Last two mystery prizes

Last week I got 5000 bells and whistles on the day I needed 5000 b&w for an extra track piece. Then I updated.

Yesterday I received 10 donuts.

Last one had a billboard. The one before that had 10 donuts.

larsyuipo wrote:
Last one had a billboard. The one before that had 10 donuts.

same as me

I noticed something similar. In all three towns I run, the first daily play freebie mystery box I opened after the monorail event take-down contained 10 donuts. I haven't hit the second box yet, but I'll be watching for more billboards.

All i know is that the prize you get now in these mystery boxes is predetermined unlike the old one.

I got 10 donuts in both of my towns. Which I thought was a little weird so that was probably intentional. I should be getting boxes today and tomorrow. I don't think there's enough evidence to suggest the Mystery Boxes will no longer be random though.

They probably have a few that rotate in and if you already have an item it resorts to an item you can place multiple times. That would be my guess.

izabellatrix wrote:
I got 10 donuts in both of my towns. Which I thought was a little weird so that was probably intentional. I should be getting boxes today and tomorrow. I don't think there's enough evidence to suggest the Mystery Boxes will no longer be random though.

i know they are not random anymore
the prize is predetermined before you open it.

Got 10 donuts the last two times.

Without turning this into a long thread on psudorandom number functions (a subject that I am nowhere close to an expert), what Max is saying is that the code for the 'new' boxes to achieve randomness behaves significantly differently from the old boxes. In the new box, the app knows what's inside before you open it. In the old box, the prize was chosen by the app while you opened the box. It's still arguable that both programming options are 'random' though.

What's odd that the recent takedown may have altered something to make it easier for players to spot patterns in the randomness. It'll be interesting to see if the 10 donuts>billboard pattern will continue and be spotted by others, or if other patterns will emerge.