Hanami Festival Update

The Hanami Gestival Update was released on 16 April 2018 for Android and iOS devices; xx April 2018 for Amazon Fire devices; xx April 2018 for Mac computers; xx April 2018 for Windows computers. The Hanami Festival Update introduces 1 new picture - Japanese Shrine (the event picture); 30 new quests and 20 new collections.

Hanami Festival
The Hanami Festival event begins when a player reaches game level ? in the game (or automatically after downloading the update if the player is already above level ?).

It contains 3 challenges. Players have a set number of days (usually around 28) to complete the following tasks:




 * Collect 500 Kanzashi by winning games of Jigsaw to earn the 'Dragon Box'.
 * Complete 30 special quests to win the once-off Talisman of Awakening which increases power restoration by 5 times for 24 hours.
 * Achieve 'Academician' level in Japanese Shrine to win 2 unique avatars, one male and one female.

Important: The amount of time available for the Hanami Festival timed challenges will vary across platforms. It is important to note that the Challenge timer begins counting down from the moment the update is released in a devices app store, and not from the moment a player downloads the update. If an update with a set of timed challenges is released in your app store with 28 days to complete the challenges and you wait 15 days to download the new update, when you download it you will only have 13 days left to complete the challenge, not 28.

If you need help on how to tackle any of these challenges, see the Hints and Tips for Event Challenges page.

The Jigsaw Challenge - Collecting Kanzashi
Players can win the Dragon's Chest, which contains energy items, a chest, a talisman, and a weight.





Players can win the Dragon's Box by collecting 500 Kanzashi. Kanzashi can only be won by successfully completing the Jigsaw puzzle. For each successful win of Jigsaw, you will win between 2-5 Kanzashi as one of the rewards for completing the puzzle. It is chance how many Kanzashi 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 Kanzashi 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 Peony listed as the first item in the 'Can be found' list for the puzzle. Peonies are available to win for every play of the puzzle at every puzzle level.

Once the challenge is complete, a notification screen will appear to say that you have collected all 500 Kanzashi and won the Dragon's Box.

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 Kanzashi well within the time given. The task is designed to be challenging, but it is not impossible!

The Unique Avatar - Getting Japanese Shrine to Academician Level
Players can win the unique Avatar by playing the new picture Japanese Shrine until they increase its scene progress level up to Academician Level during the Hanami Festival timed challenge event.

Until they are no longer required by a future update, Fan special items are required in addition to energy points to play Japanese.



While the Timed Challenges are active (before you complete all three, or the timer expires, whichever happens first), Fans are given as rewards for every successful investigation for every picture except Japanese Shrine itself, and as rewards for banishing anomalies, but not for playing puzzles. At least 1 Fan is given for every game you win, but winning up to 3 at a time is also possible.

Fans cannot be gifted between friends, however they are given as rewards for combining 5 of the new Hanami Festival collections, and they can be given as rewards by the Sphere of Miracles and Pyramid of Wonder (1 in 6 chance of receiving Fanss when collecting the rewards every 12 hours).

The number of Fans needed for each play of Japanese Shrine increases as you increase the Picture Levels (+5 Fans per Level increase), starting at 5 Fans per play when the picture is opened at Novice Level and increasing to 45 Fans per play when the picture is at Grand Magister Level.

As a guide, in order to reach Academician Level on Japanese Shrine and win the new Avatar, you will need to play the picture approximately 150 times, which will require approximately ? Fans (or ? Fans if using the Amulet of Santa/Amulet of Rarities/Sapphire Amulet Artefact or the one-off Halloween Talisman from the Halloween's Horror Update).

As soon as you return to your Home Desktop after playing Japanese Shrine 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.

The Challenge Quests: The Muse's Talisman and the Actor's Amulet
The Muse's Talisman can be won once a player completes all 30 of the special Theater of Feelings event 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 Muse's Talisman automatically goes into your Inventory.

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

Once activated, the Muse's Talisman will increase the chance of finding objects in locations and puzzles by 50% for 24 hours.

In addition to winning the Muse's Talisman, players will also be able to combine the Actor's Amulet 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 Artefact.



Once the quests are completed, players must manually combine the Actor's Amulet. To do this, open the Collections Window and select the Artefacts tab. Locate the Actor's Amulet 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. 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 Actor's Amulet will go into the Talisman tab of your Inventory, where it can be activated. Once activated, the Actor's Amulet will increase rewards for visiting and helping friends by 50% for 48 hours.

Winning the Muse's Talisman and Actor's Amulet
A special decorative border in the quest list marks the 30 quests needed to win the Muse's Talisman. Other quests added by the update, with regular gold borders, do not count towards the 30 when completed.



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 Actress's Room picture. However, this quest does not count towards the 30 quests needed to win the Muse's Talisman. This means there are actually 31 quests that display the decorative border, but only the last 30 of them count towards the challenge. But importantly, you will need to complete this first quest in order to complete the challenge as the 30 quests that make up the challenge 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 picture Actress's Room (which this quest opens).

The special 30 quests that must be completed in order to win the Muse's Talisman consist of 5 collection sequences of 6 quests each. The first 5 quests of each sequence are to find each of the 5 items belonging to one new collection added by the update. The 6th quest is to combine the collection.

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


 * 1) Actress's life (combines to create "Autographed poster" and rewards 10 Vintage Barrettes when combined)
 * 2) Exclusive outfit (combines to create "One-of-a-kind attire" and rewards 15 Vintage Barrettes when combined)
 * 3) Admirer's gifts (combines to create "Medallion key" and rewards 20 Vintage Barrettes when combined)
 * 4) Original declaration (combines to create "Declaration photo jigsaw" and rewards 25 Vintage Barrettes when combined)
 * 5) Long-awaited surprise (combines to create "Wedding card" and rewards 30 Vintage Barrettess 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 wishlist 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 a picture 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 special quests is to follow the special quest instructions as you get the quests.

The Challenge Quests
The 30 special quests that are needed to win the Christmas Talisman 2017 are:

Related

 * SS Home
 * Updates
 * Quests
 * Collections
 * Talismans
 * Artefacts
 * List of Artefacts
 * Actress's Room
 * Timed Challenges
 * Christmas Miracle Update (previous Update)
 * Chinese New Year Update (next Update)
 * Special Items
 * Hints and Tips for Event Challenges