Thread:Lidewey/@comment-29326205-20170605190637/@comment-30339728-20170605193422

I haven't won the current one yet, but I am working on it. I have gotten the globe - still dislike Gem Match, but doing nothing else for the first few days of the challenge time period got me there. Luckily it was over a holiday weekend.

I guess I do kind of focus on one thing at a time. I find the desk top awards the most appealing, so that goes first. When I get bored with GM or Blocks, then yes, I do play a lot of the low cost rooms. I usually play with some kind of talisman to up experience and % to find things, so I seem to get an awful lot of 3 item drops. I also learned a good lesson from WitcheyCat and that I try to have a bunch of rooms in ABC mode to, as she put it, "farm anomalies" and get the pay to play items.

I use the lower the cost talismans once the paid room gets to cost 15 and then do kind of just play that room over and over, using dinners etc to reboot energy as I need. The talismans that are the second part of the challenge are the next thing I really try to get.

I have been really, really lucky had some help in the past from out of the blue with getting some of the special items, but to tell you the truth, I have NEVER asked for it because it feels weird. (Remember our conversation last December?) The gift gives me confidence to TRY to go for the avatar etc... and it is in actuality a cushion if I need it. But I don't really use it in a sense. You see, I have always played and played to gather what I've been given back. In other words, if I got 100 from a friend, I have always worked to get that 100 and then some back before I try some more. That's why you'll see that it's really pretty late in the event countdown before I actually finish the very last play and collect everything. I have finished the challenges save one with either exactly what I received or even a bit more. Then of course, those convert to tokens, bugs, carrots, etc. I totally appreciate everything and am very grateful, but working it this way makes me feel less awkward.

I hope you enjoy your trip. I did like Phoenix when we visited, but we didn't stay in the city much. It was more of a hub to go to other places close by. Where in California are you going? I love that state! So gorgeous.

Hope all other is good and sending you best of luck. If you need anything special - especially from LNG collections - let me know.

Hugs plus.