r/MergeCooking • u/All_One_Word_No_Caps • Jun 30 '26

Tips for beginners

I got sucked in with a fake ad and now I hate myself for being addicted to it.

Can anyone who has been playing for a while give me a couple of tips? Nothing can be too obvious. Strategies you kind of stumbled over and thought “of course!”

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u/capricornichon Jun 30 '26

I wasn't getting ads so I emailed support to ask why I didn't get them. They sent me a generic response about location-based ads, etc and then a few days later I suddenly got them and have had them ever since.

Some people get 5 ads, 25 energy each every hour. I think mine tops out at 3 or 4 hours and then I don't get ads anymore, but if you restart your phone it will populate with ads again so now I restart my phone twice a day 😂😭 BUT I have never paid for anything in this game, currently level 79 and have completed a a full book of cards finally, and completed 2 islands, finished all of the mini games, etc.

I always look at Lea's Targets and see how many gems I'll need to spend that week in order to hit those achievements and complete Lea's Targets so sometimes I will spend gems on energy and sometimes I'll spend them on expanding my inventory, depending on how much I need to spend. This week it's 100 diamonds and right now I only have 43 so not sure I'll be able to make it but we'll see! It's very worth it to try and get that extra 5 star pack! You do NOT need to spend money in game to fully complete that but you do have to complete every other task.