Christmas Town
Christmas town typically runs from mid-december until the end of the year. Check the exact start and end times in the calendar (You can change your start/end times within a 6 hour window: 10-16TCT, choose a start time where you will be awake).
You can't play Christmas Town from the hospital, jail, or when traveling.
Christmas Town Interface:
If you have issues finding/access Christmas Town, view my reply here
Currency
- Christmas Buck: Obtained from chests, minigames, spin the Christmas Wheel, and santa. Can be exchanged for rewards you choose in the Christmas Shops. See below a section on exchanging them.
- Bucks carry over to the next year.
- Prize Coupons: Obtained from mini-games (max 5 per day).
- Can be exchanged for rewards at the Coupon Exchange: ALL coupons you have are exchanged at once, and exchanging more at once would grant better and more rewards (source), so exchange them all once towards the end of Christmas Town.
- For a list of possible rewards: https://wiki.torn.com/wiki/Coupon_Exchange.
- Coupons carry over to the next year.
- Chest Keys: These allow you to unlock Bronze, Silver, and Gold chests. Use them anytime you find a chest that matches your keys. If you're struggling to find chests, try less active maps with "chest" "loot" "keys" in the title, as they usually have concentrated chests in a small zone. Chests are publicaly shared, so don't hold on to keys.
Note: Items collected by Christmas Town will drop in value closer to the end of the event, as people exchange in bulk, or the oversupply peaks. Don't sell most things without checking the Market Value (MV) charts (3 months, 6 months, 1 year). Use your own discretion.
Networth
The rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer a decent profit: Christmas Town drops on the map can vary from alcohol, candy, to BCTs, FHCs, and even poison mistletoes. Those with a higher networth will receive more valuable items (Source).
It's still a profitable event for everybody, I don't have the statistics to back this, but I made $270m with around $800-900m networth in my first year. This isn't easy money you're walking into, you still need to sell the loot, invest it, and use it wisely; or gamble it all away, if that's what you're into.
Check your networth in your personal stats (quick link).
To increase your networth (this is not an exhaustive list):
- RW weapons and armor contribute the MV of the unranked weapon/armor. So avoid making large purchases right before christmas town.
- View how networth is calculated: announcement by Chedburn
- Deposit 3 months investments in the bank (ideally $2b at once) as that will add the entire interest to your networth, even though the investment isn't ready to be withdrawn.
- Faction balance doesn't affect your networth, so take it out and place it in stocks. Buy a stock ticker for 50 points in the Points Market to use stocks, and invest in the highest ROI stocks, such as SYM. Use the Stocks ROI sheet if unsure what else to invest in.
Christmas Town Helper [Script] by Father
This script highlights the random loot on the map and assists in mini-games, which is super helpful. The guide assumes you are using the script when playing the recommended mini-games.
Here are other features offered by the script:
- Highlights Items, chests and NPCs.
- Word Fixer Helper.
- Santa Clawz Helper.
- Snowball Shooter Helper
- Christmas Wreath Helper.
- Hangman Helper
- Garland Assemble Helper
- The unique feature: Creates a table of the items you find, receive from NPCs and win in Minigames.
- Typocalypse Helper (Bit clunky. But will get you coupon. After enabling it, when you play the game, it will show you words enclosed in a green box, click on them. One answer per one click.)
- Plays chirp sound when an item or chest spawns. Only once per minute. disabled by default
Mini Games
There are maps with all the mini-game tents close to each other, usually tends to be the popular maps. The official christmas town map has all the tents and the coordinates are listed in the wiki and visualized in this guide.
Available Mini-Games (green ones are recommended, red ones are recommended AGAINST, blue ones should be done daily):
- Christmas Wreath: Find and click on the decorations before the time runs out. **Easy w/ Script (click on colored icons)
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Gingerbread Men: Catch the falling gingerbread men in your basket. You lose a life if they fall to the ground. **Easy on PC
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Hangman: Identify the Christmas-themed word by clicking the letters. You only get a limited number of tries. **Easy w/ Script (helps you guess)
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Present Pick: Pick a present to win its contents. **Super Easy
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Santa Claws: Find and click on any cat or dog before the time runs out. **Easy w/ Script (it grays out wrong boxes)
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Snowball Shooter: Shoot the Grinch and avoid everything else. Faster hits earn a higher score.
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Word Fixer: Unscramble the letters to form a Christmas-themed word. **Easy w/ Script (tells you the word)
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Garland Assemble: Rotate the pieces to create a continuous path from start to finish. **Easy
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Spin the Wheel: Spin the wheel and win the prize you land on. **Super Easy
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Pot: Be the last person to deposit an item to win the entire pot. DO NOT PLAY THIS, its a trap for gamblers
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Typocalypse: Type the words as fast as possible to remove them from the conveyor.
Note: If you feel you gonna lose at mini-game just click at the map below tent door to get out of the tent it will reset game progress (source).
Combination Chests
This is the other type of chests, which is a unique spawn per player. You can claim the prize as long as you can unlock it.
You get 4 tries, and three numbers to guess in each round. Each number can only be used once in the correct combination.
You get three outcomes for each number you try:
- Red: Wrong number
- Orange: Correct number, wrong position
- Green: Correct number, correct position
Here's a guide and a video on how to crack it open.
Ornaments & Snow Globes
Ornaments and Snow Globes are stored in your inventory alongside currencies. Your inventory expands to multiple pages that are always enough to claim all ornaments and snow globes (the inventory is not limited).
There are three types of collectibles:
- Speed Ornaments: bought from the Ornaments Shop covered in Exchanging Bucks section. They give 5% walkspeed each. Walkspeed doesn't have a huge impact, other than moving faster.
- Ornaments: Ornaments increase spawn rates for loot (1-5%) (super useful). They are obtained randomly from interacting with Christmas Town (mini-games, loot, etc). Try to interact with each of the mini-games until you get its associated ornament as long as you are not losing. Use this guide to know how to get ornaments
- Snow Globes: These also increase spawn rates for loot (1% each). They are obtained from player-created maps after completing their 'quests'. Use this guide or this guide (2025), or this guide list to get the snow globes or look up the map guides in the forums (if a guide is outdated). Maps with snow globes have a "prize" icon or a question mark in the map list.
Snow Globe icon = you have completed the map's quest
Question icon = you haven't completed the quest, do so to get the snowglobe!
Tools:
- Snow Globes Walkthrough: Link
- Snow Globes Guide Lists: Link
- Snow Globes 2025 Guides: Link
- Ornaments Obtain Method: Link
- Torn Report Ornament/Snow Globe Collection Tracker (requires full access API): https://torn.report/christmas
Click "Collection View" on the top right
Note: Spawn rate affects how quickly random loot appears on the map (super useful), speed affects how fast you walk, but walking faster doesn't mean you'll get more loot, its an unnecessary investment of your Christmas bucks given the high capital required to buy the later ones.
Bear in mind that maps with ornaments have 50% higher spawn rates, and spawn rates are also loosely tied to movement speed (not negatively impacted by speed ornaments), so just running in a straight line is going to result in slightly lowered spawns as a result. (source: bogie)
Maps
All maps were created through the effort of creative people in torn, and check them out when you could!
Some maps have "Chests," "mini-games/games," "loot," written in the titles. These usually have the mini-game tents and Santa placed in convenient places so you don't have to walk too much, while they also have a straight pathway you can mindlessly walk for convenience. There also ones without these terms, so explore a bit and find your favorites for your dailies.
Snow Globe (story) maps are the ones with a story, tend to be larger, and more detailed. They give a 1% permanent boost to your spawn rate once you complete them to get the snow globe. Snow Globe maps also have a 50% more spawn rate! (source) If you haven't finished your snow globe collection, do 1-2 story maps during your daily run.
Tips: Walk diagonally to walk faster.
Random Loot
Random loot includes keys for chests, presents, and combination chests, all scattered on the map. Random loot is account-based and not map-based, so it doesn't matter where you check, except prioritize Snow Globe maps due to the 50% spawn rate boost. Your spawn rate effects how fast you get the random loot, while your networth affects the value of rewards.
Every 6-8 hours, walk around, once you stop getting random loot (chest keys, combination chests, or gift boxes) for 10 minutes, stop. Repeat again in 6-8 hours.
!!! IMPORTANT !!!
There may be a new adjustment in 2025 with a set daily limit to drops, if you don't find anything else after 15 minutes, you may have hit your limit (source: "After a while, your map will stop spawning loot, but you can return the next day when a fresh set of loot will be available") There was a bug with spawn rates, they are back to what they were before.
There was some optimization changes that unintentionally affected the spawn rates. We have reverted the update as of two hours ago, so the spawn rate and spawning mechanics should be back to normal (same as last year).
As a compensation, we have buffed the spawn rate by 25% for the next 5 days. The buff will be applied from 22nd Dec 16:00 TCT - 27th Dec 16:00 TCT.
(source: Bug Report Reply by CloudJumper)
Tip: Check your logs to know 10 mins have passed, rather than keep track of the time manually. You can access the logs quickly from the top bar.
If interested, here is related information on Hats
Daily Routine/ TL:DR
Daily routine:
- Meet Santa (once)
- Play 5 mini-games (once). Use the Christmas Helper Script
- Play Spin The Wheel (once)
- Play Pick the Present (once)
- Walk around maps every 6-8hrs looking for loot until you find nothing for 10+ mins
Tips:
- DO NOT PLAY POT (more info on it here)
- Don't walk in straight lines (lowers spawn rate slightly)
- You can hold the left click while directing your character in PC (rather than clicking repeatedly)
- Avoid the Grinch (change maps). He looks like this and can steal items:

Maps: This is just a recommendation, I don't plan to list "good maps" for people to use, since I think every map is well made and ratings speak for themselves.
Use maps with keywords like "Chests," "mini-games/games," "loot," written in the titles, or those set-up for convenience for dailies after you explore a bit to do your dailies (Santa, mini-games), and/or to do your walk for loot.
Use Snow Globe Maps to complete the story to get snow globes, and to walk around for loot due to 50%+ spawn rate boost.
Event routine:
- Exchange all Prize Coupons (towards the end of Christmas Town)
- Exchange Christmas Bucks in the shops (periodically) (72 glass of beer first, then higher MV/buck items)
- Obtain ornaments
- Obtain snow globes
- Sell Loot (use your discretion)
Summary of useful Tools:
- Torn Report Collection Tracker & Statistics
- Christmas Town Helper Script
- Snow Globes Walkthrough
- Snow Globes Guides List
- Ornaments Locations
- The Chests List by Gamerbadazz
- CT all 15 Snow Globes Walkthrough guides 2025
Exchanging Christmas Bucks
You can exchange Christmas Bucks in the following shops:
Beer Tent
- Glass of Beer 1 buck **Get 72-96+ for International beer day
- International Beer Day: 5x Glass of Beer and Bottle of Beer effects. Glass of Beer can only be obtained through exchanging tickets here or Keg of beer
- Note: 72 is minimum to exchange, 96 with full faction perks, and exchange more with cooldown-reducing job perks (3* Grocery Store, 10* Restaurant, 3* mining corporation)
- Beer 1 buck
- Bottle of Kandy Kane 2 bucks
- Bottle of Minty Mayhem 4 bucks
- Bottle of Christmas Cocktail 4 bucks
Candy Shop
- Bag of Candy Kisses 1 buck
- Bag of Tootsie Rolls 1 buck
- Bag of Reindeer Droppings 2 bucks
- Bag of Chocolate Truffles 2 bucks
- Pixie Sticks 4 bucks
- Jawbreaker 5 bucks
Gift Shop **None of these are really worth it
- Sprig of Holly 3 bucks
- Christmas Angel 5 bucks
- Festive Socks 10 bucks
- Turkey Baster 50 bucks
- Gingerbread House 100 bucks
- Mistletoe 100 bucks
Ornaments Shop **None of these are really worth it, except maybe the 1st one, each provides 5% walk speed
- Snowshoe Ornament 30 bucks
- Skis Ornament 85 bucks
- Snowboard Ornament 120 bucks
- Sleigh Ornament 270 bucks
- Snowmobile Ornament 495 bucks
Where to exchange bucks?
- Calculate the MV/Buck ratio to get higher values for the same amounts of tickets. More tickets to buy an item doesn't always mean more profit!
- Exchange for items you could use
- Watch out for the MV before selling, as a lot of items might drop in value due to new supply and unchanged demand. Selling around March-April is a good approach if you can afford to wait. Otherwise follow best practices to sell without getting buymugged, or sell to traders.
(Re)sources:
Cola's Stocks 3.0 Spreadsheet by colaman32
Christmas Town rewards are based on your networth by Tao
Christmas Town Helper (Garland Assemble Support) by Father
Solving the CT Combo Chests by WildHare
CT Combination Chest by Someone
Christmas Town All You Need To Know by AlwaysALegend
Updated: Christmas town and mini games 2020 by 3omda
Quick beginner readup on Christmas Town by VYNICAL
Christmas Town - List of All Ornaments by Snyper420
CT Ultimate Snow Globe Guide(s) by Dank_Demonic
Hail Santa: Xmas Town Now Open! by sugarvalves
Christmas Town Opens Today! by sugarvalves
My other guides:
Neat Trick or Treat/ Halloween guide
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Duke's Dump Giveaway
This event runs for 12 days, starting from December 14.
Every day between 9 and 10 TCT, Duke drops items of value into the dump, and more dumps scheduled randomly throughout the day. You can also complete tasks as requested by Duke in the General Forums for that day for extra prizes.
The list of item drops for each day can be found here:
Wiki link (might not be up-to-date right away)
Note: It costs 5 energy to search the dump for each item. It's not recommended to search the dump, unless you are chasing the merits as energy is better spent in training. Most items in the dump are junk, as there's a merit for trashing 5k items (which most people drop low-value items to obtain it cheaply). It's not totally bad, for example searching once/if poison mistletoes are dropped would be a good use of energy, but it is a gamble for good luck nonetheless.
Merit Available:
Optimist: Find 1,000 items in dump














