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It's December! This post is pretty much the same as 2016's "December Events" thread, just without the nostalgia hook.


The Hanukkah event

• Begins: Tonight, December 11th at 11:55pm EST (site reset), which is one night before Hanukkah begins.
• Ends: Saturday, December 23rd at 11:55pm EST (site reset), which is three nights after Hanukkah ends.

We're again bringing back our Hanukkah event. In the past we've given 1 Coin for every Fire-type you hatched, and last year we gave 1 Coin for every Generation 1 Pokémon you hatched (oh that nostalgia theme), but this year we're excited because Pokémon GO has continued growing and recently released Generation 3 Pokémon!

So this year, you'll receive 1 coin for every Generation 3 Pokémon egg you hatch. You'll also earn 20 coins for completing a daily Scavenger Hunt task. These coins are completely separate from all other currencies on the site and are used to determine the prizes you win in the end (as well as for Spinning the Dreidel).

You may use these coins to Spin the Dreidel, which has 4 sides to it. Depending on the side that it lands on, the following will happen: you will lose the coins you played, you will double the coins you played, you will lose half the coins you played, or you will simply get back what you put in and be able to spin again without waiting.

You can only spin it once every 15 minutes (unless it lands on Shin). You can only play with the coins you've earned during the current day, rather than your full total.

We are reusing the old stats: coins (total, throughout all the days -- this will be reset to 0 for everyone before the event begins), coins today (the net amount you've earned today), and a stat for the most amount you earned in a day (this will still contain your previous results unless you beat your old record). Losing coins to the dreidel affects both your total coins and coins today stats.

The amount of coins you earn throughout the entire 12 days of Hanukkah will directly affect the prize(s) you receive when the event ends.

Some notes:

• We've made this event 12 days because last year it was 10 days with an added twist of earning more coins depending on the sprite your Pokémon hatched with (which we're not doing this year), so this gives you a better chance of earning around the same amount of coins (or beating your record).
• The Scavenger Hunt will start tonight! It will last thru New Years Eve (the 31st), and end at reset.
• Prize information relating to the Coins will be announced later, but likely the same as last year. This means Scratch Cards and some vouchers for the members in the top tier of Coins collected.
• The Lab will produce extra Generation 3 Pokémon during the Hanukkah event, the same as it does for SWSH Pokémon.
• For every Generation 3 Pokémon egg you hatch, you will earn 1 coin.
• For every Scavenger Hunt task you complete, you will earn 20 coins.
• If you participated in this event in past years, your historical dreidel spins will still show up on the Spin the Dreidel page -- this is simply an archive and has no bearing on the current 2017 event.

Scavenger Hunt
This month's Scavenger Hunt will start tonight, running through the rest of the month, but you'll only earn 20 coins for completing a task until the Hanukkah event ends (so tonight to the 23rd).

Explorations
The two Christmas explorations, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and "Secret of Christmas", have been activated and will run through the end of the month.

Secret Santa Exchange
Yes, this is happening again! Deposits will be open sometime on Saturday the 23rd and will last thru Monday the 25th, with the exchange itself happening after reset. I will post additional information around that time, but it'll work about the same as last year's.

New Year's Raffle
This will work the same as it did last year: you'll have a day to be as active as possible, and for every 2018 points of Activity Score earned, you'll get one entry. We'll then distribute a certain number of vouchers for a new Pokémon, and you'll have a chance to get one based on the number of entries you earned. I'll post more information about this later, as always.