Warning: DO NOT BUY DIAMONDS

I made the mistake of buying diamonds- ONCE. Now, every single mystery box is locked. I even tried the trick to revisit the farm and not hit "X" but nothing worked. I revisited a farm for over THIRTY MINUTES! Every one- locked. It's been two days and so far not a box was left unlocked. Two days ago, I purchased diamonds.

It seems once you show them you have money, they revoke any and all "freebies" so that you continue to pay them.


So if you want the random free unlocked chest every now and again, DO NOT BUY A SINGLE THING FROM THIS GAME. you'll be forced to pay for everything from that point forward.

Bless your heart.

I've had locked boxes for more than 2 days. Keep playing. You'll encounter unlocked boxes again.

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Originally Posted by Fenway72

I made the mistake of buying diamonds- ONCE. Now, every single mystery box is locked. I even tried the trick to revisit the farm and not hit "X" but nothing worked. I revisited a farm for over THIRTY MINUTES! Every one- locked. It's been two days and so far not a box was left unlocked. Two days ago, I purchased diamonds.

It seems once you show them you have money, they revoke any and all "freebies" so that you continue to pay them.


So if you want the random free unlocked chest every now and again, DO NOT BUY A SINGLE THING FROM THIS GAME. you'll be forced to pay for everything from that point forward.

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Hi, sorry to hear you are frustrated. However, what you're saying simply isn't true. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that your own anecdotal evidence isn't accurate - you'd know better than me if you haven't been able to open any tool boxes in the last two days... But I can tell you that plenty of people who DO buy diamonds can still open boxes.

So if you haven't found any to open, that's a bummer for sure. But it isn't related to your recent purchase.

I've bought diamonds. The toolboxes still open...sometimes. Just like before.

There's a lot of variation. Sometimes I'll get three in a row that are open, sometimes there's 50 or more in a row that are locked. There's a pretty high standard deviation, to put it in statistical terms. You've just hit a run of bad luck.

I buy diamonds all the time, and still get unlocked boxes. Do you know the trick of tapping outside the locked boxes ( don't tap the X ) you find on other people's farms? If you do that each time you will eventually get a free box. I recently got a gold voucher from one of those unlocked boxes.

I know about the trick with not hitting the "X." As I said, I did that for over a half hour without a single unlocked box. That on top of two days of just normal trying.

Nothing.


I find it rather suspicious that this started after I paid for diamonds, yet my girlfriend who is the same level and DID NOT buy diamonds is having no problem whatsoever.

Ironically, two days ago, I stopped getting movie tickets also.

Girlfriend still gets them.

I know the default here is to defend SC, but I have Zero doubt that the frequency that you find unlocked boxes changes when you buy a bunch of diamonds. I took advantage of a sale and bought a large amount six days ago and haven't found an unlocked box in those six days! Not One! That is not a run of bad luck! My daughter bought the same amount a few days later and guess how many unlocked boxes she has seen since... I don't know if it is level dependent or what, but six days without an unlocked box is a bit obvious! I am an almost obsessive player who never goes more than an hour or so without checking in and updating my machines and crops, so it is not from lack of playing time either... It doesn't affect me one way or the other since I rarely unlock boxes whether I have the diamoonds or not, but I truly believe there is a Noticeable difference...

You may be a brand new player to Hay Day?

when you are first learning, they make it that pretty much every box opens! But that's why...... they get you hooked and then fall prey to the temptation to spend diamonds to continue to feel the joy of getting something in the toolbox every time.

I'm with you Cheddarlimbo, the rules of NOT getting out of the screen by tapping the red "X" are true!

if I feel that something's aren't going my way, I go back to my farm AGAIN and do some fishing planting crops or feeding animals. THEN I see a toolbox on MY farm. So I close my box by tapping the red "X" (only do that on your own farm)
and then I go back out onto my hunt for freebies from OTHERS' toolboxes. And it works!!!

i don't know why, but the whole thing about not closing red X on the other farms and refreshing their farm and try 2nd time and so on & so on until it opens (maybe4-6 tries) is a real true thing to get freebies, but if you are feeling sad and mad, then just go back to your farm until your farms toolbox is on there and open it and whether it has something or not, do the above instructions and you should be in luck!

Take a deep breath and when in doubt just come back here and re-read the "open red mystery box for free" thread.
It IS true,I haven't bought diamonds in 3 months and I get the free 5 diamonds from a free open red mystery box instructions at least once every 1 or 2 days. Please try this and let us know you have become successful

Wow. You get free diamonds every 1-2 says. I hardly ever get diamonds in a tool box. I do know you spend more time hunting tool boxes though.