Strategies, tips, and tricks

Beginner  Intermediate Advanced
 * Send an invite to 20 friends to obtain the Zombie Cookie, 50 for one hundred crystals.
 * Add other Cookie Run players on Line to send and receive gift points and hearts. Line IDs can be found in Line forums on in game review blogs.
 * Keep an eye out for events which give out free items and free crystals
 * Crystals are easily obtained by daily playing, or by leveling up.
 * Crystals should be spent on pets, preferably A grade and above, with the exception of the B grade Cozy Yarn.
 * Practice makes perfect. The more you run in a new area, the more familiar you will be with the jump or slide timings. Some gaps require delayed double jumps, some obstacles require fast double jumps.
 * Focus on upgrading powers to the maximum level 20, especially energy boost and jelly points.
 * A high level Zombie Cookie can help with obstacles in higher stages. Upon each revival you get a few seconds of invulnerability.
 * Instead of immediately accepting gift points, wait until you can 'accept and send' to keep the gifts bouncing back and forth.
 * 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 Cozy Yarn or Gold Drop. You will miss out on two or more pet ability activitations.
 * Lucky Draw can be a faster source of coins provided that there are enough Line friends gifting points back and forth.
 * Smashing into obstacles with power jelly effects generates additional points.
 * 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.
 * The maximum coin bonus is 57%: 25% from Buttercream Choco Cookie Lv8, 10% from 10 million champion belt, 12% from the Treasure Merchant's Safe box, and 10% from Gold Drop's Pure Gold Bar.
 * Although the treasure cabinet only fits 20 treasures, any unwanted treasures that you obtain by maxing C grade pets can be sold off to free up space.
 * For coin farming, If you have the lives to spare, equip Buttercream 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.
 * Special Force Cookie costs 139,000 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 magnetic effect of Angel Cookie and Angel Cookie's Holy Feather stacks. With a lv.8 cookie and +9 feather, the effect is like a lv.10 Angel. All coins and jellies on the screen will be attracted.
 * 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.
 * Pet abilities have a cooldown period which is paused when magnetic jelly is in effect. Therefore if you are gold farming with Gold Drop and Angel Feather, try avoiding magnet powerup jellies.
 * Fastboost jellies also make your run end sooner (as the game becomes faster). Avoid them to get more Gold Drop coins per run.
 * 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.
 * Rather than unlocking the second treasure slot by buying 15 cookie characters, it is possible to obtain new characters including Grade A cookies from the Lucky Draw. A rough figure is that by having 15-20 lucky draws every day, by the time you reach level 35 you should have most if not all of the C, B and A grade cookies.
 * Pirate Cookie's ghost ability helps at higher stages where focus should be on survival rather than obtaining points.
 * Random boost can be reshuffled at half price until a useful one is in effect.
 * Hero Cookie combos well with Jellyco. Jellyco's treasure at level 8 provides additional points.