User:Merrimack



My in game name is Merrimacga, same as my user name here on this Wiki. Below, I have posted my Pogo Mini in place of my SSHM avatar.

Like my profile page? Here's a primer.
Each SSHM Wiki user/member has a user/profile page but it is only a very basic template to start. And there are 2 profiles: (1) your Global Profile (the banner section to the right of your Wiki avatar) and (2) your user/profile page that is specific to the group Wiki you're currently visiting (like this one is for the SSHM Wiki). Most users will probably see an Edit profile button towards the top right of the profile page, even when a page is not their own. Such buttons on this Wiki's pages also include a drop down menu with at least History as an option. Clicking this option on my profile page will allow you to view and compare my profile's various edits in wikitext. You can then copy and paste my wikitext as needed to your own page and then edit it as appropriate (for more info on editing, refer to Help:Editing). Why start from scratch when you can start from another's example? 😉

Merrimacga's Stroll 🚶🚶 of the Poll 👍 👎
''The second poll is now available and is about what you would like to see for holiday themes. We're off to a slow start with the polls so I plan to leave this new one up a little longer, perhaps a month. The polls don't allow for choices to be added by respondents so I will continue to be as complete as I can when I create them. If necessary, I'll start a poll over if I get too many comments about missing options. The results of the inaugural poll are on my Message Wall. Have fun and do participate.''

For this second poll, and for most polls moving forward, I have one question. One vote per IP address per login. It may be possible to vote more than once if you have multiple Wiki accounts and/or one of your votes is while you are logged out. Otherwise, voting a subsequent time will likely replace your previous one. The poll will remain open and the results will remain available here until the next poll. Note: it may be necessary to clear your browser cache to view updated results.

To date, MyTona has provided us mostly with holiday updates at Halloween and Christmas, though there were also two Valentine's events (in 2014 and 2015) and both the Spring Festival one last year and the current Legend Returns have an oriental theme, most likely in celebration of Chinese New Year. If MyTona were to add any additional holiday (or other popular observance) events each year, what one would you most like to see? Note: this a pretty broad list and some are limited primarily to 1 or 2 countries and it is roughly in calendar order by primary observance date. I tried to avoid overlap with current game themes. Apologies if I missed anything important. New Year's Day (Jan 1) Mardi Gras St. Patrick's Day April Fool's Day Easter Earth Day Cinco de Mayo Mother's Day Memorial Day Father's Day Independence Day Labor Day First Day of School International Day of Peace Thanksgiving

My Favorite SSHM Wiki Pages

 * Secret Society Wiki Home Page (main page where news, content links and recent activity can be located)


 * Secret Society Search Page (If you enter a search term in the search field in the Wiki top bar and if that search term matches an existing page name, you'll be taken to that page instead of search results...so this is how you get directly to the search page)


 * Secret Society Community Page (a starting page for contributing; also where you can quickly see who is on the administration team as well as top and recent contributors; note: in 2017, there is a large project in progress to update all content pages on the site...please check with the administration team before editing articles (adding comments is okay; profile pages, message walls and forums are not part of the project))


 * Secret Society User Conduct Guidelines (self-explanatory; very important page)


 * Secret Society Help:Getting Started (a great launch page for Wiki technical help specifically for contributing on this community; you can also access the Wikia Community Central general version by clicking here)


 * Community Portal Page (where you can find great links for getting started on the Wiki as well as how you can help out and contribute, including finding templates and tutorials, things that need to be done and links to special pages)


 * Secret Society Wiki Sitemap (special page where you can find links to all content pages; this page no longer shows all links by default - you'll have to select a namespace from the drop down and click go to view the links by type; if you select a namespace with a very large number of links (like Main), the results will be a list of sublinks you'll have to click to access the individual links)


 * Secret Society List of all Users (special page where you can find a listing of all site users, sortable by Wiki name, total edits or usage date)


 * List of Secret Society Players/Wiki Users (where you can find a table that can be added to and edited by all Wiki users who play the game; the table includes info like what device they play on as well as whether or not they're accepting more friends)


 * Secret Society Player Gifting and Visiting Preferences (self-explanatory; contains a table that can be added to and edited by all Wiki users who play the game)


 * List of all SSHM Wiki Site Categories (category pages are ones where links to individual pages are grouped and listed together for easier access; for help on adding categories to any page, including profile pages, see Help:Category)


 * SSHM Wiki Forum Abbreviation and Concepts Glossary on the Eureka Moments board (in case you want to know what things like TT and CE and CI and TY and WL mean)


 * Backing Up Game (SSHM is a great game but can be notoriously buggy, especially right after an update is released, and players can also have device issues that can corrupt the game or make it inaccessible; this page helps players across all platforms with instructions on backing up the game, just in case)


 * Special:Editcount (this page displays a user's most recent edit counts on both this Wiki and across all of Wikia/Fandom; I have set the link to default on my own stats...to look up your own or those of any other user, simply overwrite my user name with another user name and click Submit; for help on this page, see Help:Edit count)


 * Special:Leaderboard (this page displays a current ranking of site users based on their Achievements badges received for their site contributions; see Help:Achievements for more info)


 * Special:Statistics and Popular Pages (both links provide statistics on this site in general; the first is a page offering basic site statistics (the user types noted are based on current user rights granted; ignore the database dumps section as they are zipped XML files that are only useful to site admins); the second page is part of the Insights site statistics and displays the current page metrics (the counts include views for editing purposes; see Help:Insights for more info about these stats)

Some Other Recommended Links

 * Wiki Activity Monitor (WAM) Score (if you want to see how this Wiki is trending amongst all other Wiki sites)
 * Aaron Verdugo's SSHM helper videos on YouTube
 * Lilac11's Time Travel (TT) Complete Guide PDF for iOS/Android/Windows (TT not possible on Kindle devices.)
 * My giftable collections spreadsheet, current through February 2017, which notes rewards, individual items, combining elements, quest only versus regular status, and whether or not an artefact component: http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/File:SSHM_Giftable_Collections.ods
 * My collections Open Document spreadsheet template for restarting and new players, updated through February 2017 based on the updated giftable collections spreadsheet above: http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/File:Restart_Recommended_Collections_Template.ods
 * Helpful post on following pages and walls on this Wiki: http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:228422
 * How to gift someone through this Wiki without adding them as a friend in game: http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:101892
 * Avatar Challenge in Game Updates - Tips for helping your friends win: http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Challenge_in_Game_Updates_-_Tips_for_helping_your_friends_win
 * How To Backup Android Phones (helpful article for Android users)

About Me
In game, 48 is my limit of what I can handle for friends and normally I'm either at or close to that number at all times but occasionally I have an opening. Levels 40-200 and daily, or at least regular, players only please. You also have to like being gifted because gifting is my favorite activity in the game (as you'll see below). NOTE: Code hijackers will be rejected...if you see my friend code posted on this Wiki and if you weren't the intended recipient, don't use it. Instead, read about me here and if you think I would make a good friend, leave me a friend request message on my wall and be sure to let me know about yourself as well.

As of 1/24/17, I am game level 265 and reputation level 56. I play daily and those stats change frequently so I'm sure that info will be outdated quickly and I don't update it here very often. Gifting is my favorite thing to do in game and I gift daily but it doesn't leave me a lot of time for any other activities in game currently. When I do have time, I visit next (usually charging only desktop awards) then I play puzzles and pictures; I rarely get around to hiring anymore. When there isn't an event in progress, or if I'm not participating in the current one, I play to go up in frame color/level and to complete giftable collections for the first time (so I can then start gifting them). When there is an event in progress and I am participating, I play to complete the challenges. But mainly I gift and I time travel (TT) so I can gift more than what the game allows. Sun-Thu, I gift free/non-inventory items (aka CEs: combining elements and giftable special items for paid pictures) to all active friends based on their wish lists (WLs). Every day, before I TT, I check all my friends' WLs and gift them what I can of the collections items (CIs), up to 10 CIs each day. Every week, I also scroll to gift whole collections and/or CIs, not based on WLs, to all my active friends in rotation, 5 items (or more) per friend per week. For each friend, I check their remaining energy and strength and visit them to see what their lowest level pictures are so I can get an idea of what collections/CIs in my inventory might work best for them at that moment. And every Fri and Sat (sometimes also Sun), I use TT to mega gift CEs by group to roughly half of my friends, 5 of each CE to each friend (e.g. if I gift the music group, I gift 5 each treble and base clefs Fri, alto clef and sharp Sat, and flat on Sun to each of about 20-30 active friends). The CE group I gift is based on rotation or, during an event, what might be most useful (like the CEs needed for the event quest collections). Roughly, it adds up to about 850 CEs and 250 or so CIs gifted every week. As for me, I only occasionally use artefacts and have plenty of most of them currently; I almost never use any talismans and have lots of most of them already; I have tens of thousands of every giftable special item for paid pictures and don't need those; I get all the energy and power I need from my TTing but also have most of all those items so I need none of those; and through my TTing I add 30 CIs per day to my inventory just from The Collector desktop award alone. I do use tools a lot but I also get those from the Tooling Around desktop award while I'm TTing so I only ever need dynamite, explorer's eyes and sometimes torches. But I'm always CE poor - I never have enough combining elements for the collections I want to complete - and occasionally there are a handful of CIs I'm having trouble getting, which is why I keep my WL updated daily and it is always everyone's best resource for my current needs.

Click to access and download a copy of my spreadsheet tool for gifting friends. I last updated it 1/26/17 and it may be helpful, especially for newer players. I have a really good friends list currently but earlier on the spreadsheet was invaluable for helping me gift better.

Click to access and download a copy of my spreadsheet tool for tracking friend activity. I last updated it 3/1/17 and it may be helpful for players who are evaluating whether or not to remove friends due to inactivity or for other activity related reasons.

I don't know how often I'll be able to contribute here but I'll try whenever I notice something I can contribute to or think of something important to share. Please feel free to reach out to me directly on my message wall if you have a question, comment, concern, etc. Click [mailto:merrimacga@yahoo.com here] to contact me privately if an emergency or for sensitive matters you would prefer to not post on my wall.

A NOTE ABOUT WIKI PRIVACY/SECURITY: There is very little privacy or security in this community (or any Wikia/Fandom community). Anyone, including unregistered and anonymous users, can see anything anyone else has posted, especially if it was recent and the user regularly scans the recent Wiki activity. Once something is posted, it can only be deleted by a site admin. A user can edit and/or remove content one posts, but that only hides the original content from being readily visible...the content can still be located and read using the History options. A Chat function is available and conversations are not saved. But these functions are only usable when other users are also online and also enter Chat. And the normal Chat option is a single public conversation and any user can enter or leave at any time, though entering users will be able to see only a limited amount of conversation prior to entry. Once in public chat, there is a way for a maximum 2 users to enter private chat but that is the limit of chat privacy.

My Game Friends SSHM Wiki Message Walls
Note: Many of the game names below change periodically and temporarily to indicate breaks/absences or game needs.

Other Game Friends Not On The SSHM Wiki
As everyone playing the game knows, there is no in game chat function. The game friends below are ones I acquired through the game instead of here on this Wiki and I have no way to contact them. I would hate to lose them should anything happen to my game (or to theirs). So for anyone reading this list, if you think you are one of these players, please leave me a message on my wall and, if you haven't already, register here so we can get connected here as well. Or if you think you know any of these players and have a way to contact them, please ask them to check out this Wiki and, if they like it here, have them register. If you can also get them to leave a message on my wall, that would be awesome! Thanks!

Site Administrators and Moderators
Please refer to this Wiki's Administrators page for more information about specific assistance regarding this Wiki's content and features and for the most current list of administrators and moderators before reaching out to the users below:


 * Fossiliferous, wall, profile, SSHM Wiki Founder (Now Retired - formerly our fearless leader, lead administrator and she is AWESOME!)
 * Ancient_Alien_Astronaut, Administrator, wall, profile
 * Sol3Bug, Administrator, wall, profile
 * Greeneyedlady007 (aka Gel), Administrator & Content Moderator, wall, profile
 * Katlovrno1, Content Moderator, wall, profile
 * MDbugs, Discussion Moderator, wall, profile
 * Betty2015, Chat Moderator, wall, profile
 * TBD, Rollbacks

Other Wiki Contacts For Specific Game Expertise
To be added at a later date.

Other Wiki Resources For Game Assistance
Below is a list of other Wiki users who have all contributed more than me here, though far less than Foss. I have interacted with and would highly recommend all of them for any game questions you may have:


 * 4paws, wall, profile
 * Betty2015, wall, profile
 * Boo110, wall, profile
 * Calliebubba, wall, profile
 * EasyStreet, wall, profile
 * JenniferLNW, wall, profile
 * Jillers, wall, profile
 * OylerD, wall, profile
 * Pamster315, wall, profile
 * PrinAnne, wall, profile
 * Reclusive757, wall, profile
 * SOLONM, wall, profile

Former Game Friends
(mainly for my reference)


 * AdinaMagician, not currently playing
 * Cynamon89, not currently playing
 * FEY72, not currently playing
 * Freckles 2055 (old acct: Annr55), not currently playing
 * Hannahc12, not currently playing
 * Lilac11, not currently playing
 * Lorri T, not currently playing
 * Lubie, not currently playing
 * MVNLA, not currently playing
 * Angela (Sage), not on Wiki, not currently playing
 * Empiric (Sleuth), not on Wiki, accidentally disconnected
 * heather (Sleuth), not on Wiki, not currently playing
 * Jane (Merchant), not on Wiki, not currently playing
 * meg (Merchant), not on Wiki, not currently playing
 * Patrick (Merchant), not on Wiki, not currently playing
 * Winnie (Sage), not on Wiki, not currently playing

IRISH CONTENT FOR ST PAT'S THREAD: 7 theme days, each including the following content: SSHM image, history, celebrations, parade, events, recipe, beverage, pub, music, dance, customs, trivia SSHM IMAGES http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/File:SSHMStPats.jpg http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lucky_Horseshoe_Talisman.png http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/File:Treasure_Island_Update_Lucky_coin.png http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/File:Pot_o_gold.png http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/File:Badge-luckyedit.png LANGUAGE & EXPRESSIONS http://4chanint.wikia.com/wiki/Irish http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/irish-sayings-proverbs-and-prayers-for-st-patricks-day-117923469-237375661 TRAVEL http://travel.wikia.com/wiki/Ireland HISTORY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Day FLAGS http://flags.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Vexipedia! RELIGIONS WIKI http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day for general holiday images, including parades EVENTS https://www.google.com/#q=st+patrick+day+events+around+the+world&* BEVERAGES http://cocktails.wikia.com/wiki/Cocktails_Wiki RECIPES http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Irish_Cuisine general recipes page http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Irish_Soda_Bread http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Irish_Shepherd%27s_Pie http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/County_Cork_Irish_Stew http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Dublin_Coddle http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Steak_and_Guinness_Pie http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Ham_and_Cabbage_Hash http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Boxty