Fun at the Crossroads

Update: Our giveaway for the site has been updated. We will now be ending it on March 24, not March 18 as previously announced.


We're celebrating the upcoming Forged in the Barrens Hearthstone expansion with an on-site event that also has a pack giveaway courtesy of Blizzard! Strap yourselves in and let's go!

  • The event will be ending the day before the expansion releases.
  • The giveaway ends on March 24. Winners contacted on March 25.

Quilboar Tuskaroons

  • You'll earn Quilboar Tuskaroons as you complete on-site tasks.
    • Completing the Tavern Crawl - voting and commenting on the new cards.
    • Earning Achievements under the "Fun in the Barrens" achievements section.
    • Finding the answers to clues in our mini-scavenger hunt.
  • You can earn up to 10 bonus Quilboar Tuskaroons per day by visiting pages on the site. You will receive a pop-up in the corner when you get credit.
  • Quilboar Tuskaroons can be exchanged for on-site cosmetic items in our shop or they can be used to redeem for entries into the giveaway.
  • All Quilboar Tuskaroons are earned for free by participating in free activities on the site. Register an account to participate.

Enter the Giveaway

  • You can enter the giveaway by purchasing a "Barrens Giveaway Ticket" for 50 Quilboar Tuskaroons.
  • You may purchase multiple Barrens Giveaway Tickets.
  • You have until March 24, 2021 at 11:59:59 PM Eastern to purchase your tickets from the shop.
  • Winners will be drawn, randomly, on March 25 and announced in a news article on the site. Winners will be contacted by direct site message.

Shop FAQ

When is the last day to purchase Fun at the Crossroads items?

The final day to purchase Fun at the Crossroads items is two weeks after the expansion releases.

When is the last day to purchase Barrens Giveaway Tickets?

The final day to purchase "Barrens Giveaway Tickets" is March 24, 2021 at 11:59:59 PM Eastern.


Visit the Shop

You have 0 Quilboar Tuskaroons.
You have 0 Barrens Giveaway Ticket.

Visit the Out of Games Shop to spend your hard earned currency to unlock new site cosmetics!

You can also purchase tickets for our site giveaway in the shop. You have 0 Barrens Giveaway Ticket.


Your Daily Tasks

All tasks reset at Midnight Eastern!

Visit the Forged in the Barrens Expansion Guide Complete to earn 1 Quilboar Tuskaroons
Visit the Core 2021 Set Guide Complete to earn 1 Quilboar Tuskaroons
Visit the Barrens Tavern Crawl Complete to earn 1 Quilboar Tuskaroons

Fun at the Crossroads Content

Read and particpate in all the content we've created for Fun at the Crossroads. This will update throughout the event as new content gets added.


Forged in the Barrens

Solve the clues below to earn Quilboar Tuskaroons! You will earn credit by visiting the page on the website that corresponds to the clue.

  • Job's Done! Solve to Reveal Answer
  • Koiter Lays at the Shrine of the Fallen Warrior. Solve to Reveal Answer

Clues Discovered Leadboard

Staff are excluded because they're all filthy cheaters. Not really, but some were involved in the creation of clues.

Member Clues Found
Hydrafrog 2
Brentk1977 2
Ibarrai 2
Edge 2
Trimutius 2
VaBeZ 2
theo333 2
Joda 2
Draketh 2
Haffax733 2
Lemushki 2
freeworld 2
gusty24 2
Thonson 2
Daowen 2
Topandito 2
MichaelLoda 2
Inconspicuosaurus 2
anchorm4n 2
hmqaed 2

Comments

  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2219 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    According to the schedule revealed yesterday, there will not be any more card reveals until AFTER this event ends (March 18), so we won't be able to use all the Tuskaroons we were going to earn by voting and commenting on cards. Am I understanding that right?

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    • sinti's Avatar
      Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2774 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
      Posted 3 years ago

      The giveaway is part of the event, the event should not end when the giveaway does. I will double check this and get back to you. So you will be able to use Tuskaroons you get later to buy titles and headers still. And after the event, remaining Tuskaroons will be converted to Gold (generic site currency).

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  • louzy82's Avatar
    210 41 Posts Joined 06/04/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    i'm eagerly awaiting new clues ;)

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  • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
    Splendiferous 2145 1903 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Is this ending on the 18th regardless of whether the final card reveal happens by then?

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    • Fluxflashor's Avatar
      CEO 2005 3060 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
      Posted 3 years ago

      Correct. It would be really messy to change the dates for a giveaway, in fact, I don't think you legally can. Not that its super serious, but if we did I'm sure someone could try to mess with us.

      My goal is to get the packs into everyone's hands before the pre-release event happens.

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      • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
        Splendiferous 2145 1903 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
        Posted 3 years ago

        Speaking of legal stuff, do you still have to make Quebec residents answer a skill testing question?

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        • Fluxflashor's Avatar
          CEO 2005 3060 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
          Posted 3 years ago

          That's actually a Canada-wide thing, the skill-testing question! Quebec on the other hand, you need to do a bunch of stuff to legally run a giveaway there which includes but is certainly not limited to:

          • Telling the government about it a month in advance
          • Pay the government a fee based on the value of the giveaway
          • Provide rules in French and English

          This is why they are usually excluded; I won't tell if you don't tell. If the Quebec government wants to take me to court over it, they can be my guest. The only people excluded in our site giveaways are those in China since they can't redeem codes from outside the region, not that we have very many mainland visitors.

          I hate that there is technically a lot of laws that go into giveaway-related stuff. I get it, running lotteries that aren't governed just all become scams and if you look at Twitter or any other social platform, there are all these people running giveaways but never actually give out a prize or "give it out" to another account they own. Man, free followers would be nice!

          I'd love to see better laws around it all. The current ones, IMO, are too restrictive so everyone just ends up operating in a dark grey area since the burden of the overhead in running proper giveaways is too much to deal with. Not that it really matters though since I don't think anyone is actually going to go after someone handing out a $20 steam card or a $50 card pack bundle, lol.

          Sidenote: Back when the old site got acquired by Amazon, we weren't allowed to do any more giveaways which is why that stopped. I don't know how many people actually made that connection, but it was corporate policy at Amazon to require a lengthy process to run any kind of giveaway including legal council so it was seen as too much of a burden. The corporate world sucks the damn soul out of ya.

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          • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
            Splendiferous 2145 1903 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
            Posted 3 years ago

            And then Amazon sold the site to Fandom?

            Edit: I don't know where I got it into my head that the stq was a Quebec thing. I do recall many contests excluding Quebec. I'll guess this site doesn't bother with the stq with giveaways, since who would report you over a $60 or $100 bundle? And would the government pursue charges over that?

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            • Horus's Avatar
              Detective Pikachu 2565 3339 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
              Posted 3 years ago

              I grew up in Qc and can confirm ; Quebec is always the (annoying) exception, throughout the country. There's always a legislative nuance  when it comes to that french speaking province - which is also the only reason as to why Canada has 2 official languages.

              I remember having issues with the Amazon Prime free month trial when I lived there.

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            • Fluxflashor's Avatar
              CEO 2005 3060 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
              Posted 3 years ago

              Yeah, then Fandom bought and got rid of it all. Morons. I've see a lot of Curse peeps leave over the past few months too which is kinda impressive that Fandom really managed to kill everything that company was worth.

              Gov definitely wouldn't pursue anyone over a small giveaway. If they did, I think Twitch streamers would be in a lot of shit :D

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      • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
        Splendiferous 2145 1903 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
        Posted 3 years ago

        I've always rated all 135 cards in one sitting, which would likely be after the giveaway ends. Not that there would be a good chance of winning either way. I'm trying to comment in the forum threads for the first time this expansion, so there's that.

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        • Fluxflashor's Avatar
          CEO 2005 3060 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
          Posted 3 years ago

          Probably a good call!

          My assumption based on the last expansion is:

          • Weds, March 17 - Final Reveal Stream
          • Friday, March 19 - Start of Pre-release weeekend
          • Tues, March 23 - Expansion launch

          This would give everyone at least 24 hours to finish all their reviews before the giveaway ends, but there definitely isn't much wiggleroom!

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          • bardozan's Avatar
            380 250 Posts Joined 09/12/2019
            Posted 3 years ago

            And when would we start seeing card reveals? Feels like forever since Blizzcon.

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            • Fluxflashor's Avatar
              CEO 2005 3060 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
              Posted 3 years ago

              Countdowns should arrive this week with reveals starting as well. I don't have any inside confirmation on that, though I guess in fairness I couldn't say if I did anyway, but it lines up with the March 23 release date to start them now.

              If reveals take place this week, we get a final dump Tues or Weds next week and then a client patch that takes us into the pre-release weekend.

              I'm not exactly ready to screw up the sleeping schedule, but let's get to it!

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  • bardozan's Avatar
    380 250 Posts Joined 09/12/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Is the list updated manually? I think I've got two clues completed.

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    • sinti's Avatar
      Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2774 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
      Posted 3 years ago

      If you got it right, you get a pop-up top left saying so and it gets checked on this page. So if that didnt happen, keep searching ;-)

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      • bardozan's Avatar
        380 250 Posts Joined 09/12/2019
        Posted 3 years ago

        Yeah, I got the pop-up and they got checked. I was wondering about leaderboard.

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        • sinti's Avatar
          Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2774 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
          Posted 3 years ago

          Oh, that, well since there are only 2 so far, there isnt really that much space to fit everyone who got em, so whoever got em first is up for now :)

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          • bardozan's Avatar
            380 250 Posts Joined 09/12/2019
            Posted 3 years ago

            Oh I see, it's top 20. Let the games begin, then :)

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  • darkoprk's Avatar
    Magma Rager 345 151 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years ago

    Super fun event!

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