How does Black Friday work on Howrse? I took a break and just came back in around August, and I don't have any memories of black fridays. Is it more of real money or Howrse currency sales?

We had the first one last year and it needed some improvement. The divines ( 10/15 of them) would show up in the sales each hour. This went for 24 hours both day and night. Whoever bought the horse the fastest got it. Prices ranged from 500 passes to 8,000 passes and some went for equs.

The biggest problem is many got greedy and bought multiples at the same time so within 15/20 seconds there were none left. Some players ended up with something like 50/60 divines leaving others with none. If you had a fast internet you might have gotten one or two.

If it is done something like last year we really need a limit on how many you can buy in each dropping and a max of 2 sounds good to me ( instead of the 8/10 some got in one sitting).

I wonder when jormungandr will happen or any of the new chimeras they have predicted

Equestrian Hike

Let's go on a trip to Lapland! Click here to start moving forward across the board! You may encounter obstacles, tokens for more moves, gifts and fragments of the divine horse Merry Christmas on your way!


How to play?

The Tokens
In order to use a card, you have to spend tokens.
There are several ways to get tokens during this event.

If you connect 5 days in a row, you will receive a bonus!


Checkpoints


Try to be strategic to get the most from your current cards. You can win more gifts when you reach a checkpoint.

Each time you pass the finishing line of a checkpoint, you can select a reward that you want to get. You will choose between several checkpoint gifts.

When you pass the last checkpoint, you will be awarded with a very special prize: the divine horse Slongvir!


The Obstacles

The Divine Portal:

On the 25th of December (at midnight), the divine portal opens.

When it happens, you can enter the portal whenever you want. Once inside, you will find several new hiking trails with divine horses as jackpots for completing each.



When you enter one of those hiking trails, you will have the possibility to:
- go out whenever you want and come back later
- finish it in order to get the jackpot

If you decide to go out, you can:
- pick a new one
- continue the journey through the normal main hiking trail as beforehand


Jackpots:

Jackpot #1: Slöngvir

Slöngvir is one of the mythological horses. Thanks to him, you'll get a 10% discount on vet services when covering any of your mares (cannot be combined with other offers).


Jackpot #2: Merry Christmas

You can find this mare in a Golden Fleece.

On the December 25th, this horse grants her breeder a special gift: 200 passes.

On the other months, the horse gives one of the three random gifts: Helios Ray, Elves pack, Owl.


Changes and other new features:


- Jokers do not send obstacles to players anymore. In order to maintain the Christmas spirit, you can now add gifts to send them to other users, thanks to these special cards.

- Reindeer will earn 500 points to each skill when are created. 500 points have been added to every reindeer that was already in the game (as an addition to the current skill points of the horse).

- You can add more skills points to your reindeer by using passes or thanks to Sleigh rides (Speed/Gallop/Dressage).



A new competition dedicated to Reindeer will be now available: Ski-Joering

It works like the Ow's competitions. When you click to register your reindeer to such a competition, the game will automatically assign it to the existing one or creates a new competition if there are no other available.
Such competitions start once 5 participants are registered.

For winning the Ski-Joering, players get a certain amount of Equus, depending on the place of a player's reindeer in the competition (from 1st to 5th). The accumulation of Equus makes the player climbs the ranking ladder.


Each 15 day of the month, the first 50th players of the ranking ladder will win passes.

Ooooh, the new breed is looking lovely.
I have to say, I'm really excited about all the pets & companions that Howrse is bringing back/creating (monster egg). I've desperately been wanting an orca, so that'll be fun.
Quick question: When it says "Jokers do not send obstacles to players anymore. In order to maintain the Christmas spirit, you can now add gifts to send them to other users, thanks to these special cards." , what do they mean by Jokers? I recently came back from a break,
and I don't have any memory of those.
Also, I was wondering, is it known if Howrse will still be doing the promo where you open one gift a day for x number of days through Christmas and New Years? I always loved that one.

Im guessing none of the Falabellas are going to be offered in any of the Christmas packs?

Jokers were obstacles that were sent to other players by one player that had an obstacle. There was a " card" that you could use to send an obstacle on your board to another player. It could get dicey when some players got roadblock after roadblock so because this is Christmas they felt the need for the spirit of Christmas they would erase that action.

The other thing you are referring to is the Advent calendar and it will show up starting Dec 1st. So it will be coming.

don't see any Falla's so have to assume they will not be offered this year.

Extremely excited for this event! I missed out on getting Prancer the last time we had a reindeer event, so hoping to get them along with the Orca companion. Also hoping to get the two divines, especially Slöngvir. He'll really help out with the amount of mares I cover.

The reindeer will now have a comp of their own which should be welcomed

A new competition dedicated to Reindeer will be now available: Ski-Joering

It works like the Ow's competitions. When you click to register your reindeer to such a competition, the game will automatically assign it to the existing one or creates a new competition if there are no other available.
Such competitions start once 5 participants are registered.

For winning the Ski-Joering, players get a certain amount of Equus, depending on the place of a player's reindeer in the competition (from 1st to 5th). The accumulation of Equus makes the player climbs the ranking ladder.


Each 15 day of the month, the first 50th players of the ranking ladder will win passes.

Itsy Bitsy Pack, featuring the newly updated reindeer Dancer and Dasher
Lucky Day Pack, featuring the next Exclusive horse Joyeux Noel and a Percheron Unicorn (first release!)
Olympus Pack, featuring the Mythological Divine, and the Exclusive Mythological mare, Hrafn and mate to Slöngvir
Ultimate Pack, featuring ALL the Exclusives mentioned and more (all the packs combined) AND the Artic Fox Exclusive horse.

Last year these were priced at 36, 60, 100 and 185 euros respectively.

I'm assuming that there will be no way to purchase these packs with in game currency, right?

Ah I see. It's too bad as I'm not able to purchase anything with real money. Hopefully
I can somehow earn one of the divines in the future or purchase a Perch uni once they start becoming more available.

Getting the new breed will be easy. It is at checkpoint 2 which most player will get within 1/3 days of the promo starting.

How sad, I was hoping to just buy the rest of the Falabellas that I don't have...I guess I can just save and maybe spend it next year

Just like to say that it took me 9 titans challenges just to a fall.....that was too not worth what I spent at all