@elliecakes
The elevator and tower thing where you have the daily opportunity to win prizes by drawing cards without drawing a pig IS the “tower of fortune”. It states it before you even play.
The game itself is the tower and your goal is to reach to the top using the elevator and it stops at every floor which you have the chance to win a prize or choosing a pig, which costs you gems and rises exponentially (20,100,200,400,800,1600,3200 and 3200 for every other pig). Every blue floor, you have a chance to win a +1 or +2 hat, every yellow floor you have a chance to win a +3 hat. Count the number of cards you have to choose from? Do you choose from a set of 3 or 4? Like I said above if you have to choose 1 in set of 3 cards, then your tower has only 30 levels. It’s shorter but significantly harder since you have 1/3 chance of drawing pigs. If you have to choose 1 in a set of 4 cards meaning your tower has 90 levels. It’s longer but slightly easier since you have 1/4 chance of drawing a pig.
So a game where
CARD CARD CARD = 30 floor tower (every 5th floor has a prize hat (+1 or +2 hat) , 15th floor is the yellow floor (+3 hat) , 30th floor is the jackpot floor where you win a fancy hat +5 that sells for 25,000 pearls)
CARD CARD CARD CARD = 90 floor tower (every 5th floor has a prize (+1 or +2 hat), every 30th floor is a yellow floor that you can win a +3 hat, and the top 90th floor is the jackpot where you win the fancy hat +5.
If you want the pearls, you need to devote a lot of time into this game to start hoarding them. I currently have 7000 pearls each on 2 devices and playing on 2 devices cuts the tedious levelling in half. Pearls are won in 3 ways
1) Playing the tower/card game. If you want more pearls, you need to play the tower more often and advance further, and reach level 30 (if you have a 4 card game) or (level 15 if you have a 3 card game)
2) Winning the weekly arena tournament: You need to play the arena OFTEN. I devote at least 6-7 hours a day on this one. You need to complete the 7 streak which awards you feathers, spells and tickets, which helps you increase your base levels. In order to get the maximum pearls, you need to place 1st
1st place = 300 pearls
2nd place = 200 pearls
3rd place = 180 pearls
4th place = 150 pearls (the sweet spot)
5th place = 75 pearls
6th place = 50 pearls
7th place = 25 pearls
8th place = 10 pearls
9th place = 5 pearls
1st place is almost always impossible to get because you have these players with too much free time on their hands playing the game 10-12 hours a day. Placing at least 3rd-4th is where you want to be. Placing the top 3 will bring you up in league. Prizes are the same, but opponents get harder.
3) Winning the daily challenges (DC) and daily king pig panic (KPP). When you play the game do you notice that there’s a challenge that’s available for 8 hours? That is a daily challenge and you need to need to beat 3 levels to get feathers, a chest, some spells and 30 pearls. If you successfully beat the daily challenge, you have 1 hour to beat king pig panic, where it has 5 levels to complete (last one in both DC and KPP are boss levels) for a chance to win feathers, 1 chest, 1 spell and 100 pearls. You need to play this everyday for a total of 130 pearls. In one week this gives you 910 pearls!!
ABOUT THE HATS
As stated above
+ 1 multiplier hats = party hats, school hats, halloween hats – 20 pearls each
+ 2 multiplier hats = crown, street caps, wigs, beachwear, Christmas hats – 100 pearls each
+ 3 multiplier hats = cowboy, pirate, knight, winter – 1000 pearls each
+ 5 multiplier hats = fancy hats – 25,000 pearls each (can be won at tower of fortune)
It Only hurts your playing if you bought ALL the crowns (+2) and decided to remove in place of lesser hats (+1) like halloween/party hats instead because they look better. Yes, that hurts your chances because it lowers your flock power because your bird levels are lower. If you have crown sets, USE them and don’t switch back to +1 hats
If you mix hats at the same level say wigs with christmas hats, your chances are NOT hurt because it doesn’t change your bird level and it will not affect your flock power, and you can see the chance by looking at the number on the top left of the bird card. Like I said, I have level 43 birds. If I remove one fancy hat (+5) and replace it with a knight cap (+3), one of my birds will drop to level 41 and it will reduce my flock power by 2 (from 301 to 299) and yes that hurts my chances.
For the prizes at the tower (i.e card game)
If you draw a +1 hat and you already have it (i.e party hat)- it gives you 10 pearls
If you draw a +2 hat and you already have it (i.e crown) – it gives you 20 pearls
If you draw a +3 hat and you already have it (i.e cowboy) – it gives you 50 pearls
If you draw a +5 hat and you already have it (i.e fancy hat) – it gives you 500 pearls
If you draw a hat that you don’t have yet, the game will save it in the arena, meaning you will NOT have to spend the pearls needed to buy the hat again since it’s already won. Meaning it just saved you 100 pearls
If you draw a hat that you already have, you get the pearls for it, in which you save to buy the hats that you do not win/get. I’d recommend saving for +3 hats since it’s pointless to spend on +1 and +2 hats. If you have the hat and you DON’T get pearls, you need to report it to the game developers at https://support.rovio.com/hc/en-us/categories/200410357-Angry-Birds-2
