The information I give may not be accurate because it is from my memory from reading it a while ago. People are saying that the Flower Fight will take place tomorrow.
It will take from about 15-30 TCs to get to Lovely Blue, depending on how many treats you find in each TC. 15 TCs if you get the maximum of 5 treats each time and 30 if you get the minimum number of treats. So to answer you question, it will take 30-60 passes.

Yes, you will need to spend some passes if you want to finish the Maze promo and get Lovely Blue. You will need TCs which cost 2 passes each. Read the first spoiler in my post to find out how many passes you might need.

Maze promo

Percherons are coming in the maze sometime this month.

i posted this once before but people are asking again and now people are saying 19 days instead of 16 so I thought to post again plus update with the extra moves since it's suppose to last longer. 118 moves made from your own energy if keep with a 5% energy regen horse

Day 1 starts at 0600. +5 moves that you start with
Day 1 1000 - Day 2 1000 +6 moves ( 1 moves every 4 hours, 24/4=6)
Continue same till last day this amounts to 18 times (so 6*18=108)
Day 18-Day19 +5 moves ( can't have a total 24 hours so only get 5 moves here)
Total of 118 moves

For the red path believed to be "shortest" I went through and counted all squares, once you hit a treat square you moves forward 3 and then the next move is when you increment your next count. So say I hit a treat on 24 squares in move up 3 squares on the path and the next square you move to is square 25. For the red path counting this way there are 202 squares. If you minus the 118moves you can make on your own that leaves 84 moves you need to make up with in passes/TC

For the whited dotted path counting the exact same way you end up with 172 squares minus the 118 you get on your own gives 54 squares left to make up with passes/TC

Now if you use the calculations, so sorry I can't remember the exact name of the person who gave the number, but when opening TC you get around a value of 2.83 moves per passes So for red path that would be around 30 pass
For white dotted path round 20 passes

If you go by the rounded number of 7 moves per TC and say get to lvl 3 80% of the time it's a little less, but that is all luck base and slightly random.

Now if you take side paths and other things you are looking at a bunch more. These are just straight number crunching and counting, if anyone would like to double check or correct me on my math would love to know so I can fix things as I plan things out.

The Flower Fight is guessed to start tomorrow- while the Maze not until the next week (though it is possible that both could start tomorrow).

As for How many passes to get through the Maze - after several calculations - I come out with needing anywhere between 10 to 30 passes on average. Supposidly thouhg, and I can't confirm this - the maze is possible to do without needing to use any outside help (ie. a Titan's Challenge (as treats will be found on level 3 - you'll win between 6 to 10 treats each time).

The first one (the Percheron) is being released as a prize in the Maze promotion - so whenever that starts is when we'll get Drafts.

Lovely Blue is one of the Horses of the Rainbow.
Lovely Blue is a mare and can breed once in her lifetime with Shiny Yellow in order to give birth to Forest Green.
She gives you one diamond every Friday (after the daily update), provided you logged in at least once over the previous 3 days.
Once you own all the 7 Horses of the Rainbow, you can obtain Secret Rainbow.
Game:
1 x diamond every Friday
VIP:
Earn double morale when grooming your horses on Fridays
This mare cannot be sold.

And here's the info on Forest Green - Lovely Blue's foal;
Foal
Adult

Forest Green is one of the Horses of the Rainbow.

He is the son of Lovely Blue and Shiny Yellow.

He gives you one diamond every Thursday (after the daily update), provided you logged in at least once over the previous 3 days.

Once you own all the 7 Horses of the Rainbow, you can obtain Secret Rainbow.
Game: 1 x diamond every Thursday
VIP: Energy consumption when riding in a forest on Thursdays is halved

This horse cannot be sold.


Devoted Indigo is one of the horses of the rainbow.
It offers you a diamond every Saturday (after the daily update) provided you have logged at least once in the 3 days prior.

Game: 1 x diamond every Saturday
VIP: Use 2 times less energy during dressage competitions or trail class on Saturday

By bringing 7 horses of the rainbow sky, you can get the horse Secret Rainbow.

The other two Divines Purple/Violet (name is rumored to be Brave Purple) and Secret Rainbow have no known information about them at this time.

Red Line is the shortest in terms of how many spaces you must move to reach the end
White Dot is longer, but a little 'faster' as you find more treats, thus giving you more moves *after running some numbers - I recommend this route over the Red Line*

Both routes are pretty quick to get through the maze if your main goal is to reach Lovely Blue. If you don't care about the Divine and just want presents - go however you wish.

The following is an Untouched Map that just shows where everything is...however, when it comes to the gift spaces, please note - the following was stated on Preprod:

Nope the map is the same for everyone here on preproduction and the gifts as well.
The map won't change when it goes live but the gifts will change position a little. default smiley
It would be too much of an advantage if there wasn't a little change on the live version.

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This has been inferred to mean two different things;

A. As has been discovered already - while everyone has the same gifts, they will not be found at the same spots (ex. I find a Helios' Ray at space S2, you find a Fertility wand, he finds a Golden Apple, etc.)

B. The location of Gift Spaces themselves will be moved (so instead of finding a gift at S2 as we do now, there may or may not be a gift there)

It could also be a combination of the two...

this is all of the paths together


The Black is the path to take (it's follows the white dotted path from before) the purple lines are ones that will take you only +2 moves to get a prize if it is there(the least amount for a side path). The blue paths are side paths to get eyeglasses to see things need for later or special paths to get side gifts if they are there. The pink paths are paths to take instead of following the black with the same amount of moves it just depends where the gifts are located ( also the reason why I am taking side blue paths for eyeglasses so I know ahead of time.) the orange path is a big side path for people looking for gifts instead of getting to the end.

I will be keeping this on my page through the Maze promo under a spoiler banner, and will be updating with gifts/best path as we find out where exactly they are located

For the White Dot route - I come up with an average of 10 to 30 passes (depending on how your luck with Titan's Challenges is). This is the only item that will be used during the Maze.

Sunken Sands does not use BMIs - instead, Mines are bought directly with Passes (3 mines for 1 pass if I'm recalling the translation right). These allow you digs regardless of if it your time to dig or not, and have a higher chance of you finding relics/bones/items and less of a chance to find traps.

Since the Cursed Sands (the original Sunken Sands) was so long ago - I can't recall how many passes it took people on average. Though it would be luck dependent (if you are lucky enough to find bones each time you dig and avoid traps - you'd use less passes that someone who is having bad luck and keeps finding traps.

So as to which one will take more passes - it's impossible to say (for now...but I feel the Sunken Sands might take more than the Maze...)

I'm sorry if this has been asked already, but is there like a grand prize for the Sunken Sands for finishing it? Or do we just dig for prizes?