Strategies, tips, and tricks

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

Beginner Guide
As a beginner, focus on earning coins and spending on cookies, pets, and treasures that give you more coins.
 * Be familiar with the game nature. Practice makes perfect. The more you run in a new area, the more familiar you will be with the map and with the jump or slide timings. For example, some gaps require delayed double jumps, some obstacles require fast double jumps.
 * We recommend you to use your first coins to upgrade your Energy Boost. Don't worry about Jelly or Bonus Time because you won't be getting high scores anytime soon. The maximum level is 50, but level 20 is good enough for while until you have more coins to spare.
 * When you first start out, you have a very limited amount of hearts and they regenerate on a slow timer. So it is recommended to add many friends and 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. This way you can gift hearts and points to fellow players and they can do the same for you.
 * Take advantage of 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. Every day you can invite up to 50 people which in turn gives you 1500 gift points or 15 gifts to help fund you.
 * The very first cookie you should purchase with the crystals you gain from events is Angel Cookie. Although you could buy her with coins, but it will require lvl 30 and getting to lvl 30 without magnetic aura would hinder the rate at which you would progress through the game. Once you get her, max her level to obtain her item: Angel Cookie's Holy Feather. Max this item immediately and always equip it. Magnetic aura is so important that it is at the heart of this game.
 * To build a coin farming engine that all players need anyway, the second cookie you should consider buying is Cheesecake Cookie because she is designed to generate lots of coins. Feel free to max her treasure because it gives you coin % bonus as well.
 * Keep an eye out for limited-time events which give out free coins, powerups, and even Crystals. It helps a lot for new players to catch up the score with a senior player!
 * 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.
 * Be generous with sending Gift Points, it is the best way to earn coins for beginners. See below for more.

Cookie

 * Get the Zombie Cookie for free from Invite Event.
 * C-grade and B-grade and A-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, but very rare.
 * 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 upgrade your pet for free.
 * Before you're going to hatch the Extra Rare Egg, make sure every A-grade and S-grade pets you own are in the highest level (with the exception of Cony Balloon, Brown Balloon, and Gold Drop that cannot be obtained from Extra Rare Egg) so you will hatch a new and different pet. Upgrade your new pet to level 8 before you hatch the egg again, so you will always get a new and different pet.Cozy Yarn.png gives "Bonus Time Jellies" up to every 38 seconds.]]
 * 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 30 Crystals). You can save Crystals for unlocking a new space or sell any unwanted treasures that you obtain to free up space (Later, you can repurchase those treasures you got from maximizing cookie or pet).
 * High level of S-grade treasure often fails to upgrade with coin/common upgrade. You can better save your Crystals for purchasing guaranteed upgrade.
 * Some Cookies has a requirement for getting certain numbers of Level +9 Treasures, like Cherry Cookie. For this case, the easiest way to get 8 top level treasures is to maximize C-grade treasure. It is the cheapest to upgrade and has significantly high chance of common upgrade.

Crystal
Crystal is the premium currency in the game. You can get Crystals from purchasing with real money. Use them wisely, don't waste them!
 * Other than purchasing, you can earn Crystal from:
 * Between 1-5 Crystals from leveling 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 secret coupon code event.
 * Some treasure gives chances for getting free Crystal for logging in daily. Most of them can be earned from purchasing Supreme Treasure Chest, but some can be obtained for free.
 * Most users will recommend using the Crystal for purchasing the Extra Rare Egg, which gives a random A-grade and S-grade pets, but it may not be the best idea for you.The only exception is the B-grade Cozy Yarn which can be earned from Pets Lucky Draw, not Extra Rare Egg.
 * Remember again to use them wisely. Some players are managed to get high scores and good wealth because they're excellent on using Crystal very carefully.

Coins
There's a main technique for harvesting coins called "Coin Farming". However, these tips will help users maximizing their coin farming.
 * 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 stack. For example, with 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. (see Coin Farming)
 * 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.
 * Avoid using Fast Boost powerup and Blast jellies to get more Gold Drop or Fluffy Cheese Cat coins per run, because when the cookie running faster, more coins will appear in the later stages of the game with more difficult obstacles and a possibility getting a giant gold coin spawn could not be caught when the cookie is running faster.
 * When you have many hearts and you want to earn some coins in a short time, you can use S-Grade cookie with Holy Feather equipped, (if you have no Holy Feather, use Angel Cookie) and hit 4 obstacles in Stage 3, your health will become very low, and there'll be red light flashing. There'll be 2 Bonus Time jellies in Stage 3 and when you collect it, you'll be in the Bear Bonus Time. You'll gain at least 1.5K coins per round. This takes very short time but it's a waste of hearts.

Gift Points

 * Be a good and generous player. Send hearts to your friends and always return the favor (sending back energy will give you 5 Gift Points and 3 more because you are sending in correspondence).
 * 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.
 * Bragging your score (even if your score is not your highest score) gives you 5 Gift Points. You can brag to your 10 friends whom have change their settings to not receive Cookie Run notifications, so you will get 50 Gift Points without sending messages that spams your friend.
 * 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.
 * And last but not least, the best way to earn it is to buy or upgrade cookies, pets, treasures, or purchase other items, or energy.

XP
More XP can be earned from running as long as possible (see below). There are many myths that more XP can be obtained from earning more jellies or running as far as possible, however some players have claimed that it is incorrect.
 * Many low-grade cookies and pets gives more XP, such as Bright Cookie 5~12% XP Bonus or combining Strawberry Cookie and Flowercopter for 15% XP Bonus.
 * Bonus Time session also gives more XP.
 * Using "Double XP" for 800 coins (or free from Lucky Draw) can be very useful while you're playing for high scores not coin farming.

Keys
Keys are the replacement for lives in Special Episode One: Ghost Pirate's Island of Coins. They have a recharge rate of one per 20 minutes and cannot be received by friends. You can trade 20 hearts for one key five times per day. You can also purchase them using crystals.

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
Running longer for some players are important. Not only because this is one of the key for reaching high scores, but cookies that survive longer gets more XP.
 * A high level Zombie Cookie can help with obstacles in higher stages. Upon each revival you get a few seconds of invulnerability.
 * 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.
 * Brain Gum.png gives slower energy drain up to 32% slower.]]Fast Start Boost uses up a little 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.
 * Many people have different strategies to survive longer. Example combos are: any cookie with Wishing Star; Zombie Cookie with Brain Gum; Wizard Cookie with Book of Wizdom.

Higher Scores
Although some users may agree with a specific combination that will hit the highest score of the leaderboard, some players have proven themselves that different combination requires different technique. Each player has their own unique skill. Some people's recommendation for high score may not work for you, it's better to find out and keep trying what's fit better with you.
 * Try to avoid hitting an obstacle and causing you to lose energy. In fact, each obstacle hit will make you lose millions of potential points in the future.
 * Smashing into obstacles with power jelly effects or certain treasures generates additional points.
 * The Angel Cookie's Holy Feather treasure is obtained by having a level 8 Angel Cookie. It provides a weaker magnetic effect but it is still very useful (because you can use it on every cookie). Its power is very vital for high scoring with any combination you own.
 * 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. Random boost can be reshuffled at half price until a useful one is in effect.
 * Like any other game, don't get too nervous when playing. Just relax and believe in yourself.