Ride: Sports


The Summer games are just around the corner… fancy a Ride?

We made some UI changes for this edition. The most important one is that the board will turn grey when you need to choose between two squares, except for the two available squares.

� How to play?

Move inside the board by using the spinning wheel. The pawn will automatically move from 1 to 3 squares at once.

Sometimes, you will have the choice between two squares. In that case, the pawn moves only after you have clicked on the square where you want to go among the possible ones.


Special squares

During your ride, you can stop on special squares:

Bonus: Makes you move some steps forward.

Malus: Makes you move some steps backwards.

Obstacle: You must answer correctly to a horse-riding question to move +1 square forward.

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

Divine fragments: Grants some fragments to get Snow White


How to get roulette spins?

By connecting every day on the game, with a bonus for 5 days in-a-row.

By doing rides with your horses.

By winning competitions with your horses.

By buying them with Passes.


Joker

You can pay to get a Joker instead of spinning the wheel. That way, you can move to the space of your choice within a radius of 3 spaces in front of the pawn.

� Jackpot


Complete all the boards to win 4 Dressage & Show Jumping Heracles’ Horseshoe. Turn your horse into a champion of Dressage (+17 Dressage, +5 Gallop, +8 Trot) or Show Jumping (+8 Speed, +8 Dressage, +14 Jumping)


� New divine horse – Yellow Dwarf

Collect enough stardust to fill the gauge and get:

1 x Champion Seed

Throughout the event, you can find fragments of the stellar horse Yellow Dwarf in Tyche's Crowns. You can also collect more fragments on the board game, and by achieving daily objectives.

Changes on the Champion seed

and Gaïa’s Foal


Multiple changes will be applied to the Champion Seed & the Gaia’s Foal:

� Players can now choose between any breed available in-game. Selection remains between 10 random breeds (swaps each week).

� Common selection pool between the two items.

� Foals born with these 2 items will benefit from significantly more skill points (calculated on the best horses of each server).

� New store page and UI for better comparison between breeds.


Change on the default Black Market payment

choice

We also changed the default payment for Black Market items.

From now on, the inventory will be the default choice if the player has the object in stock and wants to apply it to their horse.

Let us know what you think about these changes.

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

Dressage & Show

Jumping Heracles

Horseshoe


Turn your horse into a champion of Dressage or Show Jumping, by providing a competition bonus that matches your horse's profile.


The Heracles' Horseshoe Dressage provides the following bonuses:
Dressage: +17
Gallop: +5
Trot: +8


The Heracles' Horseshoe Show jumping provides the following bonuses:
Speed: +8
Dressage: +8
Jumping: +14

You can get 4 of them as a final prize for the current event, but your horse can wear only one variation of the Hercules' Horseshoe at a time.

Please let us know what do you think about these new items.

Best regards,
The Howrse Team

I'm daring to let myself be excited again about the champion seed divine

Change on the default Black Market payment

choice

We also changed the default payment for Black Market items.

From now on, the inventory will be the default choice if the player has the object in stock and wants to apply it to their horse.

Transformation:

Hungry Shark

The new theme for this merge event are sharks!

How to play?

The gameplay loop has not changed compared to the previous event.

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

Drag items from the left side panel and drop them on your board.

Once it is done, you can:

Merge two equal items to get the next level one.

Merge two different items to get prizes!

Merge items 1 and 2 to get fragments of the new divine horse.

Merge two level 9 items to get the new companion!



How to get items?


There are two ways to get items:

You can buy them with passes

You can wait for a refill

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


Jackpot

A brand new companion: Shark-Sidhe! Merge two Level 9 items to get it!

Choose the awakened form of your companion from the 9 available sharks.


Tyche’s crown - New divine horse

Throughout the event, you can find fragments of the brand-new divine: Blue Hungry Shark from the Crossover series.


You can find the fragments by merging items level 1 and 2, and also in the Tyche’s Crown.

Blue Hungry Shark


Blue Hungry Shark is part of the new Crossover series.

He's the result of a visit to the Hungry Shark game on Howrse.

He will offer you one scratch ticket when he wakes up each day.


Scratch it to get a gift:

1 x Poseidon's Pack

Skill points you can assign as desired to any of Blue Hungry Horse's skills

Blue Hungry Horse cannot be sold.



The Crossover

Horses


Crossover Horses are divine horses. Each one is the result of a visit to a partner game on Howrse.

Every day when these horses wake up, each one gives you a scratch ticket.

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.


Best regards,
The Howrse Team

Mazes


The Mazes event is back with 7 mazes to complete. Can you find a way out? Let's find out!

The paces gauge stays common to all mazes, and won't fill up when you enter a new maze. This system was implemented during the previous edition, and has been kept so that the event is fairer for all players. However, with assiduity, and not getting too lost, we are sure that you will reach the end of the last maze.

How to play?

Make your way through the mazes thanks to your horses! Choose your moves wisely and use treats to collect prizes on your way out of the mazes.

To move inside a maze, you need paces. You can get them:

By buying treats.

Throughout the day, you get 1 pace every 2 hours.


In the mazes you can find:

Gifts

Treats

Square-revealing boosters

Obstacles

Fragments of a divine horse


Jackpot

Complete the 7 mazes to win the brand-new Precious Metals starry aura.

Turn your horse into a Star and win fragments of the divine horses from the Precious Metals series.


The new divine

Lorel Cattalian is one of the Extraterrestrial horses.

From Lorel Cattal to Earth, pass the Asteroid Barrier to make first contact. Take care when choosing which ride to go on!

Get 420 points to reach Earth and Lorel Cattalian will give you a gift:

1 x Medusa's Blood

Lorel Cattalian cannot be sold and you can increase his skills by using your Passes

Trophy page


The trophy page has been reworked to better highlight hard-won trophies by players.

In addition to work on the placement of different information on the page, filters have been added to make it easier to navigate between the trophies.

The levels reached by players through the achievement of trophies, as well as the rewards obtained, are now more explicit and better explained. This is due to the addition of a new pop-up window that gives all the necessary information on how gifts are distributed.


Best regards,
The Howrse Team

Blast: Fall


Autumn 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!


Note:
There will be 2 different events, each lasting 2 weeks. The next event will start after this one ends.
The divine in the Tyche’s Crown is the same for both events and his fragments can be obtained for the whole duration - 4 weeks! For this reason, the number of fragments in the Tyche’s Crown will be adjusted.

How to play?

You need to destroy blocks of the same color. You can destroy them by clicking on a group of at least 2 blocks of the same color. 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 and to get additional points.


Stone blocks

Get them to fall to the bottom of the grid to destroy them and to get additional points.


Rockets

Create them by destroying at least 8 blocks of the same color 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 and a free one included for logging in 5 days in a row. After using your free ones, 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 event.


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.

Jackpots

Heracles’ Horseshoe

When you reach level 3 on your gauge, you can win the new Heracles’ Horseshoe Cross Country.
This item gives the following bonuses:
- Stamina: +14
- Dressage: +10
- Jumping: +6

Liana

Fill the 5 levels of your gauge to get Liana, the Plant Kingdom Divine.

New divine: Oyster

Mushroom

Oyster Mushroom is the first divine of our New Divine Series: the Mushroom horses!
You can get fragments for this divine in the Tyche’s Crown.
His skills improve when you feed him straw, up to the maximum skill level of the best horse in the game. The skill increase depends on the amount of straw given, as well as the current season in the game.

Once he reaches 1300 skill points, he can be picked. His skills will then be reset to 0, but he'll give you:

1 x Aphrodite’s Tears

Oyster mushroom cannot be sold.

This is a new format that is being experimented with. The Admins are not sure if this will come about but be prepared for anything.
Note:
There will be 2 different events, each lasting 2 weeks. The next event will start after this one ends.
The divine in the Tyche’s Crown is the same for both events and his fragments can be obtained for the whole duration - 4 weeks!

Store: Halloween

Have you ever dreamed of running your own Rider's Store? Now's the time - the Rider's Store is back. Brace yourselves, store doors are about to open!


How to play?

Every day, riders will come to your store and ask for outfits .

They can ask from 1 to 3 items to complete their outfit. You must give them exactly what they're asking for to gain more coins .

Note: If you don't give them the exact item(s) they want, you will still win coins, but less. The number of coins you win will depend on the number and the type of items the customer was asking for.

There are a total of 8 levels. When enough customers are satisfied, the store levels up and unlocks new outfits and more customers per day. The number of customers that come in daily increases when you level up your store.

You can also get divine fragments at the rider’s store .



How to get outfits

You will get more outfits for your customers by:

Connecting every day with a fidelity bonus on the 5th day;

Buying them with Passes;

Making missions with your horses (3 per day);

Registering your horses into competitions. Dressage competitions give dressage outfits, for example (6 per day);

Making them in exchange of products from your inventory.

Increase your Store's level to get more customers each day and unlock new outfits for them.

You can spend 90 Passes to get 3 new riders instantly.

The rider’s store

After delivering an outfit, you will receive coins from the rider.

You can use the coins in the store to buy gifts .

You can choose the items you want, however, the price doubles if you buy the same item more than once.

Jackpot


Ow’s Apple

After equipping 80 riders, you will get an Ow’s Apple!

This customization item allows you to pick any special coat (excluding Golden Apple/Vintage Apple/Iris' Coat).


New divine: Oyster Mushroom

Oyster Mushroom is the first divine of our New Divine Series: the Mushroom horses!

During this event, you can get fragments for this divine in the Tyche’s Crown.

The Great Challenge

and Festivities


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


How to play?

As usual, this contest takes place in two parts:

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

The Festivities (Treats Battle) phase: Collect UFO’s and trade them for prizes or get up in rankings.


Part 1: The Great Challenge
Collect Horseshoes: Every day, perform various actions to collect up to 100 horseshoes. 120 if you have bought the Premium Key.

Unlock Gifts: As you gather horseshoes, you'll unlock awesome gifts at certain thresholds, like game items, fragments and more.

Special Jackpots: Keep an eye out for the free Jackpot and other bonuses that await.

Community Goals: When you claim a gift, you also contribute to a community goal. Achieving this goal means more UFOs for everyone in the upcoming Battle!


Premium Key
Buy the Premium Key with Passes to access:

Marvelous Premium Gifts: Gain access to exclusive gifts;

Extra Horseshoes: Increase your daily horseshoe limit to 120, helping you to catch up or to 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 part are automatically given when the Festivities start.

Jackpots


Free - Hermes' Winged

Staff

It allows you to use the Black Market's item of your choice for free, regardless of its value in passes.

Premium - Raven

Companions wake up during your horse's first action of the day. And they fall asleep when your horse ages. Raven gives a bonus of +14 in Trot.

New divine:

Romanticism
Complete the painting and Romanticism will give you a gift:

1 x Urban Legends Wanderer's Spirit

Romanticism cannot be sold.

Throughout the contest, you can find fragments of the new divine horse Romanticism from the Art History Horses series.

Trip: Winter


Put on some warm clothes and take a journey on our Trip: Winter event. 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(s) needed for the different maps;

☛ Possess, and use, the right number and type of cards indicated on the road.

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

Join and unlock the new horse on each map to unlock the next map and a new type of card.

End of contest
Once you have won all the prizes, you can restart the contest. All the gifts on the map can be won again but you will need to unlock the horses again. You will keep all the cards you have already bought or won.



Card types

There are five 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.
Gift 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 login 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.


Jackpots


Winter Hiking Journal

Give your horse a unique appearance with the new Winter Hiking Journal! You can get this item by completing the Territory #4.




New pony breed:

New Forest

Let's welcome our newest breed addition, the New Forest pony!





New divine:

Cinderella

Cinderella is the new divine horse from the Fairy Tales series. You can get her fragments in the Tyche’s Crown, by playing the Trip event, or by completing your Daily Objectives.
Perks are
1x Bewitched Pumpkin
1x Fairy companion
1x Heracles' Horseshoe Gallop race

Cinderella is the very last divine from the Fairy Tales series.

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