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Icon indicating hired friends on Home Desktop

In addition to sending your friends gifts, and visiting them each day, you can also hire your friends in order to help you play pictures and puzzles. When you hire a friend you will get a benefit for the next picture/puzzle you play. The benefit depends on the profession of the friend you hired. Your friends are not notified if you hire them, and they receive no benefit from being hired by you. Hiring is an action you do for your own benefit alone and not for the benefit of your friends.

Each hire only lasts for one play, and you can only hire each friend once a day, but you may hire more than one friend at a time. You are limited to how many friends you can hire at one time or in total in a single day, and this limit depends on your current reputation level.

The G5 Friends™ system introduced in early 2019 did not change the effects of hiring, or the daily or per play limits. It did change how a Hire is made. If you charge a friend's desktop to your maximum (as determined by your Reputation level), you must wait 24 hours until you can charge it again. The Hiring period resets at 0:00 UTC. The Visiting points period also resets at that time (for earning experience points for visiting, but not for charging).

How to Hire a Friend[]

Open the Friends section. On the Friends tab, select a Friend. If you are unsure of the friend's Profession, tap their Avatar to see their Profession. You must Visit your friend to Hire.

When you visit you will see the symbol of the friend's profession by their Avatar. Tap the green Hire button. You will be shown a brief message describing what hiring that profession does. Tap OK to hire the friend. The Hire button will be gray.

Tap the Home button to return to the Friends screen. You may hire additional friends up to your per play and daily limits.

When you are finished hiring, close the Friends section to return to your desktop. At the right side, you will see up to four hired friends, depending on your device's screen size. If you have hired more friends than you can see, you can scroll up and down to see them all.

Four Hires

Tap any of the hired friends to see a more detailed description of what the hire will do.

The Hire will only last for one play, after which the Home Desktop icon will disappear and the friend's entry in your friends list will go back to normal. You will not be able to hire that friend again until the next day.

You can hire up to 5 friends at any one time, depending on your current Reputation Level. You are limited to how many friends you can hire in total in one day, also based on your Reputation Level. The maximum friends you can hire in a day is equal to your current Reputation Level.

Choosing a Player Profession to Hire[]

See Player Professions article for full details of Player Professions.

Each player profession gives you a different benefit when you hire a friend of that profession. This is the exact same benefit as you would receive if a friend with that profession visited you and charged a picture or puzzle.

The advantage of hiring over having pictures charged by visiting friends is that when you hire a friend you choose which picture/puzzle to play to get the benefit, whereas the friend chooses when they visit you. You can also accumulate the benefit, so if a player charges a picture/puzzle and you hire that friend/a different friend, you get both benefits when you play that picture/puzzle, even if both actions are by a player of the same profession.

You can also accumulate the benefits when hiring multiple friends. If you hire one merchant, you will receive 10% extra coins for the next picture/puzzle you play (if you win). If you hire 3 merchants, you will receive 30% instead. And if a merchant also charged that picture before as well as you hiring 3 merchants you will receive 40% extra coins (30% from the hired friends and 10% from the charge by the visiting friend).

You cannot hire the same friend twice, but you can hire the same friend that has just charged the picture/puzzle you want to play.

Unlike having pictures charged by visiting friends, you can also mix and match which friends you hire. This means you can hire different types of professions at the same time, and receive the benefit from each type simultaneously the next time you play a picture/puzzle.

The table below shows the 4 player professions available in the game, the symbols used to represent those professions in your friends list and the benefit of hiring a friend with that profession:

Profession Symbol Reward for Hiring
Magician
Magician
Reduces energy cost for 1 play by 10%
Merchant
Merchant
Increases coins earned for 1 play by 10%
Sage
Sage
Increases experience points earned for 1 play by 10%
Sleuth
Sleuth
Increases the chances of winning items as rewards for 1 successful picture investigation/puzzle game win by 10%

Example[]

The images below show the effect of hiring four friends, one of each profession, before playing Vikings Village.  Note that the Magician discounts the energy needed by 13 units.  In this example, a Magic Crystal talisman is active.  The Magic Crystal adds 12% to coins and chances of winning Can be found items.  The increased chances are indicated by a glow on each item in the Can be found section, even without a Hire or a Charge.   In this example, there were no Charges on Vikings Village.  


Hiring Limits[]

See Reputation Levels article for full details on reputation and how it impacts what you can and can't do in the game.

Your ability to hire is directly related to your Reputation level in the game. A player's reputation level is different than their game level, and is advanced by visiting friends and using power points to charge items on their Home Desktops.

You can see your current reputation level by visiting a friend and looking in the top left hand corner of the screen, where your game level would appear on your own Home Desktop. The meter above your Reputation level will show how many reputation points you currently have and how many reputation points you will need to earn to reach the next Reputation Level. Your reputation level determines:

  1. How many friends you can hire at one time
  2. How many friends you can hire total in one day

1. How many friends at a time[]

New players will only be able to hire 1 friend at a time, but as their reputation level increases so will the number of friends that can be hired at one time. The current maximum number of friends that can be hired at one time is 5.

Reputation Levels Limit of Hires at One Time
1-10 1
11-20 2
21-30 3
31-40 4
41+ 5

2. How many friends total in one day[]

The maximum number of friends total that you can hire in one day is your current Reputation Level. For example, if your reputation level is 23 you can hire up to 23 friends total each day and can hire 3 friends at a time to get there.

Since you cannot hire the same friend more than once a day, if your reputation level is more than your current number of friends you will not be able to use all of your possible hires for that day.

Hints and Tips[]

  • You can hire more than one Friend of one profession type at one time. The percentage bonus that profession offers you when hired will accumulate with each friend of that profession you hire. So if you hire 5 sages, you will gain 50% more experience points for the next picture/puzzle you win.
  • You can hire friends of different professions at the same time. For example you can hire a sleuth and a magician at the same time and get both the reduction in energy cost to play and increase in the rewards for winning a picture/puzzle at the same time.
  • The percentage increases/decreases gained/reduced by hiring friends are always rounded down.

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