[Event] Great Challenge and Water Battle

By AmOwzing, 16th July 2025 12:41:46





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 29/07/2025 12:00 and then the Water Battle will start.

The Water Battle part will end on 04/08/2025 14:00.

Lactarius will be available until 05/08/2025 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
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By AmOwzing, 22nd July 2025 14:27:23
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Hello everyone,

How many horseshoes have you collected so far?default smiley (ow)

Have fun playing,
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By gaff, 22nd July 2025 21:44:26
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I should get to 700 today - I haven't bought the key this time around as I'm not interested in the Starry Aura's, but I'm very happy with the prizes available without it default smiley ^)
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By Dauntless, 23rd July 2025 17:59:00
600 horseshoes right now. Not buying the key, I never do anyways. Hopefully I can finish this event. This one always seems to not ever have enough time.
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By gaff, 23rd July 2025 21:58:38
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Is that before or after today's horseshoes, Dauntless? If you still have today's hundred to collect, and you collect all 100 every day you should just make it...
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By Dauntless, 24th July 2025 00:22:06
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That was before. At 700 right now.
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By AmOwzing, 24th July 2025 11:03:59
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Hello,

Glad to see everyone's progress! Is your goal to reach the Themis Scale?default smiley (ow)

Good luck!
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By Josey jojo, 28th July 2025 01:19:45
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All done, with another day up my sleeve default smiley (y)
This one is always achievable and costs nothing but a little time, normally play usually meets the daily objectives.default smiley (y)
Pretty happy with the prizes too.default smiley ^)

The Starry Aura does nothing for me, and all the prizes put together on that prize tier isn't worth 600 passes, (to me) so I pass default smiley ;)
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By AmOwzing, 28th July 2025 09:57:40
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Hello,

The Great Challenge will end tomorrow. How many of you have already collected all the horseshoes?default smiley (ow)

And good job for collecting all the horseshoes, Josey jojo!default smiley (y)

Have fun playing!
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By gaff, 28th July 2025 11:00:25
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Josey jojo wrote:

All done, with another day up my sleeve default smiley (y)
This one is always achievable and costs nothing but a little time, normally play usually meets the daily objectives.default smiley (y)
Pretty happy with the prizes too.default smiley ^)

The Starry Aura does nothing for me, and all the prizes put together on that prize tier isn't worth 600 passes, (to me) so I pass default smiley ;)


Ditto for me default smiley :)
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By Dauntless, 28th July 2025 20:36:06
Couldn't finish. Literally got 1,150 horseshoes.. Actually driving me crazy.
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By AmOwzing, 29th July 2025 09:35:56
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Hello,

Good job, gaff!default smiley (ow)

That's so unlucky, Dauntless. Will you be able to collect the missing horseshoes in the next hours? Crossing my fingers for you!

The Water Battle will start very soon. Get ready, everyone! default smiley (ow)

Good luck!
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By Josey jojo, 30th July 2025 02:12:34
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l don't mind this part of the mini game either, it's nice to be able to help your friends out default smiley :d

It can be a costly exercise if your aiming for a place in the top 5 though or sometimes just a half decent prize from the balloons.default smiley :s Very hit and miss, all about luck, or lack of it default smiley :p

I'll be more than happy to just end within the Themis Scale bracket default smiley (l). Less if l get the opportunity for an Athena's medal or twodefault smiley (7), but that's very unlikely, don't remember ever popping a balloon holding the top prize default smiley :$
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By luinlote, 1st August 2025 23:03:41
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Im way out of the rankings. I was going to try for the divine in this one but I have been so lucky with prizes and I couldn't bring myself to knock them back lol. Almost all of my balloons have had one of the top 5 prizes.
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By AmOwzing, 4th August 2025 14:30:03


Hello,

The Great Challenge is now over.

Since this event was divided into two parts, you can provide your opinion on their respective topics.

Please head over to the following topics to give us your feedback:
- [Survey] Great Challenge
- [Survey] Water Battle

Have fun playing Howrse!
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