Tsum Tsum Mission Bingo Card 23 – Pop 3 Coin Bubbles With Beard Tsum

The only mobile game app I’m addicted to is LINE: Disney Tsum Tsum. Have been playing this for YEARS! Now it’s already Mission Bingo Card #23. Did not have much trouble clearing most of the missions except for a few. There’s ‘Get a 200 combo in 1 play with a pink ear Tsum’ which took a few games to clear. Then there’s the annoying one that is ‘Mission 20: Pop 3 Coin Bubbles in 1 play with a beard Tsum.’ I’ve used Beast and Holiday Jack, which didn’t work.

Finally found that Jack Sparrow would do the job in just one game. And here are the stats of my Jack Sparrow tsum:

Hopefully it’s useful to you if you’re trying to clear this mission! 😉

Tsum Tsum Help: Get A 36+ Chain With A Friend-Calling Skill

After the previous mission of having to pop 13 score bubbles with a green tsum tsum, this one requiring the use of a tsum with a friend-calling skill to clear a 36+ chain is the most difficult yet. I’ve tried the usual suspects like Chip and Dale, and even Stormtrooper (which makes other Stormtroopers appear) and nothing worked! The trick is in using the tsum ‘Space Ranger Buzz‘ but it requires a lot of skill and patience in order to get the 36+ chain too! So here’s what you should do:

1. Use the 5>4 power
2. Use the tsum’s skill once and you’ll get Buzz and his pal (both large tsums)
3. Then once it’s time to use the skill again, hit the fan/gyro multiple times until the big tsums go all the way up, out of your screen. Then you hit the skill button.
4. Repeat until you have enough large tsums to link together in a chain. I think I had about 6 plus lots of other regular Buzz ones, and I got my 39 chain.

Gosh. This particular event has been more difficult than expected. But it also provides 3 pins when there are usually only 2. So perhaps it’s worth it in the end? 😀

Tsum Tsum High Score and 50 Million Downloads!

[Just For Fun]

Woke up to some good news (Tsum Tsum’s 50mil downloads) and some not-so-good news (in Paris). I’ve previously shared about my addiction to this game and how I want to achieve a high score of 6 million. I’ve done it. 😀

Now I’m aiming for 7 million. LOL! And I do wonder what the best possible high score (among the 50 million fans worldwide) really is. So please drop me an email if you have a personal best that is higher than 7 million. 😀 😀

I secretly think this game is more addictive than Candy Crush. Ha!

Disney’s Tsum Tsum: Why This Game App Is SO Addictive

I’ve only started playing Disney’s Tsum Tsum about 2 months ago, and I’m hooked! It got so bad that at one point, I found myself playing tsum while having dinner with my closest pals. 😦 I’ve even got my significant other started with playing the game too, and we send each other “hearts” everyday. LOL. Couples who tsum together, stay together? 😀 😀 😀

Here’s why I think this app is so addictive, and how it might possibly also give budding app entrepreneurs some clues about creating an app that people just can’t stop playing:

(1) TIME limits

You can only play this game when you have ‘hearts’ available in your heart meter. The maximum number of hearts available at any one time is 5 (unless you purchase more using your credit card, or in-game bonuses). Each game lasts for a minute or so, and in just over 5 minutes you’ll use up all 5 hearts. Each heart takes 15 minutes to regenerate.

This ensures there’s no player fatigue. To help you understand this… think about your favorite food (perhaps it’s chicken wings). If I were to get you to eat 100 chicken wings at a go, you might just stop halfway and declare that you never want to see another chicken wing in your life.

It’s the same with this game. It forces players to wait for the hearts to regenerate (and to do other stuff in the meantime) OR pay the game developers some money and get more hearts. This is how interest in the game is sustained.

(2) Leaderboard

As you can see in the picture below, there is a leaderboard and it is refreshed after each week. The top 3 players (among your LINE friends) on your leaderboard will get coins, with the player in #1 position getting 3,000 coins and the player in 3rd place getting 1,000 coins.

Every week, you get a chance to tsum your way to the top of the leaderboard, and also a chance to defend your title from last week. I’m in 1st place this week and the feeling is GREAT! 😀 I never thought I’ll be able to hit a score of 5 million. But now, I’m aiming for 6 million next! *wink*

If someone usurps my #1 spot just before the leaderboard is refreshed and the prizes (coins) are given out, I’d definitely be tsum-ing a lot harder next week. 😀

For people with a competitive streak in them, this leaderboard reinforces the need to play to win, and to keep playing.

(3) Never-ending Collectibles

Remember how we used to be crazy about Pokemon as children? There are just so many of them (over 700 now!) and there is even a theme song “Gotta Catch Em All”. It’s the same with Disney’s Tsum Tsum. They constantly add new tsums. And you are kept feeling like you’ve almost caught them all. 😛

There are a total of 64 tsums in this game, at this point. And I have 48 in my collection.

Whenever I see a tsum that my friend has, and I don’t, I immediately want to get it too. And each tsum has a different ‘power’, just like the various Pokemon! So I want to get as many tsums as possible and find out more about their individual ‘powers’.

As long as Disney keeps adding new tsums, I guess I’ll keep on playing. There’s also a limit as to how much you can train a particular tsum. Once a tsum reaches the maximum level of 50, you have to move on and train another one.

With the regular addition of new tsums, players are kept hooked on this game. And honestly, I think Candy Crush pales in comparison but of course, that’s just my own opinion. 😀

(4) The Element Of SURPRISE

Collecting tsums might sound easy to non-players of the game, but really, there’s an element of surprise when it comes to the purchase of, and unveiling of, tsums. Tsums come in two categories – Happiness Box and Premium Box.

There are Pumpkin Mickey and Minnie tsums to collect for Halloween 🙂

Happiness Tsums cost 10,000 coins (which you earn while playing the game, or by spending real money) and Premium Tsums cost 30,000 coins.

You buy a box and HOPE it gives you your tsum of choice. However, more often than not, you don’t get the tsum you need for clearing some of the game’s missions. Because you can only choose the category and not the actual tsum you want to buy, this game forces you to play on till you get all the tsums you want. 🙂

Also, it’s fun to open the mystery boxes. The fiancé is pretty sweet – he collects as many coins as he can and lets me purchase those boxes and unveil the tsums for him. Because women love surprises, right? 😀

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All in all, I think this FREE Disney Tsum Tsum game app is awesome. I’d be hard-pressed to suggest any improvements for this app (let me ponder that for a while). And yes, though it’s a free app, I once bought some hearts using real money. I figured that the developers deserve to be rewarded for their effort in producing and maintaining this awesome app! 😀

This blogpost is probably only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to explaining why this Disney app is so addictive. Perhaps you are a Tsum player too, and have your own take on this matter? Let me know! 😀

This bento is likely made by a Tsum fan:

[Source: Pic from Facebook]

If you were to google the term “Disney Tsum Tsum”, you’ll find over a million search results – testimony to the popularity of this app. There’s also merchandise that fans can buy. I’d already bought a sweatshirt and socks before I even downloaded the app. LOL. The characters are just way too cute to resist. Check out my blogpost here.

If you have developed an app that you think I’ll enjoy, do drop me an email 🙂 In the meantime, happy tsum-ing! 😀

Chocoolate x Disney Tsum Tsum Launch TODAY!

After blogging about this particular Chocoolate x Disney Tsum Tsum launch, I FINALLY got my hands on the winning sweatshirt and socks today! It wasn’t easy though. I had thought that the outlet at Orchard Gateway would attract fewer fans of this launch so I arrived at the store before 11am this morning.

I got a shock when I found that a queue had formed outside – even before the store was open for business! And then my worst nightmare happened. The first batch of people ahead of me (maybe 12 of them) were let into the store. And when it was my turn, the sweatshirt had been SOLD OUT! Like, what the hell, Chocoolate folks? Did you guys bring in just 3 pieces of this adorable sweatshirt or what?! I ended up just buying the socks (sold at S$19.90 for 2 pairs). How sad. Waking up early and rushing there only to end up buying socks, of all things! Still, it was probably the final pair of socks that I snatched up. LOL.

I wasn’t hopeful, but I thought the outlet at Bugis might still have the sweatshirt so I took the train there.

Thankfully… I found the final piece in XS size. Those in S size had been sold out and only a few pieces of those in M size remained. Probably sold out by now too! And yes, the early bird catches the worm. After all, this is Singapore where being kiasu is something even kids are good at so… *shrugs*

In case you are wondering, the sweatshirt costs S$119. If you are a member, or can quickly befriend someone in the queue who is a member, you get 10% off your purchase, like I did. 😀

*If you like this design, the shoes cost S$129, but are pretty heavy.

*The adorable mickey / minnie backpack costs S$119, but I wouldn’t have the guts to carry them around ‘cos I’m not 12 years old. LOL.