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Short version: spin your Monster Coins in the Monster Maker to earn Carnival Prize Tickets, then spend those tickets in the Carnival Prize Center. In the Halloween Carnival event in Z Route: Redemption, tickets buy the daily Optional Deluxe Chest (level 5 fighter components or 10 UR Omni Hero Shards) and other rare items that are worth far more than ordinary speedups. Every spin also fills the stage bar for guaranteed ticket and UR chest rewards. Any coin you still hold when the event closes is swapped for 30 five-minute speedup chests (150 minutes), but treat that as a fallback for leftovers, not the plan. Keep 5x off unless you mean it, and don’t chase the 0.5% cupcake row. Below you will find the full odds, every free coin source, and a value-ranked rundown of all eleven event tabs.
Watch the video: Everything You Should Know About Halloween Event in Z Route: Redemption
Video: Halloween Carnival walkthrough, by Devil King (server 184)
Important: This is a fan-made guide and not an official notice from the developers. The odds, pack prices, ranking rewards and task counts here were read off in-game screens on a single server and may not match yours exactly. Figures such as 499 and 1,999 are the in-game pack labels (around 5 and 20 US dollars). Before you spend coins, tickets or real money, open the event’s own Details or Info panel and check.
Keep the Daily Checklist and the current Gift Codes handy while you work through the event. Other time-limited events are on the Events hub and in our event guides.
| Quick answer: spin or save Monster Coins? | |
|---|---|
| Default plan | Spin coins (5x off) for Carnival Prize Tickets and stage rewards; spend tickets in the Prize Center |
| Leftover coin at event end | 30 × 5-minute speedup chests (150 minutes), paid out after the event ends: a fallback, not the goal |
| Odds of any three-of-a-kind | About 18% per spin (all six rows combined) |
| Rarest jackpot | 3 cupcakes = 5 UR Omni Hero Shards, 0.5% |
| Free coins | 1 a day in the Monster Maker, plus up to 75 from Midnight Theater (15 a day for 5 days) |
| Spin when… | Almost always. Tickets buy the Optional Deluxe Chest (level 5 fighter components, 10 UR Omni Hero Shards and more), which is rarer and more valuable than 150 minutes of speedups |
| Hold coins only when… | You have already bought every Prize Center item you want and generic speedups are all you still need |
| Good rhythm | Spin daily for at least 100 tickets (one Optional Deluxe Chest), claim each stage reward and spin task, and let unspent leftovers convert at the end |
Halloween Carnival event overview
Eleven tabs is a lot, but the event is less complicated than it looks. It runs for seven days, and the prize shop stays open one extra day. Almost every tab hands out one of two items:
- Monster Coins, which you spend in the Monster Maker to earn Carnival Prize Tickets and stage rewards.
- Float Decoration Chests, which you spend in the Float Decorating Contest.
A third currency, Carnival Prize Tickets, comes mostly out of the Monster Maker and pays for items in the Carnival Prize Center. Once you see how the three currencies connect, it’s much easier to decide which tabs deserve your time. The table below ranks every tab by how useful it is to a free player.
| Tab | Type | What it does | Free-to-play value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midnight Theater | 5-day task track | 1 Monster Coin + 10 theater points per task | High, up to 75 coins |
| Tonight’s Program | Daily chest farm | Up to 100 Float Decoration Chests a day from routine play | High, feeds the float contest |
| Carnival Prize Center | Ticket shop | Spend Carnival Prize Tickets; open 8 days | High (Optional Deluxe Chest) |
| Float Decorating Contest | Points, pass, ranking | Turn Float Decoration Chests into pass levels and ranking points | High if you farm chests |
| Monster Maker | Roulette | Spend coins for tickets, materials, shards and stage rewards | High, main source of tickets for the Prize Center |
| Parade Map | Bingo board | 15 tasks, line rewards, mega prize box | Medium; aim for lines |
| Midnight Parade | 7-day themed points | Daily themes, phase and overall rankings, Wasteland Dominator frame | Low to medium; top ranks need spending |
| Night Tour Pass | Quest pass | Daily and event quests; paid tiers double rewards | Low free, decent paid |
| Daily Candy | 7-day login track | 1 free reward a day, 2 more on premium | Small login bonus |
| Candy Packing | Tile-matching puzzle | One-time rewards per cleared stage | Small but free |
| Finale Fireworks | Spend tracker | Fireworks points for every pack bought | None without spending |
Monster Maker: how the roulette works
The Monster Maker is a three-reel slot machine. Each Draw costs Monster Coins and does two things. It pays whatever the reels land on, and it adds progress to a stage bar at the top of the screen. Filling the bar to each threshold unlocks a stage reward: Carnival Prize Tickets, a UR decoration chest, and UR Halloween Carnival chests. Those guaranteed milestones, plus the tickets from pumpkin and spell book matches and SSR chests, are why spinning is the default. Individual payouts are often small, but together they keep the Prize Center stocked.
Turn off the 5x switch unless you mean it
A 5x toggle sits beside the Draw button. With it on, each draw costs five coins and pays five times the reward. Your odds and your value per coin stay the same, but a single tap spends five coins at once. The cost is printed on the Draw button. Check it before every tap, especially if you only planned to spend one or two coins to reach a milestone. A tap you didn’t mean spends five coins at once, the same as 750 minutes of end-of-event speedups.
Rules worth knowing before you spin
- End-of-event exchange: any Monster Coins you didn’t spend are swapped for speedups in your bag. Each coin becomes 30 five-minute speedup chests. This is a safety net for leftovers.
- Candy chest symbols: every candy chest that lands gives you a chance to open a chest plus a bonus reward. Matching more of them raises the payout.
- Missed claims are mailed: if you forget to claim a daily task reward, it arrives by mail the following day.
- Daily spin task: some screens show a daily “collect matching symbols” task with a chest reward. Look for it in your task list. Since you’ll be spinning each day, finish it.
Monster Maker odds: three matching symbols
These rates come from the Monster Maker’s Details tab. Each reward is for one draw at 1x. Multiply by five if the 5x switch is on.
| Three matching symbols | Reward | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| 3 pumpkins | 10 Carnival Prize Tickets | 9.01% |
| 3 lanterns | 30 Conductive Crystals (gear crafting material) | 5% |
| 3 witch hats | 10 chests | 2% |
| 3 spell books | 40 Carnival Prize Tickets | 1.5% |
| 3 cupcakes | 5 UR Omni Hero Shards | 0.5% |
| 3 candy chests | 10 chests with tickets | 0.19% |
| Any three-of-a-kind | — | ≈ 18.2% |
Here’s what the table means in practice. About four spins in five miss the three-of-a-kind table, so individual results are streaky. The most common hit, three pumpkins, pays 10 tickets, spell books pay 40, and the stage bar and SSR chests add more on top. Over a full event those tickets add up to Optional Deluxe Chests you can’t get any other way. The cupcake row is the only one that pays UR Omni Hero Shards directly, and at 0.5% it lands about once every 200 spins. Count it as a lucky bonus, not a strategy.
Three different symbols: the SSR Halloween chest
A spin where all three symbols are different has a 20% chance to drop an SSR Halloween Carnival Chest. The chest picks one of two prize pools:
| Prize pool | Pool chance | Possible rewards | Most likely |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnival Prize Tickets | 40% | 10, 50 or 100 tickets | 10 tickets (about 2/3 of the time) |
| Refined Stone | 60% | 500, 1,000 or 2,000 stone | 500 stone (about 2/3 of the time) |
Both pools are weighted toward their smallest prize. Plan on 10 tickets or 500 stone. If you get 100 tickets or 2,000 stone, treat it as a bonus.
Airdrop chest bonus draws
Every airdrop chest symbol on the reels gives you one free pick from a nine-card pool. Once you pull an SR card, the remaining SR cards are removed from that pool, so each bonus draw gives at most one SR card. It’s a nice extra on top of the tickets.
Where Monster Coins come from
| Source | Coins | Cost | Speedups if left unspent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily free coin (Monster Maker) | 1 per day | Free | 150 min per day |
| Midnight Theater tasks | Up to 15 per day for 5 days (75 total) | Free (a few tasks may want a purchase) | Up to 11,250 min |
| Daily diamond coin | 1 per day | 500 diamonds | 150 min |
| Monster Coin packs | Varies | Paid | — |
The 500-diamond coin is really a trade: 500 diamonds for one more spin toward tickets (or 150 minutes of speedups if you never spend it). Before you make it a daily habit, compare that rate with what diamonds buy in the regular shops. Our Shop Guide lists the alternatives.
Our recommendation
Spinning is the default. Speedups are easy to collect from passes, events and daily play, while the rare items in the Carnival Prize Center only exist during this event. Here’s what we suggest:
- Most accounts: spin your coins for Carnival Prize Tickets and stage rewards. Aim for at least 100 tickets a day so you can buy the Optional Deluxe Chest every day (see the Prize Center section), then use extra tickets on the next-best Prize Center items.
- Accounts that are already ticket-rich: if you’ve bought everything you want in the Prize Center and only need generic speedups, you can let the remaining coins convert at the end (150 minutes each). That’s the edge case, not the plan.
- Everyone: keep 5x off unless you mean to use it, and don’t chase the cupcake row.
Midnight Theater: up to 75 free Monster Coins
If you only have time for one tab, make it Midnight Theater. It runs for five days, and every completed task pays 1 Monster Coin and 10 theater points. Each day has Cumulative Login, Radar Training and Daily Activity tasks, worth up to 15 coins and 150 points per day.
| Midnight Theater math | Value |
|---|---|
| Coins per task | 1 (+10 theater points) |
| Max per day | 15 coins / 150 points |
| Days | 5 |
| Max coins | 75 |
| Max points | 750 |
| Points for the final reward | 650 (you can skip up to 10 tasks) |
| All 75 coins spun | 75 draws toward tickets, stage rewards and Optional Deluxe Chests |
| Fallback if never spent | 75 × 150 = 11,250 minutes (about 187 hours) of speedups after the event |
Those 75 free coins are the main fuel for your Monster Maker spins, and with them the tickets for your daily Optional Deluxe Chest. If any are still unspent when the Carnival ends, they convert to speedups, so nothing is wasted. The point milestones pay well too: 20 fighter parts, a large stack of combat chips, UR and SSR Omni Hero Shards, and level 4 fighter components. You can work out where those Sky Fighter materials should go with the Sky Fighter Calculator.
A few tasks may push you toward a purchase. Skip them. The final reward needs 650 of the 750 points, so you can miss up to ten tasks and still claim it. What you can’t afford is a missed day. Each skipped login day costs up to 15 coins, and there’s no way to recover them later.
Float Decorating Contest: points, crits and ranking
This tab is where your Float Decoration Chests get spent. Each chest you use on the parade float adds points to the contest pass and to the Honor Ranking. The pass is long. Some screens list around 80 levels, so check the level count on yours.
Crit chances and average points
| Result | Chance | Points multiplier |
|---|---|---|
| No crit | 70% | 1× |
| Crit | 20% | 2× |
| Big crit | 10% | 3× |
| Expected value per chest | — | 1.4× base points |
The math: 0.7 × 1 + 0.2 × 2 + 0.1 × 3 = 1.4. Each chest is worth 1.4 times its base points on average. Use x10 when possible so Crit and big Crit multipliers apply across a larger batch in fewer taps. Timing doesn’t change that average, so still spend chests as you get them — hoarding for a “lucky” moment gains nothing. The Honor Ranking has a minimum score to get on the board. Some screens show 10,000 points, but check the ranking tab’s Details panel for your server’s number. Don’t count on maxing the pass as a free player. Use the levels you reach as a steady trickle of rewards.
Honor Ranking rewards
| Rank | Rewards |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5 UR survivor chests, 5 UR decoration chests, 20 UR Omni Hero Shards, 6 of each of the three resource chests, Halloween frame |
| 2 | 3 of each chest, 16 UR Omni Hero Shards |
| 3 | 2 of each chest, 12 UR Omni Hero Shards |
| 4–10 | 1 UR survivor chest, 1 UR decoration chest, 8 shards |
| 11–50 | 1 UR decoration chest, 6 shards |
| 51–100 | 4 shards |
| 101–500 | 2 shards |
Ranks 101–500 still pay shards. On a quieter server, a free player who uses every chest has a real chance at a few. Before you spend Omni shards, choose a target with the Hero Calculator and our hero guides, so they go to a hero you’ll keep using.
Float pass tiers
| Pass | Price label | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Premium | 499 (~$5) | 10 UR Omni Hero Shards, 10 fighter parts, 10 combat chips, 10 survivor tickets, 10 recruit tickets, 600 refined stone, 120 five-minute speedup chests, more |
| Deluxe | 1,999 (~$20) | 25 shards, 20 fighter parts, 30 recruit tickets, 30 survivor tickets, 2,400 refined stone, 240 speedup chests, 1 UR survivor chest, 16 level 2 components |
The purchase screen has two conditions in small print. The bonus rewards only unlock if the pass reaches its top level after you buy it, and you can’t buy the pass once the event is over. If you want it, buy it early, while you still have days left to level it. On the last day, use every remaining Float Decoration Chest. Leftover chests no longer earn points, and according to the item tooltip, each one turns into a single five-minute speedup chest.
Tonight’s Program: farm Float Decoration Chests
Tonight’s Program supplies most of the Float Decoration Chests in the event, up to 100 a day. It rewards activities most players already do every day:
| Activity | Tip |
|---|---|
| Intel Quest | Usually the largest steady source; do these first |
| Hunting | Regular zombie hunting on the world map counts |
| Zombie Elite Horde | Smaller payout per run; do it if your rally group is active |
| Special Ops | Counts toward the 100-chest daily total |
| Eliminate Watcher | May have its own daily cap; check the counter on the tab |
You don’t need a special routine for this tab. Do your normal dailies and check the counter once before reset. If you’re well short of 100, an extra round of Intel Quests is the cheapest way to top up. Don’t burn stamina on fights you can’t win, though. A failed zombie attack costs you twice, as our first-week mistakes guide explains.
Carnival Prize Center: buy the Optional Deluxe Chest daily
This is the ticket shop, and it runs for eight days: the event’s seven, plus one extra day to spend leftovers. Most of your Monster Maker winnings end up here.
Priority order: rare decorations, puzzle pieces, and key chests first; lower-value items only if you have tickets left over. The standout daily key chest is the Optional Deluxe Chest — buy it first when it’s available. It costs 100 tickets, has a limit of one per day, and resets daily. When you open it, you choose one of these rewards:
| Optional Deluxe Chest choice | Who should pick it |
|---|---|
| Level 5 fighter component chest | Most accounts (our default pick); level 5 components are scarce |
| 40 fighter parts | Players actively leveling the Sky Fighter |
| 10 UR Omni Hero Shards | Players one upgrade away from a key hero star |
| 5,000 refined stone | Gear-focused accounts |
| 15 resource selection chests | Accounts blocked by one resource on a building |
Buying the Optional Deluxe Chest across all eight shop days takes 800 tickets. That number is why spinning your coins is the right call. Pumpkin and spell book matches, ticket rolls from SSR chests, and the stage rewards all go toward rare decorations, puzzle pieces, and key chests — and a level 5 component chest or 10 UR Omni Hero Shards is worth much more than a few hours of speedups.
Skip (or buy only with surplus tickets) the single UR Omni Hero Shards in this shop. Per shard, they cost more than the 10-shard option in the Optional Deluxe Chest, and more than shards from rankings and passes. The UR survivor chests and the MR/UR gear blueprints are lower priority once rares and key chests are covered. Blueprints start to matter once your gear is near level 40, and you can buy them elsewhere. You can price out your gear plan in the Equipment Calculator.
Midnight Parade: seven daily themes and the Wasteland Dominator frame
Midnight Parade runs for seven days with a new scoring theme each day. You score points for activities that match the day’s theme, claim milestone rewards along the way, and compete in a daily phase ranking and an overall ranking. To score well, save the right items and use them on their theme day.
| Day | Theme | Save ahead of time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gathering, fighter parts and EXP | Fighter parts, hero EXP, free marches |
| 2 | Base construction | Building speedups, upgrades ready to start |
| 3 | Research | Research speedups |
| 4 | Hero recruitment | Recruit tickets |
| 5 | Soldiers | Training speedups, troop resources |
| 6 | Battle preparation | Gear and combat items |
| 7 | General | Anything left from days 1–6 |
Phase and overall ranking rewards
| Rank | Daily phase ranking | Overall ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 UR survivor chests, 10 UR Omni Hero Shards, 5 of each purple resource chest | 5 UR survivor chests, 20 shards, Wasteland Dominator frame |
| 2 | 1 survivor chest, 8 shards | 3 chests, 16 shards, frame |
| 3 | 1 survivor chest, 6 shards | 2 chests, 12 shards, frame |
| 4–10 | 4 shards | 1 chest, 8 shards, frame |
| 11–50 | 3 shards | — |
| 51–100 | 2 shards | — |
Only the overall top 10 receive the Wasteland Dominator frame. Equipped, it gives +2.5% Hero ATK for 30 days. The daily phase rankings don’t award it. On most servers, the frame and the top-3 chests go to heavy spenders. A free player gets more value from claiming every milestone and saving each day’s items for the right theme than from chasing the top 10.
One more reason not to bank coins: speedups from unspent Monster Coins only arrive after the Carnival ends, so they can’t earn Parade points in this event. Plan your Day 2, 3 and 5 speedups from the stock you already have.
Night Tour Pass
This is a straightforward quest pass with daily quests and one long objective that lasts the whole event. Free players get the base quest rewards, and the paid tiers double them.
| Tier | Price label | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Premium | 499 | 10 UR Omni Hero Shards, 12 fighter parts, 10 recruit tickets, 9 combat chips, 10 EXP chests, 5 level 3 component chests, 160 five-minute speedup chests |
| Deluxe | 1,999 | 25 shards, 60 fighter parts, 20 recruit tickets, 21 combat chips, 1 UR survivor chest, 5 EXP chests, 1 level 4 component chest, 270 speedup chests |
Ignore the red “value %” badge on the pack. It doesn’t reflect what the pass is worth to you. Check the item list against what your account is short on, and buy only if several of those items are things you’d otherwise go without.
Daily Candy
Daily Candy is a seven-day login calendar. Each day has one free reward, and the premium track (499) adds two more. On day 1, free players get 50 diamonds, while premium adds 1,000 diamonds and 10 UR Omni Hero Shards. On day 2, the free reward is 2 fighter parts, and premium adds 2 more fighter parts plus 5 survivor tickets. On day 3, you get 1 combat chip free, and premium adds 2 more chips and 5 recruit tickets. The remaining days follow the same pattern with larger amounts. Free players should just log in and claim each day.
Parade Map
The Parade Map is a 15-square bingo card. Each completed row or column pays its own line reward, such as survivor tickets or Float Decoration Chests. Filling the whole card unlocks the mega prize box. Claiming all 15 square rewards requires at least one pack purchase, so free players should aim for complete lines instead. The Float Decoration Chests and UR decoration chests you collect along the way go straight into the float contest.
Finale Fireworks
This tab only rewards spending. Every pack bought adds fireworks points (the 499 pack gives 500, the 1,999 pack gives 2,000). Free players can skip it.
Candy Packing
Candy Packing is a tile-matching puzzle. Tap cards in the elimination area to move them into the slots, and any three identical cards disappear. Each stage you clear unlocks the next and pays a one-time reward. Our first clear paid 15 minutes of speedups, some resource boxes, and decoration chests. Cleared stages can’t be replayed, so you can’t farm it. Clear as many stages as you can for the free rewards and move on.
Free-to-play daily plan
| Do this every day | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Claim the free Monster Coin | One more spin toward tickets and stage rewards |
| Clear Midnight Theater tasks (days 1–5) | Up to 15 coins a day, 75 total; final reward at 650 points |
| Run Tonight’s Program through normal dailies | Up to 100 Float Decoration Chests a day |
| Spend Float Decoration Chests (x10 when you can) | Pass levels and ranking points; Crit multipliers apply better in batches |
| Buy rare decorations, puzzle pieces, key chests | Optional Deluxe Chest first daily; filler only with surplus tickets |
| Spin your Monster Coins (5x off) | Carnival Prize Tickets for the daily Optional Deluxe Chest, plus stage rewards |
| Claim Daily Candy and finished Parade Map lines | Free extras |
| Match the Midnight Parade theme | Milestones for things you were doing anyway |
Final-day checklist:
- Use every Float Decoration Chest (x10 when possible).
- Make any pass purchase before the event closes.
- Spend leftover Carnival Prize Tickets on rare decorations, puzzle pieces, and key chests on the extra shop day.
- Spin remaining Monster Coins for tickets while the Prize Center still has items you want.
- Only leave coins unspent if you truly want them as speedups (150 minutes each).
If you plan to spend
The Night Tour Pass, the Float Decorating Contest pass and the Daily Candy premium track give the most for the money. All three pay out shards, fighter parts and speedups in bulk. None of them are needed to enjoy the event. Top ranks in the Midnight Parade and the Finale Fireworks tiers reward heavy spending. This event shows a lot of purchase prompts, so set a budget on day one and stick to it.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to unused Monster Coins after the Halloween Carnival?
They are exchanged for speedups and placed in your bag. One coin turns into 30 five-minute speedup chests, which is 150 minutes.
Is it better to spin Monster Coins or save them?
For most accounts, spin them. Spinning earns Carnival Prize Tickets and stage rewards, and tickets buy rare Prize Center items such as the Optional Deluxe Chest, which are worth more than the 150 minutes of speedups an unspent coin becomes.
Does the 5x switch improve the odds?
No. It charges five coins per draw and multiplies the reward by five, so the value per coin is the same. Turn it off when you want single spins.
How many free Monster Coins can I get?
Midnight Theater gives up to 75 (15 a day for five days), and the Monster Maker gives 1 free coin every day. You can buy one more coin per day for 500 diamonds.
How do I get more Float Decoration Chests?
Tonight’s Program gives up to 100 a day from Intel Quest, Hunting, Zombie Elite Horde, Special Ops and Eliminate Watcher. Parade Map lines add a few more.
How many points do I need to rank in the Float Decorating Contest?
Some servers show a 10,000-point minimum, so check the ranking’s Details panel for yours. Even ranks 101–500 pay 2 UR Omni Hero Shards.
What should I pick from the Optional Deluxe Chest?
The level 5 fighter component chest is the best default. Choose the 10 UR Omni Hero Shards only if they complete an important hero upgrade.
How do I get the Wasteland Dominator frame?
Finish in the top 10 of the Midnight Parade overall ranking. The frame gives +2.5% Hero ATK for 30 days. Daily phase rankings don’t award it.
Summary
- Monster Maker: spin your coins (5x off) for Carnival Prize Tickets and stage rewards; the 150-minute speedup exchange is only a fallback for leftovers.
- Midnight Theater: log in all five days for up to 75 free coins.
- Float Decorating Contest: spend chests as soon as you get them, with x10 when possible for Crit multipliers; even ranks 101–500 pay shards.
- Tonight’s Program: normal dailies give up to 100 float chests a day.
- Carnival Prize Center: prioritize rare decorations, puzzle pieces, and key chests (Optional Deluxe Chest first); usually take the level 5 component chest from it.
- Midnight Parade: save the right items for each theme day; the frame is for the top 10.
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