How To Get Gold Treasure Chests

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Although the Gold Treasure Chest feature hasn't been updated for over a year, it still has something good to offer players. Gold Treasure Chests can be opened with Gold Treasure Chest Keys and you can get Reward Points. Most of the time you will get outdated loot but some Treasure Chests will contain 1, 10, 20, 50, 100 or even 1,000 Reward Points.

Most don't believe that it's possible to get 1,000 Reward Points but we did see it happen about 6 months ago (1).

Until recently, most people had more Treasure Chests than Treasure Chest Keys. Treasure Chest Keys are still available for purchase in the Marketplace for 9 Reward Points.

They are also contained in Secret Drops which we get as gifts from our mafia members. You can collect a maximum of 3 Secret Drops per day.

On September 12th of last year there was an awesome glitch involving the Lead Into Gold Mission. Treasure Chest Keys were dropping like flies from fights (1).

This went on for several hours before it was fixed. You can see the drop rate was 51%.

Many found they had more Treasure Chest Keys than they did Treasure Chests. There never was a rollback but many players reported that all of their Treasure Chests or Keys were removed from their inventories. Those who acted fast were able to get thousands of Reward Points.

The glitch was two fold because Treasure Chests which were made non-giftable months prior all of a sudden were giftable again (1). Talk about the stars aligning! At the time, Gold Treasure Chests had value in the trading market. Zynga put a stop to all this by making Treasure Chests not giftable again. They also removed the daily Treasure Chest players received from doing jobs. They failed to remove the annoying Gold Treasure Chest popup. If you haven't disabled it from your account settings, it's a bold face lie. You do not get a Gold Treasure Chest (1).

Four months have passed since Zynga made these changes. We are still getting Treasure Chest Keys from the Secret Drop and they are still offered for purchase but many are finding they don't have the Gold Treasure Chests to open. We can't buy them from the Marketplace but there is a way to get them. For reasons unknown to me, they are giftable if you use the alternate version of the Chucker by Arun. To get started, drag the bookmarklet below to your bookmark toolbar.

Chucker (alt)

Unframe your game and go to the Mafia Wars Profile Page of the person you want to send a gift. Use the Gift Drop Down Menu and scroll and select "Golden Treasure Chest". Select the quantity, add the item(s) to the queue and click "Start".

You can see it still works. Zynga has some decisions to make. If they go through the trouble of fixing this workaround then they need to offer a way for players to receive Treasure Chests or stop selling Treasure Chest Keys in the Marketplace! The feature hasn't been updated since December 2nd of 2010 so I wouldn't be surprised if they just do away with it. 

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Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. All material is protected by copyright law