Talk:Snow Castle Challenge/@comment-5777122-20121209023323/@comment-5051663-20121209113532

At least on Kindle, the hurry-hatch crystals for a random hatch dino go to 0 about 2 hours before the dino is due to hatch. You can hurry-hatch without using any crystals at this point, cutting the hatch time. You can hurry-finish fusion the same way for 0 crystals, although you'll probably only get about 7.5 minutes.

While you are hatching dinos, keep feeding your profitable stores to accumulate coins. This is an expensive challenge.

Try to do things in parallel. Sometimes you need things to *finish* in order, but you may not need to start them in order. For example, you may be able to scheule feeding your dinos so they finish feeding just after the previous step completes. Or, if the previous step and this one require different stores, you can overlap making recipes.

Building decorations and stores ahead of time (if they are unlocked) can usually be completed ahead of time and still count. Store recipes can't. Neither can tipping or feeding dinos.

If you need sleep (not a good idea for playing TV), schedule your long recipies to run while you're sleeping.