Small things that cause big change(Short guide)

Productions:
Produce things that take less time when you are free.
Don't queue the production line too much when you are online. You might need something for your boat or so.
Fill the production queues to the max and schedule things that take more time during sleep/work.

Fishing:
Use deep water areas and areas that need more time to fish again on that area for nests/traps
Use 2-6 areas for lobster traps.
Use 1-4 areas for nets.
Use shallow water fishing areas and swampy areas for lure fishing.
Don't rush to upgrade lobster pool if you lack coins and have something to unlock in the next level.

Pets:
Buy as much as possible.

Daily dirt:
Check it every 1-2 mins. First go through all the pages to see if there are expansions. Then visit other farms which have your things

Following:
Follow farms that sell things cheap and frequently.


I will keep updating this when I find something good to post.
Anyone can suggest anything I may add to this thread.

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

This is specifically for the newbies as the high level players might know this or maybe not

Mystery box:
You get 2 open mystery boxes every 3-5 hours. One on your farm and other on someone else's farm.
You won't find another open box as soon as you find one.
Not closing the closed box dialogue/pop-up does not help at all!


I will keep updating this when I find something good to post.
Anyone can suggest anything I may add to this thread.

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This is NOT RIGHT ADVICE -- You can try and open as many mystery boxes as you can find on your farm and on the farms of your friends/folks in the newspaper. When you open one, go back you your farm, tap on your mystery box and if it is locked, tap OUTSIDE of the box to preserve it, then go to a neighbors farm. There will be a box on that farm for you, and on and on until you find an open one. Then repeat.

PLEASE do not make guides until you are absolutely 100% certain of the accuracy of your information!!!!

this is the link re the red toolboxes as originally posted by Cricks

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ight=Toolboxes

I must agree that the information given in the OP about mystery chests is incorrect. I average 6 open chests per hour by following the advice given by Cricks, and the odds for success increase with more attempts at opening.

In one marathon weekend playing session I accumulated about 20 vouchers of different color (gold included), about $7500 in coin, 30 diamonds, and numerous tools and expansion items. It's definitely worth checking every chest!

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

Random tools while farming:
You get a tool for the 68th wheat you harvest while wheating.

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At level 5, you only need 18 harvests. That number changes with level. At level 82 where I am now, the number is 77. Yes, I count.

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Pets:
Buy as much as possible.
You get a tool for every 4th pet you feed.

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3 horses is enough on my farm.

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Following:
Follow farms that sell things cheap and frequently.

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I follow farm that sell expansion items even at max price.

I must be dumb or not playing my game right, but what is a mystery box/chest? :confused:

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Originally Posted by meonhoc

3 horses is enough on my farm.

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Same here. I get an item for every 3 pets I wake. 2 each for the 6 dogs, cats and horses I have. The donkeys and rabbits are different. It is not every 3rd or 4th for them, at least not for me, not sure how it works exactly.

I edited the mystery box thing and removed the wheating thing.

No matter, I get a open box only after 3-4 hours.
I had tried the cricks trick but doesn't work for me.

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

This is NOT RIGHT ADVICE -- You can try and open as many mystery boxes as you can find on your farm and on the farms of your friends/folks in the newspaper. When you open one, go back you your farm, tap on your mystery box and if it is locked, tap OUTSIDE of the box to preserve it, then go to a neighbors farm. There will be a box on that farm for you, and on and on until you find an open one. Then repeat.

PLEASE do not make guides until you are absolutely 100% certain of the accuracy of your information!!!!

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We'll, I've been playing this game since it started and your method has never and does not work for me or thousands of other players so the original guide is slightly more accurate. OP, maybe a disclaimer after your point that the above method allegedly works for some people.

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

I edited the mystery box thing and removed the wheating thing.

No matter, I get a open box only after 3-4 hours.
I had tried the cricks trick but doesn't work for me.

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Lol, did you read PerkyCox's post and Crick's post at all?

Quite obviously you do not only "find 2 or so open boxes when you first start the game in the morning after sleep."

Because you find them throughout the day??

Their point was that tapping outside of the pop up box (when it doesn't open) ensures that on the next farm you visit, you can still find another box.

Also, you can in fact find another box after you open one, as long as you return to your farm for a few minutes.

How are any of these reflected in your edit?

Moreover, what additional value does this provide to the newbies when there is already an entire section of this forum dedicated to them? It's called "New to Hay Day?"

Excellent posts: in the last 10 minutes i have visited 8 farms in my followers list and have opened 3 boxes on their Farms. I have a saw, 1647 gold coins and 5 diamonds to show for 10 minutes work. Those 10 minutes included time I spent on my farm harvesting etc in between mystery box openings.

I used Cricks tricks to regenerate mystery boxes on other farms and they work every time. FYI --- back to mystery boxing :)

UPDATE: 138 followers farms mystery boxed with Cricks Tricks. Total haul:

5x 1647 coins
2x 5 diamonds
2x green voucher
1 saw
1 nail
2 TNT
1 axe
1 plank

That was worth spending an hour and a half doing :)

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Originally Posted by crancyph

Lol, did you read PerkyCox's post and Crick's post at all?

Quite obviously you do not only "find 2 or so open boxes when you first start the game in the morning after sleep."

Because you find them throughout the day??

Their point was that tapping outside of the pop up box (when it doesn't open) ensures that on the next farm you visit, you can still find another box.

Also, you can in fact find another box after you open one, as long as you return to your farm for a few minutes.

How are any of these reflected in your edit?

Moreover, what additional value does this provide to the newbies when there is already an entire section of this forum dedicated to them? It's called "New to Hay Day?"

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Yes I had read them and very well know their meaning.
I tried tapping out but still I get only locked boxes every time.

The trick does not work for me

We have 108 fields. We get 2 expansion items for every 108 harvests, so your piece of advice that items drop every 68 harvests is wrong --

AS IS your advice on getting an expansion item every 4 pet wakeups. If all you have is 4 donkeys you will have to wake them up way more than that to get an item to drop. We have 6 donkeys and they give an item after we have woken them ALL up 4 times -- that's 24 wakeups per item.

AGAIN: PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR INFO IS 100% CORRECT BEFORE YOU START THESE KINDS OF NEWBIE ADVICE THREADS. <-- not shouting at you, EMPHASIZING this point

EP, you seem to want to be helpful, to share your experience with others, and to participate in the forum. Starting advice threads with incorrect info is not the way to do that.

How about participating on the Smiley thread instead? Or starting an off-topic fun thread?

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We have 108 fields. We get 2 expansion items for every 108 harvests, so your piece of advice that items drop every 68 harvests is wrong --

AS IS your advice on getting an expansion item every 4 pet wakeups. If all you have is 4 donkeys you will have to wake them up way more than that to get an item to drop. We have 6 donkeys and they give an item after we have woken them ALL up 4 times -- that's 24 wakeups per item.

AGAIN: PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR INFO IS 100% CORRECT BEFORE YOU START THESE KINDS OF NEWBIE ADVICE THREADS. <-- not shouting at you, EMPHASIZING this point

EP, you seem to want to be helpful, to share your experience with others, and to participate in the forum. Starting advice threads with incorrect info is not the way to do that.

How about participating on the Smiley thread instead? Or starting an off-topic fun thread?

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The mistakes you talked about are already cleared in the main post.

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

Yes I had read them and very well know their meaning.
I tried tapping out but still I get only locked boxes every time.

The trick does not work for me

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Oh i see.. There is some misunderstanding here.

The idea of the toolbox trick is not to guarantee that boxes open, if that's what you think.

Instead, what the trick suggests is that tapping out prevents boxes from disappearing.

So, if I open a box in Farm A but it's locked, I tap out. I go to Farm B, and there's another box for me to try.

If I do not tap out and press X instead, then there is no box in Farm B at all to try. So that's the idea.

I think you misunderstood that tapping out increases/ensures the chance of opening a box.

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

Mystery box:
You find 2 or so open boxes when you first start the game in the morning after sleep.
One on your farm and other on someone else's farm.

Pets:
Buy as much as possible.
You get a tool for every 4th pet you feed(exception donkeys)


I will keep updating this when I find something good to post.
Anyone can suggest anything I may add to this thread.

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EP -- all mystery box info is still wrong as is your pet info. You get unlimited mystery boxes all day all the time and waking 1 horse gives us an item every time.

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Originally Posted by crancyph

Oh i see.. There is some misunderstanding here.

The idea of the toolbox trick is not to guarantee that boxes open, if that's what you think.

Instead, what the trick suggests is that tapping out prevents boxes from disappearing.

So, if I open a box in Farm A but it's locked, I tap out. I go to Farm B, and there's another box for me to try.

If I do not tap out and press X instead, then there is no box in Farm B at all to try. So that's the idea.

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Yes -- EXACTLY. Tapping out merely ensures another box appears in the next farm somewhere -- NOT that the next box will be OPEN.

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

EP -- all mystery box info is still wrong as is your pet info. You get unlimited mystery boxes all day all the time and waking 1 horse gives us an item every time.

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ok hun. I removed that. Is it ok now?
And... I don't get an item every time I feed a horse

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

Yes -- EXACTLY. Tapping out merely ensures another box appears in the next farm somewhere -- NOT that the next box will be OPEN.

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I know.
I find a box ---> I don't click on 'X'. I tap outside the dialogue box ---> Go to another farm ---> The box on that farm is also closed ---> Repeat procedure ---> I go to another ---> Yet another ---> Yet another ------------> and many more times.
But alas all are closed.

Conclusion: The Cricks procedure does not apply to me. Don't know why:confused:

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ok hun. I removed that. Is it ok now?

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If EVERY BIT of information you are presenting is accurate -- yes. Isn't sharing good information the point of making a guide? :)

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

... I don't get an item every time I feed a horse

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We get 1 for the Andalusian every time we tap him only to wake up.

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

. I know.
I find a box ---> I don't click on 'X'. I tap outside the dialogue box ---> Go to another farm ---> The box on that farm is also closed ---> Repeat procedure ---> I go to another ---> Yet another ---> Yet another ------------> and many more times.
But alas all are closed.

Conclusion: The Cricks procedure does not apply to me. Don't know why:confused:

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Could be patience -- in our followers that i went mystery boxing in, I had consecutive boxes open twice, and some runs of 20-25 farms where all boxes were closed. But out of 138 farms I had 15 open boxes, which gave me the list of stuff I updated earlier. Just keep working it and one will open for you. :)

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

If EVERY BIT of information you are presenting is accurate -- yes. Isn't sharing good information the point of making a guide? :)

We get 1 for the Andalusian every time we tap him only to wake up.

Could be patience -- in our followers that i went mystery boxing in, I had consecutive boxes open twice, and some runs of 20-25 farms where all boxes were closed. But out of 138 farms I had 15 open boxes, which gave me the list of stuff I updated earlier. Just keep working it and one will open for you. :)

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If you give permission I would like to add the andalusian feeding thing to my OP.

I will try again today. Hope to find one.

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Originally Posted by crancyph

Oh i see.. There is some misunderstanding here.

The idea of the toolbox trick is not to guarantee that boxes open, if that's what you think.

Instead, what the trick suggests is that tapping out prevents boxes from disappearing.

So, if I open a box in Farm A but it's locked, I tap out. I go to Farm B, and there's another box for me to try.

If I do not tap out and press X instead, then there is no box in Farm B at all to try. So that's the idea.

I think you misunderstood that tapping out increases/ensures the chance of opening a box.

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This. It appears to be a common misconception, so perhaps it would be helpful to find a way to make it clearer.

Crick's trick does not guarantee the box will be open. It just makes sure you can find a box on every farm you visit (until you find an open one).

IME, boxes have a roughly 1 in 20 chance of being open, no matter how you find them. And the standard deviation ("flux" in gambler's terms) is high. Sometimes you'll find three open in a row, sometimes you have to open 50 or 60 to find an open one.

So you have to try a lot of boxes to find one that's open. Crick's trick just lets you find a lot more boxes.

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

Excellent posts: in the last 10 minutes i have visited 8 farms in my followers list and have opened 3 boxes on their Farms. I have a saw, 1647 gold coins and 5 diamonds to show for 10 minutes work. Those 10 minutes included time I spent on my farm harvesting etc in between mystery box openings.

I used Cricks tricks to regenerate mystery boxes on other farms and they work every time. FYI --- back to mystery boxing :)

UPDATE: 138 followers farms mystery boxed with Cricks Tricks. Total haul:

5x 1647 coins
2x 5 diamonds
2x green voucher
1 saw
1 nail
2 TNT
1 axe
1 plank

That was worth spending an hour and a half doing :)

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So your averaging an open box every 9.2 boxes. I can tell you there is no way that I get a goodie every 9.2 boxes.

I'm wondering if other factors play into this. Maybe your level factors in as it does in other things such as waking pets or harvesting crops. Maybe higher levels get more boxes on their own farm then a lower level does(it seems to me I'm getting more showing up on my farm the higher I go). Maybe because you did these 138 boxes in an hour and a half versus someone doing 138 boxes in 24 hours. Maybe the whole darn thing is random, so this time you averaged a goodie 9.2 times but next time your average would be different.

I'm assuming here that you tried to open every box on every farm you visited. I've not kept track so I can't say for sure that I don't get something every 9.2 boxes and I hate looking for them and messing with opening them, so I will skip farms on my travels. Maybe that has something to do with it to, you have to try and open everyone on every farm you visit.

I don't know, but I find it interesting and I'm going to track mine. I think the first run of tracking will be different then yours, an hour and a half opening 138 boxes does not appeal to me, so I will just open like I usually do and see what those results are. If they are not close to yours, then I will take the plunge and do an hour and a half with 138 farms visited and attempt to open all 138 boxes.

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So your averaging an open box every 9.2 boxes. I can tell you there is no way that I get a goodie every 9.2 boxes.

I'm wondering if other factors play into this. Maybe your level factors in as it does in other things such as waking pets or harvesting crops. Maybe higher levels get more boxes on their own farm then a lower level does(it seems to me I'm getting more showing up on my farm the higher I go). Maybe because you did these 138 boxes in an hour and a half versus someone doing 138 boxes in 24 hours. Maybe the whole darn thing is random, so this time you averaged a goodie 9.2 times but next time your average would be different.

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i may run through the followers again this morning and see what the haul is and if it is different. I was surprised at the generous haul. I usually get 3-4 open boxes per day, but I only open a box on a farm i visit while shopping etc. This is the first time my goal was strictly to try the mystery box.

I don't think player level, harvests, or pets play a role with the generator.

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Originally Posted by charliedagg

I'm assuming here that you tried to open every box on every farm you visited. I've not kept track so I can't say for sure that I don't get something every 9.2 boxes and I hate looking for them and messing with opening them, so I will skip farms on my travels. Maybe that has something to do with it to, you have to try and open everyone on every farm you visit.

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You are correct in this assumption - I visited my followers from oldest to newest only for the reason to open mystery boxes. I expected to find more open boxes on the inactive farms of longtime followers who no longer play, but this did not seem to be true. I found diamonds on an active farm and an inactive farm. In all I think I found more open boxes on active farms. i find at least one open box per day among the farms of our very active NH.

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I don't know, but I find it interesting and I'm going to track mine. I think the first run of tracking will be different then yours, an hour and a half opening 138 boxes does not appeal to me, so I will just open like I usually do and see what those results are. If they are not close to yours, then I will take the plunge and do an hour and a half with 138 farms visited and attempt to open all 138 boxes.

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It would be cool to know how it works for you :)

I find this extremely interesting, please keep up the good work. I've tried crics trick several times( just learned it recently), and it took about 20or so times to get an open box. Thought it was cool, but a lot of work. Hmmm, is it better to try followers or friends farms only? I think I did randomly, with no real strategy.

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Originally Posted by Mikesfarmyfarm

I find this extremely interesting, please keep up the good work. I've tried crics trick several times( just learned it recently), and it took about 20or so times to get an open box. Thought it was cool, but a lot of work. Hmmm, is it better to try followers or friends farms only? I think I did randomly, with no real strategy.

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Agree that it's a lot of work (sore arm muscle to prove it) but it's a great and helpful tip. I used it for every farm I visited. Woo!

Same 138 farms -- less time this time since in many cases I remembered where the mystery boxes were so the hunt time was reduced. I got:

2x 1657 coins
1 box of 5 diamonds
1 bolt
1 plank
1 axe
1 green voucher

Not the great early-morning haul of 15 open boxes, but I am happy with the treasures I found :)

Also -- these boxes were all opened on DIFFERENT farms from the first run. Hmmmmm

I've always thought I get alot from the boxes, but never really counted or anything and obviously I'm not just hunting for tools all the time, but I thought I would tst it too.

Went through all of my 100 friends (works with random farms from the paper as well, obviously), but I wanted to visit my friends anyway ;)

I took a screen shot everytime I got something so I would not have to write it down. I got:

2 x axe
2 x coins
3 x green voucher
2 x plank
1 x tape
1 x blue voucher

No diamonds, but I already got 10 earlier today. But not bad at all. So that's 11 things, averages out to one item every ~ 10 boxes. Took me about 45 mins. Will do another test tomorrow.

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I've always thought I get alot from the boxes, but never really counted or anything and obviously I'm not just hunting for tools all the time, but I thought I would tst it too.

Went through all of my 100 friends (works with random farms from the paper as well, obviously), but I wanted to visit my friends anyway ;)

I took a screen shot everytime I got something so I would not have to write it down. I got:

2 x axe
2 x coins
3 x green voucher
2 x plank
1 x tape
1 x blue voucher

No diamonds, but I already got 10 earlier today. But not bad at all. So that's 11 things, averages out to one item every ~ 10 boxes. Took me about 45 mins. Will do another test tomorrow.

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MOST EXCELLENT LOOT!! thanks for this info and please let us know how your next test goes :)

While I appreciate the thought you have put in this guide, please don't continue to update it and bring it back to the top each time. Unless you have new information that is not posted somewhere else already, it will be considered a duplicate thread and either deleted or just allowed to fall off the page. There is already a guide to pets, fishing, wheating, toolboxes, the newspaper, boats, friends and strategy. Actually strategy is individual and the opinions of many are linked to in the stickies on this and the new people forum.

If you have an opinion on a strategy, feel free to propose it and ask other more experienced players what they think. I know that as I level up, things I believed were gospel, have changed. I no longer tell people not to sell eggs because at my level I need a lot more than I can produce and don't care how much you charge. Anyway by doing that you get opinions and strategy advice from several levels all on one thread that can be extremely helpful, but by writing a guide for all players or even new players you assume that what works for you works for them. I had one guy tell me that since he was at level 30 something he felt he could tell new folks how to play. The problem with that is that you assume that new players are only playing with folks your level and below. The above mentioned eggs comes to mind. Telling people to sell eggs cheaply or not at all, makes it hard for folks at my level to get what they need and the new people to get the coins they need. Maybe in the beginning when the game was first introduced, it made sense, because most of those players were at similar levels but two years later we have farmers at a much wider range of levels

Since everyone plays their own game in their own way, there is no one way to play, so a guide suggesting how people should play don't help. Straight up facts do. That's why the main guide is so good. It contains facts. This machine is unlocked at this level and costs this much etc.

If you find something that doesn't seem to work for you, rather than posting contrary advice, maybe check to make sure you are understanding it first. For example cricks' toolbox trick was also explained to me by a level 103 player who has so much stuff on his farm that the toolboxes can only show up on the road. This only optimizes the amount of tool boxes you can find, not the chance of them opening. It deals with the toolbox generator. If I go to my friends farm and close the window with the x, I don't get a new one when I refresh his farm. If I click out of it, I get a new one each time. Sometimes it opens sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes I have to refresh 30-50 times before one opens. Sometimes I unlock one right after another. That part is truly random and I still have to go back to my own farm, bop a chicken over the head and head back to his farm to kick toolboxes again. If you thought her "trick" meant you'd get to unlock more boxes, you understood her wrong. But heck when I started the only ones that seemed to open were on my friends Jess's farm. I thought hers were just for me. ;-). Boy was I wrong.

Ok that's all I have. We love to hear other opinions on what seems to work for a particular farmer at a particular level, but please present them as opinions so new folks don't get discouraged when it doesn't work for them.

Tigg

I don't think there's any difference for active vs. inactive farms. I don't think the farms matter at all. You can just re-load the same farm over and over again, rather than going to a new farm. (Pick one where it's easy to find the boxes. Either it's so crowded there's not many places for the boxes to go, or so empty it's easy to spot them.)

I've found there's a lot of variation in the prizes you get. For awhile, I was getting mostly saws, axes, and mining stuff. Then suddenly it was diamonds. Now it's vouchers.

I swear, I had 19 gold vouchers for weeks, and could not get the 20th needed for the brown donkey. Now I'm getting a lot, many from boxes. I was hesitant to actually buy the donkey, because I was afraid I'd want the gold vouchers for something in the pending update. But I've gotten so many vouchers recently that I bought the donkey. I still have 15 gold vouchers left after spending the 20. Mostly from toolboxes.

We have gone through 120 farms on our friends list and we have the following from the mystery boxes:

1 pink voucher
1 TNT
2 planks
2 screws
1 duct tape
1 box of 1647 coins
1 gold voucher

We are taking a TV break then will be back at it -

Mystery boxing through next 100 farms gave us:

1674 coins
2 saws
1 screw
3 green vouchers
1 bolt
1 panel

so I think we see a pattern of about 1 item for every 9- 12 boxes ON AVERAGE :)

It's been a long time since I've tried Cricks' trick, so after seeing this thread, decided to give it a go.


i have 225 neighbors and 6 followers (don't get out much, lol). I didn't keep track of how long it took, but let's just say I was having fun looking around the farms, and if I had to guess, I'd say it took me an hour while also visiting my own farm from time to time.

My haul:

3 green vouchers
1 pink voucher
1 gold voucher
5 x 1,000+ coins
1 duck tape
1 wood panels
3 x 5 diamonds


not bad at all.

When I read this thread this morning at work, I realized that I have been so caught up in trying to master my machines, level up, etc., etc., that I had pretty much forgot all about using cricks' trick. Many, many levels ago I use to do this all the time and I'm not really sure when I stopped:confused:....so I decided that I would give it a try again tonight. I forgot how addicting trying to open those mystery boxes could be;). I'm not sure how long it took me and I did not go through all of my neighbors on my friends list....actually I kept going back to quite a few where it was easy to find the boxes.


I went to 215 farms and this was my haul....


4x $1430
2x shovel
2x TNT
2x 5 diamonds
1 screw
1 nail
1 saw
1 blue voucher
1 green voucher


I will definitely have to visit all my friends (440 GC + 5 FB) followers (14) and see what I come up with.:)

Went through around 160 odd farms last night - about an hour and a half in between farming my farm:)
1 green voucher
1 blue voucher
1 purple voucher
1 gold voucher
2 lots of 1000 plus in coin
1 tape
1 plank
3 x 5 diamonds

:):):)

As discussed in Cricks post and here, this works!!! It is simpler, IMO, if you do "Gregging"

Here is what I posted in the past....with minor changes to make it clearer.

From a recent post, I have tweaked it and only go to Greg's farm. With Greg farm, as a player, I know the few places in which the toolbox appears and I think it saves me time compared to going to all my neighbor's farm. Also, in the iPad the friends tap stays open and so what I do is click on the box, and when it does not open I click on Greg's avatar twice to recycle his farm and the box reappears nearby. I continue this until the box opens.


In terms of how often the box actually opens, as Cricks mentioned, it varies. So, I decided to do some counting for a period of 15 minutes (7:47 - 8:02). Here are my results:

Greg's farm, tried the box trick 10 times got a duct tape
Went back to my farm harvested corn, picked lobsters from water, browsed DD
Greg's farm, tried the box trick 50 times got a green voucher (yeah, this one almost made me give up)
Went back to my farm harvested wheat & corn and put items in RSS
Greg's farm, tried the box trick 2 times got a duct tape
Went back to my farm harvested soy beans & wheat
Greg's farm, tried the box trick 36 times got a saw
Went back to my farm harvested wheat, corn, and carrots
In my farm there was a box, clicked on it and it gave me coins
Greg's farm, tried the box trick 3 times and got green voucher
Went back to my farm and put one chicken feed to be made in the mill (crops were not grown)
Greg's farm, tried the box trick 5 times and got a TNT

Go...give it a try.

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As discussed in Cricks post and here, this works!!! It is simpler, IMO, if you do "Gregging"

Here is what I posted in the past....with minor changes to make it clearer.

From a recent post, I have tweaked it and only go to Greg's farm. With Greg farm, as a player, I know the few places in which the toolbox appears and I think it saves me time compared to going to all my neighbor's farm. Also, in the iPad the friends tap stays open and so what I do is click on the box, and when it does not open I click on Greg's avatar twice to recycle his farm and the box reappears nearby. I continue this until the box opens.


Go...give it a try.

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DrD -- I had never heard of Gregging ha ha -- will try it today! :)

I repeated Dr Dolittle's exercise. My variations: 1) I used a neighbor's farm that is wide open and faster for me to locate the boxes than at Greg's farm. 2) I only clicked on the avatar once to re-fresh the farm.

In fifteen minutes, the exercise yielded the following results.


Neighbor's farm, tried the box trick 2 times got a axe
Went back to my farm harvested wheat and put items in RSS
Neighbor's farm, tried the box trick 15 times got a shovel
Went back to my farm harvested wheat and sold items to a visiting little person
Neighbor's farm, tried the box trick 14 times got a plank
Went back to my farm harvested harvested corn and reloaded feed mills
Neighbor's farm, tried the box trick 43 times got coins
Went back to my farm filled truck orders
Neighbor's farm, tried the box trick 39 times and got a screw

Go... give it a try.

Tried again for one hour, though didn't get through all my neighbors this time...I was also searching for tomatoes, so that slowed me down quite a bit, though I suspect I visited about 150 farms in one way or another. :)

2 x Shovel
1,048 coins
1 plank
1 screw
1 duct tape
1 blue voucher
1 saw
1 bolt
1 green voucher

Had to stop at that point to go to work. :) I will say that I started about 7:05 a.m. and it took maybe about 50 tries before I got an opened box...after that they seemed to open more frequently...so my haul this morning was in the last half of my tries.

Ha! Love it! Did cricks/Greg and after about 15 fast try's I got a much needed blue voucher! Iam definitely going to add this to my repertoire of things todo when bored/ waiting:)

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Originally Posted by PerkyCox

DrD -- I had never heard of Gregging ha ha -- will try it today! :)

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lol. Yeah, pretty funny. Someone else called it "Gregging" and I keep on using it.

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Originally Posted by mistyrclark

I repeated Dr Dolittle's exercise. My variations: 1) I used a neighbor's farm that is wide open and faster for me to locate the boxes than at Greg's farm.

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I will definitely try this variation. With the latest update, the box at Greg's farm is sometimes completely hidden behind the trees all the way far right.

hmmmm... Majority of the replies are related to the mystery box topic which is no longer in my OP.

I always gave up on 20-25 tries but never found any open yet. I will try more when I have time.

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Originally Posted by ExcellentPosts

hmmmm... Majority of the replies are related to the mystery box topic which is no longer in my OP.

I always gave up on 20-25 tries but never found any open yet. I will try more when I have time.

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One of your observation about 2 mystery boxes automatically unlock after 3-5h is consistent (after a long break). I observe the same thing and would like to know more.

For information, an obstacle in Clash spawns every 8h. While clearing it, you can get gem (diamond version in Clash).

Here's one: crick/Greg has changed this thread!
i was waiting till the right time to add my small thing:
attitude and strategy, maybe a little off beat, but important, yes? I could go on and on about how reading forums has changed my attitude and my playing strategy, but perhaps this is not the right place, so sorry.
EP, I like this threads original idea and also like the info about red boxes. But I agree maybe red boxes needs it's own thread cause I want to keep hearing about it.

Just to be clear, there is NO trick to getting a box to open. They are either locked or unlocked.

That seems to be a big misunderstanding on this thread. Folks are arguing that my "tricks" don't work for them because they are misinterpreting my thread and thinking that it's all about opening the boxes. It's not about opening boxes, it's about finding as many boxes as possible to try and open. Naturally, the more boxes you find, the more you'll find that just happen to be unlocked.

My thread simply explains how to ensure as many as possible show up for you to try and open. There is no trick, no gimmick, no exploit. It's a simple explanation of how the toolbox generator works so folks can understand it and use it to it's full potential, find as many boxes as possible, and be lucky enough to find a decent amount that happen to be unlocked.

Perhaps those who are under the impression that my thread is somehow a trick that guarantees an unlocked box should read it again.

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Somewhere on this forum is a thread similar to what this one started as where folks all added their tips on little things that they each discovered that enhanced their play, increased efficiency of production, or shared some little known tidbit (sometimes called tricks but they're not really). I'm unable to find it but hope that someone else knows where it can be found. It is one that is worth taking out of mothballs and adding to.