Hi everyone, Steve Webkinz here. Lately I’ve seen several people on social media saying that they never collected all of their gems from the Gem Hunt—and some who don’t believe it’s even possible!
Well I’m here to let you know that it IS possible to get a Crown of Wonder, and to help show you how to do it!
The Gem Hunt was added to the Curio Shop as a daily activity way back in 2006. You don’t even have to be a Full or Deluxe Member to play it—even Free Players (on web and the desktop app) can go searching for gems every day!
Once each day you can search one of the mines for gems. There are 5 different colors to collect:
- White
- Red
- Green
- Blue
- Yellow
For each color, there are 6 gems to collect with 3 different rarities:
- 1x Rare (R)
- 2x Uncommon (U)
- 3x Common (C)
You can see your collection by clicking on the Gem Collection box:
The gems are hidden randomly each time you enter the mine. However, only certain gems can be found in specific mines. The rare gem for each color can only be found in one of each of the mines. That mine will also potentially hold all the gems from that same color, along with the uncommon and common gems from one other color, and only the common gems from a third color. You can tell which mine you are in by the color of the cave stalagmites and stalactites inside.
It breaks down like this:
Buried Bones Mine
- All WHITE gems (including the RARE Webkinz Diamond)
- Uncommon and Common YELLOW gems
- Common BLUE gems
Muzzle Mouth Mine
- All RED gems (including the RARE Red Ruby Heart)
- Uncommon and Common WHITE gems
- Common YELLOW gems
Flea Floater Mine
- All GREEN gems (including the RARE Earth Emerald)
- Uncommon and Common RED gems
- Common WHITE gems
Howling Horse Mine
- All BLUE gems (including the RARE Ocean Sapphire)
- Uncommon and Common GREEN gems
- Common RED gems
Barking Mad Mine
- All YELLOW gems (including the RARE Corona Topaz)
- Uncommon and Common BLUE gems
- Common GREEN gems
Once you find a gem, Arte will make an offer to buy it based on its rarity and how many he has already bought that day (determined randomly).
However, if you find his “Gem of the Day”, Arte will make a special offer to buy it from you for 200% of its value!
You can choose to sell it to him, or to add it to your collection. If you want to save up for additional crowns, you can collect as many multiples of the gems as you want.
Once you’ve collected all 30 gems, you can click on your Gem Collection Box to trade one full set of gems for a Crown of Wonder.
Each time you complete the collection you can trade your gems in, so you collect a crown for every one of your pets!
Also, if you want to see your gems without leaving your pet’s room, you can pick up a Gem Hunt Jewel Box from the WShop. You’ll find it under the “Storage” tab, which is part of the “Furniture” category. Add it to your pet’s room and then can click on it to see your current Gem Hunt collection.
And if you’re ever bored of collecting crowns, you can also try dropping by Doug’s Collector’s Room in the Clubhouse (web and desktop app only) to look for Doug the Dog. When he randomly appears, you can click on him to trade gems for one of his special prizes. You can learn more about Doug the Dog and his prizes here.
Want to know more about the Curio Shop itself? You can read my earlier Special Report here.
That’s it for now—I hope this helps!
How many Crowns of Wonder have YOU collected? And what would you like me to report on next? Let me know in the comments below!
I have a few crowns and have completed all the Doug trades. Yes it is possible. I think the key is to click on a different mine each day, if you keep digging in the same one you will miss some.
I have only one crown, but I am proud to have at least been able to get that one. Almost seven years of playing, and I thought that the gems were just random. Now, thanks to this wonderful article from Steve, maybe I can finally earn a second crown. I am just one gem away – the earth emerald. Now that I know that the only place to find it is in the Flea Floater mine, I will only search there until I find it. What a valuable treasure of an article, Steve Webkinz! Many thanks!
i have at least 20 crowns so far. working on more !
Thanks! Steve Webkinz for this useful information. COULD YOU PLEASE REPORT ON HELPING PAWS CLUB NEXT. Very little information to be found on this topic. How does it work. What needs to be done to receive Helping Paws Club Boxes. What are the prizes that are awarded in the small, medium, large boxes. What are the HELPERS for? I have 8 Helpers on one account, and 1 Helper on another account, very seldom and I mean seldom do I receive the Helping Paws boxes. It seems that all I ever get is 100 KinzCash or 500 KinzCash. I not sure what to do differently, for this to be better. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
The more your Helpers play, the bigger the reward that you will earn, as far as I am able to understand.
I have lost track of how many Crown of Wonder I have. Collected all of the gems and then traded with Doug the Dog for all of his prizes for 3 full sets of his collection prizes. Now I just continue to save all the Gems.
I knew about the rares being in certain mines, but even after 13 years of playing and FIVE crowns, I can’t believe I never noticed that the stalagmites were different colors in each mine! LOL! So observant!
I not only have more than one crown, I have also used the gems to complete the gem item collection with Doug the Dog once and am working on the second go around.
For those that don’t know it, you can take as many of your pets to see Doug as you can before time runs out. I have 157 pets on my main account and many of them have visited Doug. If I find him in his room, I click on him and once we complete our deal I go back home and change pets and go back to visit Doug and do another deal. Keep doing that until you have done all of your pets or until you run out of time. No reason to just have one pet having all the fun and prizes!
I didn’t know this! Thanks!
Holy moley!!! I didn’t know that!!!
This will prove very helpful I am certain. It seemed like it took me YEARS to get my first crown. But, last year I got four in four months, and I just got one this month! I believe I almost have one for each pet now. So if you don’t have a crown yet keep trying!
Man, thanks Steve. I didn’t know it was this precise. I’m so bookmarking this page! I’ve both collected and sold CoW’s on our family’s two main accounts. My cheeky monkey has reached expert level with Doug and now she’s started all over again. I hope the prizes vary somewhat with subsequent journeys. Thanks again for this great report.
So far they seem to be the same.