Holiday Tokens

Holiday Tokens are a limited currency that must be used in holiday stores or to spin the wheel in wheel events. Although they are given the same name at each holiday, their appearance changes. Holiday event icons show up in the same place on the screen as other Events in the game.

Holiday Tokens cannot be purchased with real money. They must be collected from your village. To find out how to collect them, you must click on the event icon. On the lefthand side of the event screen, the animals and Fun Stuff that will currently produce holiday tokens (along with their usual and ) are listed. The requirements change every 2-3 days. The amount of tokens you will get varies depending on the event, but a general rule is that the more members of an animal family you have, the more tokens you will get.

Sometimes gameloft will send out a notice in the News section of the game that announces ahead of time what the next set of animals/buildings will produce holiday tokens. This allows players to take those items out of inventory and make sure they're ready to collect from as soon as the event starts. But even when gameloft doesn't announce them, players can sometimes make an educated guess about what one of the animal families might be. To help give lower level players a chance to earn tokens, they're usually going to choose one of the lower level animals. And because all families produce the same amount of tokens based on how many members they have and not their relative earning power in the game, they like to choose ones that have a longer recharge time - not like, say, the 30 second sloth. Because there are a limited number of animals that meet both of those requirements there are certain animals that show up fairly frequently. It's a good idea to look through this page, see which non-limited animals tend to show up a lot, and make sure those are out of your inventory.

To collect tokens faster, you can use the "Rush" option to speed up collection from animals and fun buildings involved in the event. An in-game pop-up stated that "If you use Rush on any of the families listed in [an] Event, you are always guaranteed to get the Holiday Tokens!" [This was a question because players did not always receive Tokens every time they used Collect Frenzy in the event where tokens were awarded for using collect frenzy.]

Left over Holiday Tokens cannot be saved up for the next holiday event, they disappear when the event icon disappears. So use them up before they leave! Note that as long as you get at least one family member of an animal sold in the Holiday Store or offered as a prize on a prize wheel, you will be able to complete the family, because once you get the first member, the remaining members are available in the Shop and cost instead of Holiday Tokens.

There are two types of holiday events: stores and prize wheels. There are advantages and disadvantages to each format.

Stores[]

Holiday Stores work just like the regular Shop. All limited holiday items will be shown, along with their price given in holiday tokens, and info buttons to see additional info about each item. The image at the top of this page is of a holiday store.

Players can only buy the first family member with holiday tokens - the family can be completed any time afterwards by paying in the regular Shop. But try to get as many of the decorations and fun buildings as you want before the Holiday Store expires, because they will not be in the regular shop afterwards!

Prize Wheels[]

Gameloft introduced wheel events in October 2015. In wheel events, holiday tokens are used to purchase spins on a prize wheel instead for a chance at winning items instead of purchasing them directly.

The wheels are like the wheel in Kung Fu Scrat - it is weighted. Therefore the probability of landing on each slot is not equal. The likelihood of landing on cheaper items (usually decorations) is far higher than the likelihood of landing on the more expensive items (usually certain animal families).

Items are not necessarily removed from the wheel once you win them. This includes animals. So it's possible to complete families by winning all four members during the event. At that point, the animal would be removed from the wheel. Many players reported that decorations and fun buildings are eventually removed once they won a certain number of them (about 10). However, other players reported that this feature did not work for them and that those items never left despite winning more than 10. When items were removed from the wheel, the odds of winning the remaining items did not appear to increase. Instead of removing the slot entirely, the slot is instead filled with an alternative prize - either , , or additional holiday tokens. Additionally, many players reported that when the collection event changed every 2-3 days, the extra decorations and fun buildings in their inventory disappeared and the item once again appeared on their prize wheel.

Several players also reported that they seemed to only win animals every three days, or only after 4-5 spins in a day. Although this theory needs more testing, it may be beneficial for players to save up tickets for a few days and then use them all at once.

Christmas Holiday Tokens (2013) []

Christmas Holiday Tokens are a special currency that were released from 11th December 2013 - 12th January 2014. To get them, players had to collect from certain animals or Fun Stuff, depending on the active holiday event. You get 3 from each animal or building you collect from.

the Mammoth, the Tapir or the Triceratops on the 11th - 13th

the Gyro Drop, the Snow Fort or the Beach Resort on the 14th - 15th
using Collect Frenzy on the 16th - 17th
- You sometimes, but not always, get 3 when you use Collect Frenzy. It seems to be time related. So if you get multiple times in a row and then start getting nothing, wait an hour or two before trying again.
the Gravelbeast, the Red Ostrich or the Steggy on the 18th - 19th
the Gyro Drop, the Snow Fort or the Volcano on the 20th - 21st
the T-Rex, the Pink Ostrich or the Brown Mammoth on the 22nd - 23rd
the Flying Dino, the Rhino or the Possum on the 24th - 25th
the Bowling Alley, the Gyro Drop or the Snow Fort on the 26th - 27th
the Dung Beetle, the Hippophant or Gray T-Rex on the 28th - 29th
the Gyro Drop, the Iceball Pool or the Volcano on the 30th - 31st
the Mammoth, the Flying Dino or the Wooly Rhino on the 1st - 2nd
the Diving Bird, the Red Ostrich, or the Polar Bear on the 3rd - 4th
the Ermine, the Red-Nosed T-Rex or the Rhino on the 5th - 7th
the Shuffleboard, Sandbox or the Snowboard Half-Pipe on the 8th - 9th
the Mammoth, Rapto Claus or the Theropod on the 10th - 12th

The decorations, fun buildings and animals that could be bought with them stayed in the Holiday Shop for the whole of December, however.

The Holiday Animals you could purchase with were:

Valentine's Day Holiday Tokens (2014) []

Valentine's Day Holiday Tokens are a special currency that were released from 10th February 2014 - 2nd March 2014. They were limited and could only be collected from:

the Gyro Drop, the Sandbox or the Iceball Pool on the 10th - 11th
the Bowling Alley, the Snow Fort or the Beach Resort on the 12th - 13th
the Red Ostrich, the Weasel or the Giant Pink Moth on the 14th - 16th
the Mini-Golf, the Volcano or the Dragon Kite on the 17th - 18th
the Gazelle, the Cuddle Bear or the Triceratops on the 19th - 20th
the Valentines Tiger, the Shark or the Orange Archaeopteryx on the 21st - 22nd
the Ermine, the Brown Mammoth or the Pyroraptor on the 23rd - 24th
the Hedgehog, the Love Buzzard, or the Theropod on the 25th - 26th
the Gyro Drop, the Iceball Pool or the Bumper Cars on the 27th - 28th
the Possum, the Rhino or the Gray T-Rex on the 1st - 2nd

Collecting from fun buildings produces 10 . When they can be collected from an animal family, the number of family members affects how many tokens you receive. For a single family member (or a fun building), you get 10 ; for two, you get 11 ; for three, you get 12 ; and for a complete family, you get 13 .