Talk:Jack's Tower/@comment-51.6.22.142-20181101223804/@comment-159.89.151.180-20181103012804

Gonzo67 Thanks for that piece of advice - I had been coming to the same conclusion myself. I've been taking screen dumps of the chests after I opened them and the money spent was usually unrewarded. In fact, I reckoned that it was going to be much cheaper to save the money and buy the extra items. I get narked when the game scolds me for not spending those rubies.

I came to a similar conclusion with the Bargain Offers which pop up disguised as “Survival Kit” or the like. Quickly totting up the value of those elements which are actually of use to me nearly always leads to the conclusion that it would be cheaper to buy them separately. Ditto most of the “Special Offers”. I used to think that it was not worth buying entry tokens, like the Candles for Jack’s Tower, at £16+ a time. That was before I discovered that I might have to get in there an indeterminate number of times just to finish the bit of the quest I was on …

I'm really rather hopeless at the various bonus games. I can do the one with the bombs (years of playing minesweeper!), but that doesn't give any dolls, and I've found ways of managing the matching cards game, no zombie dolls there either. I fear I'm just not fast enough for the magical bonus games and I don't understand what the various tools do or when they're worth playing. I'd love to find a game online which would give me real practice at spotting the useful clues without ending up spending rubies (i.e. real money) on extra 45-second slots to preserve what I’ve already achieved.