So... according to some data mining "rumors" on beta, the next event after 'Lucky Little Fin' will come with an all-new mini game mechanic!
Since Elvenar & FoE basically borrow/re-imagine/re-skin their various game elements to suit their own game systems, odds are this all new mini game will likely be a variant of;
1. Fall Baking mini game
- basically, you have 5 different event currencies (ingredients) and you are given 3 different recipes to make, similar to the 3 rotating chests. The trick is to keep all your ingredients as closely balanced to each other as possible.
2. St. Paddy's Festival mini game
- a very, VERY hands-on, micro managing mini game. If you don't have lots of spare time, you'll hate this one!
If you have the time to dedicate to it, then this mini game is a blast and you can really clean up on the grand prizes.
Uniquely in the FoE version, there are NO daily prizes! Instead, when you finish a festival town, you can choose to open 1-6 reward chests. The 1st chest is free, but the others will cost an increasing amount of event currency to open. If you open all 6, then you get a bonus artifact for evolving the main grand prize building. (or selection kit if the main prize is a set building)
3. Wildlife 'totally not Candy Crush' mini game
- Kinda like Candy Crush, but also with some Toon Blast bolted onto it... you pop matching coloured blocks with the aim to drop pawprints (the grand prize tokens) out the bottom of the game board.
Along the way, you earn reward chests by forming larger chains of matching coloured blocks. (5 min to form a chest). The more matching blocks in a chain, the better the reward chest becomes.
In the FoE version, you start with 25 turns each time you spend an event ticket to play the mini game, and can use event currency to buy 10 additional turns once you're out of moves. Event currency is also used to buy tools that will help manipulate the mini game.
Now granted, the data mining doesn't state (yet) what the new mini game will be, so apply salt to this as you see fit.
Just figured it might be fun to speculate a bit on what we might likely see coming to upcoming events!