As Raventhief pointed out, the game has been updated allowing players to directly buy golden eggs. For 50 donuts you can get 4550 golden eggs, enough for 9.1 Gold Easter Boxes.

Surely, this has been the deal players have been hoping to see for weeks, a no-nonsense way to get better access to the prizes that have alluded players thus far.

So should you pony up the cash for the chance to spin the Gold Prize Wheel open a Gold Easter Box? It might not seem like a bad idea to invest in this opportunity, until you remember the odds of winning a decent prize. After all, have Gold Easter Boxes been good to you yet?

In my game I have opened 15 Gold Easter Boxes, and here is my prize break down so far.

Banana Dictatorship

Bunny #24601

8 Pastel Picket Fences

3 Easter Gates

Kang Topiary

250 Blue Eggs

While I did manage to win a building, a premium decoration, and an NPC, the rest of the prizes have been duds. So why should I spend 50 donuts on 9.1 more tries? How far would it really get me, and would I actually get one of the prizes that I wanted?

ITEM MIN ATTEMPTS MAX ATTEMPTS Shary Bobbins 20 80 Hugs Bunny 0 81 Father Sean 0 50 Bunny #24601 0 20 Bananna Dictatorship 0 15

As you can see, I don’t even have a chance of winning Shary Bobbins until I open at least 5 more Gold Easter Boxes. To guarantee Father Sean, I would need to buy 200 donuts worth of Gold Eggs.

To ensure Shary Bobbins and Hugs Bunny I would need 350 donuts worth of Gold Eggs. So for $20 you can get 300 donuts which is just a bit shy of the amount I would need to write luck out of equation.

If I spent $20 on Golden Scratch-Rs instead, the odds suggest that I would lose an average of 35 donuts, so buying direct would be the more beneficial option, next to just investing $50 or $100 in a store full or boatload of donuts, respectively.

Let’s be real though, the characters are the prizes people are really after, and the chances of winning those before the game just hands them to you after a certain number of attempts in minimal.

PRIZE ODDS Shary Bobbins 2% Hugs Bunny 3% Father Sean 5% Bunny #24601 12% Banana Dictatorship 16% Easter Gate 17% Kodos Topiary 7% Kang Topiary 7% Pastel Picket Fence 31%

tl;dr So what’s the real takeaway from this? If you want the three new characters you’re going to have to spend $20+ on Gold Eggs to get them all.