Strategies, tips, and tricks

Below are compiled strategies, tips, and tricks from various Cookie Run lovers around the world.

Beginner
As a beginner, you need to carefully decide anything so you can gain as fast as possible.
 * Be familiar with the game nature. We recommend you to use your first coins to upgrade powers like the Jelly, Energy Potion, and Bonus Time. The maximum level is 30, but level 20 is good enough for a starter pet.
 * Practice makes perfect. The more you run in a new area, the more familiar you will be with the jump or slide timings. For example, some gaps require delayed double jumps, some obstacles require fast double jumps.
 * You can use the Invite Event to earn the Zombie Cookie for free, Gold Drop (which helps a lot for coin earning), and even 100 Crystals. You also will get lots of other prizes, like coins and Lucky Draw.
 * You can add other Cookie Run players on Line to help send and receive gift points and hearts. Line IDs can be found almost everywhere, one of them is the Forum section.
 * Keep an eye out for limited-time events which give out free coins, powerups, and even crystals.
 * Daily resets are on midnight GMT+9 each day, and weekly leaderboard resets at Sunday 9p.m. GMT+9. Find your own time zone by checking on your device's time and date settings.

Cookie

 * Get the Zombie Cookie for free from Invite Event.
 * C-grade and B-grade cookies can be earned from Lucky Draw. If you get the same cookie again, it will upgrades your cookie for free. Even if you really lucky, Lucky Draw sometimes gives A-grade cookie.
 * Rather than buying with Crystal, you may want to wait some time and try to unlock them for coin purchase by reaching certain goals. Some of them are pretty easy to be unlocked if you start to master the game.

Pet

 * C-grade, B-grade, and even A-grade pets can be earned from Pets Lucky Draw. If you get the same pet again, it will upgrades your pet for free.
 * Use Crystals for purchasing the Extra Rare Egg, which gives a random A-grade and S-grade pets. The only exception is the B-grade Cozy Yarn which can be earned from Pets Lucky Draw, not Extra Rare Egg.

Treasure

 * Maximize Cookies and Pets to level 8 and earn a treasure for free.
 * The treasures cabinet only fits 20 treasures (and to upgrade 15 more space, you need to buy with 100 Crystals). Any unwanted treasures that you obtain by maxing C-grade or B-grade pets and cookies can be sold off to free up space. But remember if you sell treasures from this way, you cannot earn the treasure anymore.

Crystal
Crystal is the premium currency in the game. You can get Crystals from purchasing with real money. Please use wisely.
 * Other than purchasing, you can earn Crystal from:
 * Between 1-5 Crystals from levelling up your XP
 * 1 Crystal for playing daily (the daily count resets on midnight GMT+9)
 * limited-time events
 * 100 Crystal from inviting 50 friends via Invite Event.
 * Promotional offer, like the coupon code for 100 Crystals event (May 28 - June 4, 2014)
 * Most users will recommend using the Crystal for purchasing the Extra Rare Egg, which gives a random A-grade and S-grade pets. The only exception is the B-grade Cozy Yarn which can be earned from Pets Lucky Draw, not Extra Rare Egg.

Coins

 * immediately buy and upgrade the Buttercream Choco Cookie. Even more, you can earn or upgrade the cookie for free from Lucky Draw.
 * Equip the Gold Drop pet, which gives you 100 coins every 19-12 seconds. Treasure from reaching Level 8 of this pet is the Gold Drop's Pure Gold Bar, which gives you even more coin bonuses.
 * Coin bonus effects are stacks. With the 25% coin bonus from Buttercream Choco Cookie Lv8, 10% from 10 Million Champion Belt, 12% from the Treasure Merchant's Safe Box, 11% from Gold Drop's Pure Gold Bar, and Double Coins from Random Boost, players can earn up to 241.88% coin bonus.
 * More coins can also be earned from using Gold Coins Boost from Random Boost and Pirate's Bomb at the same time.
 * There's also a technique called "Coin Farming". If you have plenty of hearts/lives, equip Buttercream Choco Cookie, Gold Drop pet, 10 Million Champion Belt, Treasure Merchant's Safe box and Gold Drop's Pure Gold Bar. Start a run and quit as soon as you get the giant coin after a few seconds.
 * Pet abilities have a cool-down period which is paused when magnetic jelly is in effect. Therefore, if you are "coin farming" with Gold Drop, try avoiding magnet powerup jellies.
 * Fast Boost jellies also make your run end sooner (as the game becomes faster). Avoid them to get more Gold Drop coins per run.

Gift Points

 * Be a good and generous player. Send hearts to your friends and always return the favor.
 * Lucky Draw can be a faster source of coins provided that there are enough Line friends gifting points back and forth.
 * Instead of immediately accepting gift points, wait until you can 'Accept and Send' to keep the gifts bouncing back and forth.
 * When weekly ranking resets, have a low point score to overtake all the others on line for 2 points each, allowing a wide margin to overtake their ranking again later for more points. Weekly ranking resets on Sunday 9p.m. GMT+9.

XP
More XP are earned from running as far as you can. Using cookies, pets, and treasures that gives blast jelly or better blast effect can be used to help reaching further.

How to get high score?
Gaining high scores and topping the leaderboard are always every player's dream. Becoming familiar with the game's advantage or disadvantage, and personal judgement about which combo fits the best is the key of reaching high scores. Each players have different playing style and speed, so a strategy that fits in one player may not fit in other players.

Run Longer

 * A high level Zombie Cookie can help with obstacles in higher stages. Upon each revival you get a few seconds of invulnerability.
 * Fast Start Boost does not use up any energy while in effect, allowing for a slightly longer run. However don't use Fast Start if you have pets like Cozy Yarn or Gold Drop. You will miss out on one or more pet ability activation.
 * Use the Slower Energy Drain from Brain Gum or Random Boost. It is vital for sustainability.
 * Pirate Cookie's ghost ability helps at higher stages where focus should be on survival rather than obtaining points. Pirate Cookie is often used as the Relay Cookie.
 * Random boost can be reshuffled at half price until a useful one is in effect.

Higher Scores

 * Cozy Yarn pet generates Bonus Time Jellies every 38 seconds at max level. As a B-grade pet, it is cheap to unlock and upgrade, and very possible to obtain by Lucky Draw.
 * Upgrade your Jelly up to Level 30.
 * Smashing into obstacles with power jelly effects or certain treasures generates additional points.
 * Special Force Cookie costs 135,000 coins to purchase but will assist even if you are using another cookie by converting obstacles into silver coins. Special Force Cookie shoots stars only when running normally, so it will gain more points overall by avoiding jumps and slides as much as possible in the first few stages.
 * The Angel Cookie's Holy Feather treasure is obtained by having a level 8 Angel Cookie. It provides a weaker magnetic effect which is still useful (because you can use it on every cookie).
 * The magnetic aura effect of Angel Cookie and Angel Cookie's Holy Feather stacks. With a lv.8 cookie and +9 feather, all coins and jellies on the screen will be attracted.
 * Both Magnetic Aura and Slower Energy Drain effect are vital for earning more scores while sustain on the longer run.
 * Hero Cookie combos well with Jellyco Cube. Jellyco's treasure at level 8 provides additional points.
 * Random boost can be reshuffled at half price until a useful one is in effect.