Sweet Venture Update

The Sweet Venture Update was released on the 10th of November 2017 for iOS and Android players and the 11th of November for Windows 10 and Kindle players.

Downloading the new udpate is not necessary to trigger the Sweet Venture timed challenges as the content was already included in the previous Halloween's Horror Update.

The Sweet Venture timed challenges begin when a player reaches game level 7 in the game (or automatically after the Halloween's Horror timed challenge if the player is already above level 7).

The Sweet Venture Update introduces 1 new picture - Bakery; 30 new quests and 5 new collections.

The Sweet Venture Event
The Sweet Venture timed event contains 3 challenges. Players have a set number of days (usually around 28) to complete the following tasks:



For the duration of the Sweet Venture challenge, Vanilla Pods special items are required in addition to energy points to play the Bakery. Vanilla Pods are given as rewards for every successful investigation for every picture, and as rewards for banishing anomalies, but not for playing puzzles. Vanilla Pods cannot be gifted between friends, however they are given as rewards for combining the new Sweet Venture collections, and they can be given as rewards by the Sphere of Miracles and Pyramid of Wonder.
 * Collect 500 Cranberries by winning games of Jigsaw to open the Fall Jewelry Box which contains: energy boosters (Donut, Dinner); a chest (Tool Box); talismans (Bronze Weight Disk, Super Winged Lightning).
 * Complete 30 special quests to win the once-off Talisman of Plenty which increases the effect of each food item by 25% for 48 hours. Upon completing these quests you will also be able to combine the Amulet of Fall Artefact which protects against night modes for 48 hours.
 * Achieve 'Academician' level in the Bakery and win 2 unique avatars, one male and one female.

The Jigsaw Challenge - collecting Cranberries
Players can open the Fall Jewelry Box and win a number of rewards by collecting 500 Cranberries. Cranberries can only be won by successfully completing the Jigsaw puzzle. For each successful win of Jigsaw, you will win between 2-5 Cranberries as one of the rewards for completing the puzzle. It is chance how many Cranberries you will get after any given play. You can think of it like rolling a 4-sided dice. On average you will get 3.5 Cranberries per play. Therefore it will require approximately 143 plays of Jigsaw to complete the challenge.

When you open the Research Window for Jigsaw by tapping on the Jigsaw puzzle icon on your Home Desktop you will see Cranberries listed as the first item in the 'Can be found' list for the puzzle. Cranberries are available to win for every play of the puzzle at every puzzle level.

You must keep playing (and winning) Jigsaw until you have collected 500 Cranberries in order to complete the challenge. Once you have collected all 500 Cranberries you will be able to open the Fall Jewelry Box and collect your rewards.

The Fall Jewelry Box is located in the top right of the Home Desktop, between the Pipes and Memory Match Puzzles. You can tap on the Fall Jewelry Box at any time to bring up its information window. While you are collecting Cranberries, your progress towards 500 will be shown in the information window.

Once you have collected all 500 Cranberries, the Fall Jewelry Box will automatically open and the rewards will go directly into your inventory. A notification window will appear to say the box is opened.

The opened Fall Jewelry Box will remain on your Home Desktop in the same position. Tapping on this will still bring up the information window, however the Cranberries counter will be replaced with a congratulations message.

The Fall Jewelry Box contains the following rewards:


 * Donut x1 (Energy Item)
 * Dinner x1 (Energy Item)
 * Tool Box x1 (Chest)
 * Bronze Weight Disk x1 (Talisman)
 * Super Winged Lightning x1 (Talisman)

However daunting it may seem, all of the Timed Challenges are designed to be completable within the given time limit, so it is possible to collect 500 Cranberries well within the time given. The task is designed to be challenging, but it is not impossible!

Hints/Tips for Collecting Cranberries
Although it will take many plays of Jigsaw to win 500 Cranberries, there are things you can do to make the challenge easier:
 * 1) Read the Jigsaw article on this wiki for tips on playing Jigsaw.
 * 2) Use tools when playing Jigsaw. You can use Explorer's Eyes and Time Machines when playing Jigsaw. Using an Explorer's Eye will place one piece in the right place. Time Machines add 45 seconds to the puzzle timer, which can be a great help for pictures with very similar colors. Use the List of Collections, List of Collection Items and List of Collection Item Locations pages here to find out which collections give out these tools when combined, and where you can find the items needed to combine those collections.
 * 3) To help avoid feelings of frustration with the game and challenge, don't just play Jigsaw over and over again; try to play a variety of pictures and puzzles as much as possible. Perhaps rotate trying to get the Fall Jewelry Box with the other challenges in the Sweet Venture event (playing the Bakery and completing the 30 challenge quests).
 * 4) Don't rely on Luck Talismans/Artefacts. Luck Talismans (e.g. Horseshoes) and Artefacts (e.g. Symbol of Success) do not increase your odds of winning a higher number of CRanberries per play. However, they do increase the number of different items you will win for each successful play of a picture/puzzle.
 * 5) Use the Time Talisman artefact. If you are struggling to win Jigsaw in the time given then try to use a Time Talisman artefact. Once activated, this artefact adds 1 minute to every picture/puzzle for 24 hours.

The Unique Avatars - Getting Bakery to Academician Level
The avatars won for reaching Academician level in Bakery. Players can win the unique Avatar by playing the new picture Bakery until they increase its scene progress level up to Academician Level during the Sweet Venture's time sensitive challenge.

For the duration of the Sweet Venture Update, Vanilla Pod special items are needed for each play of the Bakery picture.

While the Timed Challenges are active (before you complete all three, or the timer expires; whichever happens first), Vanilla Pods are given as rewards for every successful investigation for every picture in the game (except the Bakery itself). At least 1 Vanilla Pod is given for every game you win, but winning up to 3 at a time is also possible.



Vanilla Pods are also given as rewards from banishing anomalies, but not for playing puzzles. Vanilla Pods cannot be gifted between friends, however they are given as rewards for combining the new Sweet Venture collections. Players with the Pyramid of Wonder or Sphere of Miracles also have a 1 in 7 chance of receiving Vanilla Pods from these Desktop Awards when collecting their rewards every 12 hours. The number of Vanilla Pods needed for each play of the Bakery increases as you increase the Picture Levels (+5 Vanilla Pods per Level increase), starting at 5 Vanilla Pods per play when the picture is opened at Novice Level and increasing to 45 Vanilla Pods per play when the picture is at Grand Magister Level.

As a guide, in order to reach Academician Level on Bakery and win the new Avatar, you will need to play the picture approximately 150 times, which will require approximately 3,285 Vanilla Pods! (or 2,628 Vanilla Pods if using the Amulet of Santa/Amulet of Rarities Artefact).

As soon as you return to your Home Desktop after playing the Bakery for the 150th time, a notification screen will appear to say that the avatar challenge is complete and you have won both of the unique Avatars.

Both Avatars will automatically go into the Avatar section, but will not automatically replace your current Avatar. To use either of the new Avatars, you must tap on your current Avatar to bring up the Avatars window. Tap on the Avatar to select it.

Hints/Tips for Winning the Unique Avatars

 * 1) Try to play a variety of pictures as much as possible when playing, instead of just playing the Bakery over and over again. The more you play a single picture/puzzle repeatedly, the worse the rewards for each win gets. Additionally, the bigger variety of pictures you play, the bigger variety of collection items you can potentially win. This will greatly increase the number of regular collections you will be able to combine, which will potentially give you more tools, energy items, Talismans and Artefacts that will all help with completing the quests.
 * 2) If you are low on energy, but close to leveling up (at which point your energy will restore), play Buddha's Square until you level up. At higher picture levels Buddha's Square potentially rewards a Cappuccino for each successful picture investigation. Cappuccinos restore 30 energy points when used, and Buddha's Square only requires 31 energy points at most to play (at Professor level). This means you can play for free or next to free if you have a good success rate of winning Cappuccinos. Using Luck Talismans and Artefacts, like Horseshoes while playing Buddha's Square will increase your odds for winning Cappuccinos. This also means that Buddha's Square is a great picture to play when collecting Vanilla Pods, as by winning Cappuccinos and restoring the energy you are using to play, you are basically collecting Vanilla Pods for free in terms of energy costs.Santa_amulet_2014.png
 * 3) If you are low on energy, avoid playing high energy pictures in the game too often as many do not reward combining elements.
 * 4) Use the Amulet of Santa or the Amulet of Rarities Artefact to decrease the number of Vanilla Pods needed to play the Bakery. Both the Amulet of Santa and the Amulet of Rarities Artefacts reduce the number of special items needed to play paid scenes like Bakery by 20% for 24 hours once activated. Artefacts_portal.png
 * 5) Use the Valentine's Amulet Artefact to decrease the amount of energy needed to play every picture/puzzle when you are ready to play the Bakery a number of times. The Valentine's Amulet reduces the amount of energy needed to play by 10% for 12 hours.
 * 6) Use Luck Talismans and Artefacts such as Horseshoes in conjunction with the Valentine's Amulet, and make sure to play Tree of Dates in rotation when you are playing the pictures. This will increase your chances of finding all the collection items needed to combine another Valentine's Amulet as you play.
 * 7) As you play through the 30 challenge quests to win the Talisman of Plenty, you will be able to combine 5 new collections added as part of the update. These quests will reward Vanilla Pods once combined, and the Talisman of Plenty itself increases the effect of each food item by 25% for 48 hour.

The Challenge Quests, the Talisman of Plenty and the Amulet of Fall Artefact
The Talisman of Plenty can be won once a player completes all 30 of the special Sweet Venture challenge quests introduced as part of the update. The quests must be completed within the time limit of the Timed Challenge in order to unlock the Talisman.

Once the quests are completed, the Talisman of Plenty automatically goes into your Inventory.

A notification screen will appear to say that the 30 challenge quests are complete and you have won the Talisman of Plenty, but you must go to the Talisman section of the Inventory itself to see and use the new Talisman.

Once activated, the Talisman of Plenty increases the effect of each food item by 25% for 48 hours.

In addition to winning the Talisman of Plenty, players will also be able to combine the Amulet of Fall Artefact once they have completed the 30 challenge quests since the collections combined as part of the 30 quests create the 5 items needed to combine this new Artefact.



Once the quests are completed, players must manually combine the Amulet of Fall Artefact. To do this, open the Collections Window and select the Artefacts tab. Locate the Amulet of Fall Artefact and press the green combine button.

You will need 20 each of the following combining elements to combine the Artefact - Second Hand, Minute Hand, Hour Hand and Clock Face. All Artefact combining elements can be won by combining collections in the game. Every time you combine a collection you will be awarded an Artefact combining element at random. You can also be given these combining elements as free gifts by your friends. Like collection combining elements, Artefact combining elements are free gifts and do not come out of your inventory when you send them as gifts to your friends.

Once combined, the Amulet of Fall Artefact automatically goes into the Talisman tab of your Inventory, where it can be activated.

Once activated, the Amulet of Fall Artefact will protect against night modes for 48 hours.

Winning the Talisman of Plenty
A special decorative border in the quest list marks the 30 quests needed to win the Talisman of Plenty.



Note: The very first quest that displays the special decorative border is the quest to find the picture pieces needed to unlock and open the Bakery picture. However, this quest does not count towards the 30 quests needed to win the Talisman of Plenty. This means there are actually 31 quests that display the decorative border, but only the last 30 of them count towards the challenge. Most importantly, you will need to complete this first quest in order to complete the challenge as the 30 quests that make up the event will not start until this quest is completed (there is only ever one quest with a special decorative border active at any one time) and the other quests require you to play the Bakery picture (which this quest opens).

There are 30 special quests that must be completed in order to win the Talisman of Plenty. They consist of 5 collection sequences of 6 quests each. The first 5 quests are to find each of the 5 items while the 6th quest is to combine the collection.

The 5 collections players gather as they complete the 30 quests are:


 * 1) Delicious story (combines to create the "Basket of pastries" and rewards 10 Vanilla Pods when combined)
 * 2) Sweet assortment (combines to create the "Sweet assortment" and rewards 15 Vanilla Pods when combined)
 * 3) Coll3 (combines to create the "xxx" and rewards 20 Vanilla Pods when combined)
 * 4) Coll4 (combines to create the "xxx" and rewards 25 Vanilla Pods when combined)
 * 5) Coll5 (combines to create the "xxx" and rewards 30 Vanilla Pods when combined)

All the items that make up these collections cannot be gifted between friends (they do not have green plus signs to add them to your wish list and they will not appear in the 'Send a collection item' tab when sending gifts to your friends).

They are all also 'Quest only' items, which means that they cannot be won normally by playing pictures/puzzles. They are only available to win in pictures while the quest for the particular item is activated and will stop being available to win in that picture once the quest is completed. They may also drop as random items when you are visiting your friends and charging their desktops; from the Collectors Desktop award when collecting its rewards; and from opening Pandora's Chests, however whether or not you get any of these items in those ways is completely up to chance.

This means that the only way to complete these quests is to follow the quest instructions as you get the quests. This makes these 30 challenge quests slightly more difficult than the challenge quests in older Timed Challenges, all of which could be gifted between friends or won in regular play of certain pictures.

The Challenge Quests
The 30 special quests that are needed to win the Talisman of Plenty are:

Hints/Tips for Winning the Talisman of Plenty and the Amulet of Fall Artefact

 * 1) Use the strongest Luck Talismans/Artefacts you have available whenever you are playing. This will increase the number of items you win for each play, which will increase your chances of winning the quest item. Diamond_horseshoe.pngnd horseshoe Talismans (+90% chance of winning items for 120 minutes) and the Symbol of Success Artefact (+50% chance of winning items for 24 hours) are the most powerful Luck Talismans available in the game, so when playing other pictures choose pictures which award items needed for collections that reward these Talismans. You will need to play other pictures during the challenge anyway to collect Vanilla Pods to play the Bakery, so by making sure that Tavern (rewards items for collections that reward Diamond horseshoes), Venice, Buddha's Square, Throne Room, Mayan Temple, Ghost Town, Joy Café, Amusement Park, Bungalow and Misty Shed (rewards items for collections needed to combine Symbol of Success) are in your rotation while you increase your chances of getting more of these powerful Luck Talismans to use for the quests. Note that using powerful Luck Talismans will not guarantee that you win the quest item on your first attempt, as all they do is give a percentage increase to the coded 'chance' of winning the item in the game. If an item normally has only a 10% chance of being won per play of the correct quest requirements, then using Luck Talismans that give you a 100% increase will not give you a 100% chance of winning the item. It will just increase the 10% by 100%, giving you a 20% chance of winning the item. Hard to get items will still be hard to get.
 * 2) Use your Magic Crystal Talismans during the challenge. The Magic Crystal Talisman works as a Luck Talisman (it increases your odds of finding objects by 12% when activated), and the Social Events Update has fixed the problem where no other Luck Talisman could be activated while using it, so now you can use them together again. This means you can add an additional 12% increase in odds of finding objects to other Luck Talismans that you use during the challenge. You can only use one other Luck Talisman once the Magic Crystal Talisman is activated (as you cannot use more than one Luck Talisman at a time), but you can use one of any other Luck Talisman or the Symbol of Success Artefact at the same time as the Magic Crystal Talisman again. The Magic Crystal Talisman lasts for 10 days.
 * 3) The Challenge quests usually ask for you to play the Bakery, so it is best to continue to work on it as normal when playing and not to worry too much about the quests themselves, they will be completed as you go. That is, it is better to concentrate your resources just working on the Avatar challenge - getting Bakery to Academician level. You will complete the quests naturally as you increase the picture to Academician level. The hints/tips for that challenge will therefore also aid in completing this challenge.
 * 4) Read the quest instructions carefully. Most quests just ask you to play the Bakery, but some will specify a mode. The item will only be available to win when the picture is in the correct mode. Modes cannot be 'forced', which means you cannot make them appear in rotation. Since the Halloween's Horror Update it is possible to change the current mode of a picture by paying 5 crystals, but also here no mode can be forced. The next mode will be chosen randomly.
 * 5) The items needed to complete the quests cannot be gifted between friends. However they may drop as random items when you are visiting your friends and charging their desktops; from the Collectors Desktop Award when collecting its rewards; and from opening Pandora's Chests. Whether this happens or not will be completely up to chance, but in order to increase your odds it is a good idea to visit your friends every day when doing the challenge.
 * 6) Warning: If you combine the collection items you are gathering before the 'Combine' quest (the 6th quest in each sequence), the game may glitch and not recognize that the collection is combined. If this happens you may be stuck unable to combine the collection again in order to complete the 'Combine' quest and move on in the quests, effectively ending this challenge for you barring finding the collection items a second time from random drops.

After the Challenge is complete
Once you complete all three Sweet Venture Update Challenges, or after the challenge timer expires (whichever happens first), Vanilla Pods will be restricted so that they will only be won in 2 of the Pictures (instead of in all of them like during the Timed Challenges).

This restriction of the challenge quest special items after completion has been a feature of many updates now and is designed to allow players to collect enough to complete the challenge within the short time frame but not amass a large quantity after finishing the challenge.

When the next update is released Vanilla Pods (and the Pumpkin Lanterns from the Halloween's Horror Update) will be removed from the game and any remaining in the player's inventory will be converted to other special items (such as Fireflies, Ladybugs, carrots, cupid arrows and tokens). Keeping the number of Vanilla Pods a player can accumulate down will keep the number of other special items the player can win down, since these items are meant to be rare.

In order to maximize how many Vanilla Pods you can earn, it is best to not complete all 3 of the timed challenges until the challenge timer is nearly finished. Keeping one of the 3 challenges incomplete for as long as possible will keep the time period that Vanilla Pods can be won in every picture in the game open as long as possible.

The Jigsaw challenge of collecting 500 Cranberries is the easiest of the 3 to leave uncompleted (both of the other challenges require you play the Bakery so you will naturally complete one as you complete the other, whereas the Jigsaw challenge is kept entirely separate from the others).

Alternatively, players could leave the final challenge quest incomplete by simply not combining the collection. However, by using this approach players must remember not to combine the collection, which they may do by accident whilst combining other collections.

It does not matter which challenge is left incomplete, Vanilla Pods will still be available to win in every Picture in the game (except the Bakery itself), as long as one part of the timed challenges isn't finished. Players opting to leave one challenge incomplete in order to more easily collect Vanilla Pods should remember to keep an eye on the challenge timer if they do wish to complete the final part before the event ends. If players do want to finish the part of the challenge they have left incomplete to collect Vanilla Pods, then they should be particularly cautious around extensions added to the challenge as these have been known to be inconsistent (some timers unexpectedly ending early during the extension period).

Changes with this Update
Time Travel: Like iOS players in the last update, Windows and Android players have reported with this update that they can no longer Time Travel (or TT) on their devices to set their Talismans or 'farm' their Desktop Awards (travel back and forth in time to recharge them). There were however discussions taking place on still being able to use TT to multi-gift for iOS which might also work on other devices. See http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:509996 for further information as well as the following YouTube video found here. Err on the side of caution if trying to farm special items by either going into the past or future as there's a good possibility you may lose your Update.

Setting talismans in the future: iOS, Android and Windows players have reported that they lost their long-running talismans with this update and were unable to set new ones.

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