Surprise Lucky Time for end of June!

Turns out that Tsum Tsum is trying to increase our chances of getting the new tsums by changing some of the premium tsums into limited edition tsums.

In this surprise lucky time, Zero, Jack Skellington and Perry the Platypus will no longer be available after June 29th in the Premium Box; however, they may appear again in the future.

For this lucky time, if you don't have Zero yet, I highly suggest getting him as he is super useful for Bingo Card 2, Mission 13 where you need to "Reduce Tsum Tsum to 3 kinds 5 times in 1 game (use items and skills)". He can also be used for other missions on Bingo cards where it requires a Canine to complete the mission.    

Overall, not the most sought after lucky time but useful if you don't have any of these 3 tsums yet.

Happy Tsuming!

Upcoming July Lucky Time and events!

As I was browsing to see if there are any new updates coming up in the near future after the current Belle/Beast/B. Anna/S. Elsa Lucky Time, I stumbled upon a few blog posts and pictures that indicate there are some new tsums coming our way!

It looks like Tsum Tsum is celebrating their 2nd anniversary on July 1st to 3rd! Each day will have different rewards for just logging in:

• Fri, July 1 - log in and receive 22 hearts!
• Sat, July 2 - log in and receive a premium box ticket!
• Sun, July 3 - log in and receive a skill ticket!

Another Lucky Time with new tsums is also coming our way next weekend! 

• Bride Rapunzel - she's a limited musical edition tsum!! She plays the Wedding March when used, and when she is activated, beautiful animations of the lanterns float up the screen and clear vertical lines of tsum tsum. Seiji has a great video that showcases the difference between Skill 1 and Skill 6.
• Snow White - when her skill is activated, two to seven dwarves appear and you tap them to clear the tsums they hover over on the screen. It looks like you get two dwarves at Skill 1, up to all seven dwarves at Skill 6 as per Seiji's video. When watching Seiji's video, it looks like there is a specific rotation or strategy used to clear the most number of tsums when activating Snow White's ability.
• Princess Aurora - her skill is like Birthday Anna in which she calls Prince Phillip tsums and you can clear both of them together in a long chain, as blue hearts emit into the air.

So save up this next week and get at least the limited musical edition Bride Rapunzel tsum!

Happy tsuming!


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UPDATE:

~ June 27, 2016 ~

It looks like we will indeed get another event to celebrate Tsum Tsum's 2nd anniversary! It's a Cupcake Event! It looks to have specific times for being able to gather the ingredients needed to complete the cards. It doesn't specify how many cards in total but it does state that we will get a special pin for completing the cards. Seiji has a video that shows us what to expect for this event, which will end on July 25th, so the event may start around the 2nd weekend of July, around July 8th or 9th.

Also!! I suspect Genie is finally coming out soon! Why? Because of this leaked lucky time! That's right! Aladdin and Jasmine lucky time is coming back! Which means Genie shouldn't be too far behind especially since we now have the Pins section! Lucky time for Aladdin and Jasmine ends on Monday, July 18th, so we'll probably see the lucky time start around Sat, July 16th. Genie should come out not too long afterwards, maybe by Fri, July 22nd at the earliest since I suspect he will come along with the Aladdin event.

So save up those coins! Lots of new tsums coming our way and save up as many hearts as you can in the next week or two for the Cupcake Event!

Happy Tsuming!


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UPDATE:

~ July 1, 2016 ~

Looks like another capsule is heading our way! It will end on July 25th. So maybe the Aladdin event won't be coming just yet which means a bit more time to save up for Genie! I opened about 32 boxes for the Princess Lucky Time and managed to get Bride Rapunzel to Skill 2, Snow White to Skill 2 and Princess Aurora to skill 3, so only 25% lucky if I really calculate it. Were you lucky this time around? And don't forget, for the international version, log in today and the next two days to claim free prizes from the game!! Please see above for more details.

Good luck and happy Tsuming!! :)

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Spoilers for Late June

I finally found it!

Over the weekend, I had stumbled upon this post but wasn't able to find it again when I tried yesterday.

It showcases the Lucky Times happening in late June:

• Star Wars Lucky Time - June 17 to 19
• Pickup Capsule - June 22 to 23 (then corrected to be June 20 to 23) - originally thought to be 48 hours but we learned recently it is 96 hours
• Frozen & Beauty and the Beast Lucky Time - predicted to be June 24 to 26

So save up those coins if you want Belle, Beast, Birthday Anna or Surprise Elsa!

Good luck everyone! Looks to be an eventful month end!

Happy beginning of Summer!

Reference: http://tsumoverflow.tumblr.com/post/145712468284/capsule-and-lucky-time-spoilers-for-late-june

Score Challenge event

The awaited Score Challenge is here!

Use Mickey from your happiness box (no other Mickey will work for this challenge) and try to get as high of a score as you can. Based on your score, relative to the scores of other players' scores, you will be ranked on where you stand and therefore the type of pin you would get based on your rank. There are 7 ranks - S A B C D E F, with S being the top rank, and F being the lowest rank.

But that's too easy. Tsum tsum has created a small (or rather difficult) challenge where each hour it will update the rank boundaries and thus the score minimum to reach each rank. So you may have gotten the top rank - which is S in this case - but in the next hour, if many other players beats your score, the boundaries may change and you may get bumped down to Rank A.

The final rank boundaries are set 6 hours before the event closes, so in this case, the final boundaries are set at 5:59PM on Sunday, June 26th. If the boundary for S is 1 million points for example, then as long as you get over 1 million after 6:00PM on Sunday, June 26th, you will get the S Pin. Until then, I smell the competition will get fierce!

This morning I tried, and managed to get a D rank with 777,761 points.

When I first started the game, D rank needed only 600,000 points.

After I got my score, I was ranked in the D rank since I passed the 600,000 points threshold.

Now looking at it 4 hours down the road, I see one of my friends has beat me, and at the same time, I see that the D rank boundary has gone up to 700,000 points. Since I still surpassed this threshold, I am still ranked D but not sure how long this will last. 

One of my friends got rank A with 1.8 million points this morning and the S boundary is at 2.1 million points. Now he is still rank A but the threshold for S rank has gone up to 2.2 million points.

Let's see where this goes. It looks like it's the surrounding tsums that plays alongside Mickey that will ultimately make the high score, together with the long chains you can try to make during the game. I say this because although you try to max Mickey out, he's only going to give you a max score of 344 per Mickey which isn't very much if you're used to playing with the premium tsums. So the best bet is to try in the next few days to level up each of the tsums that appear alongside Mickey and try to achieve a high score on Saturday and Sunday this week via bonuses with your leveled up tsums. This way allows you to accumulate coins so that you can use them for the bonuses for this event.

Good luck and Happy Tsuming!

New Arlo Tsum Tsum - available only in Pickup Capsule!

There's a new Tsum! Arlo from the Good Dinosaur!!

Arlo is only available in the Pickup Capsule for a limited time until Thursday June 23rd at 11:59PM! He is Not available to buy in the Premium boxes, so get him while you can!

So far, this Pickup Capsule is quite worth it - you can possibly spend less than 450,000 (or 15 boxes) to get 3 Arlos guaranteed!! Though this may be a bit biased on my part since I have 88 tsums now in my collection so getting duplicates are higher for me now, with recent lucky times resulting in me opening about 13 to 15 boxes to get one of the lucky time tsums. With 3 Arlos, you can get him to Skill 2.5 and to Skill 3 if you wish to go for all 15 tsums and get the skill ticket for skilling Arlo to Skill 3!  

How to use Arlo? You will need to find and trace the most optimal path for Arlo to walk along and Spot (the boy) will mirror what you trace! 

Seiji has a great video to showcase the difference between Skill 1 and Skill 4 Arlo.

Happy Tsuming!!

Additional tidbit: the video from Seiji seems to showcase that spirals or circles allow you to clear more tsums with Arlo!

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When You Can't complete an Attack

Yesterday, I was at a birthday party and two of my friends needed help destroying their Star Destroyers so I pitched in to help them. They were so amazed at how fast we were able to complete each attack mission just with the simple gesture of a friend helping them.

For one of my friends, we were unable to complete the mission for her because we got interrupted in the middle of one attack and thus our time ran out before we could resume the attack. I took this screenshot since it was neat to see what would happen if we did run out of time:

I hope everyone had a great weekend and was able to complete or make good progress with your attacks! I was able to help two of my three friends so far complete their missions, especially the last attack which required you to eliminate 3000 points! Good luck everyone!

Happy Tsuming!

Star Wars event - Part 2 - tidbits

Happy Thursday!

As you most likely know by now, Tsum Tsum released the Star Wars event - Part 2 yesterday!

First off, there is a Lucky time for the five tsums that came out last month: Luke Skywalker, Yoda, R2D2, Darth Vader and BB-8. Lucky time will be between Wed, June 1st to Sat, June 4th.

Tidbit: Star Wars tsums are super useful in this second Star Wars event! I highly recommend trying to get Luke Skywalker, BB-8, or R2D2! I used all three, and all three are pretty effective, however I did find that Luke Skywalker was the most useful of the five because it crosses the screen in an X and thus spans a larger screen area, increasing your hit rate with the stormtroopers. The most I was able to eliminate was 16 with Luke Skywalker, compared to the 13 with BB-8 and R2D2.

Once you enter the game, it will showcase a number of instructions of how to play the event. In summary:

• The Star Destroyer will appear at any part of the game on any of the hearts available to your disposal. For me, it appeared almost at every single heart I had, whereas for my friend, he only got it once every other heart.
• Once the Star Destroyer appear, you have only 60 minutes to defeat the mission. 

Tidbit: Save up as many hearts as you can for this! It will suck to have to wait for 15 minutes before you get the next heart to try and finish your battle. As you progress through the 30 battles, the amount of time required to finish the next battle will increase, so save up as many hearts given to you from your friends as you can and request for hearts as many times as you can throughout the day. Two tidbits coming on how to decrease the amount of time (and thus less hearts needed) required to complete each battle and therefore the overall event!

• What happens when the Star Destroyer is attacking? Well, just like the Star Wars Part 1 event, Stormtrooper heads will fall on your screen. You just try to hit as many stormtroopers through your tsum skill or through bubbles in the 60 seconds of your game.
• Note: in the end, even if you have bubbles next to the stormtrooper's head, when it bursts, it will not take out that extra stormtrooper for you.

• Instead of just hitting it on one round, you may end up having to go through a few more hearts in order to completely take down the Star Destroyer. So if you don't finish destroying all the stormtroopers onboard you will need to keep going. 

Tidbit: Use a Star War tsum!! Particularly Luke Skywalker! I think the game mechanics allow Luke Skywalker get more character bonus points than the other tsums (having said this, I only used BB-8 and R2D2 other than Luke in this event). Note: Each stormtrooper you hit equals to 10 points. Usually I get around 100 bonus points to 200 bonus points each game I use Luke, which is equivalent to 10 to 20 stormtroopers, or at least 2 hearts' worth of game play.

• Once you finish eliminating all the stormtroopers onboard, you will see an animation of the Star Destroyer disappearing and you completing the battle.

• The next battle will appear and you continue on this loop until the end of Battle 30. 
• The fun parts are in between each battle. After completing each battle, you get a prize, such a Score ticket, Experience Ticket, and various amounts of coins. You will get a premium ticket and a skill ticket too within the last 5 to 7 battles of this event!!

• Another prize you must be curious about is Princess Leia! You will get her 6 times at different points of the event! Each time you get her, you skill her up until you finally max her out at Skill 6!! I highly recommend going through the entire event so you can max out her skill! She is super useful in attaining lots of coins in the coming weeks. With her, I have managed to get 1800 coins at least without using any bonuses! Furthermore, there are three major advantages with using her: 1) she stops time before her skill gets used, 2) she lets all the tsums fall down first before she fires, and 3) once she is charged up and you press the bottom left button to activate her skill, she fires all on her own! 

So how do you decrease the number of hearts you need to use to successfully bypass each attack card? With friends!! You can choose to help a friend out by changing from your name at the bottom of the screen to someone else. When you click on the orange button next to your name where the start button of the game is, you see this list of friends who are currently playing as well. By clicking "battle" next to their name, you are essentially helping them battle the stormtroopers as well!

Tidbit: Coordinate with your friends on a specific time of night or lunch hour where you will all be playing and help each other! When you help each other battle the stormtroopers, you effectively double your hit points! So say for example you hit 10 stormtroopers. On your own game, it'd only count as 100 points (10 points x 10 stormtroopers). When you help your friends with their own attacks, you essentially double this to 200 points! PLUS when you use a Star War tsum (note only R2D2, BB-8, Darth Vader, Yoda and Luke counts for this), you get extra character bonus points which further helps you finish the attack faster and progress faster through the event! Once you have helped your friend finish their attack you will see this screen pop confirming you have helped defeat the Star Destroyer!

You also get to see how much each of your friends have helped you at the end of each attack mission!

Tidbit: when you help your friends with their attacks, there is a possibility that a grey capsule drop from the top. When you hit it, it will disappear and the prize inside would be yours after the game ends. In the grey capsule you can get coins, various bonus tickets (e.g. score, experience, 5-to-4, etc.), and a possibility of getting C-3PO again!!

Note: I had previously used a skill ticket to see if my Skill 3 C-3PO will skill up another full amount. Indeed it did! Though as you can see above, it will take two C-3POs to get up to Skill 5.

Since your friends will help you with your own attacks too, you actually end up finishing your Star Destroyer attacks in half the time - remember, you double the effectiveness by helping each other out! How else did I manage to finish the event within the span of about 7 hours! At the end, there's a summary screen that lets you see how much each of your friends has helped you through the attacks!

Once you're done, you get some nifty pins that you can display next to your name!

I really liked this last pin I got. Made me feel so accomplished, even though it's just a digital and intangible reward.

The best part? You can continue to help your friends with their attacks after you're done all your attack missions!! So you can continue to battle against the stormtroopers as long as you still have a friend who has not finished all of his/her attacks yet. AND you still continue to get prizes for helping out your friends through the grey ball that drops from the sky!

Hope this has helped you figure out how best to attack the stormtroopers in this latest event from Tsum Tsum! You have until Sun, Jun 19th to complete this second event! Good luck!

Happy Tsuming and may the force be with you!

Did anyone have a Tsum other than Mickey as their First Tsum?

Hello!! I hope you're all having fun with the new Star Wars - Part II event that just came out today after midnight! There are quite a few tricks for this new event which I will share over the next couple of days.

Out of curiosity, throwing back to when you first started the Tsum Tsum game, who here had a starting Tsum that was not Mickey? I was just wondering as all my friends had Mickey as their first Tsum.

Share below. It'd be interesting to find out what other Tsums showed up first before Mickey.

Happy Tsuming!