Combining Elements

Combining elements are required to combine collections in the Secret Society: Hidden Mystery game.

Once you have collected all 5 items belonging to a collection, you can combine the collection in the collections tab to receive your rewards.

In order to combine any collection you will need a set amount of 4 different combining elements. Combining elements are rewarded to players for successful investigations of pictures and puzzles. Combining elements may also be found inside some chests. Combining elements can be gifted to your friends as free gifts that do not come out of your inventory.

Finding Combining Elements
Combining elements are rewarded for successfull investigations of pictures or puzzles. Once you successfully investigate a picture, or win a puzzle game, the rewards window that appears at the end of the game will show you what you have won. The items you win are randomly generated from the items available to win. Using luck talismans or artefacts or hiring sleuth friends will increase the number of items you win for each successfull picture investigation or puzzle game won. As will playing a picture of puzzle that has been charged by a visiting slueth. This will increase your odds of getting the combining elements you require.

Each combining element can only be won in certain pictures or puzzles. In order to find a particular combining element, use the 'can be found' list in the research window of a picture or puzzle to see if it is available to win. Aternatively, if you already have one of that combining element in your inventory, you can press the icon for that element in the 'Different' tab of your inventory (5th tab when you open the inventory). This will bring up a list of places the element can be found. You can also access this information by pressing the icon for a combining element in the collections tab.

Combining Element Locations
Below is a list of combining elements in the game and the pictures and puzzles they can be found in:

Using Combining Elements
Combining elements are stored in your inventory. To access them open your inventory by using the inventory icon on your home desktop. Go to the 'Different' tab (5th tab along the top). Note: you cannot use combining elements from your inventory, only view how many of each you have and the information about where to find them.

To use combining elements to combine collections you must open the collections tab. Find the collection you wish to combine. If you have all of the items needed for that collection, and the right amount of each combining element needed to combine the collection, the 'combine' button on the left hand side of that collection will be green. Pressing the green combine button will use 1 of each of the items needed for that collection and the amount of combining elements listed to combine the collection. The combining elements (and 1 of each of the items needed for that collection) will automatically leave your inventory.

Gifting Combining Elements
Combining elements can be given to your friends as as gifts. Combining elements count as 'free gifts'. This means that any combining element you give to your friends, either by selecting the element from their wishlist or by selecting the element in the 'Send a gift' tab, will not come out of your inventory.

You are restricted to sending one free gift to each friend each day, up to a maximum of 50 friends. This means you are restricted to sending one combining element to each friend each day, up to a maximum of 50 friends. You may not send combining elements to friends outside of the free gift system, even if you have hundreds of that element in your inventory.

In order to be able to send certain combining elements to your friends you must first reach a certain level in the game to unlock it. When you start the game on level 1, the only combining element available to send to your friends is the Winding key. Every other combining element is unlocked as you progress through the game levels.

You may unlock a combining element earlier by paying to unlock it with crystals. To do this, open the Friends Section of the game by pressing the icon on your home desktop. Go to a friend in your friends list, press 'send a gift' to open their gifting box. Go to the 'send a gift' tab (default open tab) and scroll through until you find the combining element you want to unlock. You will be shown what level is needed to unlock the combining gift in the top right hand corner of the picture of the element. Under the picture of the combining element, in the place where the green 'send' button is normally is, will be a turquoise 'open for x crystals' button. Pressing this will deduct the crystals from your inventory and unlock that combining element so that is available to send as a free gift from then on. The number of crystals needed to unlock each combining element is the same as the level required to unlock it through normal game play.

Levels required to unlock combining elements as gifts
Below is a list of all the combining elements you are able to send as free gifts to your friends, and the level in the game you are required to reach in order to unlock them.

Related

 * SS Home
 * Collections
 * List of Collections
 * Friends
 * Gifting