The first version of an automatic mechanism that closely resembled the slot machines we have today were developed some time between 1887 and 1895 by Charles Fey of San Francisco, California. They called it the Liberty Bell based on one of the symbols that appeared: a bell symbol that earned the player the biggest payoff of ten nickels when lined up horizontally in threes. Its popularity spawned more companies that manufactured them in different styles, with the machines appearing in cigar stores, brothels, and barber shops to name a few. In the present day, they are widely used for entertainment in casinos.
Mobile games have been known to obtain inspiration from many different aspects of life, especially popular concepts and existing games and slot machines are no exception. Moon Active, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based game company responsible for creating titles such as Pet Master, Family Island, Travel Town, My Café, and Zen Match, took this concept and created a casual version of this pastime in the form of a game you can play on your phones and tablets. But what sets Coin Master apart from other games with a slot machine mechanic is its base-building aspect.
A common denominator of many popular games such as Clash of Clans, Fallout Shelter, Terraria and even Palworld, base-building has become a common feature in many mobile games today. However, the way Coin Master goes about it is that it serves as a milestone marker as you level up from village to village instead of something you can personalize.
The game may not allow you to design your own base, but it does implement the game mechanic of raiding and attacking other players’ bases, giving you more than one way to collect more coins and upgrade your villages.
Released in 2015 on Android, iOS and iPad OS, Coin Master has amassed millions of downloads. It’s no wonder that as of April 2024, there are already 551 levels available in the game, allowing players an almost endless amount of fun. While the gameplay is simplistic, the different themes you encounter in each village you unlock as you level up are unique and keep things interesting.
Aside from this, the rewards you obtain from the slot machine vary from coins, a shield to protect your village from attacks, an opportunity to attack a player’s village, and a chance to raid a player’s village for treasure.
If you have played games like Coin Boom and Crazy Fox, you may already be familiar with the ins and outs of the game. But if this is all new to you and you want a bit of help to better understand the game and strategically excel in it, keep reading and you might just find a practical tip that can save you hours of grinding in front of the slot machine!
Connecting Your Account And Joining Teams
Before anything else, we highly recommend connecting your game to your Facebook account as it brings with it multiple benefits:
- Your progress will be tied to your account. If you delete the game and reinstall it, you can continue where you left off. You can also play your game on multiple devices this way.
- You will obtain 50 free Spins and 1M free Coins. It may not be much, but it does give you a nice boost at the start.
- You can play with your friends, assuming they also play Coin Master. If not, you get even more benefits from inviting them to play the game!
If you have friends in the game, you have the added benefit of being able to send each other free Spins and Coins. You can only send up to 100 times per day, and only once per friend. This benefit doesn’t seem very useful if you don’t have many friends in the game, but you only need one or a couple for the most important purpose of this social feature: collecting cards.
Cards are unlocked at Village 3 and can be collected from Treasure Chests. Treasure Chests can be bought at the store or obtained as a reward when leveling up or meeting requirements for events, tournaments and team tournaments. They can also be occasionally obtained during raids. Each card belongs to a specific collection and each collection is unlocked at a certain Village level. Completing a collection will reward you with many different rewards such as Spins and Eggs that contain collectible Pets.
Make sure to keep an eye out for Set Blast Events! These events are a 3-hour window where you can earn 30% extra rewards for any card set you complete.There’s also the Cards Boom event which is a 3-hour window where you can get more cards from chests.Take note that some cards in a collection can only be unlocked after you reach a certain village level.
If you have friends in the game from Facebook, you can message them on Facebook so you can talk about what cards you can trade in order to complete your collections. You can also join the official Card Trading Group for Coin Master here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/654305044707245. There are many active community members that are willing to give you a hand. Unfortunately, for any trading to happen, you’ll have to add them as a friend on Facebook.
While this is an official group by the developers, adding strangers you don’t know on the internet can still be a little scary or risky. If you plan to join these types of groups, stay cautious and check the accounts you’re adding before you add them. As an extra safety net, we recommend making an empty Facebook account specifically for playing games like Coin Master if you plan to join these types of groups.
Alternatively, if you can wait until Village 10, you’ll be able to unlock the Teams feature. This will allow you to join and create groups within the app without the need to add anyone to your Facebook account. There, you can request for help regaining Spins and obtaining the missing cards to your collection. Being a part of a team will also allow you to participate in tournaments which can earn you a bundle of rewards.
To join a team, open the menu by tapping the button with 3 horizontal lines at the upper right corner of the screen, tap Friends and tap the Teams tab. A list of recommended teams will appear. Some teams will have a star requirement for members that want to join as a way to gauge their familiarity with the game and how often they play. Be warned that some teams will not hesitate to kick inactive players. Still, with how easy it is to join groups, it would be the least of your problems.
If you want a little more control over your team, it might be worth considering creating your own. With a small fee of 1M Coins, you can start your own team and be in charge of approving, removing, promoting, and demoting members, as well as editing your team’s details. Make sure to set your team type to “Open” if you want new members to join and “Closed” if you want it to be private.
Slot Machine Symbols and Their Rewards
The slot machine is the main feature of the game and most players will spend the majority of their time playing in front of it than any other sections of the game. Depending on what symbols appear after tapping “spin” you’ll earn a different award. Take note that some symbols may appear differently in other Villages as they change to match its theme.
Coins
Rewards a small amount of Coins. You can earn Coins with the presence of 1, 2, or 3 Coin symbols. The more symbols there are, the higher the reward. The other symbols paired with them do not affect the reward. Does not seem to match with the Bag of Coins symbol.
Bag Of Coins
Bag of Coins give lots of Coins.
Functions the same way as the Coin symbol but gives a larger amount of Coins as a reward.
Hammer
3 Hammers will give you the opportunity to attack an object at another player’s base. A successful attack will reward you with more coins while a blocked attack will give you less. Attacking an object will destroy it, forcing that player to spend coins to repair it.
Pig
3 Pigs will give you the opportunity to raid another player’s base and steal their coins or treasure chest. The amount of coins you collect will be subtracted from that player’s total coins.
Shield
Shields defend against attacks.
3 Shields will allow you to automatically block an attack from another player, preventing you from losing a large sum of coins and getting one of your objects destroyed. The shield will disappear once an attack is blocked. Shields cannot protect you from raids. Unlike Spins, you cannot keep more Shields than your limit. You can have up to 3 Shields at a time at the start of your game, but as you level up, you can increase the limit to 5.
Battery
3 Batteries will reward you with more spins to use on the slot machine.
Special Symbols
Coin Master will occasionally introduce certain symbols to the mix which may appear in the slot machine itself or may be collected when you meet certain requirements.
Event Symbols
A seventh symbol will be introduced to the mix at Village 4. This symbol will remain for a few days (usually within a week) until the event ends and a new one starts with a different symbol. Usually, 1 symbol appearing will give you 1, 2 symbols will give you 2, and 3 symbols will give you 10. In some cases, you may also be rewarded with 3 of this symbol if you trigger an attack after collecting 3 hammers like in The Secret Seashell event. Once you get a certain number of that symbol, you’ll obtain a reward. Tapping the progress bar for the event will display the types of rewards you can obtain from it in order.
Tournament Symbols
Upon unlocking Village 10, you’ll unlock Tournaments. Tournament symbols will not appear in the slot machine itself but can be collected after triggering a certain action within the duration of a Tournament. Tournaments last for a few days and its symbols are typically collected when attacking, blocking an attack, raiding, and getting a perfect raid. Unlike the events associated with the seventh symbol, Tournaments require you to collect a large amount of its symbols before you can obtain a gift. If the tournament ends and you don’t win, you will be granted a consolation prize.
Team Tournament Symbols
Along with Tournament symbols, you’ll also unlock Teams at Village 10. Once you have joined or created your own Team, you can participate in some Team Tournaments. Take note that some Team Tournaments are only available to certain members who have unlocked a specific Village Level while some can be freely joined by anyone. Just like regular Tournaments, symbols are collected by triggering an action like attacking, raiding and getting a perfect raid. In a few of these, you may need to build a base before you are rewarded.
What makes this one different from the previous one is that this has an even higher required number of symbols to collect a large bundle of rewards. The joint effort of all your team members is essential for victory. If you find that your team is mostly inactive, it may be a good idea to leave that team and join a more active one if you want those Team Tournament prizes. Alternatively, if you created the team, you can also kick off your inactive members. It’s not too difficult for them to find new ones later.
Spins And How To Obtain Them
Spins on the slot machine will never require you to spend Coins, but it does require you to spend Spins. Spins are the equivalent of Energy to most mobile games. They can be obtained in a few ways:
- Buying Spins from the store with real-life currency.
- Obtaining Spins as a reward for participating in events, tournaments, and team tournaments.
- Collecting Spins from Friends.
- Taking Spins from Daily Rewards.
- Getting Spin Rewards after a period of inactivity.
- Completing a Card Collection
- Claiming Spins as a reward for leveling up to the next village.
- Receiving Spins from matching 3 Batteries in the slot machine.
- Waiting as your free Spins regained.
5 Spins are regained after 1 hour of waiting, and 50 Spins is the maximum amount that you can regain at a time. This means that you can fully replenish your 50 free Spins after 10 hours of waiting. The only time that the number of Spins you have will surpass the 50-Spin limit is if those Spins are obtained from the 8 other methods listed above. The first 6 methods can also be used to obtain more coins.
Auto Spins And Bet Multipliers
Repeatedly pressing the spin button can get old very quickly, especially if you have a lot of stuff to do. If you press the spin button and hold it for a few seconds, the slot machine will start spinning automatically until all your spins are consumed or if an action is required of you.
When you trigger a raid, you’ll need to choose which spot to dig. When you trigger an attack, you’ll need to choose which object to attack. If you ever completed the requirements to collect a prize, that prize will be automatically claimed if you do not tap to collect it and the slot machine will continue to spin afterwards.
Bet Multipliers are unlocked at Village 3 and will let you spend 2-3 times the amount of spins to obtain 2-3 times the amount of rewards. Take note that only Coins, Spins, Shields and Special Symbols can be multiplied. While the number of Attacks and Raids cannot be multiplied, the rewards you earn from Attacks and Raids can be. Once you’ve obtained a large amount of Spins, Super Bet will be activated. This means that you’ll be able to change your Bet Multiplier to 5, 15, 50, or higher temporarily.
In our experience, Bet Multipliers make it easier to obtain the special symbols required for events, tournaments and team tournaments. However, we only advise using this feature if you have a ton of spins to spend (in the hundreds or thousands).
Keeping it at only 1x will keep your slot machine spinning for a much longer time, giving you more chances to activate a raid or an attack while also giving you more chances to obtain the 7th special symbol. If you use your Bet or Super Bet Multipliers when you don’t even have much to spend, you have a much higher risk of loss.
Upgrading, Raiding And Attacking Villages
Coins are used for buying Chests at the store or upgrading your base. There are usually 5 objects at the village you need to buy, and you’ll need to upgrade them 3-4 times each. Once they are fully upgraded, you will level up to the next village and be rewarded with a crate that usually contains Spins. In later Villages, this will also come with other rewards.
After you unlock Village 2, the Village Master challenge will start appearing once every time you start over at a new Village. This is a timed challenge and will give you extra rewards upon completing all of the upgrades of your current village within the allotted time period.
Each Village’s objects may be more expensive to buy and upgrade than the last, but your earnings will also increase with it. Objects you buy and upgrade for your base can be damaged or destroyed by other players when they attack your base. When this happens, you’ll need to spend Coins to fix them up before you can upgrade them again and move on to the next Village. Because of this, we found that it is often better to hold onto our Coins for a bit until we have enough to fully upgrade the base and level up.
However, this strategy comes with its own problems. Other players can also raid your base and take a portion of your coins! While it usually won’t be too big of a loss, if you have friends on your list who only have a small amount of friends playing the game, chances are that they will raid you often and you may end up losing a lot of Coins.
Say for example John only has you as a friend among his Facebook Friends that play the game. Because the game will usually choose one of his friends as the “Coin Master,” or the person he will raid if you obtain 3 Pig symbols in the slot machine, he will end up raiding you almost every time. The game does sometimes let you raid random players you’re not friends with, but you will usually end up raiding your friends more often. We actually ended up losing a friend in our list this way because the account we used to play the game only had 2 other players playing the game. Whoops!
Alternatively, if you do end up being the friend who ends up being raided one-two many times, but don’t want to remove them from your Facebook Friends list, there is a less antisocial way to solve this dispute than unfriending them on Facebook. You can go to your friend’s list and remove them. Of course, if they ask, we don’t have a guide to mend that friendship.
Attacks also happen a lot more frequently between friends than random players. But unlike with raids where you are forced to pilfer Coins and destroy the trust of your pals, you can actually choose to attack someone else. During an attack, you can tap “Revenge” and choose a random person or one of the people who have attacked the current person’s village.
Alternatively, if you are more vengeful towards your other friends than your current target, you can tap friends and choose a target from your friends list. Of course, this may put a target on your own base so hopefully you’ve earned a few Shields or have a Rhino pet active to protect you!
To be on the safe side, we recommend spending as much of your coins as you can before logging off the game if you won’t be playing again for a few hours. Choose the most inexpensive object to buy and upgrade it to the max before moving on to the next object. This way, if you do get attacked, you only risk having to repair a couple of items instead of all five.
Is there a magical secret to choosing the right spot to dig during raids or a telltale sign to know if a player you’re attacking is being defended by a Shield or a Rhino? Unfortunately, no. All of it is luck-based and you’ll just have to go with your gut. However, there is a way to increase your chances when it comes to raids or attacks: Pets.
Pets And Their Roles
Pets are unlocked at Village 10 and can help you during raids and attacks. Pets can be leveled up by using XP Potions or by waking them up with treats and allowing them to put their skills to good use. Treats can make your pet active for up to 4 hours at a time, but free treats (the ones regenerate once a day) will only keep them active for 15 minutes.
Treats can be stacked and feeding your pets multiples of them will keep them awake for longer periods. You can only select one pet at a time so choose wisely! At the time of writing this article, there are only 3 pets you can obtain in the game: Foxy, Tiger, and Rhino. Each one of them have their own distinct use:
Foxy
The first pet you’ll receive once you unlock Village 10. This pet can give you extra Coins each time you go on a raid based on a percentage of the total Coins you obtained. This makes Foxy an ideal pet to have active when you want to make the most out of your raids. Foxy can give you up to 119% of your raid’s value.
Tiger
Tiger can be unlocked once you complete the Beasts card collection. This pet can give you extra Coins each time you attack a Village based on a percentage of the total Coins you obtained. This makes Tiger a nice alternative to Foxy, having him more focused on attacks. Attacks may give you less money than raids, but Tiger can give you up to 410% of your attack’s value.
Rhino
Rhino can be unlocked once you complete the Creatures card collection. Unlike the previous pets, this pet is more focused on protecting your village from attacks rather than earning you Coins. By protecting your investments on your base, you end up saving lots of money as Rhino acts as an almost infinite Shield, at least until they go back to sleep. But be warned that having this pet active will not guarantee your base’s safety. Rhino can only protect you from 70% of the attacks on your village.
Freebies and Rewards
Like most mobile games, Coin Master also has a system in place that grants its players freebies and rewards just by simply playing the game and keeping an eye out for them!
Submit Your Email For Daily Gifts
By submitting your email, you’ll be sent emails regarding daily gifts you can claim.
Reward Calendar
Calendar rewards can be claimed once a day. It will usually pop up right after opening the game for the first time and the reward must be tapped to obtain it. If you close it by mistake, you can find it in the menu in “Rewards.” Logging in once a day for 7 days will give you a bundle of rewards that includes Coins, Spins, XP Potions, and Pet Snacks. Logging in for 30 days in a row will give you even more rewards such as Cards, Spins, and Pet Snacks. You can also obtain a chest during your 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 30th and one of them can have a Joker Card.
Daily Bonus Wheel
Upon reaching Village 4, you’ll unlock the Daily Bonus Wheel. This allows you to spin the wheel once a day for a reward ranging from 100k Coins up to 20M Coins. If you want to try your luck for even more Coins (1M Coins up to 200M Coins), you can pay real-life currency for it but we don’t recommend this. If you want to spend money on the game, it’s much better to go for other packs with concrete, and guaranteed benefits.
And this marks the end of our Beginner’s Guide to Coin Master! We hope that this article successfully aided you in your goal to earn lots of coins and treasures in order to continuously upgrade your villages and become a great Coin Master! Were our tips helpful? Are there other games you enjoy that you would like us to cover? Let us know in the comment section below!
Chris
Friday 23rd of August 2024
I have started seeing a new coin??? It is green with a yellow or gold star. It keeps accumulating, but I don't see what it's use is or what I get with them. Any one know what these are>
Gina
Friday 14th of July 2023
How do I contact support for coin master regarding chests that I didn't receive from the Thor wheel?
Taffye
Friday 21st of April 2023
Does anyone know if there's a strategy to receive the higher end of spin possibilities when you are purchasing spins with real money?
Aline
Monday 20th of March 2023
How do you break the items that say tap to break?
Barbara
Sunday 5th of February 2023
My Super Bet is stuck at x15. How can I turn it off?