Colorful Carnival CalculatorPick the exchange shop rewards you want, then compare buying paces: one cheap pack a day, a few packs, or buying everything. See how long each takes, what it costs and how much you save by going slower, then follow the day-by-day plan.
Colorful Garland: shop currency, kept forever
Mileage: bonus garlands, resets each carnival
every pack = 50 jade per garland
1. What do you want?
exchange shop2. What do you have?
optional3. Pick your pace
tap a row to see its day-by-day planDay-by-day plan
exactly what to buy each dayMileage rewardsper carnival, resets every time
Daily packsrefresh every day of a carnival
Notes
· How it works: each Colorful Carnival runs alongside Joint Archaeology for 6 buy days (Mon to Sat) plus an exchange day (Sun). Five daily packs sell Colorful Garlands, all at the same 50 jade per garland. Every garland bought adds 1 mileage point; the mileage tiers at 20 / 80 / 180 / 320 pay 210 bonus garlands (every garland you receive counts as mileage, bonus and free ones included), and mileage resets to zero when the carnival ends. The exchange shop is always open and garlands never expire.
· Why slower is cheaper: the mileage bonus is biggest per jade at the start of each carnival (the first 20 garlands bought come with 20 free). Past 320 mileage, every garland costs the full 50 jade. So small daily buys spread over many carnivals squeeze the most bonus out of every week, while buying everything finishes fastest but pays full price for most of it. Within a single carnival the day you buy on never changes the price (mileage counts the whole carnival), so finishing on Day 1 or spreading the same packs over Day 1 to 6 costs exactly the same; only spreading across carnivals saves jade.
· Routes: the daily-habit rows buy the same packs every buy day (only topping up what's needed on the last day). Best value buys only up to the 320 mileage tier in each carnival (154 bought garlands with the free ones counting); the Cheapest across N carnivals rows are the least jade if you're willing to spread purchases over the next N carnivals (more carnivals = more cheap 20-mileage tiers and more free garlands). Free Joint Archaeology garlands (6 a day from the daily score rewards) land on each buy day and count as mileage too.
· Schedule: from the game files (v1.9.4), which only list carnivals through January 2027; routes that would need longer show as not finished. Dollar figures use $0.99 per 100 jade.
· Why slower is cheaper: the mileage bonus is biggest per jade at the start of each carnival (the first 20 garlands bought come with 20 free). Past 320 mileage, every garland costs the full 50 jade. So small daily buys spread over many carnivals squeeze the most bonus out of every week, while buying everything finishes fastest but pays full price for most of it. Within a single carnival the day you buy on never changes the price (mileage counts the whole carnival), so finishing on Day 1 or spreading the same packs over Day 1 to 6 costs exactly the same; only spreading across carnivals saves jade.
· Routes: the daily-habit rows buy the same packs every buy day (only topping up what's needed on the last day). Best value buys only up to the 320 mileage tier in each carnival (154 bought garlands with the free ones counting); the Cheapest across N carnivals rows are the least jade if you're willing to spread purchases over the next N carnivals (more carnivals = more cheap 20-mileage tiers and more free garlands). Free Joint Archaeology garlands (6 a day from the daily score rewards) land on each buy day and count as mileage too.
· Schedule: from the game files (v1.9.4), which only list carnivals through January 2027; routes that would need longer show as not finished. Dollar figures use $0.99 per 100 jade.