Amber (gemstone) and Notus (wind divine)

The Great Challenge

and Festivities


The Great Challenge is back, and this time it will be followed by the Treats Battle.


How to play?

As usual, this contest takes place in two parts:

The Great Challenge phase: Collect horseshoes by completing in-game objectives.

The Festivities (Treats Battle) phase: Collect UFO’s and trade them for prizes or get up in rankings.


Part 1: The Great Challenge
Collect Horseshoes: Every day, perform various actions to collect up to 100 horseshoes. 120 if you have bought the Premium Key.

Unlock Gifts: As you gather horseshoes, you'll unlock awesome gifts at certain thresholds, like game items, fragments and more.

Special Jackpots: Keep an eye out for the free Jackpot and other bonuses that await.

Community Goals: When you claim a gift, you also contribute to a community goal. Achieving this goal means more UFOs for everyone in the upcoming Battle!


Premium Key
Buy the Premium Key with Passes to access:

Marvelous Premium Gifts: Gain access to exclusive gifts;

Extra Horseshoes: Increase your daily horseshoe limit to 120, helping you to catch up or to get ahead faster.

Buy the Premium Key early for maximum benefit, but remember, it's never too late!

The gifts that have been unlocked but not claimed during the Great Challenge part are automatically given when the Festivities start.

Jackpots


Free - Hermes' Winged

Staff

It allows you to use the Black Market's item of your choice for free, regardless of its value in passes.

Premium - Raven

Companions wake up during your horse's first action of the day. And they fall asleep when your horse ages. Raven gives a bonus of +14 in Trot.

New divine:

Romanticism
Complete the painting and Romanticism will give you a gift:

1 x Urban Legends Wanderer's Spirit

Romanticism cannot be sold.

Throughout the contest, you can find fragments of the new divine horse Romanticism from the Art History Horses series.

Trip: Winter


Put on some warm clothes and take a journey on our Trip: Winter event. Read more below and join us on this exciting trip!



How to play?

Complete the 4 territories by unlocking roads with your cards and win gifts!

To unlock and complete a road, you need to:

☛ Unlock the horse(s) needed for the different maps;

☛ Possess, and use, the right number and type of cards indicated on the road.

You can only complete a new road from a route that you have already unlocked. When you reach a new point on the map, you receive the associated gift.

Join and unlock the new horse on each map to unlock the next map and a new type of card.

End of contest
Once you have won all the prizes, you can restart the contest. All the gifts on the map can be won again but you will need to unlock the horses again. You will keep all the cards you have already bought or won.



Card types

There are five card types:

Plain Unlocked at the beginning of the event.
Forest Available when you unlock the related horse on a dedicated point on the previous map.

Desert Available when you have unlocked the related horse by finishing on the previous map.
Mountain Available when you have unlocked the related horse by finishing on the previous map.
Gift It cannot be used to complete a route. You get a random gift when you click on the card. It can be used whenever you want.


How to win cards?
You can win cards by:

Connecting every day on the game, with a bonus if you login 5 days in-a-row.

Taking your horses for rides (2x per day).

Entering competitions with your horses (2x per day).

Buying them with passes.

The cards that you receive when you buy them for passes can be of any type, even if you haven't unlocked all horses related yet.

You will always receive cards from a type that you have already unlocked unless you buy them with Passes.


Jackpots


Winter Hiking Journal

Give your horse a unique appearance with the new Winter Hiking Journal! You can get this item by completing the Territory #4.




New pony breed:

New Forest

Let's welcome our newest breed addition, the New Forest pony!





New divine:

Cinderella

Cinderella is the new divine horse from the Fairy Tales series. You can get her fragments in the Tyche’s Crown, by playing the Trip event, or by completing your Daily Objectives.
Perks are
1x Bewitched Pumpkin
1x Fairy companion
1x Heracles' Horseshoe Gallop race

Cinderella is the very last divine from the Fairy Tales series.

List of Divines that will NOT appear
*Rainbow Divines
*Japanese Divines
*Gemstone Divines
*Solar System Divines
*Spice Divines (except for Cinnamon)
*Hrímfaxi
*Egyptian Divines
*Balios

Divines that will appear:
*Gold
*Rosegold
*Grail Divines
*Dragon Divines
*Goibniu and Taranis
*Cinnamon

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Red Giant

Hippocampus

Smoke

Vanillia

Cards: Art History


The Cards event is back, and this time, we will take a lesson in Art History!

To make it easier to get certain cards, the probabilities of getting the silver and joker cards were revised.


How to play?

Collect and scratch cards to complete puzzles, and win gifts.

There are three different types of cards:

Gift cards - Will grant you a prize immediately.


Puzzle cards - Will grant you a prize once the puzzle is complete.


Joker cards - Will help you get the card of your choice amongst those from the same level.


If you get a duplicate card, you can exchange it for a new one of the same rarity, once daily.

Complete all the 5 puzzles to win a divine horse!


How to get cards


There are different ways to get cards:

With a daily connection (2 cards a day), with a bonus if you log in 5 days straight (1 Gold or Diamond card).

When taking one of your horses for a ride (1 card a day).

From winning a competition with your horses (1 card a day).

In the Flash Sales.

By spending Equus to trade your duplicate cards (1 time a day).

With Passes.


Each time you buy a card in the Flash Sales, you get some points. When you have enough points, you unlock a private sale for a Joker card!

Jackpots

Ti Amo

Complete all 5 puzzles to win the divine horse: Ti Amo, from the Love series!


New divine: Art Nouveau
Complete the painting and get a Parade Apple

Art Nouveau is the new divine horse from the Art History series. You can get his fragments in the Tyche's Crowns, by playing the Cards event, or by completing your Daily Objectives.

Ride: Space travel


Embark on a Space Voyage through 8 boards, each will get you a step closer to the end of the journey and the Jackpot.


How to play?

Move inside the board by using the spinning wheel. The pawn will automatically move from 1 to 3 squares at once.

Sometimes, you will have the choice between two squares. In that case, the pawn moves only after you have clicked on the square where you want to go among the possible ones.


Special squares

During your ride, you can stop on special squares:

Bonus: Makes you move some steps forward.

Penalty: Makes you move some steps backwards.

Obstacle: You must answer correctly to a horse-riding question to move +1 square forward.

Gift: Grants a reward of your choice among 3 possible gifts.

Divine fragments: Grants some fragments to get Hen Ghittian.


How to get roulette spins?

By logging in every day, with a bonus for connecting 5 days in-a-row.

By doing rides with your horses.

By winning competitions with your horses.

By buying them with Passes.


Joker

You can pay to get a Joker instead of spinning the wheel. That way, you can move to the space of your choice within a radius of 3 spaces in front of the pawn.



Jackpot


Nordic Starry Aura

Complete all the boards to win a Nordic Starry Aura. Turn your horse into a Star and win fragments of the divine horses from the Nordics series.



New divine: Hen Ghittian
Get 420 points to reach Earth and Hen Ghittian will give you a gift:

1 x Wanderer's Spirit environments

You can find fragments of the new extraterrestrial horse Hen Ghittian throughout the event, in the Tyche's Crowns, and by completing daily objectives.

Jackpots


During the Great Challenge, you can win 2 Jackpots.

Free Jackpot:

Zebra with new markings: Boarlet!


Jackpot with the Premium Key:

Complete the event with the Premium Key to get Jenny with a chance to have a Horn.

Jenny unicorns can then be bred to obtain Zonkey unicorns, with a 50% chance of passing down the horn. This is a visual feature with no gameplay impact (no skill bonus or change in species).

Horn Inheritance:

Jenny: 25% chance to have horns.

Zonkey: If the mother (Jenny) has horns → 50% chance to inherit them.


Kind regards,
The Howrse Team

Blast: Spring


Springtime arrived and brought a new edition of the Blast event! Destroy blocks in a grid to win incredible rewards!

Note:
There will be 2 different events:
The Blast event will last until 2025-03-21 05:00.
The Merge event will start on 2025-03-22 05:00 and last until 2025-03-28 05:00.

The divine in the Tyche’s Crown is the same for both events and her fragments can be obtained during the whole event duration!


How to play?

Destroy blocks by clicking on a group of at least 2 blocks of the same color to fill up your chest gauge. The more blocks you destroy at once, the more points you will get.

Special Blocks
You can find the following special blocks:

Glass blocks

Destroy adjacent block groups twice to destroy them and to get additional points.


Stone blocks

Get them to fall to the bottom of the grid to destroy them and to get additional points.


Rockets

Create them by destroying at least 8 blocks of the same color at once. Click on them to destroy all the blocks in the same column or in the same line.


Explosion

Use the Explosion to destroy all the blocks on the grid and get points. You can buy it with Passes.


Chests
Each time you destroy blocks on the grid, points are added to the chest gauge. The more blocks you destroy at once, the more points you get.

When the grid ends, you will receive a chest whose value depends on the number of blocks you destroyed on the grid.

There are 3 different chests: Wooden chest, Gold chest, and Crystal chest.



When there are no moves left, the grid ends, and at that moment, you will receive:

A chest that will be added to one of your available slots. The rarity of the chest depends on how filled the chest gauge is.

A cup that will fill your general gauge.


At the beginning, you have one slot available. You need to wait to unlock the other two slots or you can pay if you want to unlock them right away.

⚠ If all the slots are occupied, you cannot play on the grid anymore until you open one of the chests in a slot to free it up.

To open the chest you can:

Wait until the end of the timer.

Use boosters, and reduce the timer for some hours.

Pay for the Master Key, and reduce the timer to 0 for all the chests in the slots.

The chests that are in your slots will automatically be opened at the end of the event.


Boosters
Use boosters to open your chests faster!

You can get boosters:

By buying them with Passes.

Every day when you log in, with a fidelity bonus if you come 5 days in-a-row.



Jackpot


Ow's Apple

Choose any special coat you desire for your horse.

You can pick any coat created by the game available in the Collections under "Special coats".



New divine: Morchella

Morchella is from the Mushrooms series.
You can get fragments for this divine in the Tyche’s Crown, by playing both the Blast and the Merge events, and by completing your Daily Objectives.
Morchella's perk is the new BMI item The Companion's Chest

Companions chest


Give this item to the horse of your choice to randomly receive a companion belonging to the family of the chest.

The first Companion’s chest will be dedicated to the Darumas, but other families of companions will soon have their own chests. Every family member has an equal chance to appear.

Companions wake up during your horse's first action of the day. And they fall asleep when your horse ages.

When they're awake, companions award a bonus to your horse.



The Howrse Team

New Yggdrasil notification


HellOw,

For better visibility, the next time that the Yggdrasil operation is active on the game, it will be present in the header carousel, in addition to the home page.

Please remember, it will only be visible when the operation is active.


The Howrse Team

Next week don't miss our exclusive sale! �
For three days, a selection of divine horses will be available in the shop via reserved sales. �
Every day at 09:00 AM (Paris time), new horses will appear — but only for a limited time!
�Here’s the full schedule:
Tuesday, April 22
▶ Liana, Amber, Dagda, Epona, Midas, Arthur, Yuki, Thor
Wednesday, April 23
▶ Boreas, Opal, Kawai, Apophis, Dr. Watson, Frigg, Euronotos, Musicians of Bremen
Thursday, April 24
▶ Fuji, Athos, Hel, Ywain, Celeris, Iren Adler, Gulfaxi, Sleeping Beauty
⚠ Each group is available for 24 hours only – don’t miss your chance!

Doors: Pixels Museum

Welcome to the Pixel Art Museum! Open doors, defeat the thieves, and win prizes.

How to play?

You must explore all the rooms and defeat the mischievous raccoons guarding the doors. Then, the door will open and you will be able to move to the next room.

You can open the doors with attacks , but each attack consumes energy .

Inside the rooms you can find:

Gifts

Divine fragments

An objective proposed by a quest-giver

Gifts to send to a friend

Gifts sent by friends

Tools (chili peppers)

You will be able to choose which room you want to open, among multiple choices. Some require more attacks to be opened, and some use more energy than others.


How does the energy work?
You can see the amount of energy used when you hover your mouse over the room you wish to open. If you are out of energy, you will have to wait for a refill.

Each Monster has life and power. The more power they have, the more energy you will use.

The energy refills 1 point every 4h (or faster if you upgrade it).

You can buy extra energy points with Passes.


You can use tools (chilli peppers) to upgrade your battery:

So it refills faster;

So it increases its maximum capacity.


Improve the Helper skills
While on your journey, you will encounter chili peppers to improve your Helper skills.

There are 3 different types of improvements:

Regeneration: Energy is restored more frequently.

Attack: Each click is worth 1 more attack point.

Energy capacity: Increase the maximum amount of energy you can have.

You must reach the final room and defeat the Boss Raccoon to win the Jackpot.

Once you’ve done that, you can:
➞ Go back to any previous room.
➞ Open doors you didn’t open before.
➞ Choose any room you want from the full map.


Jackpot


Knight Pack

Equip your horse with the complete Knight's set and a +10 bonus in each skill.



New divine: Pixel Art

You can get fragments for this divine by playing the event, in the Tyche’s Crown, and by completing your Daily Objectives.

So, I must say I'm looking forward to this new event a lot! I'm very much wanting to at least try for one Knight Pack, even though I'm not competing in the Grand Prix at this time, I would like to be able to stock up on resources needed to eventually make it there, or if nothing else, use this pack on one of my starter horses. Yes, I do consider my starter horses to be special enough for a Knight's Pack. This is mainly for collectors purposes . Pixel Art is such a cool looking horse too! The want is very real here. Haha.

Ride: Vintage


Get ready to embark on a Vintage Ride through 5 boards. Each board represents an old event on Howrse.


The Hike event will be available from 2025- 06-24 and until 2025-06-30 10:00.


How to play?

Move inside the board by using the spinning wheel. The pawn will automatically move from 1 to 3 squares at once.

Sometimes, you will have the choice between two squares. In that case, the pawn moves only after you have clicked on the square where you want to go among the possible ones.

You can complete the boards multiple times and win the prizes that were left on the path. However, you can only win the main prize once.


Special squares
During your ride, you can stop at special squares:

Bonus: Makes you move some steps forward.

Penalty: Makes you move some steps backwards.

Obstacle: You must answer correctly to a horse-riding question to move +1 square forward.

Gift: Grants a reward of your choice among 3 possible gifts.

Divine fragments: Grants some fragments to get Ash.

End: You get a reward and a Cup.


How to get roulette spins?
You can get roulette spins by:

Logging in every day, with a bonus for connecting 5 days in a row.

Doing rides with your horses.

Registering your horses in competitions.

Buying them with Passes.


What are Jokers?

You can buy Jokers instead of spinning the wheel. That way, you can move to the space of your choice within a radius of 3 spaces in front of the pawn.


Jackpots


Dragon Samurai Pack

Complete the event to get the Dragon Samurai Pack. This item includes every tack from the Dragon Samurai set and an extra +10 bonus for each skill.


New divine: Ash

Ash is the new divine horse from the Fire series. You can get his fragments in the Tyche’s Crown, by playing the Ride and Hike events, and by completing your Daily Objectives. Perk is the Chronos Timer

New items on sale in the

Black Market


We have added more items to the Black Market.

These items will now be permanently on sale:

Sisyphus Stone will cost 100 Passes

Woven Tail Braid will cost 60 Passes

Iris' Coat will cost 145 Passes

5th Element will cost 145 Passes

The Howrse Team

Lactarius

Lactarius is one of the Mushroom horses.

He can be watered instead of drinking.

His skills increase when fed straw, but only up to the maximum skill limit of the best horse in the game. This increase in skills depends on the amount of straw he is given and on the season in the game.

Once he reaches 700 skill points, he can be picked. His skills will then be reset to 0, but he'll give you
1 x Heracles' Horseshoe Dressage!

Collect enough stardust to fill the gauge and get:

1 x Knight's Bridle

100x stardust needed to fill the gauge

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Gives Ploutos Parchment, Macaw Pet and 25 pass seeds

Perk is Achilles Heel

New, festive, logo to celebrate Howrse's 20th anniversary!