Trudy's Surprise

Trudy's Surprise Slot Machine is a daily that features prizes of increasing potential worth for each consecutive day that it's played, up to 25 days. At that point, prizes reset and the process begins again. Only players over the age of 13 are able to use Trudy's Surprise.

The machine was discovered by Trudy while on a long walk around Neopia.

The machine first appeared on July 17, 2015, with glitches that prevented prizes from being awarded. It was fixed by the 18th, and properly announced in New Features on July 24th.

Reset

Trudy's Surprise is available to spin once per day, starting at midnight NST each day. A notification is sent to you upon your first page load of the day. If you do not wish to receive the notification (on side accounts, for example) you can disable it in your preferences. You will not be able to spin the wheel if it is disabled in preferences.

Daylight Savings Time Glitch

When Daylight Savings Times begins for the United States (typically in early March), the day following the clock change, the Trudy's Surprise streak appears reset for all Neopians and prevents you from spinning for that day. However, the next day it will be back at the streak count you were supposed to be at.

Previous Reset

When it was first released, Trudy's Surprise was available to spin every 24 hours rather than once a day, regardless of what time you spun. For example, if you spun it at 5:12 PM NST, you would not be able to spin it again until 5:13 PM NST the following day. This setup was changed in June 2016.

Prizes

Your prize is awarded based on matching icons in your daily spin. Should you get 2 unique pairs of matching symbols (say two creams and two yoyos), they will count as if you had 4 matching symbols.

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Matching absolutely no symbols can activate a Bad Luck Bonus - where more Neopoints than the jackpot are awarded - although this happens randomly when receiving no matches.

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This bonus is only available once per 7 days per user if a streak is reset before 25 days, and only once per 25-day streak. Each time you fail to match any icons after having received the bonus during a streak, you will instead only receive the normal no matches prize until you begin a new streak and it has been at least 7 days since last receiving the bonus.

Any spin, matches or not, also has a random chance to award a Neocash gift box along with the Neopoint prize:

You can receive a total of 3 gift boxes in a consecutive 25-day streak. As soon as your spin streak resets, either from missing a day or completing the full 25 days, you can start to earn more gift boxes in your new streak again.

Should you miss a day at any point, the prizes will reset to Day 1 levels and you must begin again. The same will happen once you claim your 25th spin in a row.

7 Day Streak Prizes

Announced on August 23, 2018, item prizes were added for completing a spin every day for 7 consecutive days. New prize sets are added periodically, and the newest set appears to be awarded from most frequently, although this can vary by user.

Originally, each prize set was only available for a certain random amount of time. When the eighth prize set was released on February 22, 2022, all previously-retired prize pools were able to be awarded from again. It is not yet confirmed whether all previous prizes are available, or if it is a specific subset of items.

Item Prizes

On August 31, 2022, a tenth set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These have been available for 96 days and counting.

On May 11, 2022, a ninth set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These have been available for 208 days and counting, and were originally live for 112 days prior to the tenth pool's release.

On February 22, 2022, an eighth set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These have been available for 286 days and counting, and were originally live for 78 days prior to the ninth pool's release.

On August 6, 2020, a seventh set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These were originally available for 565 days.

On June 14, 2019, a sixth set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These were originally available for 419 days.

On March 28, 2019, a fifth set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These were originally available for 78 days.

On February 5, 2019, a fourth set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These were originally available for 51 days.

On October 23, 2018, a third set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These were originally available for 105 days.

On September 15, 2018, a second set of item prizes was released for the 7 day streak. These were originally available for 38 days.

The initial pool, which started on August 23, 2018, was originally available for 23 days.

Avatar

For hitting your 25th spin in a row, you'll receive an avatar:

Trudy's Surprise and Side Accounts

Due to the fact that Trudy's Surprise awards Neopoints, users cannot take part in it as a daily activity on side accounts. To avoid seeing the pop-up when visiting a side account, select the Block Trudy's Surprise option in the Site Preferences of any account you would like to disable it on.

This article was written by: JN Staff