Ghost Town (Collection)



Ghost Town is a collection that can be combined in the game. This collection should not be confused with the Hidden Object Picture of the same name.

Each Hidden Object Picture and Puzzle game in the Secret Society - Hidden Mystery has its own set of reward items that players can win, in addition to earning Experience points and coins. Many of these items form part of collections, that players can combine in order to win rewards.

This collection is not associated with any Artefact in the game, but does give useful rewards every time it is combined.

See the List of Collections page for a list all collections currently available in the game and the rewards for combining them.

The Ghost Town Collection
Ghost Town is collection number 39 in the collections section of the game when sorting is disabled. This collection was introduced to the game in the 1.3 update (April 2013).

Each collection in the game consists of 5 different collection items.

Once you have collected at least one of each item for this collection, along with the required number of combining elements, the COMBINE button on the right hand side of the collection will turn green. You will be able to combine the collection and receive your rewards. If the COMBINE button is brown, then you are either missing one or more of the collection items, or you do not have enough of one or more of the required combining elements.

Collection Items
There are several ways to obtain the collection items needed to combine the Ghost Town collection.

They can be: 1) won as a reward for successfully investigating any picture when it is in Night mode; 2) won both within, as well as before and after the quests for them; 3) randomly rewarded by the Collector desktop award; and 4) randomly rewarded from charging a friends board when visiting friends. The collection items can also be gifted to friends (from your own inventory) and received as gifts from friends.

Ghost Town is a "mode dependent" collection. This means that the Ghost Town collection items are not won in any particular Picture or Puzzle, but instead become available to win in any Picture, once that Picture is in a specific game mode. In this case, the Ghost Town collections items are supposed to be won in any Picture that is played in Night mode.

Important: there is a glitch in the game, which has existed since the 2014 Valentines Update and has completely broken the mode dependent collections. This glitch means that the Ghost Town collection items cannot actually be won by playing Pictures in Night mode. You will see the Ghost Town items in the 'Can be Found' list in the research window of any Picture that is currently in Night mode, amongst the other items that could potentially be won from that play. However, these mode dependent items are not actually winnable for that play. Instead, they will be potentially won in any play of the picture, in any mode, as long as the next mode in that Picture is Night mode. This means that the Ghost Town items are won in the play before Night mode, rather than in the play of Night mode.

For example, if Throne Room is currently in Pairs mode, and you look at the 'Can be Found' list for the picture before playing a game, you will not see the Ghost Town items in the list of potential rewards since they are supposed to be won in Night mode. However, if you play the Throne Room you may find an item from Ghost Town in the list of rewards after completing the puzzle. You will then see that the new game mode in Throne Room is Night mode. If you look at the 'Can be Found' list of Throne Room again, now that the mode is Night mode, you will see the Ghost Town items in the 'Can be Found' list for the Picture. But there is actually no chance of winning them in the play of Night mode, since this glitch causes them to be rewarded in the play before Night mode instead. The only way to win the items when playing a Picture that is currently in Night mode is if the next mode in the Picture is also Night mode (i.e. if Night mode repeats in the Picture, the first play of Night mode will also be a play before Night mode).

This can be confusing, and means that the 'Can be Found' list cannot be trusted for any mode dependent collection. However, it can also be a useful early warning system of what mode will be in the Picture next. If you see any Ghost Town items in your list of rewards when playing a Picture, you will know that the Picture will be in Night mode next.

The following is a detailed list of each item in this collection, including where the item can be won through normal play, the name and location of the quest associated with the item, and whether or not the item has a green plus sign (and so can be given as a gift in the game).

Collection items with a green plus sign can be added to your wishlist to indicate to your friends that you need the item. You can also gift these collection items to your friends, either directly from their wishlist or through the 'Send a collection item' tab in the gifting window for that friend. All collection items gifted to friends will come out of your inventory.

Collection items without a green plus sign can not be added to your wishlist or gifted to friends. It does not matter how many of that item you have in your inventory. If the item does not have a green plus sign next to it, it will not appear in the 'Send a collection item' tab in the gifting window. It is impossible to send or receive items that do not have a green plus sign.

Combining Elements
The combining elements required to assemble any collection, once all five collection items have been found, can be won as a reward for successfully investigating certain pictures and winning certain puzzle games.

The following is a list of the combining elements that are required in order to combine the Ghost Town collection. For each combining element, it shows how many are required each time you combine a collection and where the combining element can be found in the game. Currently all combining elements have a green plus sign, which means they can be added to your wishlist and gifted between friends.

Important: All combining elements in the game count as free gifts and so do not come out of your inventory when gifted to Friends.

Related

 * SS Home
 * Collections
 * List of Collections
 * List of Collection Items
 * List of Collection Item Locations
 * List of Combining Element Requirements
 * Combining Elements
 * Quests
 * Artefacts
 * List of Artefacts
 * Gifting
 * Visiting
 * Awards