How To Find The Gem Of The Day

Curio Shop Rumours & How To Find 

The Webkinz Gem Of The Day 

Read my other post about the Curio Shop here.

It is known that the higher on the pyramid within each colour category a gem is, the more kinzcash you'll receive for it.

White gems are generally the most valuable, though common gems sell for very little regardless of colour.

The background colour of a mine corresponds to the rarest gem that can be found in it.  

Ex: the background colour of the Buried Bones mine is white, and the rarest gem that can be found in that mine is the white Webkinz Diamond.

 

Mine Colours:

 
Buried Bones Mine: White

Barking Mad Mine: Yellow

Muzzle Mouth Mine: Red

Howling Horse Mine: Blue

Flea Floater Mine: Green

Order Value (highest to lowest):

Rare

1. Webkinz Diamond (Buried Bones Mine) - the most valuable of all gems

2. Red Ruby Heart (Muzzle Mouth Mine) - the second most valuable of all gems

3. Ocean Sapphire (Howling Horse Mine)

4. Earth Emerald (Flea Floater Mine)

5. Corona Topaz (Barking Mad Mine) - the least valuable of rare gems

Uncommon

1. Aurora Rox (Buried Bones Mine, Barking Mad Mine)-the most valuable of uncommon gems

2. Pyramid Plunder (Buried Bones Mine, Barking Mad Mine)

3. Yum Zum Sparkle (Muzzle Mouth Mine, Buried Bones Mine)

4. Unicorn Horn (Muzzle Mouth Mine, Buried Bones Mine)

5. Moss Marble (Howling Horse Mine, Flea Floater Mine)

6. Cat's Eye Glint (Howling Horse Mine, Flea Floater Mine)

7. Tear Drop Tower (Barking Mad Mine, Howling Horse Mine)

8. Sea Stone (Barking Mad Mine, Howling Horse Mine)

9. Ember Amber (Flea Floater Mine, Muzzle Mouth Mine)

10. Volcano Viscose (Flea Floater Mine, Muzzle Mouth Mine)-the least valuable of uncommon gems

Once you have collected all of the gems, you can obviously trade them for the Webkinz Crown of Wonder. If you already have one or if you don't like it, you can sell the Crown of Wonder for 2,250 kinzcash.  However, if you sell your gems instead, you will probably earn an average of about 250 kc for each rare gem and an average of about 100 kc for each uncommon gem. In total, you would earn about 2,200 kc (not including kinzcash from common gems) over time. I kept my estimates on the lower end, but even still, if you count the earnings from common gems, you would technically still earn more (or at least the same amount) by just selling all of your gems to Arte rather than keeping them and trading for + selling the Crown of Wonder.  However, you do get a lot of kinzcash all at once if you sell the crown, rather than a little bit over a long period of time like if you sell gems. Selling your gems is one way to establish rapport with Arte however (I think it helps you advance through the Curio Shop levels, though I'm not certain; tipping is definitely the better/quicker way to do this).

The prices Arte offers for different gems varies and is not the same each time, but here are some Webkinz World rumours regarding the prices he offers.

Rumours:

• The Gem of the Day usually sells for double its going rate, and then plummets in price the next day and is worth a lot less than normal. I don't know if this is true, but the Gem of the Day does always sell for more than it usually goes for.
• Sparkling rocks have gems in them (this isn't necessarily true, though rocks with two sparkles seem to often have gems).
• The Bat or the Spider in the cave will lead you to a gem.  This seems to be generally true, but not always. There is usually a common gem near where the Bat goes or where the Spider is, though not always and it's usually not a rare gem (in my experience, anyway).
  
• Arte offers you more kinzcash for a gem if you don't have it yet. This seems to be true based on my  experience.
  
• Being level 6 with Arte gets you higher sale prices for gems (I am level 6, and I don't find this to be noticeably true). 
• If you tip Arte 100 kc right before you do your gem hunt, you will get offered higher sale prices for the gem you find.  I have tried this, and it does seem to work (remember small tips offend Arte, so tip 100 kc).
• The Webkinz Diamond will sell for 1000 kc when it is the Gem of the Day (I'm not sure how true this is, as I only received 325 kc when I found the Webkinz Diamond yesterday, though it was not the Gem of the Day.  If it's true that the Gem of the Day sells for double its usual rate, then the Webkinz Diamond wouldn't sell for 1000 kc, as double its usual rate would be 650 kc).

These are just rumours, so don't take them as fact!

Tip: When I hunt for gems, I like to scroll to one of the ends of the caves and choose the furthest or second furthest rock. This doesn't always work, but then again there isn't a foolproof strategy for finding gems anyway (at least that I know of). But it's usually best to scroll a bit rather than just clicking on the first rock you see.  I also like to choose rocks that are extra sparkly and/or are near the Bat or Spider. Also, I find that it's worth it to search the cave that is the same colour as the Gem of the Day, so that you have a better chance of finding it.

I hope this helps! Good luck finding the Gem of the Day!

Xoxo,

Pippa