horseshoes daily. Thanks to that, you can:

✅ Make up for lost time if you missed a day!
✅ Get gifts and jackpots sooner!

You can buy your Premium Key whenever you want during the Challenge phase.

The gifts unlocked during the Great Challenge part but not claimed are given automatically when the Festivities start at the end of the phase.


� Jackpots


Free Jackpot in the Great Challenge:
Mizaki horse - a horse of a new breed!

Complete the event with the Premium key to win a special horse: Zebra, one of the Zonkeymily horses (with new markings).

Throughout the contest, you can find fragments of the divine horse Jenny (with new Halloween-themed markings) in � Tyche's Crowns.

There are no divine fragments in the daily objectives during this event, as you can complete objectives for the Great Challenge (the fragments will be back in the objectives for the next event).

Festivities: Lottery


During the Festivities, you can participate in lottery draws. Every day, there will be between 1 and 4 draws. The number depends on the community's progression during the Challenge phase.

To participate in the draws, you need lottery tickets, which you can obtain by:

purchasing them with Equus

winning competitions with your horses (2 per draw)

putting back in play the wins of the previous draw

catching them in UFO's

being helped by your friends

participating in the Great Challenge (the free part)

unlocking the Great Challenge bonus with the Premium Key


⚠ It is no longer possible to get tickets when buying Black Market items.

You can take these actions for every draw. After each draw in which you have participated, you will be notified of your potential gifts.

As a result, you can then decide what you want to do with them. You can:

✅ receive them

� exchange your gifts for new tickets for the next draw

⚠ Please be aware that you cannot participate in the next draw until your choice concerning pending gifts is made.

There is now a dedicated page, on which you can decide whether you want to keep your gifts or exchange them.

⚠ At the end of the contest, if you haven't chosen what to do with your last gifts, you will automatically receive the gifts.

� Lottery gifts


The gifts can be:

� Jackpots: Jenny, Zebra, Eros Egg

� Clovers

� Black Market items

Clover shop



With your clovers, you will be able to purchase:

� Black Market items

� Divine fragments

� Aging points

� Equus

� Store items

⚠ The clover cost doubles every time you get a copy of the same gift.

⚠ The gift shop will be available until a few days after the end of the event.

The Mazaki or Misaki breed whichever way y'all want to spell it, it just looks increasingly wrong the more I look at it There's already a super nice looking Masaki in the Wild horse collection why and how did it somehow end up looking so conformationally weird

When will another Australian breed make the cut I would go ham/feral over some Australian Stock Horses, Walers, Australian Draught Horses and Coffin Bay Ponies. Plus some Palouses, even though they're not totally Australian I still like them

I'm wondering if the new breeds skillset will follow what's on the wild version? which is Speed, Gallop, and Jumping? also they made the head too large, makes it look a little funky.

I wouldn't be surprised if the new divines don't have extra perks... if any of them did it would probably be Athena. I think the point of players getting the heroes for free is so that players with no other divines could use the Drachmas in Ascent of Olympus... and since they're "free divines", Howrse isn't very likely to give them gameplay perks aside from higher skills.

They have no perks but do have very high skills. For example they have 6100 on all disciplines for the International so would expect between 4500 to 5000 for the Auzzie server.

Ride: Halloween


Are you ready for a spine-chilling adventure? Participate in the Ride: Halloween event and go on a spooky ride for exciting prizes!

How to play?

You need to choose a board game and move using the spinning wheel.


The Pawn moves automatically from 1 to 3 squares at once.

You will sometimes have the choice of several paths. In that case, the pawn moves only once you have clicked on the square where you want to go among the possible ones.

Special squares

Across each board, you can stop on various special squares:

Bonus: you move one or more steps forward.

Penalty: you move one or more steps backward.

Obstacle: to move +1 square forward, you have to answer a horse riding question.

Fragments: you receive some Snow White fragments.


Gift box: gives you a reward of your choice among 3 possible gifts.

Roulette spins

To move forward on your board, you have to spin the roulette.

How do you get them?

By logging into the game every day (4 per day).

Get extra 4 roulette spins by playing the game for 5 days in a row.

By taking your horses for rides (2 per day).

By winning competitions with your horses (2 per day).

By buying them with passes.

Joker!


Move to the space of your choice within a radius of 3 spaces in front of your pawn.

This joker can help you move faster and win more gifts.

Jackpot

Collect 8 cups to win a Witch potion.

Thanks to this item, you can turn your horse into a cozy witch. The coats are given randomly.

This item also grants your horse +6 on each skill.

The divine horse
Throughout the event, you can find fragments of the special horse Snow White in Tyche's Crowns. You can also collect more fragments through the board game as well as by achieving your daily objectives.

Snow White is one of the Fairy Tale Horses.

Witch potion
Stamina : +6Speed : +6Dressage : +6Gallop : +6Trot : +6Jumping : +6
Alchemist witch

Herbalist witch

Mushroom witch

Spellbook witch

I have been waiting for witch themed coats for so longgg, so happy to get them. Loving the Alchemist and Spellbook, my favorite type of witches

Doors: Sherlock Holmes


We are excited to announce that the Doors Event is returning with a new theme and a few adjustments. This edition will immerse us again in the world of Sherlock Holmes' adventures.


� How to play?



Sherlock is lost in his own mind and must escape by going through multiple rooms! He must use his deduction skills to open the doors and get the prizes inside.

To progress in the event, players must open doors with revelation . Each use of revelation consumes energy .

Inside the rooms you can find:

Gifts

Sherlock Divine fragments

An objective proposed by a quest-giver

Watches to improve Sherlock’s skills

Gifts to send to a friend

Gifts sent by friends


Players will have a choice between multiple rooms to open. Some require more revelation to be opened, and some use more energy than others as well. Players can see the amount of energy used when they hover over the room they wish to open. If a player is out of energy, they will have to wait for a refill.


How does the energy refill?


● The energy refills over time (players can accelerate regeneration by reducing the times with the watch items).

● You can buy more energy points with passes. (discounted on weekends)


How do you improve Sherlock’s skills?


On your way, you will find watches to improve Sherlock’s skills. There are 3 different types of improvements:

● Regeneration: Energy is restored more frequently

● Revelation: Each click is worth 1 more revelation point

● Energy capacity: increase the maximum amount of energy you can have

Get to room 80 to win the Jackpot!




� Jackpot – The Mycroft Holmes coat




The animated Mycroft Holmes coat is the Jackpot for this event. It’s the 4th animated coat in the Sherlock Holmes universe.

Starting at 1 year 6 months. The coat grants your horse +7 to all skills.


� A new divine from the Sherlock Holmes series: Sherlock Holmes!



Throughout the event, you can find fragments of this new divine horse in the Tyche’s Crown.

Every day when waking up, Sherlock Holmes will ask you to solve a new crime scene. With a limited number of moves, find where the gift is hidden by using the proximity clues.

You can win:

1 x Arthur Conan Doyle's Inkwell
Another surprise

Flash sales

Get ready! The Black Friday sales will be back!

We're thrilled to introduce our innovative new sales program, exclusively featured on our Black Friday hub, offering incredible discounts and exciting deals.

Here are some details about the test version:

● The number of horses in the reserved sales will be higher during the real event.
● The list of horses on sale in the real game will be different.

Please let us know if you notice any issues with the Flash sales page during the test phase.


Enjoy testing the Flash Sales!
The Howrse Team

Christmas: Mazes


The Mazes are back with 8 mazes to complete. The event is twice as long as the previous one. Can you find a way out? Let's find out!

Once you have finished all the levels, you can replay the event from the start, and you’ll be able to win more gifts. However, entering a maze after completing it is not possible.

How to play?

Make your way through the maze and stock up on prizes! Choose one horse to enter the maze (you can change afterward if you meet an obstacle that your horse cannot pass).

You can move by using:

1 treat (you can find them in the maze or buy 4 for 85 passes)
or
1 pace, which recovers after a two-hour period. Each pace includes 10 moves.

NEW!

The stride gauge is common to all mazes. Thus, the gauge no longer fills up when you enter a maze, unlike in previous editions.
Its level is always preserved when you move from one maze to another.


You will find treats, prizes, and Rakhch fragments in the mazes.

Each maze room is represented as a single cell on the mini-map. Therefore, you will be able to see your progression in the maze through the map, in which the cells represent the rooms to come and the ones you’ve been in.

You can reveal more cells by using the spy glasses, which reveal 8 cells around you.

There is a catch though: the mazes are filled with obstacles, which will require specific actions.

Obstacle: How can I get past it?

Small riddle/quiz to solve: click on the right answer to continue
Logs
Use whatever horse
Crate bridge
Use a pony or a foal (less than 18 months old) or a member of the family (Falabella, Falacorne, Bellacorne)
Anvil
Use a draft horse or a winged draft horse or a draft unicorn
Multicolored pit
Use a horse with Medusa's Blood (either Pegasus, winged unicorn or winged draft horse or Winged members of Zonkeymily)
Rainbow
Use a horse with a Unicorn bonus (unicorn or winged unicorn)
Fire
Use a horse with a water coat from the 5th element or a water divine

Jackpot


Wesołych Świąt is the jackpot in the event. It's the Polish horse in the Christmas series.

On the 25th of each month, the Stroke button becomes a gift one.

Click on it to get:
In December: 200 200 passes
In the other months, a random gift from:
compagnonrenard 1 x Fox
rayonheliosow 1 x Ow's Helios' Ray
lyreapollon 1 x Apollo's Lyre


Wesołych Świąt cannot be sold.


The new divine


Rakhsh is one of the mythological horses.

Each time you groom him, he leaves saffron flowers behind for you.

Collect enough saffron flowers to win:

10 10 passes

Rakhsh cannot be sold.

Secret Santa
The principle is the same as last year. On December 8, you choose a gift to send to a random player. On December 20th, you receive a random gift and a bonus for the Maze event.

If you missed the pop-up, you can always click on the dedicated window on the homepage at any time.

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Dev's Corner -
New Trophies


We're thrilled to announce the latest additions to our trophy collection.


� Mythological Horses Trophy

� Christmas Reindeer Trophy

� Gods and Heroes of Olympus Trophy

� Ascension of Olympus Trophies


Please let us know what you think about these new trophies!

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

Blast: Winter


Winter has come… And has brought along a new edition of the Blast event! Destroy blocks in a grid to fill the gauge. With each successful move, you'll be one step closer to winning incredible rewards!


� How to play

You need to destroy blocks of the same colour with as many blows as you have. You can destroy them by clicking on a group of at least 2 blocks of the same colour. When you destroy blocks, your meter fills up. At the end of the level, you get a chest whose value depends on the number of blocks you destroyed.

Special blocks

Sometimes you will find special blocks on the grid. It could be:

Glass blocks
Destroy adjacent block groups twice to destroy them
Stone blocks
Get them to fall to the bottom of the grid to destroy them.
Rockets

Create them by destroying at least 8 blocks of the same colour at once. Click on them to destroy all the blocks in the same column or in the same line.

Explosion

Use the Explosion to destroy all the blocks in the grid! You get a free explosion once every day, it then costs 30 Passes.

� Chests

Each time you destroy blocks on the grid, points are added to the chest gauge. The more blocks you destroy at once, the more points you get.



When there are no moves left, the grid ends, and at that moment, you will receive:

A chest that will be added to one of your available slots. The rarity of the chest depends on how filled the chest gauge is.

A cup, that will fill your general gauge.


At the beginning, you have one slot available. You need to wait to unlock the other two slots or you can pay if you want to unlock them right away.

⚠ If all the slots are occupied, you cannot play on the grid anymore until you open one of the chests in a slot to free it up.

To open the chest you can:

Wait until the end of the timer

Use boosters, and reduce the timer for some hours

Pay for the Master Key, and reduce the timer to 0 for all the chests in the slots

The chests that are in your slots will automatically be opened at the end of the contest.

Boosters

Use boosters to open your chests faster!

You can get boosters:

By buying them with Passes.

Every day when you log in, with a fidelity bonus if you come 5 days in-a-row.

Jackpot

Fill the 5 levels of your gauge with cups you gain when completing your grids to obtain gifts, fragments for the new divine horse, and the new exclusive companion: Emperor Frosty!

When awake, this companion awards a bonus to your horse:
Trot: +15


� New divine horse

Get fragments from the new divine horse of the new Fire series: Embers in the Tyche's Crown, by completing levels in the Blast event, or by achieving your daily objectives!

Embers is one of the Fire horses. Give your horse some wood to keep his flame burning. Avoid giving water to your horse, otherwise you'll risk putting his flame out.
Once the flame is strong enough, he'll give you:

1 x Philosopher's Stone

More chances to get unicorns


A new rule on the unicorn breeding system has been added to reduce the unicorn foal birth randomness.

Formerly, the chances to breed a unicorn were to 1 in 5 (except for the VIP players who chose the corresponding perks). From now on, if a player doesn't manage to breed a unicorn 5 times in-a-row, the 6th foal will necessarily be a unicorn.

The system is similar for unicorn donkeys and unicorn draught horses whose number of coverings can be increased by Phanes Egg.

Please let us know what you think about the new solution.

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

The Fire horses


Fire horses are special horses. Each represents a different elemental state related to the flames. Give them some wood to increase their flame meter. Win a prize when it's completely filled up.

These horses cannot die, be sold, or appear in rankings. They cannot: - breed
- be customized
- enter the Grand Prix
- be aged manually

They do not count toward the prestige of the equestrian center in which they are boarded.

Once per day they can enter competitions open to all horses, as well as competitions for special horses provided they have enough energy to do so.

Please let us know what you think about this new series.

Best regards,
The Howrse Team