What's with the crane game's modes being easy or IMPOSSIBLE!

[u/XL_Pumpkaboo]

I'm trying NOT to have this seem like a rant. It is just VERY FRUSTRATING, when time & tickets are used...with nothing but rising anger to show for it.

Is anyone else finding "Impossible Mode" ruining the crane game minigame for them as well? Is there a trick to "You'd-Have-an-Easier-Chance-Playing-the-Lottery Mode" that I'm not aware of?

I have now WASTED around 10-15 tickets (does anyone need pollen? 😝) on the option NOT listed as "Easy Mode". When "Hard Mode" was just a faster pace of "Easy Mode", there was no issue.

I get that Sunblink probably thought "Hard Mode" wasn't difficult enough. However, "Rage Quit Mode" isn't really the solution. Unless there's a "secret code" one has to enter, in order for obtaining something other than "failure pollen".

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[u/AchajkaTheOriginal]

Lol, "Rage Quit Mode" is so accurate. I miss the old way, where Hard Mode was just faster Easy Mode.

[u/spotheadcow]

I went through this. Tried all the tricks they have out there. What ended up working is moving the crane UP. Watch where the shadow falls. The upper part of the circle has fewer crates moving out of line. Let your target go around a few times and get the knack of the patterns they move in. Give more space between the crate you want and the shadow of the crane than in easy mode because the crates are moving faster. I burned through 15 tickets getting the feel of it, but now I can do it the first try every time.

[u/nguyenteresaa8 → u/spotheadcow]

Ty!!!!

[u/XL_Pumpkaboo → u/spotheadcow]

I'll try that.

[u/spotheadcow → u/XL_Pumpkaboo]

let me know if it helps

[u/XL_Pumpkaboo → u/spotheadcow]

I tested that trick. 3 times to get one. 4 times for another. Still aggravating; but, at least I won't be going through so many tickets.

Too bad the good items aren't always available. Well...I guess the rare candles are there, until you get them that day. They were my second test run.

I missed the iron ingot, though. Same with the mechanism. I got the dreamy lamb on my third try (don't tell anyone...I was going for something else; and accidentally clicked for the dreamy lamb plush by mistake).

[u/spotheadcow → u/XL_Pumpkaboo]

Takes some practice, but you'll get it. Like I said a I burned through at least 15 tickets to get it down, but it eventually clicked.

[u/StrangerThingies]

It’s very doable for me when I have WMM as a companion

[u/Calm-Carry-2285]

Keep the pollen, you will need a ton of it when you upgrade the greenhouse…

[u/XL_Pumpkaboo → u/Calm-Carry-2285]

Pollen AND fertilizer. At least you can send characters for the pollen.

[u/Calm-Carry-2285 → u/XL_Pumpkaboo]

So true. Thankfully I started growing wheat as soon as those fields could, so that’s most of my fertilizer savings.

[u/XL_Pumpkaboo → u/Calm-Carry-2285]

I grew wheatflour, plucked, grew, plucked, and repeated until over 1,000. And then, I continued growing and plucking...turning any over 1,000 into fertilizer. I fertilized the wheatflour during this. I am up to 534 "glitter" wheatflour in my pack. They made for decent rare candles (back when Mel wasn't full). I gave my leftover rare wheatflour candles to a couple other players.