User blog comment:Litlmamaini/Mysterious Crystals!!/@comment-5490093-20121003163140/@comment-5218270-20121003171146

No, TapJoy works a little different.


 * Please Note: my experiences are on Android, using the Amazon and Google Play versions of the game, I have NO IDEA how or if this will work on iPhone, iPad or Kindles!!**

You can download the TapJoy app, and it will automatically find any apps you have on your phone that you can earn currency in through TapJoy - Select Tiny Village.

Now, you need to have TV open for it to work I think. What I usually do is open TapJoy, hold my home button - this will bring up all recent apps you have been running - select TV, once TV is open, I hold the home button again and go back to TapJoy.

Go into the TinyVillage part of TapJoy and begin completing any tasks you want to earn the designated amount of crystals it says next to it.


 * Please note here: all offers either say "Free" or "$$" next to them. If they have the "$$" by them, you will need to spend real $ to complete the offer and get crystals - I NEVER do these, even though they do offer the highest payout.

Most of the offers are for between 1 to 20 crystals and just involve downloading a new app and running it once, After doing that, the crystals are usually there when you go back to your village. I usually go in right after I confirm I've received the crystals and delete the app. However, some of these app offers will have a second part that pops up in TapJoy after you download the app where you can earn more crystals by going back a second and third day and playing the new game more. Again, you have to do this with TV open through TapJoy to earn the crystals.

Other crystal offers, the ones that offer the MOST crystals (between 100 to 300), ask you to sign up for a free trial of something, with a valid CC. Mostly things like Hulu, Netflix, Ancestry.com, Real Player, etc. (these offers will still have the "Free" designation next to them, since, if you cancel your trial in time, it is still technically a "Free" offer). As soon as you complete set up with a valid CC, you should have your crystals when you go back into your game. I have done almost all of these with NO PROBLEMS! The trick is remembering to cancel the subscription before your free trial runs out. The other trick here is I have a CC that only has like $2 available on it. This is the one I use to sign up for these services. That way, when they run the verification for $1, it shows that it is a valid CC, and if I somehow forget to cancel my subscription, there isn't enough on the card for the transaction to go through if the company tries to charge me. With most of these offers you can cancel your subscription as soon as you receive the crystals. However, a few of them have gotten wise and don't award the crystals for 24 or 48 hours into your free trial - if they do that, it always says it in the description in the TapJoy app.

There is a third category of "Free" offers and that is signing up for surveys, coupon sites, car insurance quotes, etc. Basically, they give you crystals for the opportunity to Spam your email. I happen to have an email account that is my Spam account, that I give out for just this reason, so I've used these offers also. I also actually managed to lower my car insurance through one of these offers, so it was a win-win!

As far as worth it, I definately think so. I have gotten probably 3,000 crystals by doing the TapJoy offers. I have never spent a dime of real money on crystals. Doing the TapJoy offers is how I got enough crystals for 2 Banks, 2 Trees and one of the Original Crystal stores (the one that doesn't run out). I've also used it from time to time to get crystals for a Dino that isn't fusable, or a new habitat I want or crystals to use on Bingo.

Unfortunately, I have done almost ALL of the large pay out offers, so I'm relegated to nickle and diming my crystals from TapJoy, except on the rare occasion they have a new high pay out offer that I qualify for.

Hope this helped! I'd be happy to answer any other questions you have about it!